I am giving a talk in ~30min at Frontiers on our Ethereum L1 scaling plans.
Event livestream below, I also strongly recommend you check out the other talks. It’s a great event again this year!
(talk is scheduled for 10am PT, 7pm CEST, but currently ~20min behind).
https://x.com/gakonst/status/1953849811440193841
Looking forward to giving an overview of our Ethereum L1 scaling plans at Frontiers in SF in August!
I would encourage people to try to attend in person, it's been a great conference in the past.
https://x.com/gakonst/status/1937181165091541379
Starting today, Tim and I will be leading the work at the EF on scaling Ethereum L1.
This is part of a restructuring of the R&D group to more effectively support the three EF strategic priorities:
- scale L1
- scale L2s (i.e. blobs)
- improve UX
https://x.com/TimBeiko/status/1929620145984753843
Fun video with a practical example of iOS app reverse engineering.
I spent a week once a few years ago reverse engineering the private API signing logic of an app I was using that didn't (still doesn't) have a public API. Have been using their private API ever since!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW3jL2gI9IE
I'd highly recommend participating in the election prediction markets! They are a very interesting new addition to our sense making toolkit, and the best way to build intuition around them is by having skin in the game.
Many things to legitimately criticize Donald Trump for, but the Harris campaign tweeting out a video of him marveling at the SpaceX rocket booster catch - one of the most impressive feats of engineering in recent history - as if that somehow deserved ridicule is sad.
https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1848878029193560424
Latest Elon video game video accidentally includes the audio recording of a SpaceX starship flight 5 review call (the one where they caught the booster) he was on while playing. Super interesting to get a glimpse of the SpaceX internal operations!
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1849914261482652113
Polymarket Trump odds do seem a bit high. I just bought additional $1000 worth of Kamala shares at 35.4%. Seems +EV. Although of course chances are the market indeed knows better than me.
Can someone explain what's happening here? On train WiFi, when pinging 1.1.1.1 I get a normal response, but when pinging 1.0.0.1 (both are Cloudflare DNS servers) I get a response from the train router instead.
The timing on this is ridiculous - my first ever larger size polymarket bet, and that just so happens to be seconds before someone comes in with almost $1M to shift that market 4% in the other direction, in an (unsuccessful) attempt to win a secondary market…
https://x.com/jon_charb/status/1832112496968171679
New LLM release. Inner monologue as intermediary output seems very promising - my feeling is that LLMs are effectively "system 1" thinking, but so far we have been training them mostly on "system 2" output (because that is more readily available).
https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/1831767014341538166
absurd - Microsoft makes it impossible to disable the "Email a code" login option. Someone keeps trying to guess this (6 digit) code for my account. At this rate they have a ~1% brute force chance per year...
