Convex mindset be like:

So you say that it's HEALTHY to drink WATER? Well, if you take that idea to its LOGICAL CONCLUSION, you end up essentially advocating for people to put a GARDEN HOSE down their throats and pour WATER in until they're DEAD. So maybe this WATER thing ISN'T SO WISE AFTER ALL.

The true convex optimizers use concave utility functions

defi-research

Simple blockspace pricing mechanisms are a good idea!

In a new paper, @gaa, @ciamac, and I show that simple pricing rules are optimal against worst-case adversaries.

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PhD student @ MIT. Optimizer of things with JuliaLang. Research @ Bain Cap Crypto

Theo Diamandis

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