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ML theory is fun but the majority of what goes into pushing the frontier is cobbling together a bag of tricks that would make most people’s stomachs churn

Very saddened to hear of the passing of John C. Hull, whose book Options, Futures and Other Derivative Securities was a foundational text in finance. I purchased the second edition (the first of many editions I would buy) in a mall bookstore decades ago. Liar’s Poker showed me what trading was, and Hull’s book was my first practical resource on how to do it. In today’s world of massively available educational resources it’s difficult to express how critically important the text was at the time. And still is.

@MeehanLee @DamianConnor @indykaila lol about "and?" - ungrateful fan, as if any manager can just walk in first year and wrap up the league "The standard of shitness", almost like ur forgetting the league place finishes under Klopps first seasons: 5th, 8th, 4th, 3rd, 4th. wasn't always sunshine under Klopp

@DamianConnor @indykaila And…? Does this excuse how shite this has been? And for 12 months now (double the time we were actually good in Slots first 6 months)? The standard of shiteness for LFC fans has been Hodgson - Slots results and performances for 12 months are now worse, but yeah, no issues here.

BREAKING NOW: Arne Slot and Curtis Jones in SHOCKING dressing-room BUST-UP 🥊 last week according to club sources. Huge drama at Anfield…

smh - Solana people complain about politics on timeline when it's anti Republican but frothing at the mouth to criticize an Democrat from *checks notes* almost a decade ago

@GrimLothar @JesusMartinez @w3_surfer @toly they cancelled support to create demand for Seeker. nothing to do with fast iteration their failing was that they didn't think of a way to get continued fees from saga - they should have put their own wallet on saga with fees (or white label a wallet)

@JesusMartinez @w3_surfer @toly I think comparing a startup like Solana Mobile to Apple is comparing Apples to Oranges (quak!) Solana is known for its aggressive fast iteration cycles. Why would the phone be any different? I personally see it as good thing. It allows them to grow/improve faster.

I bought 3 OG Solana Saga phones, 2 years later it has no on-going support & we got 0 $SKR drop OG genesis holders on Solana aren’t being supported @toly why? Sadly I always feel like whenever you support Solana projects early on, this is what you get Would love to be wrong

@SaraForTexLege if everyone voted in their own interest, then just by numbers the party that appeals to the masses should win. it's a shame that Democrats fail to communicate that their policies favour the bottom 50% (socioeconomic status).

I know a guy. We’ve been friends for a decade. A non-voter because “politics doesn’t affect me” guy. We hung out and went to a Houston Dynamo game one September afternoon in 2024. After the game, we stopped by the local bar for a beer and me (now fully immersed in politics at this point) made an impassioned plea with him that if he didn’t feel the need to vote for himself, then vote for the people you know and love. Vote for me, vote for my daughter. Vote for any single one of the LGBTQ mutual friends that we have. I convinced him to pay attention to politics. I convinced him to vote. He voted for Trump because of his promise of no tax on overtime. As a human species, selfishness may actually be our fatal flaw.

@mert literally could have just taken a multivitamin a couple times - didn't need a blood test for that bro

I was feeling severely fatigued for over a week like a deep fatigue, no amount of coffee/redbull/nicotine/sleep even remotely helped did a blood test and submitted to this company Bioniq they gave me a personalized supplement that corrects everything I'm deficient in and now I am alive again (for reference, was extremely deficient vitamin d, b1, b12, b6 and pretty deficient folate, zinc, k2, iron and e)

I am 100% convinced that the world has not yet realized how incredible it is that a single unified system can host interoperable perps, spot, prediction markets, and memecoins Solana 2026 is going to bring some incredible apps to market

@mert prediction markets are options markets - it's crazy impressive they've gained massive uptake on chain. Open up the space of who can create markets and I'm sure you'll see more traditional option contracts flood the space

I believe in Christmas miracles

@howdymerry @Austin_Federa this was a nice argument winning point from @howdymerry: the existence of sucesful Chinese startups/ tech corps provides empirical proof that the brightest and best people can want to contribute to an economy even if the govt have claim over any wealth / company they create.

yes and i point that out in my original post, that the country disappeared jack ma and crushed didi capriciously scope of my pushback is that china does not fall under category of state owned capitalism in that meme and innovation thrives in china because people are willing to work, thus appropriate incentives exist ofc someone who has an equal option between china vs usa would still pick usa because of legal system, but my argument here is constrained to ‘this mental model of state owned capitalism does not apply to china’

while this holds true for most implementations of state owned capitalism, it does not apply to china > state controlled oil production in venezuela triggered hyperinflation and shortages > control of state owned enterprises in russia was given to oligarchs, stifling private entrepreneurship and leading to economic stagnation there are few incentives to work in these countries because the state can simply take away the fruits of individual labor in contrast, china maintained control of strategic state owned enterprises but liberalized non strategic sectors, letting private entrepreneurship and innovation thrive this hybrid approach is what enables market driven resource allocation and production; china thus became factory of the world the 2000s saw china become a meaningful contender in the global economy, a decade in which it rapidly industrialized the 2010s saw china emulate much of american innovation across electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, ecommerce, fintech etc the 2020s is now witnessing china start to emerge ahead, a decade in which china is starting to set global standards all this, mind you, from a country that my parents grew up in in the 1960s standing in food lines where a dozen eggs were rationed per family per month underestimate china at your own peril, write it off due to blanket analogies to failures of stalin’s russia, but reasoning by analogy leads to the wrong conclusion and inb4 anyone calls me a communist again lol this is an observational post, i am a proud american it is just objectively true that the west is stagnating while the east has been up only over the past two decades; wages have stagnated, inequality has worsened, households struggle to save etc capitalism with Chinese characteristics != generalizations of state owned capitalism

@CapitalMonet cut their fees - their service will be commiditized unless they constantly innovate or compete on price. A consequence of open markets with no regulatory capture and less bureaucracy is that it's harder to build moats

hyperliquid is in a tricky situation: if fees are kept the same, they will certainly lose meaningful market share if they cut their fees, they are no longer a cash printing machine, which is what makes $HYPE attractive in the first place what should hyperliquid do?

@thekitze *incomplete take

europe is like apple and usa is android: you can taste the freedom here. It feels like I can get literally *anything* that I want in whatever quantity without anyone restricting me and telling me the "right" way to do things

@levelsio you think your grandparents wanted to dig peat? 🤔 If Europe' society has moved towards better social programs which class of people do you think wanted that change? Also, *even if* everyone hustles capitalism is such that WEALTH CONCENTRATES, INEQUALITY PROLIFERATES

My great grandparents generation would dig peat from the ground in the Netherlands They used it as a fuel for stoves, oil lamps and to make fire to stay warm Digging peat (kinda like clay) was a grueling and dirty job, and they'd stand with their feet in a cold wet swamp for 14 hours per day They were dirt poor Their kids then got more regular jobs, like my grandma would manually connect the telephone switchboard in Amsterdam but still low paid and poor Then some of their kids (my parents) could go to university and study law or medicine, that was the first generation that was middle class Then my generation benefited from all those generations working hard, be able to do comfy office or online jobs, and personally I still like to work hard too so I continue what the generations before me built up This generation (in many parts of the Wsst at least) is where the cycle now seems to end and reverse, where many people don't want (or need) to work anymore and see work as torture and expect the government to pay for their life instead Ironically this is exactly why the next generations may go back to being peat diggers again

@redacted_noah @redacted_j @Bardstocks perps, 24/7 markets, prediction markets, Double zero etc etc quite a lot of change to financial markets already tbh

@redacted_j @Bardstocks Crypto has spent the last 15 years promising it would change the world, and so far the only thing it's changed is its pants after violently shitting them every few years.

Everyone acting like inflation is to blame for SOL's price action. Even deflation didn't help Eth's price. The problem is that memecoins are dying, DATs are bleeding. The only remaining narrative is to build useful (non gambling) products. SOL is still the best place to do that.

@mert 🔥🔥🔥🔥

solana issuance reduction proposal in the works

@unusual_whales 6.43% delinquent and double since 2021? That's not economic resilience—that's a canary suffocating. When Americans stop paying for the car that gets them to work, you're not watching a soft landing. You're watching the runway crack beneath the tires. Flows > narratives.

@hosseeb @raj33van_ @Cbb0fe easy counter to this is innovation is less important than pre-existing mind share and network effects. Btc, eth are still the most dominant platforms by far despite new better systems. doesn't matter if your chain does X, Y or Z better, all industries converge to oligopolies

My answer is very simple: Blockchains are not done. If you believe we kept improving the tech on blockchains until 2023 and then stopped, and from that day forward, all the existing blockchains were complete and we would not need to scale any further, I fundamentally disagree with you. And it maps onto no other technology ever. GPUs keep shipping new generations. Operating systems keep shipping new generations. Internet bandwidth (dialup, cable, DSL, fiber) keeps shipping new generations. But blockchains, they just stopped in 2023 because we got Aptos and Sui and Base and that was it, done? Monad IMO is the most ambitious attempt to try to get the parallelism and performance in super high-throughput decentralized blockchains (like Solana, Aptos, and Sui) into the form factor of the blockchain dominant programming paradigm, the EVM. Doing all of that in a decentralized way is a really hard problem. You have to rewrite all of this shit from the ground up and solve some really dificult system-level problems. And I believe if you solve that, and can foster a developer community, the prize is big. Yes, people will use stablecoins on stablecoin chains. But do you think the next big application in crypto will be built on Arc? On Tempo? Or do you think there are no new ideas left? If you thought that two years ago, you'd be sorely mistaken. If you thought that four years ago, you'd also be mistaken. Disruptive technologies *disrupt*. World-scale technologies need to *scale to the world*. Is there an application that needs Monad and cannot exist anywhere else today? Of course not. All smart contract chains are Turing-complete. By definition, any application can be written anywhere. But what Monad is trying to deliver is getting Ethereum-level decentralization and trust, at Solana-level throughput and latency. Scaling blockchains is one of the most fundamental problems in crypto, period. It's why Solana went from 2 years ago being a ghost chain to now being one of the most dominant chains in existence, because it scaled when other chains couldn't. If you think that doesn't matter and no one cares about a team building that, then we just disagree about our views of the big problems in crypto.

Come Monad doubters one and all—give me your biggest reasons why Monad is destined to fail. All doubters welcome (would love to also bring you on stage if you're down)! @Cbb0fe ?

it's that time of the year again where American crypto Influencers offer their profound insight into European culture based on research consisting of 25 minutes of twitter and reddit 🔥🔥🔥

@levelsio these funds are usually reserved for AI projects that benefit humankind in a non superficial manner - e.g. research in healthcare, agriculture, weather, genomics, defense. Your AI picture startup doesn't fit that - go raise funds, stop moaning

🇪🇺 As a European citizen and AI founder, I can apparently use these "AI Factories", so I just signed up to use them! Every "supercomputer" has an [ ACCESS NOW ] button which made me very excited I expected to sign up, maybe pay a discounted H100 rate (funded by EU, that'd be nice?) and get a Jypyter notebook, or some SSH login so I can access my GPU like I'd do on @lambdaapi or @awscloud or @Hetzner_Online But I celebrated to early, I signed up, confirmed my email, then ended up in a "Supercomputer Access Calls" page, where I had to select from a tedious list of "Call For Proposals" to get access to a GPU So I could NOT just access a H100 GPU, I have to make sure my project (in this case my business) fits a specific proposal, ok fair This process was already tedious enough but then when I tried to actually go through with it, it started asking me if I had "Respect for Human Agency?", I do I think, and if I was mindful of "Individual, and Social and Environmental Well-Being?", well I am, right guys??? Right??? The questions didn't stop, just endless pages of this Look I get what they're doing, they pivoted the classic university "I need to rent a giant computer for my research" to an EU wide thing and then present it as the "European AI plan" But this isn't really how AI works in production? As a founder in AI, if I wanna do stuff I'd rent a whole bunch H100 GPUs again at @lambdaapi or @awscloud or @Hetzner_Online and SSH into a box Or if I want it more simple I run AI models on @FAL, @wavespeed or @replicate which is just an API call or web front end I can click stuff and run a model The EU has the right intentions here but it's just the wrong execution, this thing will 100% go nowhere, and I'm a born optimist, I want to believe, I'm also a proud European, and I'm in AI a bit and not a complete idiot. There's just better ways to do this If you really want to have the GPU servers in Europe (which arguably isn't that important), then let me rent a GPU box with SSH access at @Hetzner_Online or @OVHcloud that's hosted in Europe and subsidize that for European citizens and European businesses. I don't even believe in that, but at least that'd make it accessible for Europeans. Now it really isn't? What's REALLY much more important though if you want to be a part of the AI race and I've posted for years here with @euaccofficial is to make Europe a really extremely attractive place to start and run an AI business. Remove regulatory obstructions and give tax discounts for startups. Let them build a business first that can compete worldwide and once they make enough money (let's say $100M/y), then slowly start adding regulation. Because right now the regulation only benefits the European incumbents, the dinosaur companies, while making it very difficult for European citizens to start new AI companies here. Which is why we literally have none left. Anyway, I applied to get my GPU, let's see if I get it!

@BeanOfTheWorld @_WetTentacle @BigDinna @JohnRoark33 @J_WasNeverHere @SpaghettiKozak you literally just glossed over the point about Biden having Dementia... the real reason Trump won was because Democrats put forward a candidate who obviously had dementia and lied to voters about it and then put forward an uninspiring replacement too late in the game.

@_WetTentacle @BigDinna @JohnRoark33 @J_WasNeverHere @SpaghettiKozak Bidens handling of Afghanistan was better than every other presidents. He got less Americans killed and he accomplished something. Getting us out. Bush started us down a 20 year war, and Obama and Trump were complicit in continuing his pointless war.

Fuck this worthless, unfunny, cowardly dipshit and every other dipshit who thinks he's clever or worth listening to. You don't get to play the liberal after you helped elect that pedo. You own everything he does.