Haven't posted here in a while but figured I'd write a post to see if I should come back 😅 First longer form thing would be about an AI theory paper that I worked on that was inspired by crypto

Maybe the most interesting DeFi research in recent years

Everyone on the X is too distracted with immigration, so I’m giving a sneak peek of some research here Decentralized Perpetuals have long been the dream but they’ve been too capital inefficient Many advances pushed DEX-CEX market share to >6% — but how are how are they related? We answer this!

Watching a talk by Yinyu Ye at WINE and being convinced Shampoo and all of these fancy preconditioning methods that are shilled on X are really just “gradient descent to approximate a sequence of online LPs”

Never been a worse year for people born in Delaware, going to go back to saying I’m from Philly

Quote from WINE 2024: “Ethereum is less decentralized than Cardano due to pooling [LSTs] but restaking might fix this” lol? Their argument was based on a Shapley Value construction which seems likely to differ from proportional rules a lot

Now this has to be the wildest VC shade story of all time

There is no inherent reason in DeSci not to spam marginal or even fake results (think: bioarXiv Covid slop data science around March 2020) in order to get rewards as opposed to making multi year bets that improve knowledge Perpetuals traders telling you otherwise are purely self motivated

Bluesky is a safe space for me to say that DeSci is mainly a scam, don’t get caught by influenzas who are pumping a coin yet can’t tell you what an orbital is

Rejoining Bluesky after a year off and my day 1 observation is: - Math, Econ, Physics people have moved here en masse - CS, AI, crypto, finance people have not

I told my Serbian friend I was going to Montenegro (for Zuzalu) and he said:

I love how this is a platform with 50k active posters and still no support for video. No clearer sign that we are all mid to geriatric millennials on here 😅

OH: "Look, I'm only going to believe in AGI when the Turing Test becomes, 'can you distinguish between a randomly selected trashy EDM DJ who only plays in Dubai and Vegas and an AI generated EDM trash song?'"

How much more would a Twitter clone clone if a Twitter clone could clone a clone

Imagining famous mathematicians as VCs is a hobby of mine and I do it to thoroughly troll my alt @lmao.bsky.social (who is a vee cee™️)

Separation anxiety (noun.) The feeling when you’re not a convex function and you don’t have a separating hyperplane

Sir, Hartog’s theorem would like to fight you “But but but your holomorphic equations look exactly like harmonic equations” An excuse for the weak

The convex analysis shitposting will continue until morale improves

Category Theory shitposting : ???? :: Twitter : Bluesky What is ????

My personal content moderation policy: make sure there’s no overlap between the journalists you follow on Twitter and the ones you follow on Bluesky

Prediction after looking at the “what’s hot” section: Bluesky will be the new Tumblr

great prog rock band name

@zkpod.ai should I use Halo2 or Nova for the first great ZK social network?

In spite of the constant “Bluesky has immaculate vibes” chatter I hear from people, I have to say that the intellectual convos aren’t that great; there seems to be a lot of naval gazing and no “Crihan posts theorems” 😂

I do not envy Jay’s job but 🫡 to the middle ground (funnily enough, the reply is to my one time roommate 😅)

I have a sinking feeling people are going to find out what “open protocol” means sooner than they’d like and it might not fare well for everyone

Broke: Crypto investors going to SBC Woke: Crypto investors going to FC Bespoke: Crypto investors going to EC

Long thread, but tl;dr: how do ZKPs and 'Chains of Thought' in LLMs overlap? Read more to find out! https://twitter.com/tarunchitra/status/1651280126083203072?s=46&t=xfVnkeUFTpbb0myzYJQ6Og

My non-Twitter poasting involves music, so here’s what I’m listening to today https://on.soundcloud.com/3pJSJD3QdVu3Atqi8

This meme is what @bunny.bsky.social says my non-crypto portfolio looks like

@zkpod.ai is @kobi.bsky.social an alien?

@zkpod.ai what kind of genius is Kobi? (Hint: evil 😇)

OH (research conference): “I still have a soft spot for Su Zhu”

OH: “I think I’d immediately join the first cult whose material was all written by ChatGPT. It likely knows my soul better than Osho”

This is the academic version of OJ Simpson writing, “If I did it”

OH: “The OG simp is a golden retriever”

Despite learning of the amazing finite field Kakeya conjecture of Dvir, I never really understood why it mattered in randomness extraction. It turns out that the succinctness of ZKPs generated via MIP (and MIP = NEXP) rely on it via the point-line test of low degree polynomials

OH (at a coffee shop): “I want all of my relationships to be simp mommy relationships”

gm (where am I?)

Bluesky : Farcaster :: Pinterest : Quora

Given that I have no followers here, I’ll mainly drop alpha on things I’m working on; hoping to get out a post on the difference in types of knowledge in ZKPs and LLMs this week