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@_thefullpackage He's not even an artist loll he was just playing around on Midjourney but I'll dm you his IG. he isn't on twitter

I need 🔥🔥please drop the artist contact

Omg I love this lol

@asyncakash 😈😂😂

@lancendavis damn, Lance lookin like a gansta pirate 🏴‍☠️

Lance + Luffy = Luffance ?? 😂😂🤣 shoutout the homie Will for making this mashup on Midjourney

been experimenting with the early bonsai network from @RiscZero (disclaimer, @__geometry__ is an investor) with the foundry template available on github.com/risc0/bonsai-f… you can: * write your own zkprocessor, in rust * offload requests to this coprocessor, on ethereum .. 1/9

Rust should be taught in school man, especially to computer engineers. This is preposterous. It's a top tier language.

I finally got my hands on the new product we're launching soon at @afropolitan, and all I can say is WOW! 😍  Sign up for exclusive access when we launch --> afropass.io

Introducing Lasso and Jolt, two new works that I hope will change how SNARKs are designed and built. You can read about them here: a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/… (1/6)

When I saw that this was Chicago it made sense

My Sunday just got even better: huggingface.co/papers/2303.12… was literally an idea that came to me not too long ago. amazing to see it a reality

#ルフィ

FRI day

First claimed successful replication of LK-99 Accomplished by a team at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and posted 30 minutes ago. Why this is evidence: The LK-99 flake slightly levitates for both orientations of the magnetic field, meaning it is not simply a magnetized piece of iron or similar 'magnetic material'. A simple magnetic flake would be attracted to one polarity of the strong magnet, and repelled by the other. A diamagnet would be repelled under either orientation, since it resists and expels all fields regardless of the polarity. Caveats There is no way to verify the orientation of the strong magnet in this video, also, there are yet to be published experimental measured values of this sample. Diamagnetism is a property of superconductors but without measured and verified data, this is just suggestive of a result. Take-away If this synthesis was indeed successful, then this material is easy enough to be made by labs other than the original research team. I would watch carefully for results out of Argonne National Lab, who are reported to be working on their own synthesis of a sample. This overall corroborates two independent simulation studies that investigated the original Korean authors claim about material and crystal structure, and both studies supported the claims. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: arxiv.org/pdf/2307.16892… Shenyang National Lab: arxiv.org/pdf/2307.16040… The attached video shows a small flake of their sample responding to an external magnetic field. I scroll through the video to skip to the relevant part. original video credit to: @altryne

@palomasupremacy take walks without technology often! It's a great reset

I think I've really burned myself out over the last few months and I've been really struggling lately. How do you guys deal with burnout?

The status quo of crypto regulation by enforcement has failed retail customers. Einstein once said: “If we do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result, that’s the definition of insanity.” It’s time for Congress to bring sanity to crypto regulation.

There are numerous ZK-friendly hash functions being utilized in ZK protocols. But are they truly secure enough to be entrusted with billions of dollars? Let's take a look at some attacks that may be particularly efficient against ZK hash functions👇🧵:

a SNARK a day keeps the haters away

@Mardeni01 Thank you so much for this 🙏🏾

I don’t usually like to talk about my past and I hesitated three times before writing this tweet but I’m sharing this story because it probably saved a couple of guys from committing suicide and it may inspire a lot of you. Two days ago, I met a group of young men at a bar. I sat with them for almost three hours and we had so many deep conversations about life, traveling, etc After two hours of basically bonding with each other, two guys talked to each other in their “local” language and then told me “Feel free not to answer, but have you ever continuously thought of committing suicide because life has no meaning?” They said it desperately and I could sense that they had even made up their minds about doing it. So I shared my life's story with them, hoping to inspire them and sway their decision. I’m from Syria and I lived most of my life under the civil war. I got lucky and escaped death over ten times. I was literally 1-3 seconds or 1 meter away from getting killed so many times. I was even captured twice by an army where I was forced into labor, to build a wall for them (as a kid). I basically lived under the worst conditions anyone would ever imagine. No electricity, water, or internet, high inflation, risk of getting killed/kidnapped at any point in time, etc My dream was and always will be to become a pilot but unfortunately, it costs so much money and I knew since I was a kid I wouldn’t be able to afford it. When I was 13/14 years old, I got so depressed and didn’t find meaning in my life. I mean just imagine being trapped at your house with no basic necessities or purpose. I wasn’t even able to go out and play with other kids because it was dangerous everywhere. For so many semesters I was not even able to go to school because tanks were under my house. On top of everything, I tragically lost many family members and most of my friends either to the war or when they escaped the country. It was at that time when I saw how everyone around me was SO depressed, when the suicide rate hit the highest ever in my city. I decided to change my life. I remember how we had electricity for 2-3 hours a day and my laptop’s battery barely stayed for 2 hours a day. After doing some research, I found out that programming is a perfect fit for me because I can work remotely. I started self-teaching myself during the 4 hours a day of having electricity with an internet speed of 100KB/s (yes 10% of a single MB), waiting the entire day literally on a candle for the electricity to come back so I can study. In 6 months, I got all the basic concepts and I started making around $100 a month as a freelancer as a kid. And this is higher than the average salary in Syria for engineers. But here is another obstacle, EVERYTHING is banned in Syria. You can't open a PayPal account, have a bank account, or even access private @github repos to name a few. Imagine as a developer I was asking my employers to upload their repos to Google Drive so I can access them. Then I found someone who was literally charging me a 60% fee to get me my money in cash from a friend’s PayPal in another country where I was paying 20% taxes. I saved up some money and I bought a better laptop then I decided to dive into cybersecurity and AI. But at that time we didn’t have any good free resources and I can’t afford to pay for courses. So I got a full grant from @coursera. I took every single course by the University of Michigan and others and got a +95% grade in each of them. I will always be grateful to you sir @drchuck. Things started to get better and I started making +$500 from freelancing. I was on my laptop 16 hours a day, working, learning, or exploring new opportunities. I didn't even have a Fiverr account. All my clients came through word of mouth from previous ones. I dedicated myself to providing the best work, creating top-notch reports, and paying attention to details. Here I was participating in and winning so many global hackathons and someone advised me to start doing tech writing. In a few weeks, I joined @sectionio as a freelancer, and in less than 6 months, all my content ranked on the first page of Google search. I got promoted twice where I was a Tech Content Moderator co-managing the entire program they had at some point. I’m pretty sure I was younger than every single one of them. All of that while still losing 60% fee and paying taxes to a country I don’t even live in. Then, I discovered that crypto is not only ETH and BTC because of @dabit3. I started contributing to multiple protocols and started getting multiple offers from them. I decided to focus on @graphprotocol and I signed my first contract with the Foundation to focus on building a dev community and tech writing. I learned from the best people I ever met like @kyleArojas and @schmidsi. In less than two years, I built a new career and shifted to web3 full-time, and I left Syria. This is less than 10% of the story but if I share all the details, it is going to be an article. So many things happened in the last 3 years, I achieved things I never thought I would do a few years ago, and I'm now the CEO of @weave_db where I'm grateful to work with an amazing team and making a real difference. It is worth mentioning that I'm here because of all the AMAZING people that I met in web3 that supported me continuously. I'm so grateful that I met @pdiomede @data_nexus, and @dabit3 among so many others, and to be a part of amazing communities like @developer_dao. The point I’m trying to make here is that I don’t think anyone ever lived under the conditions I did. Everyone around me was depressed. My family lost everything in the war. ALL the companies I applied to at some point rejected me because they can't hire a Syrian and that's why I focused on freelancing for a long time. I got accepted into some of the top internships in the world but they withdrew the offers because of my nationality. Despite encountering numerous obstacles with each achievement, I faced them head-on and I'm proud of where I'm at now. Those guys I talked to are Europeans, they are living under the best conditions, they have money, and they are young. They have all the resources required to succeed. Sharing my story with them changed their look completely about life and gave them hope that everything is possible if you put your mind to it. And I hope it gives you hope too. I hesitated for an entire day before hitting the "Tweet" button below, but if my story saved two lives, I hope it can inspire many more to achieve their dreams.

Today we are announcing Cohort III of @a16zcrypto's Token Delegation Program. Details below. 🧵