derisking #web3 world. footnote:hat-value=a common measure of statistical leverage, values above 2(P+1)/n

Joined August 2019
Alé (@kbx) retweeted
There is no real liquidity to be taken out of M-BTC. Our recent analysis of @MerlinLayer2's M-BTC revealed that most of the pools had a heavily unbalanced TVL. The ratio for M-BTC to WBTC was 88:1, with $18.12M in M-BTC available, but only $0.206M in WBTC. Shown in the following pools:
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just because it's called "vibe coding" doesn't mean the "vibe" will be good
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📢NEW PAPER! Where @davidthewid, @sarahbmyers & I unpack what Open Source AI even is. We find that the terms ‘open’ & ‘open source’ are often more marketing than technical descriptor, and that even the most 'open' systems don't alone democratize AI 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Replying to @PDXDAO
Technologies that will avoid becoming obsolete are those that account for the real material embeddedness of their effects. Technologies that will avoid becoming obsolete are those that account for the real material embeddedness of their effects. tinyurl.com/yparudnd
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lfg - beautiful covalence of entities from #Ethereum world converge to center conversation and optimistic group-think in portland. so excited for what will be built at the site of this cosmological and local meeting ground. emergent @PDXDAO
Replying to @PDXDAO
How can CoFi protocols be made compatible with DAOs and token engineering to build new types of economic solidarity, empowering local businesses and workers against extractive megacorps in models previously undreamt of?
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It's just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder ... and finally it's going to be so weird that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is. - Terence McKenna (1998)
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by creating models that generate surplus, public goods can be profitable while being generative for the communities they serve
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Alé (@kbx) retweeted
crazy how we automated poetry before clothes folding
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my notes from conference circuit read like post-modern poetry... some of these verses have gone the way of Burroughs; no meaning to divine, regression to dadaism.
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my most favorite thing that I had the deep good fortune to be a part of - thank you for the wisdom shared from the achingly amazing @web3beach, @0xyNaMu, @taipeicity_eth, @iamsonge, @debranita28, and @minchi 💚🟢 @gitcoin and @schellingpoint_ for generating this lush space
Hanging at the @gitcoin @schellingpoint_ house listening to a panel on regional inclusivity in web3 w/ @haughtvalue @juannabananas @web3beach & more! (pls tag them below) 🌏🫡
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when so much of ethcc was high signal/low reward - this intimate seminar-style setting was the real thing.
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such a fun panel- thank you to @tarunchitra for literally coming direct off of a plane to Paris and rushing to DSS to tease apart nuanced definitions of Economic Risk. Really enjoyed this.
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web3, just like everyday life is impacted with cronyism. This creates inefficiencies, poor performance, complacency, lack of meritocracy, social inequalities, unethical behavior, limited opportunities, and weakening of institutions/ organizations among many other issues.
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Alé (@kbx) retweeted
Concept 154: Etherscan Dating
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In democratic peoples[...] all citizens are independent and weak; they can do almost nothing by themselves, and none of them can oblige those like themselves to lend them their cooperation. They therefore all fall into impotence if they do not learn to aid each other freely. -AdT
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Alé (@kbx) retweeted
These 15 countries (those with the highest % of crypto users) have a combined population of ~2.37 billion people, or about a third of humanity
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in the last 24 hrs my partner has used #ChatGPT to: - edit his important work email - feedback his screenplay idea - get emotional support on whether his feelings of jealousy are justified ngl feeling like my role in his life has been outsourced...
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“Do we benefit from having a representational rather than direct data democracy?” — @BM_DataDowntime towardsdatascience.com/zero-…
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open to debate.... but my strong suspicion is that even armed with NLP queries- exploratory data analysis will be deeply needed...
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