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Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
We collaborated with @vgr to create a custom-trained AI model on his artwork.
Venkatesh shares his thoughts on creating with AI, artistic provenance, and working with TITLES here: contraptions.venkateshrao.co…
TITLES is built around a simple premise: generative AI needs a way to account for creative origin. Our platform allows artists to train models on their own work while keeping authorship and attribution intact across every output. This lets artists participate in generative AI, rather than being replaced by it.
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
Wall Street demands the properties decentralization ==> Wall Street demands Ethereum
Check out my Devconnect ARG talk from last week to see my latest thinking on institutional adoption of Ethereum
youtu.be/2dwQvaLFUkc?si=cEYF…
Thanks @EFDevcon for hosting me! I had a fantastic time🙏
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
And, last but not least, we’re planning some in-person workshops focused on deriving a “grand theory” of protocols. The first one will focus on the intersection of distributed AI and blockchains 🤖
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
At a smaller scale, we also have several paid writing opportunities for contributions to Protocolized ✍️
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
Our Curriculum Development Track has 500K$ in grants available to fund college-level courses around protocols, with GCC sponsoring a Chinese language track.
We’ll kick the summer off with a Curriculum Development workshop at @JoinEdgeCity 📚
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
Summer of Protocols is back for 2025 ☀️
In 2023, our guiding question was whether “protocols” should be studied as a first class topic. After validating that, 2024 focused on applied research, in fields ranging from cryptography to wildfire prevention.
In 2025, our focus is education both via our Curriculum Development Program, and revamped Protocolized publication!
More info on all of this below 👇
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
Ethereum's distinctive property is hardness
(2 min read)
stark.mirror.xyz/A9csRsDaAJH…
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
Ribbonfarm is retiring (the blog, not the substack)
ribbonfarm.com/2024/10/10/ri…
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
Program Preview: Protocol Worlds ☀️
Tim Beiko and Timber Schroff from Summer of Protocols introduce the 'Tensions Game' that we'll play at Edge City Lanna, as a way to find creative solutions to complex problems.
Key clips in thread👇
@TimBeiko @tmbr_ss @timourxyz
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
To kick off the second week of the SoP Protocol Symposium, @vgr and I will be doing an AMA on the SoP forum throughout the day ☀️
forum.summerofprotocols.com/…
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
🌊 Join us tonight at 24:00 UTC (8pm EST / 5pm PT) for the Symposium’s third salon – hosted by Danielle Butler and Celeste LeCompte, who are revolutionizing flood protocols in coastal metropolises.
app.sola.day/event/detail/86…
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
🌱 Join us tonight at 24:00 UTC (8pm EST / 5pm PT) for the Symposium’s second salon – hosted by Kaliya Young and Day Waterbury. They will share findings from their study of the Internet Engineering Task Force’s organizational protocols.
app.sola.day/event/detail/86…
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
☀️Join us tonight at 24:00 UTC (8pm EST / 5pm PT) for the Symposium’s plenary session – featuring a keynote presentation by @TimBeiko and @vgr.
Topics: Intro to protocols, lessons from two years of research, and key themes for the future.
app.sola.day/event/detail/86…
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
.@vgr and I will kick things off with an overview of the SoP '24 research, future SoP plans, and how to participate throughout the week 😁
Join us on Sep 18, 00:00 UTC
app.sola.day/event/detail/86…
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
My speculative investigations into using server racks to create home furniture are now viewable online, at their own new website.
futurerack.info
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
Photos from Tenstorrent's 'Intro to Buda' Hackathon, organized by Sebastian Phemister. Teams created an internal help chat bot, text-to-speech systems, speech-to-text applications, visual question answering systems, and image classification models.
Find out more about TT-Buda stack on our GitHub --> github.com/tenstorrent/tt-bu…
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
Grim-sounding headline I know, but I actually had fun researching this, thinking it through, and writing it up. ribbonfarm.com/2024/08/15/in…
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
We are happy to announce that we have brought up support for Llama-3.1-70B inference on Tenstorrent’s 8-chip systems, the TT-QuietBox and the TT-LoudBox. The source code for Llama-3.1-70B and other models that are supported is on our GitHub --->
tenstorrent.com/vision/llama…
Venkatesh Rao ☀️ retweeted
Meet Wormhole™, our next gen chip featuring PCIe cards and workstations designed for developers interested in scalability for multi-chip development.
tenstorrent.com/hardware/wor…