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i am returning to BlueSky

@grindsethedonist.bsky.social

grocery store in my neighborhood installed a bunch of self checkout machines back in 2019 to cut labor costs.

Predictably, shoplifting spiked, eventually eating away at all the labor cost savings

Now they have security guards watching the customers while they bag their own groceries. Lmao

why would you use fast fourier transforms when you could use Labubu interpolation? food for thought

The future

Your mcm is doing cryptography in a cafe in nyc on a rainy evening

So true

using AI to present half-baked ideas is unbelievably lazy and disrespectful to the audience

Brandon taught me so much esoteric domain-specific knowledge in the short time I knew him

i constantly think back to his explanations when I try to understand new papers

can't believe he's gone. It's like the burning of the library of Alexandria.

Labubu is a derivative of Where the Wild Things Are

SuperSpartan by Hand | Research - Anoma The goal of this article is to dive into the techniques behind the SuperSpartan's polynomial IOP, which uses the sum-check protocol to prove CCS instances, by writing the protocol explicitely for a sp...

anoma.net/research/sup...

it's hard to determine the intention of a code author in the vibe coding era

If the code is bizzare, it could be intentional, or maybe the author never read their code

Who is BlueSky’s most notorious schizoposter?

You need to be on BlueSky

Since Twitter made likes private, Partiful guest lists have filled the gap

I’m immune to LSD because I attained spiritual enlightenment in 2017. These tabs don’t affect me. What’s your IG?

I’m immune to LSD because I attained spiritual enlightenment in 2017. These tabs don’t affect me. What’s your IG?

Peaking on two hits of acid at the clouted sceney bar

starting an arc as the most performative nerd on god's earth

on my way to the print cafe to print out mathematics papers to read at the beach

There’s an IRL streamer on the subway, I’m gonna crash out!

It’s a rabbit hole with many routes to explore

I’d recommend doing a Circom quickstart tutorial to get the core intuition. imo circom is the right level of abstraction to really “feel” what’s going on with the proofs

then try a Noir quickstart tutorial, especially something involving recursion

nope. those people should all learn cryptography

If you're interested in deep blockchain tech, there is nothing left besides ZK (and other cryptography)

mechanism design is dead, consensus is boring, fraud proof systems are dying

long live verifiable computation and privacy

3 weeks after crashing out: the crashout doesn't reverse, it becomes the new baseline, and I adapt

People used to phreak their phones now their phones phreak them

it is extremely disrespectful to make someone look at ChatGPT slop you pass off as your own.

Chat, should i replace all of my media consumption with Paradox Games?

Introducing the integer addition microservice: send two 64 bit integers, receive their sum as a response.

protobuf spec defining request and response types

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