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    My third (and last) post in my series on obfuscation (iO): local mixing https://t.co/Du1c052w1Z Local mixing is a very different philosophy from the other two, no prior background…

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    Bitcoiners deserve a lot of credit for pioneering many of these ideas (see Utreexo). But yes, this is what the current proposed Ethereum scaling strategy looks like in action. We…

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    Impressive work! For comparison, an H100 can do roughly 100-200 tok/s of Muse 30B for raw inference single-thread, going up to low thousands of tok/s with a large number of thread…

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    Yabloko, Russia's only remaining openly anti-war political party, was just banned. https://t.co/mMHe58XYX1 Also recently, Nadezhdin (from a different party) had to flee to France:…

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    I updated my 2023 roadmap diagram to overlay where the items that were there sit in the current Strawmap ( https://t.co/9deLIQWG24 ). In general, a lot of overlap, but: * Some thi…

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    I updated my 2023 roadmap diagram to overlay where the items that were there si… I updated my 2023 roadmap diagram to overlay where the items that were there si…
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    Minimax H3 is the first *open* video model I've seen that outperforms HunyuanVideo 1.5 - which is actually an impressive accomplishment for @TencentHunyuan to have held that thron…

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    Very welcome recent news from Signal: they are working on letting you register an account without a phone number. https://t.co/W8GGKCbONq That said, an important counterpoint abou…

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    https://t.co/IYE99Rv8JG The second part of my series on cryptographic obfuscation protocols, this time on diamond iO!

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    This is quite a good article on how the cubic formula works, and particularly how root-finding is connected to symmetries (key background for understanding the impossibility of a…

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    A new type of "high-level programming language" that seems really worth trying to make, is a language that gets compiled to Lean (or HOL, or...) that is specifically about making…

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    Thread: how I think about the growth of AI capabilities and what it means for us as they keep getting stronger. I think the right model for comparing humans and AI is not any sing…

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    Thread: how I think about the growth of AI capabilities and what it means for u…
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    Vibe-coded a toy demo version of the "anon billboard with moderation" idea from https://t.co/fheLOlfF3F on aztec https://t.co/iIkwH3UbO4 It's early days but you can already do ver…

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    Vibe-coded a toy demo version of the "anon billboard with moderation" idea from… Vibe-coded a toy demo version of the "anon billboard with moderation" idea from… Vibe-coded a toy demo version of the "anon billboard with moderation" idea from… Vibe-coded a toy demo version of the "anon billboard with moderation" idea from…
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    One thing I find striking in the discourse between AI 2040 and its detractors is that the two seem to be locked in to totally incompatible worldviews of how fast and how much of a…

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    They are trying to push Chat Control through again.

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    And ... we have a winner! My method when writing the post in 2024 was: I wrote it in Chinese, used qwen2.5 locally to translate it to English, then manually fixed all the bugs in…

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    If we want to make the Lean Ethereum consensus chain aggressively more "lean", and add strong validator privacy (ZK-unlink deposit from staking activity from withdrawal, and re-an…

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    Two weeks ago, Ethereum researchers met in Berlin to continue charting the protocol's long-term trajectory, following along discussions with client teams in Svalbard in April. The…

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    Two weeks ago, Ethereum researchers met in Berlin to continue charting the prot…
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    "Pokemon" is short for "pocket monsters". "Digimon" is short for "digital monsters". Therefore, "salmon" is short for "saltwater monsters". (You might object: salmon spend a big p…

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    A ten-thousand word monster post trying to cover the entire tech tree behind the main lineage of obfuscation (iO) protocols: https://t.co/46nseINlwF Special thanks to all who help…

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    A ten-thousand word monster post trying to cover the entire tech tree behind th… A ten-thousand word monster post trying to cover the entire tech tree behind th… A ten-thousand word monster post trying to cover the entire tech tree behind th… A ten-thousand word monster post trying to cover the entire tech tree behind th…
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    This year, the EF is decreasing its budget by roughly 40%, which entails some difficult decisions. The goal of the decreases was set out in the Treasury Management Policy last yea…

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