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I’ve been to Cartagena and Bucaramanga before. They have an old-fashioned provincial charm. But Bogota looks like a modern developed city. The devcon crowd looks like it’s half San Francisco, half rest of the western world.
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In the protocol R&D workshop today. Kinda hard to introduce myself… everyone is a very technical developer type. I think I’m going to go with “blogger”
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There’s probably going to be a lowkey meetup of refactor camp alumni and random friends if ribbonfarm on Wednesday evening. is pulling it together. Reply to this if you want to join.
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Post above links to a Vitalik post on elliptic curve pairings which points to a primer on elliptic curves, which is a couple of levels beyond what I’ve ever touched. So half this room is comfortable literate in stuff that’s actually 5 levels deeper than where I am 😬
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Crypto is evil twin of ML. The math gets deep fast. In ML if you poke a bit, they never get past matrix multiplication. They just do tons of them. The obscurity of ML comes from the quality of sheer quantity. In crypto, understanding Riemann hypothesis is apparently table stakes.
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Struck by another weird evil twin resonance between ML and crypto. The industry roadmap challenges sound roughly similar. If you replace “GPU” with “Bitcoin”, “PoW” with “Cuda”, and “PoS” with “dataflow architecture” many of the conversations rhyme uncannily.
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Skipped a very tempting dinner invite (celebration dinner of the team that did the merge at an interesting sounding place an hour away). Besides feeling unworthy of the unearned honor, going from no-sleep red-eye from LA to a full-day workshop has wiped me out.
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But I can share with you this picture of an excellent room service broccoli crudite salad along with a premium mediocre pizza. Now gotta work a bit more on my slides for tomorrow before crashing. gn
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Gm, at the #DevConBogota opening session. If anyone wants to find me, I’m towards the back a dozen rows behind the second doors, on the right of the aisle as you face the stage.
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