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bearded tooth fungus retweeted
Introducing "Light Field Networks: Neural Scene Representations with Single-Evaluation Rendering"!
vsitzmann.github.io/lfns (w/ video!)
LFNs are the first fully implicit neural scene representation with real-time rendering, without post-processing / hybrid data-structures! (1/n)
bearded tooth fungus retweeted
USDTBULL on FTX is up over 50% in a year.
It holds USDT-PERP rebalanced to 3x leverage.
A long USDT-PERP position only paid funding at an average of about 5% p.a. over that period.
So where did the rest of those returns come from?
What am I missing?
Seems... wrong. 🤔
bearded tooth fungus retweeted
Just a silly reminder that this paper is kinda fun (and is now on arXiv!)
Essentially, it shows just how much you can do without using oracles: any (capped) monotonic payoff can be replicated without the use of an oracle!
arxiv.org/abs/2111.13740
bearded tooth fungus retweeted
This was pretty amazing to read and I highly recommend you do so — the biggest questions I had are:
1. Why did this guy think the USG’s spending limit was $100k?
2. What country was this? I actually can’t figure out who would want the data tendered (Russia? China?)
Cryptographers: If Alice wants to get an anonymous payment, can we break the math?
FBI: Alice, please put the nuclear submarine plans on an SD card in a peanut butter sandwich and leave it in a park. We'll pay you 10k anonymously in Monero if you do.
justice.gov/opa/press-releas…
bearded tooth fungus retweeted
This paper is from the future; I never thought I’d have to remember properties about PSL(2, Z) outside of for string theory, but Mr. Kane has found a way to make a way more efficient digital money (use the no-cloning theorem instead of hash chains) eprint.iacr.org/2021/1294
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Being compatible with atomic operations is the main reason that CFMMs (O(1) update) are significantly more robust than order books (worst case O(n) updates) on-chain
And this is even more clear when there’s a liveness fault!
bearded tooth fungus retweeted
So the simple regulatory arbitrage is to create a highly regulatory compliant custodial stablecoin. Then wrap it as on-chain collateral into an algorithmic stablecoin with minimal governance.
bearded tooth fungus retweeted
What if 1 token could be decoupled in 3 parts for example :
Principal part : passet
Yield part : yasset
Voting power part : vasset
We already have the first 2 parts & the 3rd part could bootstrap new utility like lending your vassets to "Dao activists" 👀
@prism_protocol 🤔
bearded tooth fungus retweeted
"Just because some aphorism fits in a tweet and sounds clever it doesn't mean it's true"
Twitter in a nutshell
THE WORST ARGUMENT AGAINST MINTING THE COIN
In today's @Markets newsletter, I wrote about one of my least favorite bro-economics aphorisms, which comes up often in the #MintTheCoin discussion
Sub' to the newsletter here: bloomberg.com/account/newsle…
bearded tooth fungus retweeted
There is nothing more amazing than seeing MMT acolytes proposing that the US government mint NFTs that are non-transferable, onlyOwner, and non-fractionalizable
I don’t expect derivatives markets (even CME stalwarts ZB/GE/etc.) to be so kind, as we’ve learned in FX and crypto
bearded tooth fungus retweeted
Did humans REALLY build the New York City subway system? At $1 billion per mile in today’s costs, how could primitive 20th century humans have built 850 miles of track? Did they have …extraterrestrial assistance? Or did they have some way of not spending a goddamn billion/mile?
bearded tooth fungus retweeted
the right incentive at the right time can change everything
dydx, polygon, avalanche, etc
the overton window has shifted in favor of discretionary token incentivization programs vs. programmatic
now look to the L2s
when they print tokies the ETH narrative will accelerate