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It’s a wrap! It was an honor to help organize the Fast Finality workshop in Cambridge.
There have already been some great recaps, but here’s my quick overview of the main topics we covered:
1. Deep-diving DC: Decoupled Consensus is a super ambitious upgrade we hope to ship in I* (h/t @benjaminion_xyz). @robsaltini gave a great overview, and @fradamt unveiled his impressive recent breakthroughs, e.g. achieving short-term async resilience through local locks.
2. Shipping DC: Sessions on critical research and engineering, including networking benchmarks & devnets (@sukunrt & Csaba), rewards & incentives (@weboftrees), and specs & testing (@mkalinin2, @jtraglia, @tcoratger).
3. Securing DC: Formal verification meets fast finality. We explored exciting new AI-enabled opportunities (@fradamt & @robsaltini), building on years of great FV work (@alexanderlhicks).
4. Future of Fast Finality: Aligning DC with future needs. This covered PQ networking (@kamil_abiy & @kevaundray), finality in tens of seconds with PQ validators (@barnabemonnot), lean clients & prototyping (@pablodeymo, Mega, Mihir, Locky, @adust09, @ladislaus0x), and one-round finality & other future research (shoutout @alranpe, @jneu_net, @ittai & Neil).
Huge thanks to everyone who made this workshop a success! Special thanks to @benjaminion_xyz for all the help and guidance, and of course to @justindrake and @willcorcoran for making it possible!
Linux on the laptop
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To rationally assess (and regulate) any new technology you can’t just ask “How is it different this time?” You must also ask “How is it the same?”
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We are excited to present several projects for consideration in this @gitcoin grant funding round! Please consider supporting our team at Interplanetary Shipyard to keep these important projects maintained. 🙏
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I saw this somewhere and it stuck: values are only real if another reasonable org could take the opposite choice. So “excellence”, “integrity” etc. don’t work because obviously everyone claims that. “Move fast and break things” is good from this POV and your “hire adults” works too (not an obvious choice!)
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Irrespective of your programming language, watching dynamic memory allocation... is a good practice.
As much as possible, allocate all memory at the start and stop there.
Programming languages like C and Zig that force you to make memory allocation explicit are helpful.
In C++, try to disable copy constructors for all your classes that allocate memory.
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The last time Al Gore treated software as a weapon, he tried to ban strong encryption. cc @nickgillespie
NOW — Al Gore Says Social Media Algorithms Disrupt Democracy and Need to be Banned: ‘They are the Digital Equivalent of AR-15’s’
“The shift from an information ecosystem based on print to one based on broadcasting and then moving on to the internet and to social media has disrupted the balances that used to exist that made representative democracy work much better…Because a free self-governing people rely on a shared base of knowledge that serves as a basis for reasoning together.”
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An article about my vociferous support of open source AI platforms.
Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman (among others) have scared governments about what they claim are risks of AI-fueled catastrophes.
I know that Demis, at least, is sincere in his claims, but I think those claims are incorrect and counterproductive.
The inevitable *effect*, intentional or not, if governments believe those claims would be a regulatory capture profiting their companies.
I do think that the short-term societal dangers of proprietary AI systems that will soon mediate everyone's digital diet are considerably higher than any imagined catastrophe caused by the misuse of open source AI systems.
And I believe that the benefits of open source AI platforms in terms of progress, safety, economic development, and cultural diversity are overwhelming.
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Testing all the libp2ps!!1 - Check out the new blog by @open_sourcery on how different libp2p implementations test one another to ensure "multidimensional interoperability" 🪐 🛸 filec.org/44pNKgt
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Wondered how you can monitor 📊 go-libp2p in production? Read the brand new blog post by @sukunrt about metrics and dashboards in go-libp2p and how they helped solve a few bugs! 📈 filec.org/3OYzeaQ
