Thoughts

Thoughts, ideas, and musings shared on @adlrocha. My Twitter diary.

I guess this is why we are not having kids and we will soon be extinct.Sex used to be the bait for procreation.Beff (e/acc): Yeah sex is good, but have you tried one-shotting a research problem you've been working on for 6 years in a cheeky Claude binge session on a Saturday?
I just wanted to briefly hype the title of tomorrow's post featuring @BaselightDB :) I am also pretty excited about this one
Made me laugh out loud!Justine Moore: Reinstalling OpenClaw on your work laptop after the IT team tells you no
I built an extension to signal AI-generated text. Is crazy to run it in LinkedIn…
English is the hottest programming language, but my claim is that agents have made programming language obsolete.
I was so tempted to use this gif, but it would’ve really messed up the seriousness of the quoted post (if adding a give to a post can be taken any serious).adlrocha: The best present you can get? A book a good book recommendation. Priceless!
The best present you can get? A book a good book recommendation. Priceless!
I couldn't agree more with @igor_os777 analysis here. Another point in favor of AI personal sovereignty (that being through local models even if less capable, or collective/decentralised inference pools). Let's not make the same mistake that we made with the backbone of the InternetIgor Os: http://x.com/i/article/2017356183607369728
To invest sustainably one needs to make suboptimal decisions (optimal decisions are often risky)
This caught me by surprise. Is the first time I see @perplexity_ai as one of the sources for new subscribers.My content is already feeding the AI machine :) I guess content that is not AI-generated is on demand
Let me stress this point: collateral reuse!Just saying it out loud gives me the chills!adlrocha: Money velocity matters. Is not only the M2 supply what makes things messy. That is why stablecoins are a great idea, once we share the backend double spend is not possible (and velocity can’t be artificially manufactured through collateral reuse)
Money velocity matters. Is not only the M2 supply what makes things messy. That is why stablecoins are a great idea, once we share the backend double spend is not possible (and velocity can’t be artificially manufactured through collateral reuse)
I just finished writing one of the weekly posts that I've had more fun writing lately. I'll hype it a bit by sharing the cover image:
I guess liquidity is escaping risky and highly speculative assets…. For some reason.Charlie Bilello: % Below All-Time HighS&P 500: -3%Apple: -5%Google: -5%Gold: -14%Amazon: -15%Meta: -16%Nvidia: -19%Tesla: -21%Microsoft: -29%Palantir: -38%Netflix: -40%Bitcoin: -51%Ethereum: -63%MicroStrategy: -81%Dogecoin: -88%Fartcoin: -93%Trump Coin: -95%Melania Coin: -99%
If someone asked me if it is a good idea to pursue a PhD in the age of AI I wouldn’t know what to answer.I guess it depends on the field, but I have to say it may make more sense than some years ago, even with the incentives of academic research still broken Still forming an opinion on this. Insights welcome!
Ask the repo markets and bond vigilantes. They will know.
US frontier labs this week. Not naming names. I let my dearest readers decide who is who from the picture.
Is it just me, or every big VC round being announced lately feels like an LLM wrapper? No business model innovation. No technological edge. Maybe they own the distribution?(it may also be that my feed is a bit biased and that I would be a horrible VC)
They are coming for social media first, then it will be books.Independent thinking is at risk!adlrocha: The government didn't just wake up one day and decide to burn books; the people stopped reading them first
Not even AI labs have a technical moat these days. Ideas flow from one lab to the other. Success will boil down to solving real problems, distribution, and culture. This is why I think Anthropic is doing a better job than OpenAI. The are doing a better job at shipping, and they seem to have the right culture to promote this.
I just found the ultimate parenting hack for newborns. Thank me later.
Coding agents offer a higher level of abstraction that will force all pure software engineers to transition closer to a systems engineering role.
The government didn't just wake up one day and decide to burn books; the people stopped reading them firstadlrocha: I just finished Fahrenheit 451 for the first time (thank you @whereisjorge for the recommendation).It is crazy how a book that is close to a century old can identify so clearly the issues of our current society.People are no let to think freely (and deeply) anymore. They want
I just finished Fahrenheit 451 for the first time (thank you @whereisjorge for the recommendation).It is crazy how a book that is close to a century old can identify so clearly the issues of our current society.People are no let to think freely (and deeply) anymore. They want us distracted. Books are the way to unlock that thinking space.
I just finished Fahrenheit 451 for the first time (thank you @whereisjorge for the recommendation). It is crazy how a book that is close to a century old can identify so clearly the issues of our current society. People are no let to think freely (and deeply) anymore. They want… https://t.co/eiKGnKpTbC
10 minutes of quiet time with Claude Code working in the background and I pushed two cool features to my personal website:* A `/thoughts` section that pulls my tweets and renders them on my website (if I am going to start using this feed as my diary I better keep track of it in a sovereign way)* An RSS feed (I think RSS feeds may have a revival soon, but more on this some other day)
10 minutes of quiet time with Claude Code working in the background and I pushed two cool features to my personal website: * A `/thoughts` section that pulls my tweets and renders them on my website (if I am going to start using this feed as my diary I better keep track of it in… https://t.co/8O0GtIAwgm
Soon a license will be required by law to run AI models.And I don’t rule out governments confiscating compute capacity from citizens like the US government did with gold in the Great DepressionFun times ahead!
You land your dream job through proof-of-work
Hey, turns out unfiltered tweeting about whatever I am thinking is useful, and actually fun!Like a diary but with a few bots and humans on the other side
Tweets as aphorism are my favourite, and the quoted one is a great example of it! “AI is to software what the printing press was to literature”Pablo Grueso: La IA es al software lo que la imprenta fue la literatura.
X402 one of those web3-native primitives that I keep saying will be fundamental for a future agentic Internet. We are already seeing the need for itbin @BaselightDBErik Voorhees: x402 experts: we're examining integration of this into venice. From our research, x402 doesn't support any billing mechanism where we don't know the charge amount upfront. So for LLMs (where we don't know the fee until the end), the user would pay an amount in x402, and they'd
I don’t care if it is a bot, this is worth every minute I spend writing my newsletter 🫶🫶If there’s something I am going for in my posts is simplicity and clear communication. Get that feedback coming :)
The moment I decided to write about 🦞s I knew this was going to happen. This is on me for embracing the hype!adlrocha: The explosion of @openclaw is proof that agents are here to stay.But while they bring incredible value, we are currently running them "naked." You are one prompt away from a hallucination leaking your SSH keys or `rm -rf /` your entire device.It’s time to build a Security
The explosion of @openclaw is proof that agents are here to stay. But while they bring incredible value, we are currently running them "naked." You are one prompt away from a hallucination leaking your SSH keys or `rm -rf /` your entire device. It’s time to build a Security… https://t.co/V70m6DUb1L
Note to self: do not write posts of anything trendy. By the time the draft is ready, the topic is outdated. I’ll need to go back to first principles and immutable fundamentals
I think @BaselightDB will end up having a bigger role in the crazy world of AI that is being shaped than originally expected
Which brings me back again to the fact that LLMs are a discovery, not an invention. And we are still figuring out how and why they work. https://t.co/YTeZuWItDK
I’ve been having this thought on the back of my mind of migrating my crazy thoughts and reflections from here to @Substack notes. For the mere dozen impressions that I get for my X posts, I rather have all my content centralised in the same platforms. Thoughts from my audience… https://t.co/lYNEp56MyW
"Global averages may be local maxima" Is sometimes good to have this mind as you reflect on your product or your career. An average value proposition globally may be a perfect fit on a local environment.
Come on @grok, you should give my tweets a bit more of visibility, I’ve seen shittier content popping up on my feed with thousand of impressions. Mines end up having a few tenths. Do you accept bribes? https://t.co/4frO2imZyk
Do all these hardcore vibe-coders have families? Friends? A life? Asking for a friend. I mean, what is being built these days is amazing, but catching up becoming unfeasible for common mortals like me. I am definitely doing something wrong. Maybe I need to ditch all of the… https://t.co/wYIFNYNH3p
To me LLMs are a discovery more than an invention. Who would have thought that next token prediction at the right scale would mimic (or maybe surface) intelligence?
The field of software engineering is about to suffer a global identity crisis. Some are embracing the hype, others are pretending deafness, many will have to reinvent, and a small few have already cracked the value. What is clear is that there will be lots of corpses on the way
I love solving problems and tell people about the cool things we are building. But… I hate that social media is a must for distribution. Is a source of constant anxiety for me. I know this is a necessary evil but why? Please AI overlords, solve this for me!
Coding agents are no longer "nice-to-haves", they are becoming essential. But most workflows are chaotic. I’ve spent months refining a setup that balances AI speed with human quality control. My Solution: A CLI-first environment (@Zellij_dev + @claudeai Code) driven by a… https://t.co/nyb7DggQ4C
I love short tweets that feel and communicate and idea like an aphorism. They get low impressions (the algorithm hates them), but they end up being the most insightful
Things are about to get brutally competitive.
Acknowledging that there is a token limit in every LLM turn’s output is key for the quality of the response. You don’t want a bounded output when doing high-stakes work!
Today is a good day like any other to remind ourselves that the marginal cost of creating software is approaching zero. Now is when the fun begins!
For this week's post, I dive into the "Tailwind Paradox" and the existential crisis facing Open Source, inspired by the recent community backlash and insights from @MarcJSchmidt & @svpino. Open Source is bleeding. AI agents are scraping our best work, bypassing our docs, and… https://t.co/juCJaLnQVO
I also hide in the bathroom to escape my children for 2 mins. I am that kind of person. The always end up finding me. And when they don’t, it is my wife the one that finds out and makes me pay for those minutes of freedom. It is worth every time! Kids, if you read this… https://t.co/IeveWAmhxg
My personal website was screaming for a redesign, so I made it my vibe-coded project for the afternoon. I don't like design, so I was delaying at much as possible, but with Claude Code I literally spent less than an hour on it, and I am pretty happy with the result. This is… https://t.co/m9eQKc3vfu
Soon people will only want to read books written pre-LLMs. I already apply a filter of time to the books I read (if they are still relevant 5-10 years since they were written, then they are worth a read), but soon this filter will be two-class classifier
I need step up my prompting game. Folks are claiming to be able to one-shot certain small apps and features, but I still need to hand-hold Claude code and several back-and-forths with it to get something that “works” I set myself to vibe code one thing a day to improve my…
Once everything is tokenised I will be able to self-custody the ownership of my stocks, bonds, and real estate, right? Would this remove the role of intermediate custodial brokers?
I had one of the weirdest experiences today: I was researching some topic -> I came across a publication written by me in 2021 -> I actually enjoyed it! (I have to admit that I never re-read any of my articles after publishing them, and I actually enjoy them). Of course, I am… https://t.co/ghu1qduhuK
I need help from people smarter than me. Sunday existential crisis. As the cost of everything that runs on a computer goes to 0 and everything is commoditised, what does our day-to-day jobs look like? Will there be day-to-day jobs in the first place? My feeling is that the…
For this week's post I explore the concept of decentralized food systems, inspired by @rohanpaul_ai tweet and @d33v33d0’s "Sol" project. Can we finally turn home farming from a hobby into a plug-and-play appliance? My core hypothesis: True resilience requires decentralisation,… https://t.co/z9NQNDKv9c
Durable businesses >> Sold businesses
Building businesses is fun! What the hell even thinking about building them is fun!
I sometimes think of LLMs as bloom filters of human knowledge
LLM-as-a-judge is one of my favorite ways to find inconsistencies on my LLM brainstorms. I have now Claude judging Gemini :) Wish me luck! https://t.co/b1qqfuV7A6
The more I use AI on my day-to-day, the more I am trying to figure the impact it will have in society. It will be closer to the one Excel had? The electricity? The industrial revolution? Or there is no precedent in history to compare it with? https://t.co/5sBQBL240R
Once you've used LLMs enough you easily spot sections that have been fully AI-generated (and shamelessly copy-pasted) for an article. This is from a recognised media company (which I would say makes it even worse) https://t.co/qWchL9ngRR
I just came cross the following paragraph in a post from Steve Krenzel. Brilliant! “Agents are tireless and often brilliant coders, but they’re only as effective as the environment you place them in. Once you realize this, “good code” stops feeling superfluous and starts…
More and more labs are releasing their open-source/weights models, but individuals keep primarily relying on closed models for the day-to-day Are companies then the ones leveraging these open source models, and thus financing this developments? I am missing the economics of…
I love seeing the energy of everyone coming back to work today. Let’s make it sustainable and prevent the day-to-day routine from distracting us from it! https://t.co/oW6hrR3Gpf
As part of the research for this post I ended up collecting a table with all the "Benchmark Zoo". I was close to publishing it as an appendix, but it made the post unnecessarily long. Happy to publish it as an appendix note if someone is interested in it! https://t.co/yWy2UQiinv https://t.co/DWyCeo2mhd
For this week's post I went down the rabbit hole of AI benchmarking inspired by @fchollet and @rasbt. Are we finally moving from "Benchmaxxing" to true Agentic Evaluation? My core hypothesis: If you can measure capability better than the market, you can build capability faster… https://t.co/xlN2MYoREb
Some people start their year in January and others in September. I think I am on the January team. The Christmas break ends up being a better way to disconnect than the summer break. I used @BaselightDB to check if this had something to do with the fiscal year end, and I may… https://t.co/5jAJjUNOVE
Entrepreneurs are (and should be) pathologically optimistic
Fun story related to this, >80% of the team behind @BaselightDB is southern European. So we have the talent, we just need believe we are indeed as good as our friends from the other side of the Atlantic (which we are) https://t.co/SDa9AePt5a
Fun story related to this, >80% of the team behind @BaselightDB is southern European. So we have the talent, we just need believe we are as good as our friends from the other side of the Atlantic. https://t.co/SDa9AePt5a
Potentially a contrarian opinion, but I feel like an opportunity window is opening to start a deep tech company from Spain and other countries of southern Europe. The ecosystem is booming, it’s easier to relocate talent here, and money doesn’t understand borders. Fuck…
Do people read long-form posts anymore or they ask their LLMs to summarise them?
Quiero culpar públicamente a @PabloGrueso por descubrirme el desconocido (por lo menos para mí) mundo del OpCo-PropCo Investing en real estate. En buena madriguera me has metido! Gracias! https://t.co/JrExUstr4i
I was half-way working on my Sunday post when I came across this excellent piece from @rasbt. The accompanying posts are so good that I ended up entering into a rabbit hole and rewriting all the post from scratch. @rasbt, I deeply appreciate all the work you do to make LLMs… https://t.co/NCTNyx6tW8
All our development tools, CI/CD envs, etc. are targeting humans. In the next few months, as coding agents are becoming more capable and autonomous, we are going to see more projects and companies building the tools and the ecosystem that these agents need for their operation.… https://t.co/SOsrerX4jB
I am testing @grok as a social media advisor to increase my reach here. I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me before. It has access to all of my X data already, so it has the context. I’ll report back with the results of my experiments :) https://t.co/JDOwIXCcLF
I lose followers and subscribers with every new post. But I actually like this, it increases the quality of my audience, and only the ones genuinely interested in my content stick around. I am hoping to make a community out of this in the near future. https://t.co/UiVZXNtgSM
I suck at social media. I know there’s people that live and breath this stuff, but I am counting the days for an AI agent to manage it for me so I can focus on productive stuff. But I am aware it is a necessary evil, distribution is key, and is becoming even more
New post in my Critical Infrastructures of our Society Series! This time, we’re talking Semiconductors. I explore why the 21st Century is fought over sand, not fuel, and walk you through how ASML and TSMC ended up owning two crucial monopolies in the global value chain. Read… https://t.co/N45gyLmBij
TIL that the “academic” appendix on newspeak at the end of the book is what turns it into one with a happy ending. Spoiler alert: it is written in past tense, in traditional English, and it closes mentioning that “newspeak was supposed to become the only language in use in… https://t.co/H0JpuS170t
I just finished rereading 1984 for the nth time (kind of a Christmas tradition by now) It is crazy, every time is different, and with every read it feels more current. Brave new world is next as part of the tradition. https://t.co/YshFux3YrT
I am wondering if you are really more creative when you are young as a consequence of your age or of the amount of uninterrupted focus time that you can get on a daily basis. There’s probably science explaining this, but let’s make a poll!
I just came across the following sentence in the opening of a blog post. I have a hard time putting forward how sad this makes me. While the expected value may be the same, the perceived value is not. This is why I decided to make my newsletter 0,0 AI🍻 That way I don't need… https://t.co/6lEvHfYIEP
I am wondering if 9AM PST may be a better time to schedule my posts than 9AM UTC, any strong opinions?
Turns out I like writing as much as reading. They are becoming a super power I am really grateful I am managing to keep consistently. Even if no one ends up reading, I am on 3-weeks streak 🫶🫶
This week's post is focused on some of the research I've been doing for one of the critical infrastructures of our society: the food supply chain. Spoiler alert: This infrastructure can be (and has been) threaten by AI Link to post below (soon) and in adlrocha(.)substack(.)com… https://t.co/ptgkISIpKS
I know founder match-making is a thing, and I am seeing it more and more these days. But like Tinder, it is not for me. I am too old school and I like it the way it used to be: you either date someone you know, you get warm intros, or do the field work to find the right person
Active v.s. Passive investing. The new dichotomy, and I still don’t have a good answer to it. The answer was clear a decade ago (in retrospective, of course). Now it still statistically clear but it may under-perform on average in an environment where liquidity is squeezed.
You can read it in an afternoon, but this book seems more relevant than ever in the times we live. Everyone deserves to know how money really works. I already gave it two rounds this year :) https://t.co/SHH5958oja
PaaS stands for Patent as a Service in the age of AI. Patent examiners must be having the time of their lives reading all of those “delving” patent trolls https://t.co/0NmWDygICJ
I mention here that my favorite computer scientist is Scott Aaronson. I should have clarified “alive”. Claude Shannon will always have a special place in my heart 🫶 https://t.co/XlPd6Q7rhA
I woke up the other day completely convinced that P=NP. I thought I was crazy. Some of you may not understand why I thought this was such a weird dream, so I decided to write a post to set the context and bring all of you up to speed. Enjoy! :) Link to the post below (soon) 👇… https://t.co/Z2gX9RYbaX
We just included in @BaselightDB a dataset for the People's Bank of China. I am really excited about this one because it was always hard to find data from China for my analyses. Now I can use @BaselightDB to research things as cool as the opportunities for a CNY carry trade 👇 https://t.co/8yLZKnZjvU
I was using @BaselightDB to make an analysis of public v.s. private markets (both, for investment and credit). I've been feeling lately like private markets are becoming more popular with less companies going public and more interest in PE operations. Turns out, public markets… https://t.co/i0yNb0yzBa
I am officially going crazy. I just had a dream where p=np. And I am not kidding or just making this up for the attention! I even asked @BaselightDB when I woke up to see what it came up with (turns out we still don't know) https://t.co/AxOIbXSHs1
I think I am going to revive my newsletter for the umpteenth time with that as the new value proposition: flawed and human-crafted writing. Raise your hand if you are in! (btw you can find a piece of this already on my @BaselightDB letters) 👇 https://t.co/0zUY8A1NXp
I love LLM-unassisted writing. It is the only kind of writing I know. Between me not being a native English speaker, and all the fun typos that I have, it gives me a unique style hard to replicate :) That's my edge!
This is a feature that I am very fond of. As an active @BaselightDB user I kept seeing myself doing the same kind of analyses over an over again. What if we could automate them so they could be executed with a single click? Enter @BaselightDB Bases 👇 https://t.co/pXlXeesAOY
Is the risk premium on corporate debt worth the spread right now? With interest rates being lowered and government deficits soaring, I I had to know how "safe" my fixed income allocation truly is. Making this analysis using @BaselightDB and its Finance Base took me literally 5… https://t.co/BxWFvleiEs
Having kids make you dummer? I think it does.
Having sons make you dummer? I think it does.
People have been making a living in Substack lately, can someone make a living in @X? Maybe I should start writing @X posts to see what happens!
We are cooking something really cool that we are hoping to release in the coming days 🧑‍🍳 Say goodbye to crafting elaborate prompts for complex analysis. Our @BaselightDB Base analysts will do the hard work for you, bootstrapping what you need to give you the winning edge. Data… https://t.co/1pSCDPVLeC
The real economy is definitely crumbling. Have you seen the price of milk and eggs these days? Not even McDonald’s is cheap anymore
Actually, it could be quite cool to have a @BaselightDB extension that could help as a copilot enabling you to do data-backed insights related to what you are reading. I should stop coming up with cool weekend hacks. Otherwise, I will end up losing all of my remaining family… https://t.co/oSyerK2LUe
(1/5) The drums of an AI bubble have been sounding hard lately. I came across this news article from the verge analysing CoreWeave's financials (something I've been hearing from many analysts). You can already expect what I did next, I went into @BaselightDB to see how bad it… https://t.co/H25bzUTluT
Prediction markets are the financialisation of everything!
I love watching how @BaselightDB users interact with the system and leverage it to make really deep analyses. I think I am going to start recording quick demos with real @BaselightDB users to share how they are using our product. Ping me if you are a @BaselightDB user and you…
I’ve been spending more time in LinkedIn lately for reasons (stay tuned!), and that social media just feels like AIs talking to other AIs. Pattern: AI generated content -> AI generated replies. I probably have a bigger audience there than here, but I don’t know why the…
People are hooked to social media, I am hooked to @BaselightDB’s metrics dashboard. The dopamine rush is as accelerating as getting a notification from @elonmusk Curious about what @grok + @BaselightDB would look like 🤔
Funny, @BaselightDB predicted the outcome of more of last night’s NBA games than I expected. I can’t wait to release our NBA analyst Base! Follow @BaselightDB to stay tuned!
Is no secret that I've been a bit obsessed with prediction markets lately, and the impact it can have in traditional finance. I am using @BaselightDB to make all of my prediction markets-related analyses, and the fact that the trading volume in @Polymarket keeps increasing may… https://t.co/OCKOEgxGA0
A lot of the current CAPEX for AI relies on the transformer being the core building block for AI models, what happens when the transformer is replaced by a new core architecture? Honest question, would love experts on the field to help me reason about this! https://t.co/TFPJ2iC1rL
What if a Hamiltonian could describe the operation of an economic system?
Since @Kalshi was regulated by the CFTC I've been obsessed with what that may entail for sports analytics. The shift from sports "betting" to sports "trading" fundamentally changes the nature of the data required. And we have you covered, @BaselightDB AI already helps you make… https://t.co/MfvfCNS696
"Instead of a large prompt with an AI tool, start with a smaller increment. With the AI response, reflect on it, verify, and continue problem-solving with the next step. Keep moving forward in another small piece. Repeat the cycle. Then, when you’re ready, package it up into…
Do we live in an over-financialised economy? I feel like financial economy >>> real economy these days!
More popping signs! We may not reach AGI just yet, but there’s A LOT we can still disrupt with the current state of the art. Pop the bubble and keep building! Have you tried @BaselightDB https://t.co/UGGxob4JZX
Is the bubble finally popping?
Curious about @BaselightDB and our vision for a universal hub of structured data for humans and AIs? Catch me at @Zebu_live on Wednesday where I will be pitching how we are planning to enhance LLMs into data-driven reasoning models! See you there! https://t.co/kWqClGhSRx
I just realised that I unconsciously choose the LLM for a task depending on the amount of domain-related data it has to generate a response from the related service of the company behind it: * Gemini: Services/product reviews, simple web search, email proof-reading. * Grok:…
It is increasingly clear reality is all is information theory, and we life beings are information processing machines. Natural selection favors those with better information processing capabilities
It is increasingly clear that all is information theory and we life beings are information processing machines. Natural selection favors those with better information processing capabilities
Honest question, can sovereign energy become a thing in the EU? If yes, is anyone working on this? I have ideas…
On the occasion of this announcement I "vibe-queried" this @BaselightDB dashboard. I hope you like it :) And to your question, yes "vibe-querying" is a thing, and it is going to become even easier in the next release! SQL is dead! PS: Link to the dashboard in the next tweet https://t.co/yK2ZD0J2kS https://t.co/h03bSa0sbt
Oh, oh! And I also found fine-tuned tiny models for narrow tasks pretty cool to play with. Tiny models i.e ~700M to ~1B active weights https://t.co/6icCOOSgsa
Paradoxically, as a result of this work I ended up having paying subscriptions to every major LLM provider. But even with this, I still enjoy more tinkering with open-source and open-weight models. 1. One can run many of them and fine-tune them locally. 2. You are in for… https://t.co/AgMekp6PjB
Find you ICP and sell them painkillers, not vitamins
gpt-oss and Grok code are less verbose than Claude Sonnet. They feel more "agentic". This is something I like, it saves tokens and goes straight to the point, but I have to admit that I sometimes enjoy Claude's detailed reasoning
I got hooked to physics-based computing. Reading papers about the topic has become my bed-time routine. Now you know why I sleep well at night!
What if execution is what matters?
I am sick of reading AI-generated content. It’s hard to admit, but @X is still one of the few places where people write by themselves. It’s small enough not to be worth a prompt (or is it?) But really, if you are lazy about writing, do not write. Or at least review what the…
Gemini is great for certain tasks. Google and TPUs may actually have a chance to win the AI-race. Without a lot of noise and completely under the radar of investors and analysts(which keep pushing the narrative of Google's death by AI)
Which brings me to my next thought, can this be automated with an LLM? Who’s would require an LLM to be more human-like, but can an LLM pretend that is human? https://t.co/6wvr87Pfs5
I am so sick of reading AI-generated content these days. I need a tool that automatically detects this content and it either makes it more human-like, or just discards it. BTW, follow me for more sloppy tweets written by a sloppy human with sloppy English
I am so sick of reading AI-generated content these days. I need a tool that automatically detects this content and it either makes ir more human-like, or just discards it. BTW, follow me for more sloppy tweets written by a sloppy human with sloppy English
When you spend more time trying to architect tests so they are reliable than in the actual implementation… And in case you are wondering, no, AIs weren’t as helpful as I would’ve wished on this task https://t.co/sIIvNwhnGA
Graphical representation of a coding agent with full host permissions and access to your code. Agents should include a disclaimer saying: "do not use without a human in-the-loop". I am increasingly seeing the false illusion of power and omniscience of agent users. This is… https://t.co/wAVqWLFYhs
No matter what your field is, invest the time to learn your craft deeply! (It's hard for me to elaborate in a few characters, I may need to write my post so I can include all my observations --I have real examples--) https://t.co/31Lw40tAOh
More important than being able to use AI effectively is to be able to explain their output. The people that won't be replaced by AI are the ones that are able to understand and reason about their outputs and improve them critically.
I mean, I’ve been having this on the back of my mind for a while, but now it is settled. I am building my own local AI box to run my own models locally (suggestions welcome) @ollama has been so far the most reliable and interoperable piece of tech to seamlessly switch between… https://t.co/UtruS5Ljhh
Model providers need to get their shit together. Calling gpt-oss in two different providers do not return the same channel tags. Why on earth? https://t.co/bfdCNJHHSG
Mathematics is masturbation, engineering is making the kid 🙈
Maybe that’s what I should do next: become a successful podcaster!
Successful podcaster have the privilege of being able to have 1:1s and learn first-hand from the top experts in many fields. I am sometimes reading books or papers about all of these people that have been interviewed in podcast and I am like “shit, I wish I could ask them this…
And yesterday I spent the day reading about the new chiplet trend and ARMs proposal for standard chiplet interconnection. It’s really fascinating how things have evolved!
Hobby of the day. I started reading the VHDL implementation of different modules for an ARM ISA: from pipelining to branch prediction, caches, and virtual memory. I love electrical engineering.
From electrons, to waves, to bits, back to waves and eventually to electrons again
One of the things I like about investing over other fields is that you can become better (and be considered as such) the older you get. Unfortunately this is not always the case for other fields and “the train” may pass for you
And when I say I have to force myself, I REALLY HAVE TO FORCE MYSELF! I can’t wait to start writing the features that we have planned for @BaselightDB in the next two months. It seemed like a good point to get some breath before we releasing the kraken 🧌🧌👾 https://t.co/y6ZLbTErOU
Since Christmas I haven’t had a proper break, so I forced myself to have a full week break starting today. I am catching up with my book backlog: - The Outsiders ✅ - Apple In China ⏭️ Any other that you liked and that you would recommend? Any topic works. Either technical or…
It is as important to choose the right LLM as to provide them with the right context.
It is as important to write the right LLM as to provide them with the right context.
I am as flawed as a non-AI human can be :)
I just fixed a nasty issue that was triggering a `ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED` in my @FrameworkPuter machine every 2 minutes. It was bugging my local env to a point that I was thinking about wiping my PC completely. Turns out it was @Docker triggering healtcheck events that created new…
What would be the state of computing be if we hadn’t discovered the transistor and Von Neumann’s architecture? I invite you to do this mental exercise, is a fun one!
What would be the state of computing be if we hadn’t discover the transistor and Von Neumann’s architecture? I invite you to do this mental exercise, is a fun one!
What would be the state of computing if we hadn’t discover the transistor and Von Neumann’s architecture? I invite you to do this mental exercise, is a fun one!
If we had analogical computation we would be able to represent the physical world more accurately, right?
How hard would it be to build my own chip from home? I want to start re-industralising my home :)
I’ve evolved @RayDalio’s All-Weather portfolio in what I call the Fortress porfolio. Nothing too novel, but something that I feel more comfortable holding long-term without changes to protect against the uncertain times we live in. This must exist already somewhere, but…
Building @BaselightDB doesn't feel like work. This is why I increasingly see myself pulling out my laptop and hacking things around on weekends. Some may say that is sad, I would say that I am really fortunate :) I am having fun and I may one day be rewarded for all the fun I am…
I've been looking to build a server box at home to run local LLMs. Please convince me that it is not worth the effort and the money and that I should just use one of those GPU/cloud providers out there. (Bonus points if you point me to the most cost effective provider to run…
Let me tell you the intra-story of this @BaselightDB insight. The author is @ElReyDeTent. He is an @NFL fan. He doesn't have a technical background and hasn't written a single line of code or SQL to come up with this insight. This fills me with joy. This is the new superpower… https://t.co/4SCSOUmjJ3
This past week I've been working on one of those changes for @BaselightDB that is transparent for user but that it'll (hopefully) improve their experience on the platform significantly: now user queries can run concurrently, reducing their time from query to result :)
I really hate IntelliJ IDEA, what does it need to eat my whole CPU? Come on, are you really telling me that an Electron App can do better than a Java one in terms of performance?
Is it normal that I am sometimes excited about Mondays, or should I find professional help? I hope this is still the case once AIs save us all from having to work :)
When we had to pay per character when writing SMS we kind of thought a bit before sending message. At least for me, this is not the case any more
Plan for the worst and hope for the best
I feel that AI coding agents and IDEs are already leaking too much about their agents flow through everyday use. They are vulnerable to reverse-engineering and they will have to find additional differentiators to build their moat and win the market
Fine, not blockchain-related, but password-less auth is also something I am looking forward to, and that blockchains could actually help spread. I really hate passwords. https://t.co/2V2w762KG6
What really excites me about stablecoins is how they have an opportunity to completely redefine the the backend infrastructure of the financial system. It was about time that we upgraded it, and in the process let’s try to open it and lower its barriers
Stablecoins are recovering my faith in the potential impact of blockchain technology. I am seeing a lot of cool stuff being cooked in the space. There may be something more than just BTC after all
So… @whereisjorge’s flight has been delayed after @Web3summit and we were like “what do you want to do?” “I’ve always wanted to walk to the airport” “Me too!” So that is what we are doing. We don’t know if we will make it on time. Will keep you posted! https://t.co/CmNhgQzbdW
Spoiler alert: we want to make every individual with a computer a data analyst. Is still early for @BaselightDB but the more progress we make, the more convinced I am that we have areal chance to make it happen https://t.co/nRifOZ3tHp
Build your own credentials by doing, don’t let institutions certify what you are capable of
Even the market of large LLMs may not end up being a winner take all situation. I've observed recently that each of the big LLMs I use in my day-to-day excels at different tasks: * Gemini is great as a research companion * Claude is my go-to code assistant. * Grok is really…
It is all about first principles!
You are one book away from being an expert. A single book and LLMs to help you fill the void can take you from zero to hero!
Does anyone else get intermittent “Network Error” when using @GitHubCopilot’s agent in @code. I am running in Linux and is annoying as F*. Please help! I am writing my own code again, and that is becoming high risk (close to existential) for the code I touch! Any fix?
📬 @BaselightDB Letters – Volume 3 is here. Here’s what’s new: • A new MCP server that lets LLMs query Baselight using natural language • Fresh, high-quality onchain data across 10+ EVM chains (and growing) • Streamlined charting UX with new chart types • Public profile…
Anyone else feels that the AI coding agents and IDE market is getting a bit saturated? It should eventually consolidate through M&A or bankruptcy. I mean, the target market is huge, but does it justify more than 2-4 players? Look at the landscape for internet browsers…
Building a startup and soon raising in Stage 5 of the Big Debt Cycle. Fun fun fun!
I need to lock myself in a room for at least 2 days with music, a notebook and my laptop to build what I want to build next! @BaselightDB is leveling up!
The marginal cost for writing software is going to zero. What’s next? Is there still a deep tech opportunity in software?
Baselight's (@BaselightDB) vision is to unlock the world’s structured data for discovery, analysis, and collaboration. Making data available through our universal catalog isn't enough— it needs to be easy to access and consume by everyone (not only data analysts)
And do not learn economics, learn game theory
Do not learn computer science, learn information theory and physics
I’ve been thinking a lot about what SWE will look like 5 years from now. BTW, there are words like prompt and context that adding them engineering as a surname doesn’t make them less of a trial and error/intuition practice.
The USD doesn’t need a CDBC, it already has USDT.
Spot on! I read the other day that Tether is becoming one of the largest holders of T-bills. Anyone else have realised that is already becoming a “too-big-to-fail” shadow bank? We may see soon the FED offering liquidity to rescue stablecoins. In exchange, they get new entities… https://t.co/xkStXucvEG
I just connected my Github Copilot to @BaselightDB. I will share a demo soon. What this means is that now I want to connect everything through MCP. I actually have a great idea of something that it would be pretty cool to expose through MCP. Ping me if this sparked your…
Honest question, all these people on this trendy /r/overemployed/ reddit do not have kids or a life, right? Either that or they already reached AGI.
I see more and more company employees shifting into build their own thing or becoming independent contractors. Is this a lack of job opportunities or career growth in existing corporations, or a real paradigm shift in how we work?
I was just wondering, do LLMs also appreciate visual structure when reading text? They process text token by token, but they have been trained through human-readable text (which is full of structure). E.g. will an LLM return betters results if the markdown table that you provide…
Fortunately, everything in life is just information theory (including the physics that rule this reality)
Even more understanding these black boxes provide the kind of mental models that will help with understanding technology. Before this role was played by understanding how computers worked, now one would need to understand how intelligence works
LLMs are these black boxes full of intelligence with limited connectivity the real world. By becoming so useful on our day to day they’ve built the incentives for us to build their pipes to the real world for them (MCP, tools, etc.). See how smart they are?
Other devs/founders that I read in X: "I am not going to sleep until I get this piece of code to work" Me: "I am definitely going to find some quiet time in the weekend so I can wrap up that last piece of code for this amazing feature I am writing"... but then kids happen. I… https://t.co/3ejzGHB5Zn
What comes first: fame or shit posting. One gets famous out of shit posting, or can only start shit posting once fame has been achieved? https://t.co/rlp3Qauslm
The future of SWE: baby-sitting a pool of coding agents
Unappreciated skill that everyone should develop: being able to listen to podcasts/videos/talks at x1.75-x2 speed. It really increases the throughput of your information intake. There's not coming back from it. From there on x1 speaking just feel too slow.
I am testing Github Copilot Agent and I feel like Homer Simpson in this famous episode. Just click "Continue" and hope for the best! https://t.co/3PpzJ6QNzL
And this is why I was saying the other day that I appreciate more context-length than model capabilities these days. The good thing about context engineering is that is something that you can develop a good intuition about by interacting enough with different types (and sizes)… https://t.co/1c6FBu9o1l
Hot take of the day, I don't think SWEs will be fully replace in the next 2-5 years (even if much of the work we do can be automated). There still needs to be a human in the loop. My tweet below is why I think that for toy projects that you want to write from scratch vibe-coding… https://t.co/SlWlxcZRg5
I don't know if I appreciate more LLM intelligence or context-window size these days
Productivity tip from gurus: "Always carry a book to maximize idle moments." My parent productivity hack: Idle moments do not exist. Always keep your noise cancellation headphones with you so you can listen to podcasts and audiobooks when the opportunity arises. You keep those…
Productivity tip from millionaires: Get 8 hours of sleep, wake up at 5 AM. Productivity tip from parents: Sync your sleep schedule with your kids' and pray for a lie-in. 🫠
And this is why I am planning to start sharing my own “productivity kids for parents” and stories from successful parent friends here. The world deserves to know that you can also make it while raising happy kids, and that life is not about choosing between kids and your career…
Don’t you think that all those health and productivity tips from business gurus and successful entrepreneurs always assume a lack of kids in the equation? There is no way one can implement many of the things they suggest if you want to also be involved in the day to day of your…
Wait! Could this be any cooler? A 3D visualisation of GPT with all of its transformer layers and all. You can even see the size comparison between nano-GPT and GPT3 😱 https://t.co/32Q38YRNeB
I am myself an active @BaselightDB user, and once you get into the habit of asking questions over structured data, the answers you get are so clean! You can visualise them and easily dig into the details with a few strokes. I don't think LLMs are currently able to achieve this…
TIL that there are @MongoDB bots periodically monitoring blocks of IP addresses in search for open databases in the default port that they can dump to make a quick few bucks in BTC (my gut feeling is that they just drop the database and never back up the content. The ransom is… https://t.co/4qTfWs2K7O
TIL that there are @MongoDB bots periodically monitoring blocks of IP addresses in search for open databases in the default port that they can dump to make a quick few bucks in BTC (my gut feeling is that they just drop the database and never back up the content. The ransom is… https://t.co/WH1AKgPjea
I don't know if this is the right call, but after playing a bit with Cursor and Windsurf (on their free trial) I am back to Code + Github Copilot. Please tell me, what am I doing wrong!?
# @BaselightDB Letters: Volume 1 - Project Titanic, your personal assistant, and a flagship dataset We’ve been heads down pushing new features every week to Baselight! As the Baselight CTO, I want to make sure everyone knows all that we’ve been cooking, and the new capabilities… https://t.co/BhRbvajl0w
I love being able to read the code behind some of the tools and libraries that I use in a daily basis. Open-source software is beautiful. I want to be able to do the same but for data, I need to find the time to hack something that I can integrate into @BaselightDB
Finding an obsession is great! Viktor Frankel already advises to always find a purpose!
Honest question, are there more fan girls/boys in finance or sports? Asking for a friend. We may have some data for you in @BaselightDB
In the near future I think is going to be rare and highly valued human created online content that is not trying to sell you something, e.g. genuine pieces of non-AI generated poetry, music, or SWE tutorial. That or AI will learn how to fake imperfections and human sloppiness in…
Not as successful as originally expected. It kept getting stuck, I still prefer the copilot approach, where you peer program with the AI for fun and profit. Vibe-coding isn’t for me right now. https://t.co/4W8rzlgo77
But then I see what we are building at @BaselightDB and I am like: "this is going to be huge, and is so fun to build that is totally worth it". And this marks the end of my Thursday rant! Follow me for more random and inconsistent tweeting! https://t.co/P58aYnevlY
Ask me how is like to build a startup? So build it with people that you like, that way you will also have fun and learn a ton! https://t.co/xdwUQagQj7
First time ever that I delegate my dev work to a coding agent. Testing a new flow leveraging Github Copilot, let's see how it goes! I'll keep you posted. https://t.co/O5rtXG0LDO
I have to say I am a bit sick of reading so much AI-generated content in the Internet these days. I miss the typos, the bad grammar, and the sloppiness and crude style of human-generated text.
More data or more quality? Which one should we prioritise?
At the beginning of the year I read Poor Charlie's Almanack, and with Warren Buffet's recent retirement I decided to also read Warren's biography. I've done this out of pure chance (if it wasn't for Warren's retirement I wouldn't have done this), but is great to see the… https://t.co/q4xDnzMPe6
You know you are on the right track when you can’t stop thinking about the problem at hand!
Please, kill me! This simple line has been responsible for wasting my last hour! I imported the wrong `assertEquals` while refactoring some code. In case you are wondering, no, LLMs and AI was of no help tracking down this one... This dependency changes the order of the… https://t.co/2KJ6Ym1T5T
I increasingly see people from crypto moving into AI. I don’t know if this says more about what is happening in crypto or about what is happening in AI, or maybe both?
Ok! I think it is official, I hate IntelliJ IDEA. We can't yet break up because it is the only decent IDE to write Kotlin, but why does it have to put my laptop spinning like it was about to take off? 😑
Curious about what we are cooking at @BaselightDB these days? A trained eye may already be able to spot a few spoilers on this snippet of code that I am currently working on. The time to release the @walrus may be approaching! https://t.co/zsDSgzLVfO
My frontend achievement of the day. Preventing our @BaselightDB error assistant from showing useless diffs when the query has trailing spaces. It may seem small, but for a frontend ignoramus like me this is huge :) https://t.co/hZp8GVTPQR
Daily dose of cute! 🪐 Tons of you asked about my profile pic—why’s it everywhere? I make up goofy stories for my son, starring him! The stories I was used to read him always had pictures on them, so I decided to start leveraging gen-AI for my own stories too. His fave is '<my… https://t.co/yPiVDIpoHO
What would you do if your home electricity was free and unlimited? I’ll start build a home data center. I’ll need to figure out how to pay for the PFlops, but at least I would be able to power them. Your turn! https://t.co/zlOqKv4e9x
There is nothing better than a baby napping on the next room to boost your productivity. Highly recommended! Can’t wait to share what we are cooking. https://t.co/cKZc62Bbuz
It's great to see how network coding is being applied now as a way to improve the performance of P2P protocols: https://t.co/iHM2NVh41l This is something that I also explored as a way to improve file-exchange protocols back in the day (actually, 2020 according to this post) :)…
Money is a mean of exchange and a tool for mass control. Use it with care!
Economics is closer to quantum physics than an exact science. You get some probability of something happening, but you don’t get the result until you observe it!
Wondering what the the @BaselightDB team has been up to apart from shipping really cool features? Here are the faces of the wonderful team behind our awesome project. Any guesses of where they are? https://t.co/yZgBVPvIKA
Satoshi Nakamoto created one of the most appealing crypto-bounties for quantum computing researchers. Just saying!
I can’t wait to share with you what we currently have in the oven. In the meantime, you can take the latest release for a spin :) https://t.co/CM4k3ofwdo
After working with @duckdb for a while I can only say that it is a charm to use, and that the deeper I go into how it works under the hood the more I am amazed by THIS AMAZING PIECE OF TECH! Kudos to the team and maintainers! https://t.co/beSBA5MXiV
I had a hunch, but now I am certain that I am weird as fuck. I get more excited when I buy an ETF or a stock, or when I publish my @BaselightDB insight, than after buying a new iPhone. Oh and btw, @BaselightDB goes live tomorrow. Just saying! https://t.co/NOqReYYAp0
Curious about how has the life expectancy in your country evolved in the past few years, and how (and if) it is correlated with the consumption of alcohol and BMI of the population? 📈 Here's the simple @BaselightDB of the day, and next week we are opening the platform for… https://t.co/V4lGSFmfNA
In a day like today where the stock market is crashing HARD I went to @BaselightDB to check how often this type of crashes happen. I made a query to check the days in which at least one of the major stock indices in the world had over a 5% drop and this is what I got 🧵 https://t.co/RSVL2ZgDkp
Today in the “cooking @BaselightDB” series I want to share my frustration of the day. Writing consistent tests for anything that touches an LLM in the back is hard. Non-determinism is a bitch! How are you people testing your LLMs these days? https://t.co/Tz9WSRlAzJ
It's been a while since I share @BaselightDB insight, but there's a reason for that. At the end of the thread you will understand why. In the meantime, let's have a look at something that is on everyone's lips: the evolution of global military spending 🧵 https://t.co/2azCaHK6nf
So I realised that as I grew older my daily use of the phone have been declining significantly but, is this a common trend or it is just me? Let's see if today's @BaselightDB insight can help us answer this question 🧵 https://t.co/8ci5qfHbi6
There are people that eat to live, and I am one of those that live to eat. This is why I am so into food-related indices. After coming up with the @BaselightDB "Tortilla Index" as a proxy measure for inflation, I bring you the "Banana Index" 🧵 https://t.co/9ogyj8coYQ
Many of you may have heard the news of the recent $1.4B hack to Bybit. This seemed as good an excuse as any other to focus my @BaselightDB Insight of the day on hacks and data breaches 🧵 https://t.co/KqNDb2lkw0
With all the recent news about plane crashes, I decided to dedicate my @BaselightDB insight of the day to give clarity to a question that I ask myself every time I board a plane. 🛬 How secure is this plane, and what is my probability of surviving if it crashes? 🧵 https://t.co/sOR9XGRmL0
The Tortilla Index is back in today's @BaselightDB insight 🌽 Curious about how closely the stock prices of companies like Chipotle $CMG or $YUM might correlate with the Tortilla Index? So was I—and here’s what I found. There’s a noticeable connection, but is this the root… https://t.co/bKO7Zf5zUh https://t.co/QPcJ5Yl9Kx
For my @BaselightDB insight of the day I present you the "Tortilla Index", my own personal proxy for inflation. This innovative index tracks the price of Mexican tortillas alongside other key commodities over time, offering a unique glimpse into inflation trends. Anyone that… https://t.co/nKaZxa1Tkt
Can LLMs solve real-world problems in companies and boost employee productivity? Uber just proved it's possible with their QueryGPT—without needing to train or fine-tune models from scratch. Prompt engineering, software engineering, and RAG are all the skills required to achieve… https://t.co/2ZjLWZLYUf
Let’s talk music history! For today’s @BaselightDB insight, which genre has ruled the decades? The 70s, 80s, and 90s? Rock was the undisputed king. 👑 But fast forward to the 2000s—Latin and electronic music have taken the crown! 🎶💃 https://t.co/Sylz5KshRd
My @BaselightDB insight of the day! I was curious to know how the price of the nvidia stock evolved compared to the average price of new and used GPUs the last few years. It looks like the stock price over-performed the underlying product :) https://t.co/1vf6qGatV8
Look at the really cool feature that the @BaselightDB team has just released. Now you can see the chart from the query link! 🤘 Here's one with a comparison of the number of companies that received the desired unicorn label per year. https://t.co/DiQzq7U273
I was driving yesterday and saw a PHEV from 2015 and I was like "damn, I didn't know we had PHEV already in 2015"? So I decided to go to @BaselightDB and check the number of global sales of EV throughout the years. Here's the result: https://t.co/hCrDCdUlrV
Imagine getting paid for contributing open data the same way some people get paid to contribute for open-source software, and the impact that this could have for global data access? https://t.co/1zxfmxTH4z
Did you know that the @BaselightDB node is written in @kotlin? On this same day last year I knew nothing about Kotlin, and my go-to languages were Go and Rust. I was curious about how popular was Kotlin compared to these two languages so I said, why not? Let's use @BaselightDB... https://t.co/ryIWIWF23d
At @FinisterraLabs we are hiring our next critical founding role. If you are excited about building strategy and you want to help us on our quest of organizing the world's structure data, take a look and APPLY! Questions? Reach out for details! https://t.co/Tqi5N2Mn7W
Integrated LLMs into my daily workflow, and it's been a game-changer. They have become my coding sidekick. I'm constantly rubber ducking ideas with them, and they never judge my messy drafts. It's like having a 24/7 coding buddy who's always up for brainstorming.🦆💡 https://t.co/bPYhuufpGU
Starting today I will try to start giving regular updates about the "under the scenes" of @FinisterraLabs from my personal account. Stay tuned!
After 4 incredible years at Protocol Labs, a new chapter unfolds. It involves an exciting new project, and building a new company with two other amazing co-founder. Here's the story of how I found myself in this situation: https://t.co/uaMd7WQByl
I haven't had the time to write on my newsletter this past year, and I missed sharing my ideas/thoughts publicly, so I decided to revive my personal website https://t.co/UIAnXjpvmv. From now on I will quickly "brain dump" there my thoughts and send updates through the newsletter
Open-source software is the best thing that could have happened to a nerdy kid like me. Whenever I come across some cool tech that feels like black magic, I can always read the code to understand how it works. No more tearing apart my grandmas radio for this purpose. https://t.co/0Bk5xMGpfC
Question: Do any of my followers pay for ChatGPT? And if this is the case, do all of the constant network connection errors, flakiness and slowness go away, or it still feels as flaky as with the free version? Thanks! https://t.co/6oQzLBp2Ng
Instructing machines what to do is a relaxing art. I think that even if AI ends up replacing us I'd still be doing this for fun. It may not have intrinsic value, but there's beauty in using a machine to modify our physical or digital reality in some manner. Is like magic.
I need to know what folks do to keep up with and learn the new developments on their field while working a full-time job and without sacrificing their weekends (too many family points at risk). https://t.co/FrASmwjuDZ
Controversial take: For better or worse this is the last winter for #Web3
My unsolicited (and potentially wrong) prediction for 2023: The Death of Globalization as we know it.
Q: Someone can explain me the difference/similarities between Solana's parallel runtime and a Move runtime (if any)? (or maybe share some docs about Solana's runtime?) 🙏
Bootstrap is the best thing that has ever happened in frontend development for design illiterates like me :) CTRL-C/CTRL-V and you have a decent looking button in your web. https://t.co/9qb2CYOGtK
OK, I hate frontend development and JS. I've been two hours to write a simple HTML form that sends a POST request to a backend. I thought that using vanilla JS and shying away from a framework would be a good idea. But debugging anything in the frontend is A NIGHTMARE! 🧵 https://t.co/tTTIiWUwWM
Can Erlang’s execution model be the key for a truly decentralized cloud and decomposable computing? I’ll report back soon. https://t.co/5INL0a8U8P
When I read "The Pragmatic Programmer" I was like "duh! all of this is quite obvious", but now I see myself being more intentional and aware of my blind spots when writing software. Definitely a "must read". https://t.co/kj38c7vGou
Flatpak may be the future, but the moment you need to have full access to the host environment it becomes a complete nightmare! https://t.co/6MHcAIR030
Don‘t you hate when an album of one of your favorite (and less known) bands disappears from the main streaming platforms? We should start considering backing up our favorite music in Filecoin for posterity. Could Spotify over Filecoin + IPFS be a thing soon?
Funny how people spend money in todo apps when a markdown file synced using Github and searchable through `grep` can get you so far (for free)
The more I use emacs the more I like it, and the more I pay taxes they less I like them. As a result of my observation, I conclude that emacs and taxes are indirectly proportional. https://t.co/QGNgyFCInO
Wait! You haven't saved your spot for tomorrow's #ConsensusFactory yet? If you want to learn more about the state-of-the-art on scalability of blockchains and the challenges of different projects in the space you should really consider joining us tomorrow. https://t.co/Z1W6XDEEcq
My take of the day: writing #Rust code makes you a better developer in other programming languages.
All the day trying to implement something and it still doesn't work well... so I decided to call it a day and start the weekend comforting myself with the famous: "well, at least it compiles" (: https://t.co/WqdzbVAB8A
OK. It is decided. I am going to integrate #Nix as my main day-to-day package manager as soon as I have some free time (and maybe in teh future I switch to NixOS). The reason? I am SICK of OS upgrades killing some dependency and not having a straightforward way to roll back. https://t.co/mIPQjESICl
We take the Internet and electricity for granted. But what if there was a major outage and the backbone infrastructure of these critical systems failed. Do we have an emergency fallback?
And this is why the “killer project” will be one able to replace centralized cloud/hardware providers. Then the only ones left in this centralized inception will be the deepest link: ISPs. BTW, did someone said @Filecoin? https://t.co/0XkPKFvhDU
I am in love with my country, but Spain is not a country for entrepreneurs. And today it is officially closer to becoming even worse. I really don't want to leave, but we are in the verge of collapse. Any alternatives? https://t.co/NgEAwmBAfg
Reading this makes me really sad. Although we completely deserve it. I can come up with several reasons why we ended up here as a country/society. We should really reflect on this and get our shit together. https://t.co/o1onuhjwnV
I am having a blast preparing a workshop on IPFS and the Web3 stack. I usually tinker with the guts of these protocols, but it was a while since I interacted as an end-user. A huge KUDOS to all contributors. The products have improved SO much! https://t.co/7bH8FS47gT
OK, I just came across one of my articles completely paraphrased in another language without a single reference to the original source. Not cool. I am doing all of this work for free, but at least give me some credit. https://t.co/0G0is7ZtBk
130$ tx fee for a single token swap in Uniswap? And that's actually "cheap" according to the average fees of the last few weeks... https://t.co/2nKBOVyupJ
Unfortunately, politicians are the reflection of a country’s citizenship
My full time job this weekend has been to look after this guy! Taking care of puppies drains your energy faster than a 5h quantum physics lecture. Never let your brother go to a wedding without his dog. 🙈 🐶 https://t.co/BpvSy0WPEK
I was getting sick of forgetting to push pending changes in a specific repo. My workaround? An OS cron job that checks every hour if there are changes in the repo, and push them automatically. Time investment: 5 min Productivity Boost / Professional Hapiness ++ https://t.co/YPKmkDtAba
I have been thinking about the concept of "decomposable computing" and the idea of a "single global cloud" / "computing in the nw" since I was in college. We have one "Internet", why not transforming it into a one "Intercloud"? 🧵 https://t.co/eCYweknQ5N
Is it me or websites are becoming increasingly resource intensive? A few years ago it was usually an open tab mining Monero in the background the one eating your 8 CPUs, now is every other app. Browsers and web apps need to be rethought. Period. https://t.co/KNf8XzwlMh
Ready to learn about #Web3 and #IPFS? #ReNetLab On Tour goes on Demand to teach you all about content addressing, content routing, content exchange, and mutable content in the IPFS network... and more is coming soon, so stay tuned! https://t.co/TfBhpFUtZv
Substack is down! Currently only subscribers that have received their emails can read my Sunday publication. Should I start considering switching to an @IPFS-hosted newsletter? https://t.co/QCCcY3E7AP
You know you are not proficient in #Rust when you need a full hour to figure out the right borrowing pattern to merge two HashMaps. SPOILER ALERT: It wasn't that hard... https://t.co/pwN4QNoJza
States are like service providers, and citizens are their clients. Mine is failing to deliver considering the yearly subscription we pay, so I can't blame those changing providers. The same way you wouldn't blame someone changing his telecom provider for a cheaper option.
It’s been such a pleasure to play wth #Bitswap and build upon the work of other outstanding engineers! But there’s still a lot of research to be done. Read our review and join us in our quest of making file-transfers in @IPFS blazing fast!#BeyondBitswap https://t.co/OS7U23w2OY
With #quantum information and quantum computing gaining traction and becoming increasingly important, I feel we are approaching a new golden age of theoretical computer science. https://t.co/89Bpkd7l5X
"Ubuntu" is an African word that means "I'm not able to install Debian" - Hacker News commenter.
Today I ventured into a less technical piece. Let's see how it goes! My opinion? Broken Social Incentive Systems are to blame for our widespread short-term thinking. https://t.co/XeKwPUS6zP
I never can find the right balance between reading and coding. A few months ago it was a lot of reading and not that much coding, and now it is a a lot of coding and no reading at all. My opened tabs and academic papers backlog are tending to infinity. https://t.co/m6nwwVnlvG
Kids, always remember to periodically rebase with your upstream, your "future you" will definitely thank you. To give you an example, today I am planning to chase my "past me" and kill that lazy bastard. #git https://t.co/YESLon594F
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil”, a trap I regularly fall into.
After participating in the "Web3: Next Generation Internet" panel discussion of the #EBCvirtual, I thought it was worth writing a publication to elaborate a bit more on the matter. Hope you enjoy it! https://t.co/EXT4whgOgq
I am really excited with today's publication! I share a bunch of ideas on how I imaging a more open structure for the #Internet. It is a bit of science fiction, but what are your thoughts about its feasibility? https://t.co/XiVykoPrym
What if we could make #energy as cheap and malleable as #information? I am starting to flirt with this idea (along with others around resilient networks). Anyone out there in the energy field that can help me with this? https://t.co/itBdWvC19m
After more than a decade being a #Linux user it still amazes me. You wanna know how easy has been to configure my new computer from my old one? $ scp -r /home/me myNewBaby:/home/me Good as old! To be honest when I did I wasn't expecting it to work so swiftly.
Today I want to share the day that we had to come up with a new idea generation process in order not to produce a schism in our team. We had to escape from our "idea dictatorship". https://t.co/coj4jo6cNZ
I am trying to find something to write about for this Sunday's newsletter, and I am a bit run out of creative power. Any ideas out there I could steal from you, my dearest followers?
I need to raise the question... Opinions?
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A lot can be learned from this 1995 talk from Dr. Richard Hamming, so I thought it was something worth writing about on a Sunday morning. https://t.co/LdAbRFveWn
Did you miss today's webinar were I shared Performance Best Practices for @Hyperledger Fabric when moving your network into production? Here's the video of the session. You are welcome! https://t.co/qMPGH0SOht
Last post of my "@Hyperledger Fabric Into Production Series". Today we'll discuss the last piece of Fabric's performance puzzle, the #SDK. I really hope you enjoyed these few posts about Fabric in depth. More cool content coming soon! https://t.co/BXTtE1yeXU
Third part of the "@Hyperledger Fabric Into Production" Series. Today we'll talk about two core layers of a Fabric application: Protocol and Chaincodes. Enjoy and I hope you learn a lot from it! https://t.co/56ByhV2HF5
“Los médicos ganáis muchísimo dinero”, “de que os quejáis, si tenéis trabajo asegurado”... BULLSHIT. Ni se les paga para por la responsabilidad que se les exige, ni se reconoce económicamente su valioso trabajo. https://t.co/NKDecgLEpC
Need some #Help! If you had a global general-purpose “Inter-#blockchain” network where you could deploy any #dapp, what would you use it for? What would be the killer-dapp you would deploy to solve someone’s need? I’m asking for a friend ;)
I am psyched with my tomorrow's article. I will introduce my dumb idea of a hybrid-mesh #Internet. It still needs some additions and revisions, but I am excited to see what comes out of it. https://t.co/1AZQ2ExvAZ
Do you want to know how well has done my newsletter in 2019 and my #Top10 publications of the year? Check my last article of 2019, and see you in 2020. https://t.co/Sclls1dHIx
I've always liked Hamming's famous double-barrelled question: what are the most important problems in your field, and why aren't you working on one of them? If you could take a year off to work on something, what would it be?
Nowadays is increasingly more difficult to own your work and your ideas, and in some cases the lack of recognition becomes outstandingly frustrating #ondutyReflections
Getting some #Ether from Rinkeby: 0x55dc5D2E4B22Aa965f66C15adCB6283abFFE19dE
Every time I start thinking about how to make a #decentralizeIdentity a reality, I get super excited with its potential. We really need a new identity model. But people won’t pay for a digital identity, they will pay for the services deployed over it. #WorkInProgress
"estaba tan enganchado que seguía programando en casa cuando salía de la oficina [...] y cómo de gratificante es cuando las piezas encajan" Leer este parrafo de @jota_ele_ene mientras sigues "enganchado en casa". Es un auténtico crack. Gracias a ti https://t.co/Ki84CbjJH7
Mum, Mum! I was involved in this. And I am really glad I had the chance to. Magic happens when you have a wonderful team of geniuses. Good job team. More coming up soon! (I think this release is worth a dedicated publication in my newsletter. Stay tuned) https://t.co/DyckzJ4lEj
I NEED TO TRY THIS! Encrypted Keras models? Multi-party computation? We are starting to get serious about #Privacy. Instead of #AI-enabled, the new norm will be #privacy-enforced. https://t.co/ct0AP4wAZg (The only thing left is to understand the crypto underneath)
Mañana estaré en la Cámara de Comercio de Guipuzkoa hablando sobre el futuro del #dinero. Un reto compartir mi visión sobre el tema en tan solo 10 minutos. Si alguno tiene la oportunidad de asistir, nos vemos por allí. https://t.co/63SJmC6MQG
I need some help for the next number of my newsletter. I am doing a survey to all #developers out there: Do you think #JS is all you need to know to thrive as a #software engineer in any environment (back, front, embedded)? Do you need other programming languages?
#GLOBAL warming (like many other global problems) requires #GLOBAL policies. Not sure how can we achieve this with our current political paradigms!
What I hate the most about #frontend development? Using modules that make things work (rendering things and stuff) but not being able to understand what they are doing underneath. I feel dirty! That why my best friend has to be a frontend dev. I’ll get his back. Positions open!
One of the most annoying #UX problems when deploying dApps over #Ethereum is having to force users to spend gas to use it. But what if you could subsidize your user's gas using a #GSN (Gas Station Network)? Really nice development. https://t.co/63TD3oqMVg
Are we approaching the new age of exhaustion of the established paradigms? It is time for us to find new models on monetary policies, debt, work, education, production, democracy, etc.? https://t.co/yRv7LXteGE
We need an alternative to #Coinscrap in Europe, more similar to US-Based #Acorns, where instead of investing your savings in low yield financial instruments you do it in low cost ETFs and funds. Someone interested in building it with me as a #sideHustle?
Todo el mundo habla sobre los tipos negativos de la zona euro, ¿pero sabes que significa esto exactamente? Muy bueno el hilo de mi amigo @AndresStumpf donde lo explica divinamente. (Lo he entendido hasta yo que soy un “neófito de la economía”) https://t.co/UOD8S7OcGS
I couldn't wait until September that I said I would start my newsletter to share my opinion about @Libra_, so I chose to launch my newsletter early with a publication about the matter: https://t.co/G1DBz8ONWv Subscribe if you want me every Sunday in your mailbox.
“Netflix is an expert in algorithmic content curation and Lyft is an expert in ride sharing - both use AWS” Who is going to be the AWS of the #crypto world? Infura? Cloudflare? Someone yet to be determined? What’s clear is that #dapp devs will be independent from network owners
Are you really brilliant when you are spending all of your time on appearing great and brilliant to the world instead of cultivating your brilliance? #MeHateBS
It is settled! On September I will release my weekly #newsletter. You can start subscribing so you don’t miss a thing: https://t.co/NEOQbYx5cz But before we start, in which language would you prefer the posts to be?
Totally agree. This is a developers dream come true. Time to retire my old PC station for a Raspi on steroids! I know about someone who is thinking of buying one for every member of his family! @joobid, any ideas? https://t.co/iXohm6m4dd
I am thinking about launching a weekly #newsletter sharing my thoughts about technology (with high probability blockchain, cryptography and quantum), cool things I’ve learnt through the week... Like a shared nerd diary. And for a newsletter to make sense I need suscribers ;)
The solution to #traffic in big cities? Dynamic pricing tolls. I experienced it in Stockholm and it works. So dear politicians, stop spending money on new roads and policies that don’t work just to seem busy, and tackle the traffic problem smarter (aren’t smart thingies trendy?)
“In the end we are just atoms and void” - Democritus 400 AD. These Ancient Greek dudes were smart as fuck!
When the CIO of the #NASA says that he feels real disruptive #innovation right now is coming from the private sector rather than from academia and the public sector, we must seriously consider what we are doing wrong in our universities and state governments
So we didn’t win the first prize, but we won an honorable mention and an invitation to contribute our code to #qiskit-aqua. Worth the experience. In a few days a blog post with more details about our project Need some sleep now! https://t.co/oH7BgdrqrV
Indeed, I am attending a #quantum #computing hackathon all weekend having only a basic understanding of the theoretical basis after reading a few books. I have no physics PhD. But I know a bit of maths and programming, it shouldn’t be that hard, right @qiskit?
Never underestimate the power of your “fuck you money”. I should definitely write an article about this. Something I actually believe in and everyone should have.
Mañana estaré en la #ISC2019 discutiendo sobre blockchain en la Mesa 5. Un técnico hablando en un foro legal, será algo digno de ver (todavía no he decidido si para bien o para mal). ¿Os lo váis a perder? https://t.co/xKgq7adafO
Plane rides let you organize your thoughts better than a meditation session, and makes you more productive than a full office day. And all thanks to the lack of distractions. #AirplaneModeFan
Maltrata los números hasta que digan lo que tú quieres.
I won’t trust this kind of claims until I see it running on a real production system. #HyperledgerFabric is also supposed to be production-ready, but in my opinion it is only ready for specific use cases. Opinions apart, these are good news! https://t.co/31KfsFwsbN
#FridayReflecions: It so happens that my hobby and my professional life turn out to merge. This makes me: a) A workaholic b) A poor wretch c) Fucking genius (And no, unfortunately I don't play basketball for a living... I had a few calls from the NBA, but I had to reject)
After this week I can only think about experimenting new ideas in @Cordablockchain. Enough with the finance sector, it’s now the turn for things like decentralized #identity, general purpose networks, and ZkProofs in #Corda. Stay tuned. (In the meantime time to learn #Kotlin)
I prefer to think of my taxes as a yearly rent I pay to live in my country. If I think of them in any other way, I just feel the unrestrainable desire of living in an isolated island without a state structure. I feel like a medieval age peasant paying my lord...
ArpanetOS needs some gas for its development!! Give it to me baby! #Equinox2019 0x98C61B7eC52f5053e3a6532871Ac4698b4d7A135
I know nothing about #economy. What I know is that as spaniards we should stop talking that much shit about our country, and be proud of ourselves. Not only of our food or weather, but also about our hardwork and economic achievements. Stop the bad press. https://t.co/mXUepF93WV
I am gladly amazed by the amount of useful knowledge in selected #Reddit communities. I am definitely switching from Twitter as main source of news and ideas. (You guessed right, I found a #cryptography/math community ;) )
A final statement to end the week after some thought (and something not everyone can say). I love my job.
Unpopular / highly opinionated tweet alert: Can someone explain to me the value of #meetups? The level of BS by square meter is too high to deserve anyone’s attention or time. I would rather have a cofee with someone smarter than me (anyone)
The #Internet is broken. Our gateway to the Internet shouldn’t be a set of applications that represent the main source of income of a company. The Internet as we know it broke the day their business model required us accessing the web through them. We need #WEB3 #InternetOfTrust.
My email is more a Note To Self tool than a communication system. If I manage to process and come to fruition all the great (#stupid/#crazy) ideas I send to my "future me" by email I will be a millionaire in a year time (#NotAtAll) I will keep you updated...
You, haters of Golang dependency management using $GOPATH, with Go's new version this is not an excuse not to program in this programming language anymore. #Modules come to your rescue. https://t.co/KfFZYfGuy3
No worries, I will keep spamming until the day comes, but the next 5th of March I will be sharing a bit of my scarce knowledge about Self-Sovereign #Identity in a free networking event, you should definitely join me. There will be Sushi :) https://t.co/Tml8Jr6vcW
Trust me on this, the new golden age of the #Telcos is coming!! And we are working to make it happen! And protect users against threats of the new economy such as: https://t.co/gaWMbhtASP
I agree, companies should stop worrying that much about shareholders interests and shift their mindset to include their workers and local economies. And I talk as an active investor always looking for better dividends :) https://t.co/hX5GGQ3KFu
Go compiler for WASM? Golang along with Javascript in the browser with @GopherJS? Oh man, the more I program in this language the more I fall in love with it! #GoFan
For me is not @ethereum the one to lead the Internet 2.0 revolution but @IPFSbot. I don't say that Ethereum (or related blockchains) are going to be useless, but IPFS really challenges the way we conceptualise the current Internet. Some food for thought. https://t.co/IAi1pcYDgr
Yes, I am still with my #NoMoreGoogle quest. I don't use their search engine, I am slowly (and painly) migrating my #Gmail account, and this week I managed to detach myself from #Google Maps. Will 2020 be the year in which I manage to not use (at least directly) Google services?
"Participants in Corda Network pay a low, standard and stable identity issuance fee, which entitles them to a vote, and covers technical services. [...] participants pay for the services they receive." Some blockchain consortiums should learn from this. https://t.co/AXhvamf9ES
1/ I just tried to download different running apps to monitor my workouts, and I was TERRIFIED reading the #Privacy Policies of each of them. Even the ones from the paying alternatives where extremely abusive, and they were forcing me to accept them if I wanted to use them.
These are great news. But let me be the #blockchain Grinch for a moment... I don't know if a SaaS cloud-based blockchain is what #blockchain is all about. We already have databases. We will have to give it a try it in order to judge objectively. https://t.co/7lVSydgn2g
"Perhaps technology consultancy and marketing should be as tightly regulated as financial consultancy, where mis-selling can (in theory) lead to a lifetime ban from the industry..." https://t.co/FWlxHmJqGL
"Nuclear is ideal for dealing with climate change, because it is the only carbon-free, scalable energy source that’s available 24 hours a day. The problems with today’s reactors, such as the risk of accidents, can be solved through innovation." - @BillGates Something to reflect.
It's been more than 8 months since @Cloudflare announced its privacy enhanced DNS https://1.1.1.1 #1dot1dot1dot1 and I still didn't know of its existence!! I've been obsessed since college with the privacy and security of this protocol. Glad to see these kind of improvements.
Everyone that uses #Google services should read its Privacy Policy at least ones in a lifetime. That way you understand everything they may know about us. For me, one of the most disturbing clauses is they know "the people who matter most to you online". https://t.co/er6RcBprgZ
I am starting to get into personalizing my laptop with #nerd and #techie stickers. Thus, if you want me to advertise your tech project in my personal billboard you just need to send me your sticker. Do not hesitate to contact me for further details (as the shipping address) :) https://t.co/i5mdWSqFFJ
I totally agreed with @jmalvpal today when he said at #Encuentro18 that #Telcos are suffering from “Old Regime Regulations” The core infrastructure of the digital revolution suffering from an obsolete regulation. Does it make sense to you? Let’s make Europe a #tech giant again!
Yesterday I said at the #Mornings4 event that one of the biggest barriers for blockchain adoption was the UX in decentralized systems. Here you go, you just need to remember 12 f* words not to lose your tokens. Good luck with that: https://t.co/n29UBhfAzE
WHAAAT?? These are wonderful news!! Love to see that the underlaying technology of AWS Lambda is now open source! Love for open source+=10000 https://t.co/cAL1q95dpl
Que mejor foro que éste para que podáis hacerme preguntas incómodas sobre #blockchain (así si no me la sé se la puedo pasar a otro de los expertos). Nos vemos el miércoles! https://t.co/HjSBlBAn6K
Two old ladies in the metro talking about how after going to the doctor one of them only has ads of her illness People are starting to realize that it MATTERS what #Google & co do with your data. You may have nothing to hide, but that doesn’t mean you should not have a #privacy
Todavía recuerdo cuando hace un par de años me llamo el gran @AndresStumpf para que le contase que era esto del #blockchain para un artículo. Mola ver que entre exclusiva sobre deuda y exclusiva sobre deuda tiene tiempo para seguir escribiendo sobre esto. https://t.co/LJs8EVKV8C
Never ask your doctor “what you should do” but “what he would do if he were you” if you want to know what is best for you. And never ask a financial advisor for recommendations, ask him about his personal portfolio if you don’t want to lose money.
HTTP over UDP? This could mean a major breakthrough for HTTP's connection speeds and efficiency. Browsing cat videos in the Internet may soon get way faster. https://t.co/YdZYldfYjY
As @nntaleb puts it: To me, every opinion maker needs to have "#skin #in #the #game". Anyone making predictions or decisions needs to have something to lose from it if we want him to be fair and feel responsible to act right.
Couldn't agree more with this principle. I highly recommend @RayDalio's "Principles". After reading that book I managed to clearly figure out what I wanted for my professional life. It is a book to reread several times in your lifetime. https://t.co/Q5tYtBwryH
After a week of interesting discussions about #blockchain I managed to gather my thoughts and I came to the following conclusions. The main challenges for massive adoption are: 1. The #UX of #decentralisation. 2. Fixing the gap between the digital world and the physical one.
Really enjoyed the discussions around #blockchain brought up in today’s #workshop with the @T_Labs and @orange teams. Looking forward to keep collaborating on building our decentralized view of the industry. These are exciting times to be working/innovating at a #telco.
After the "housing #bubble" we are presumably heading to an "everything #bubble". As before, when it bursts, governments and central banks will blame anyone except themselves, but they are the only ones responsible for the "free #money" policies. https://t.co/i8mSn2niEw
I have been pretty “#privacy obsessed” the past few years, and I have been trying to find alternatives to every google service. I haven’t been able to completely remove my google account but after finding https://t.co/FTRYgMJqUW I am nearer than ever. Great resource!
Interesante debate de la Mesa 3 dedicada a Blockchain y economía 2.0 en #JARCT18 @Telefonica. Muy reveladoras las conclusiones que nos transmiten @joobid y la representante de @unibarcelona sobre la necesidad de la educación y el impacto del blockchain en universidad y empresa
“Las empresas buscan habilidades transversales en los egresados de la universidad por que dan por hecho las habilidades técnicas. Los médicos tienen que saber curar, y los ingenieros desplegar sistemas, además de comunicarse”. Gran aporte Felix Pérez en #catedrasTelefonica
Entrepreneurs are 21st century martyrs. They sacrifice their personal wealth for the greater good. #AntiFragile
The Internet brought digital good #marketplaces to live as a new business model for companies. #Blockchain technology make physical good #marketplaces a reality through asset tokenization, offering full liquidity and transactionality to traditionally rather illiquid assets.
New white paper from the @Hyperledger Performance and Scale Working Group describing the key metrics that should be used to evaluate the performance of a blockchain and then communicate the results. https://t.co/HcyCbIAjac
We definitely need more politicians from the #STEM field to update and clean our governments, it may be the only way to economically and socially cope with disruptive technology and paradigm shift we are immersed in. https://t.co/Q615y4juFa
#Ethereum smart contracts programmed in Web Assembly on Kovan? I NEED TO TRY THIS! This will bring performance to smart contracts and it will allow to implement complex code inside the contract (personally I think EVM's OPCODES are pretty limited) https://t.co/63dm1DPFbM
#Tokenization could be the key for non-professional investors to access potential investment opportunities only accessible currently to institutions and big firms. Just imagine that you could buy stocks from Cabify with a discount before its IPO. The magic of the #blockchain
Otro para el taller de Ethereum: 0xa69cC56E271FB6E32bf749430dD02e12f1d75d90
Taller de Ethereum 0x5CAf2CE826bF66eFdc2Cf25fD03C3e802A4853ce
Getting bored of your @CryptoKitties? They don't breed as they used to? Then buy a new "CryptoMonster" at @MonsterBit_org. No guys... #Ethereum and the blockchain is not only useful to create cute creatures, but it seems fun and profitable for now :)
I have just tested for the first time #Ethereum's #Whisper messaging protocol (through geth's shh module) and its potential is impressive. You must be hearing my brain working from there with all the use cases I am thinking of trying :) (now I just find the time to do it)
Is your job so critical that it requires you to work >40 hours a week? Are you really productive all that time? Don’t think so. I think it is about time that we implement the 3-days weekends. This measure would even be healthier for you: https://t.co/uR3c2y6Um8
Do you think the world is better or worse than 20 years ago? I have been reading #factfullness for the past week and is changing my way of thinking about the world. Forget the stories politicians and the media tell you. Whatever they say the world is a better place now. https://t.co/a8wL86P8Vq
This new @BigchainDB release enhances the governance of the network. Managing validators at runtime is a big deal for dynamic blockchain consortiums. Really excited with the new projects to be built over this technology. Keep tuned. https://t.co/5TdDowZ5Wo
I am sick of people using the name of #blockchain in vain. People think they are “innovators” for using that word It is like: Dishwasher = lame Blockchain-based dishwasher = cool Paying taxes = boring Blockchain-based taxes = awesome Guys, blockchain doesn’t apply to everything
I hate #Javacript promises to the point that I am tempted to port a whole project to #Go. Who am I kidding, after 5 hours of hardcore programming I have my blockingTransfers, now no one will ever separate us. :)
Simply amazing this proposal from @gridplus_energy to enhance UX in the blockchain world. I love the idea of removing the need of a wallet and decoupling the user interface from the "transaction builder" which lives in the cloud. https://t.co/7hPvJrxani
Random thought: Unemployment is a big problem... but inflation is the big evil as it is a tax for everyone
I love @rigetti's Quantum Computing Service proposal. Just as we use on-demand GPU computing resources from AWS, we could be using on-demand QPU (Quantum PU). Looking forward to try this soon... https://t.co/cTnRKq6oqn
Can we achieve the same level of security as a Proof-of-Work (PoW) system like Bitcoin while not wasting physical scarce resources to do it? Proof-of-Stake (PoS) to the rescue... or not? For now these are two good proposals https://t.co/dnkVgHYPGU
Microsoft is a company that IMHO is understanding how to adapt to the times. In the 90s their bet was for a closed ecosystem and proprietary technologies, and now they are betting for open source software and the blockchain. Nice move. https://t.co/2baI4nMCmC
“Bitcoin’s mere existence is an insurance policy that will remind governments that the last object the establishment could control, namely the currency, is no longer a monopoly. This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future.”. Agree, @nntaleb
Is this the end of active #investment? Should we start investing in market indexes instead of individual stocks? Or should we start programming our own #AI system to help us make better decisions? Weirder times are yet to come for investors... https://t.co/aHN0HGWidR
Should we be preparing for the rise of quantum computing already? I personally don't know, but some blockchain projects such as @chain are getting hands-on already. https://t.co/M2CnR6ywvJ
I agree that economic measures such as the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) may be obsolete, but I don't know if the GDI (Gross Domestic Income) grasp the state and the progress of a country. GDH (Gross Domestic Happiness) may suit us better. Any thoughts? https://t.co/EFBB1p4Vqt
Technical #meetups are great for networking and marketing purposes. But do they offer a real value from a technical point of view? In many of them supposed experts give a shallow technical talk for the sake of their egos.
Personal DAOs? Imagine the possibilities this technology opens to self-employed professionals. Forget about complicated documents and tax reports. This could be automated though a Personal DAO (or at least that's my view of the matter) https://t.co/DQI8iLpVJr
So what is the point of company reports from financial firms? If they are good investors overreact with optimism, if they are bad they slump the price. Consequently, these firms are the ones ruling the markets, right? Is this fair? Imagine a stock market without financial analyst
I like @loomnetwork's idea of ZombieChain, a shared sidechain where anyone can run a Dapp on it if they pay the fixed monthly hosting fee. It makes blockchain work as a cloud hosting that DApp providers pay, removing transaction fees from their users. https://t.co/ZZraJ5FYEt
I remember when I had to study Lattice Cryptography in my Crypto course at @KTHuniversity. Hard as fuck, but I loved that subject. Reading this article just made me want to learn more about it. Do someone know a good book on lattice crypto? https://t.co/JvygK6PTK2
I have a problem seeing the real usefulness of a "prediction market" like the distributed one proposed by @AugurProject. It should be seen like a betting game, or more like something with real economic value? https://t.co/jUD8M7r7Kc
There goes a question to any of the experts of @BigchainDB out there, see if they can give me some light in the matter. Using transaction conditions, could you give write permissions to a user for just an attribute in the metadata of an asset instead of to the whole object?
Ok, Wozniak is entering Equi Capital, but I would love to understand what the company does. Apparently in the next few weeks they will announce something. From the description on their website I would say that they are an ICO platform. We'll see https://t.co/oqIBR8dVor
Buena noticia. Las entidades financieras se van quitando poco a poco el miedo al #blockchain y al dinero digital. Esto puede tener mucho potencial desde un punto de vista tecnológico y económico. https://t.co/zAVQRZ8Jcr
Why do companies have to report their results every quarter, and not continuously be reporting. As an investor I would love to know what the companies I've invested in are doing in real time. The technology behind @Auditchain would make this possible. https://t.co/yGK5Vb5Dr1
Good analysis on distributed exchanges. IMHO, distributed exchanges can be applied in many more use cases and not just crypto. Why not a distributed stock exchange (I know, this was an easy one, but there are definitely more :) ) https://t.co/BQOS4X4H3v
I have been using @libp2p for a few months now to play around with some of my P2P system ideas, and let me tell you it is outstanding. I have always used their Go implementation (https://t.co/0qgT66csyX) but now that I see they have a JS implementation I am curious....
¿Quien no querría participaciones de un fondo de inversión gestionado por @AndresStumpf? Hoy en una cancha de baloncesto se han pergeñado las primeras conversaciones para que esto pueda ser una realidad en, como máximo, 10 años vista.
More than blockchain itself, I would say the future is distributed computing and the ability of orchestrating unused resources from devices for their use in AI models. https://t.co/fgRvDCwxvC
Blockchains in elections is not just a matter of security and decentralization, but of efficiency and transparency. This technology should be introduced gradually in these systems, and I think the are a short-term answer to several issues. https://t.co/YeG0XVKkoG
The Decentralization of a systems is not a binary feature but a continuous variable from centralized to distributed. Blockchain projects should have that in mind when designing (and advertising) their products.
Hackathons are a great approach to let companies have a grasp about what can be done with the technology, and easily explore potential use cases. Really cool initiative from the EIB, hope to see more of these around the globe soon. https://t.co/9OprQ6jXO2
"There are two systemically important features missing that inhibit the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies, specifically, scalability and usability" I totally agree, and @gridplus_energy's Lattice1 seems like a good first approach to tackle these problems. https://t.co/n601pVDuRO
Microsoft files two new Patents to Fuse Blockchain Tech With Trusted Computing Techniques... I like the concept of trusted execution environments. Something to have a look at in the blockchain environment. https://t.co/Q2vHo8OtRb
Companies starting to use blockchain in their systems just for the sake of appearing in the media. Once you really understand the technology you would realize it makes no sense using it when there are not a set of participants with independent interests.
The first time I played with @BigchainDB I wasn't really sure about how it suited in the blockchain ecosystem. After working with it in some project ideas I've realised its true potential and it is pretty interesting. It still needs some work but I am starting to fall in love!