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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Feels like I’m back in grad school
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Rule: after you hear an acronym 3 times and pretend to understand it, you must google it to learn just how much you don’t. This thing is like 3 levels of abstraction deeper into pure math than I’ve ever been.
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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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Ok half these people appear lost. These are My People™
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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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You know it’s a weird crowd when a slide like this brings down the house. From roadmap discussion at the end of the R&D workshop.
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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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