Also adding: 🟣saz on @farcaster_xyz 🦋saz.bsky.social on @bluesky

Last week, I explored how intelligence is becoming a commodity and its impact on money. This week, I dive into @karpathy’s autoresearch project and what it reveals about the future of autonomous AI agents. This one even features @SarahAzouvi, my partner in crime on the idea of bringing "dark compute" to light, and the amazing work that @varun_mathur is doing with his swarm of agents (the real pre-AGI architecture) :) Here are the high-level ideas from this post: * How autoresearch validates the near-term use of autonomous agents through simple, 5-minute evaluation loops that beat highly optimized baselines. * The shift from execution to "research taste" and why designing the reward function and optimization surface will become the critical task for research and progress in other fields (once the barriers to execution are completely removed). * The massive potential of "dark compute": how a decentralized swarm of agents can turn idle, everyday GPUs into a global, collaborative research lab. Link to my post below 👇

I'm hiring at the EF: jobs.lever.co/ethereumfounda… If you're into Ethereum, cryptography, and formal verification, please get in touch! 🙂

Super grateful for how welcoming everyone at @zkproof was to our baby SNARK last week for ZKProof7 🦈 And special thanks to the organisers for the adorable bodysuit 😍❤️

🧵Mesh vs Hub: Approaches to Rollup Interoperability Ethereum’s rollup-centric future is fast and cheap—but fragmented. Liquidity, UX, and composability are broken across rollups. How do we fix this? Let’s explore Mesh vs Hub models for rollup interop. 👇 1/ The problem: Fragmentation Rollups scale Ethereum but at a cost: 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 UX: Users juggle wallets, bridges, & networks. 🌊 Liquidity: Capital is spread thin, leading to slippage & inefficiencies. 🔗 Composability: No atomic transactions across rollups. Seamless interop is the missing piece.

Meet @SarahAzouvi - Scroll's Protocol Researcher! 🌟 What does building the open economy mean to you? "To me, this means creating a more accessible and permissionless financial system where innovation isn't constrained by centralized gatekeepers. I'm particularly passionate about how this can advance financial inclusion for women, who are disproportionately affected by financial exclusion. Creating an open economy means breaking down these systemic barriers and ensuring that technological advancement benefits those who have been historically left out of traditional financial systems". Favourite xmas movie? "My favorite xmas movie is The Nightmare before Christmas, which I’d say is both a Halloween and xmas movie (which is amazing since I absolutely love both celebrations)". 💃 If you were a type of pasta, what shape would you be and why? "I’d be a spaghetti! As a dancer I’ve trained my flexibility a lot and in my professional life I’ve also learned to adapt and remain resilient in the face of changing circumstances - bending without breaking, both literally and figuratively, just like a perfect al dente spaghetti 🍝". Most overused emoji: 🙈 What’s your favourite thing about Scroll? "My favourite thing about Scroll is 100% the people, I feel super grateful to work with my amazing colleagues!" 💛

How can industry and academia work together to advance crypto and blockchain development? We’re excited to introduce the IC3-Cornell Blockchain Accelerator: A groundbreaking initiative, led by students and alumni, to transform research and bold ideas into real-world applications.

All-hands checkpointing to Bitcoin can cost only 1 tx via large scale DKG, and the @Filecoin's Pikachu blueprint @marko_vukolic @SarahAzouvi can finally become practically reachable; check out my student Michael's talk tmr @acm_ccs eprint.iacr.org/2023/1773

When I first heard Marko's vision to checkpoint PoS into Bitcoin I thought it was crazy - but there has been great progress since then! Filecoin (and many other chains) soon to be checkpointed on Bitcoin! See his initial work with @SarahAzouvi, Pickachu: arxiv.org/abs/2208.05408

The Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC) 2023 happening now at Stanford! Don’t miss the IC3 talks below and learn the latest #blockchain advancements with us! Visit cbr.stanford.edu/sbc23/ to see schedules and stream talks! Proudly co-organized with @CBRStanford @BerkeleyRDI🎉

My talk @EthCC is tomorrow (Tuesday) at 3:15pm on Eiffel Stage. I'll be talking about the deplatforming and censorship happening on subscription platforms (like OnlyFans) and the challenges of building similar platforms on a decentralised stack.

Joint statement from more than 300 scientists from 32 countries warning against the EU proposal for regulation to detect Child Sexual Abuse Material tinyurl.com/CSAScientistsLet…… The technologies it puts forward are inadequate to solve the problem and bring huge societal risks 🧵

My theory — Purdue CS denied me tenure because of its shallow, insecure view of scholarship, deep dysfunction and pettiness, apathetic PL leadership, culture of silence, and, yes, sexism. It has taken me a while to call this out; I am speaking up because someone should.

Also happy to share one of my invite codes to my mutuals, feel free to DM me. This is the platform that I’ve been using the most recently, such a good vibe!

Don’t work for toxic bosses. Research shows the best case is that you are miserable & less productive. The worse case, which all too common, is that you purposefully or unconsciously pick up the toxic behaviors yourself and make everyone else around you miserable in the future.

chatting with @hatsprotocol for DAO access management and @SarahAzouvi about decentralized OnlyFans @zeitgeist_xyz meetup off to a great start ❤️

Had the best time buidling cool stuffs with @zeitgeist_xyz in Boulder the past few days with so many new friends ☺️ Now off to Denver to continue buidling!