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https://warpcast.com/sylve/0x5e8a5201 If you’re interested in speaking at this workshop at EthCC, dm Sylve

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In multiple European cities now I see taxis being allowed to use the bus lane (while of course regular cars are not). What's the policy justification for this?

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It's really underrated how 4 years ago the worst ethereum UX problem was that transactions would often take like 10 min to confirm if you get unlucky with the gasprice, and that problem just completely went away with EIP-1559. Today transactions reliably confirm in 5-20 seconds. https://x.com/post_polar_/status/1803406902430236907

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There's a fascinating analogy between coding in python using hyper-optimized vectorized libraries (numpy, cupy, torch...), and living in Singapore. In python, whatever you're not vectorizing takes the longest, even if it's utterly trivial. Literally picking merkle branches out of a pre-built tree is taking me longer than an entire fast fourier transform. In Singapore, whatever you get from international brands (as opposed to eg. hawker centers) is the most expensive, even if it's utterly trivial. I've literally had meals where the starbucks green tea I had right after a hawker center meal cost more than the meal.

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The Tiergarten in Berlin has become one of my favorite parks and running tracks. Even though the longest (good) loop is only 4.3km, repeating it six times somehow doesn't feel overly repetitive. And today I learned that it has a long and fascinating history, and most of the trees there today are under 80 years old.

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This is bad. Crypto is not just trading tokens, it's part of a broader ethos of freedom and privacy and keeping power in the hands of the little guy. These values unfortunately continue to be under attack, globally. https://twitter.com/LizaGoitein/status/1781546937675657392

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A quick test of the new llama3 models (and old ones): L3 70b: https://i.imgur.com/HPgNLnW.png L3 8b: https://i.imgur.com/HTxZmy9.png Mixtral 8x7b: https://i.imgur.com/qjEk93V.png ChatGPT: https://i.imgur.com/DIQ5loP.png ChatGPT is correct, L3 70b almost; others are wrong.

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Andrej K makes an interesting point and Autism Capital's dismissive reply is wrong. It is rational to be more afraid of man than of nature, because it is rational to be afraid of powerful optimizers. This is also often why we are more suspicious of for-profit versions than non-profit versions of the same activity.

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TVL is not the goal; TVL is a necessary evil. Every dollar locked in a (especially immature) protocol instead of being locked in a simple and secure wallet is to some extent a security risk. Sometimes we have to take that risk to get valuable benefits, but locking for the sake of locking should be minimized.

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Taken from the front of a subway train, Singapore 2021

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if the meme cuts too deep please refer to this cast

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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.

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how it feels gifting $degen

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Anyone that likes this cast will get this commemorative NFT for free next week when I put it on @base with @zora. Any additional proceeds to /farcon scholarships.

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I agree this is a problem. In retrospect, reading Yudkowsky's Sequences was far more valuable to me than reading various pre-1900 philosophers' works firsthand. https://twitter.com/PradyuPrasad/status/1757745612072894477

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Some predictions on 2030 AI capabilities. But I think it's too pessimistic in its implications: if AI bug-finding is easy, then *the devs themselves* could use it to strip out bugs first. Average code has 15-50 bugs per 1000 lines; if consumer bug-finders could catch 99%, then quite a few apps could become bug-free.

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Follow me and mint it 😝 Thank me later 👀

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Someone could build a business making it easy to make frames like this. Instagram Story in a frame vibe. https://warpcast.com/ted/0x48e82a4c

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