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@stablenomics I have something that works - anonymous-zether was the starting point

who is building stablecoin privacy orchestration for stable neobanks? people won’t move their payroll to your neobank without this

@jmlukens @pickover Forgot root 0

@pickover Fixed it

Mathematics. We built ladders to √2, √3, √4, √5, and √6, yet √7 remains a rumor. What architect decided the universe should hide numbers this way?

@Math_files Great article! Thanks!

@allenanalysis Long shot! But he’s the best the left have had in a while

Zohran Mamdani walked into a rally to the Backstreet Boys because the Knicks are back in the Finals for the first time since that era. And honestly, this clip explains why he’s connecting with people. Politics feels so overproduced now that a candidate singing Backstreet Boys and leading Knicks chants comes across as more authentic than most consultants in Washington. “When I say Knicks, you say Finals!” Mamdani for president?

@littmath “Someone is wrong on the internet…”

can’t believe people are complaining my paper is wrong. did you even read the “Limitations” section, where I wrote “This paper is wrong.”?????

@ItsAndyRyan The ‘Dee (Dundee)

Is The Hague the only city with the definite article in its name? For years I'd hear 'The Hague' and assume it was a building or institution.

@NYCMayor Bravo!👏 We can’t steal our way to a fairer future. People forget that fiscal discipline used to be a tenet and voting platform of the left - lucky for us the right have so brazenly and corruptly pushed this issue back into the spotlight

This morning we are introducing COGE — the Commission on Government Efficiency.

This Commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster, and more effectively for working people. 

New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are.

@JonathanLigmas @MatthewJBar You can convince them of anything on any subject - real or imagined. Their level of insight is still approximately zero, and two hours should be enough time to reveal that unless something changes

@MatthewJBar Two hours is a long time with an adversarial judge with current LLMs. Even if they remove the moral guardrails that easily expose them, there's a huge style and experience gap to bridge

In 2002, Ray Kurzweil and Mitchell Kapor made a bet on whether the Turing Test would be passed by 2029. To determine the winner, they devised detailed terms, including the appointment of a committee to administer an actual exam, with a set of judges and human foils.

@west4thstreet @haonan @mean_field_zane @teamjiko I was thinking of the jiko guys too!

@haonan @mean_field_zane @teamjiko should be part of this chat! Go execute against this guys!

Darrell Duffie of Stanford is famous for being the world’s foremost scholar of financial market plumbing. Few will know that he was also a director of The Narrow Bank (TNB), the bank the Fed quietly strangled for the crime of being too safe. In this episode we cover: Why did TNB die? What are the parallels to the state of stablecoins today, if any? Do stablecoins actually threaten bank deposits? What does a Treasury security purpose-built for on-chain settlement look like? What tokenized assets should serve as the backbone of financial system of the future? Darrell’s Brookings paper with Don Wilson and TNB’s regulatory comment letter on Regulation D are both worth reading alongside this episode. • 00:00 – Intro • 01:07 – The Bank That Couldn’t Fail • 03:53 – Will Stablecoins Kill Lending? • 07:54 – Private Credit’s Run Problem • 11:14 – Too Safe to Exist • 18:31 – Why USDC Can’t Run Wall Street • 25:21 – The Narrow Bank Returns • 28:22 – If Duffie Ran Global Finance • 31:25 – The Stablecoin Sandwich Problem • 34:20 – The End of CLS? • 40:31 – Nubank vs. JPMorgan Brought to you by Codex, the stablecoin foreign exchange specialist.

@bnielson01 I retract my outrage in that case!:)

@thedatabase You're too late! We already had someone on this thread claiming that he's so freakin' brilliant that the NFL theorem is a 'duh' (and stupid and worthless) to people as smart as him! Your thunder has been stolen already!

There's a mathematical proof that says no algorithm — no matter how clever, how sophisticated, or how well-designed — can outperform random guessing when averaged across all possible problems. Not A*, not neural networks, not even humans in the loop. Every advantage on one class of problems is paid for, dollar for dollar, somewhere else. It sounds like it should be false. It isn't. Please review the article: the theorem is sound. So you can't just dismiss it. Welcome to the "No Free Lunch Theorem". This raises an interesting question: how can humans be universal learners if this theorem says universal learns are impossible? Make your best arguments here. I hint at one possible resolution to this problem. mindfiretechnology.com/blog/archive/t…

@Kaju_Nut So Pedro would have problems even with your Planck time resolution clock! Now you both have problems

Suppose I have invented the world's most powerful clock tech would allow. I claim that time is discrete. The smallest unit is the interval between two clicks of my clock. But wait. Pedro flies past me in his spaceship at .99999999999999 times the speed of light. 1/n

@Marshall17189 @Ebbs091 @SirMichaelRocks Yep/ very true. And this is why I think a quiet raid on Union pensions went hand in hand with the wealth tax. Underhand.. sure - but still: kudos to the guy? Those selling his political skills short are missing this point

@Ebbs091 @SirMichaelRocks The irony of a retired city worker complaining about “socialism” is wild. Those jobs are the definition of socialism. Fall ass backwards into a job that requires zero skill. Work a couple of hours a day for a decade or two and then pillage the city coffers the rest of your life

Can somebody educated in politics explain to me how Mamdani is able to do all this stuff but no other politician is ever able to make any noticeable progress? How does he evade the same bureaucracy the other politicians always blame for not being able to do shit?

@UrsSchreiber What is the polyakov conjecture

Today on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2605.13791 On higher derivative corrections to the worldsheet Nambu-Goto action for flux tube strings in Polyakov gauge-string duality (ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Poly…), towards the dual superconductor model of confinement (ncatlab.org/nlab/show/dual…):

@gro_tsen I once misquoted Leonid Levin as saying: “Only a nerd would claim that 2500 exists” (I think he meant 2^500 — he’s not an ultraultrafinitist)

I asked a mathematical philosophy question on MathOverflow: what actual test or experiment does it take to convince an ultrafinitist (depending on their school) that 2^k exists? what is the complexity of such a test? and are they actually done? mathoverflow.net/q/510936/17064

@d_m_d_m_d_d Care to share a link to the preprint?

seventh arxiv algebraic geometry preprint this month from the same guy, who previously hadn’t posted an AG preprint since 2009… probably just a coincidence

@CarloDotGG @BrianRoemmele @elder_plinius 💯— and to assume the bad actors are just waking up to this is naive. The cutoff has to be decades ago

I couldn’t agree more. - Injected emojis can have up to 3 million characters. - GitHub repos have been utilised to poison models - Bad actors can have this as embedded hidden code/text which invokes instructions for scraper bots. These are all bear traps 🪤 @elder_plinius has been perfecting this for years already. To bad actors who are incentivised, it’s as easy as making a morning coffee. Quality curated datasets is what’s seriously needed for us to take Ai to the next level. Especially when considering latest work on JEPAs world models. Small hyper focused training datasets verified by(at least 30-50) experts in each of these fields is the answer. Experts does not necessarily mean theoretical experts only. Experts mostly means experts in practice. Preferably people who have a healthy mixture of both. Many are self taught who have not been indoctrinated into echo chambers as you mentioned. Excellent read. 🤓

@thinkingshivers That’s very good! It’s reminiscent of Penrose’s conformal cosmology… plus a large computer!

I forgot how good this was. If you haven’t already read it, you should take 15 minutes to do so now. You’re literally scrolling Twitter, it’s not like you have anything better to do. It’s one of the greatest science fiction stories ever written.

@trailofbits Proof hacking! This is great

Google used a ZK proof to disclose a quantum breakthrough that cuts the cost of breaking cryptocurrency by 20x without handing attackers the circuit. We found anyone could forge a “proof” of an even stronger attack. 🧵

@planet_briefs @Math_files Is it just me or are “those who know” and “those who don’t know” in the wrong order?

@Math_files 196884 = 1 + 196883 looks innocent. Until you realize 196884 comes from the j-function, and 196883 is the first nontrivial irrep dimension of the Monster. That is where monstrous moonshine begins