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Mar 25

Some thoughts on the shape rotator vs worcel meme

Here’s some background reading if you’re unfamiliar with this meme. I was going to write “new meme” but think by now it’s an idea that’s rather thoroughly entrenched in sufficiently large Twitter communities. Namely Crypto Twitter and Machine Learning Twitter, and by tech VCs that lurk both.

Shape Rotator

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Some thoughts on the shape rotator vs worcel meme
Some thoughts on the shape rotator vs worcel meme

Oct 17, 2021

Quick note: retraining my attention

Keeping up with crypto twitter is somewhat of a necessity if you work in the industry. But it really does damage to one’s attention span. Not to blame my dwindling ability to concentrate on external factors, but I think it’s definitely been a primary contributor recently. …

Attention

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Quick note: retraining my attention
Quick note: retraining my attention

Jul 23, 2021

Mean & Variance and the Right & Left

Both sides of the political spectrum use data to justify their opinions. In general, people on the ‘Left’ tend to focus on variance and people on the ‘Right’ tend to focus on mean. Statistical distributions — at the very least — have both mean and variance. …

Politics

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Mean & Variance and the Right & Left
Mean & Variance and the Right & Left

Published in Coinmonks

·Apr 9, 2021

What is the oracle problem?

Someone in the API3 Telegram channel asked this question: I still don’t fully get why smart contracts need oracles, why is it that smart contracts are not able to query APIs the same way regular apps can? …

Blockchain

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What is the oracle problem?
What is the oracle problem?

Published in API3

·Mar 13, 2021

Setting Oracle Integration Standards

This is an introduction to one element of API3's technical design. The API3 solution to the API connectivity problem requires an ecosystem with a large number of first-party oracles. Airnode’s role in this is to make first-party oracles a reality. Airnode Airnode is an oracle node specifically engineered for API-provider operated…

Blockchain

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Setting Oracle Integration Standards
Setting Oracle Integration Standards

Mar 3, 2021

My emails with Ayndryl

This is a series of excerpts from an email exchange I had with Ayndryl, site admin and one of several contributors to Forgotten Languages. It’s a pretty fluid discussion that curvedly touches on: linguistics, computer programming languages, cognitive psychology, Turing machines, quantum mechanics, and philosophy [having the final word]. If…

Linguistics

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My emails with Ayndryl
My emails with Ayndryl

Published in Coinmonks

·Feb 27, 2021

Economic Analysis of EIP-1559: A Summary

This is a post summarizing this excellent research paper by Tim Roughgarden. I will give an overview of the EIP-1559 proposal, restate Roughgarden’s “Ten Key Takeaways”, and offer a bit of a high-level and intuitive explanation for the proofs/arguments in his paper. (You can also just skip to the conclusion.) Background: Transactions in Ethereum …

Blockchain

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Economic Analysis of EIP-1559: A Summary
Economic Analysis of EIP-1559: A Summary

Published in Coinmonks

·Dec 28, 2020

The Mesa DEX Exploit

This is kind of a Part 2 to my post How Mesa DEX Works which I wrote on November 27th, three days before the API3 public token distribution. During the distribution — in fact, right at the beginning — a previously untapped exploit was used by an attacker to purchase…

Gnosis Protocol

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The Mesa DEX Exploit
The Mesa DEX Exploit

Published in DataDrivenInvestor

·Nov 30, 2020

“What do you think will be the future impact of data-driven computing on society?”

In 2014, during my computer science masters, I had to write an 250-word “essay” for a scholarship application answering the question: “What do you think will be the future impact of data-driven computing on society?” I re-read my response recently and found it interesting in light of modern day contexts…

Data Science

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“What do you think will be the future impact of data-driven computing on society?”
“What do you think will be the future impact of data-driven computing on society?”

Published in API3

·Nov 27, 2020

How Mesa DEX works

EDIT: I’ve written a Part 2 (“The Mesa DEX Exploit”) to this article that addresses the exploit that occurred during the API3 public token distribution event. I also amend some things mentioned in this article and include my updated thoughts on Mesa/Gnosis Protocol. The API3 public token distribution will take…

Blockchain

8 min read

How Mesa DEX works
How Mesa DEX works
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