And we finalized! Happy merge all. This is a big moment for the Ethereum ecosystem. Everyone who helped make the merge happen should feel very proud today.

Merged

Do you have any photographs of the Dún Laoghaire Baths that you would like to share? We are planning an exhibition on the history of the Baths which will coincide with the opening this Autumn. Please email your photographs to [email protected] by Monday, 19th September.

Super proud of the latest and greatest in a long series of a16z a16z crypto canons -- from the Crypto Canon to the NFTs Canon to DAOs, a Canon -- and now, one on *all things zero knowledge*, from theory to practice: the ZK Canon a16zcrypto.com/zero-knowledge…

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(1/20) Ethereum Fundamentals: Randomness and RANDAO Randomness is critical property for crypto and the World Computer. Unfortunately, computers are terrible at generating randomness without external input... and the EVM has no external input. A guide to untrusted randomness.

After the dust settles from a major event, whether inflation was just caused by temporary supply shocks or by monetary debasement is answered by one key test: Did aggregate prices go back to their previous level, or no? 🧵

Things I'd like to tell my 20-year-old self:

In the 1960s, the National Training Laboratories Institute developed a pyramid model to represent the retention rate of information from various activities. The general takeaways: • Lecture/reading are not enough • Teaching is the most powerful form of learning

This video visualization of the depth of our oceans is mesmerizing…

Kindlestown House in flames right now #Delgany #Greystones #Wicklow

Meanwhile, this trend shouldn't be dismissed:

What are activities outside of building software that senior+ / staff & above could take part in to improve their organization? Here are a few. What else have you observed being 'strategic' ones that could have gains on the mid-term or on the long run?

Oops haven't tweeted too much recently; I'm mostly watching with interest the open source LLM ecosystem experiencing early signs of a cambrian explosion. Roughly speaking the story as of now: 1. Pretraining LLM base models remains very expensive. Think: supercomputer + months.

How to Do Great Work: paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

Do Large Language Models really "understand" the world, or just give the appearance of understanding? Evidence (e.g., Othello-GPT) shows LLMs build models of how the world works, which makes me comfortable saying they do understand. More in The Batch: deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issu…

Ireland's Tallaght District Heating Scheme uses waste heat from an #AWS data center to sustainably heat homes & buildings. By 2050, district heating could supply 87% of Dublin's heating demand. I expect to see this model widely adopted in the coming years. allthingsdistributed.com/2024/03/distri…

The side of planet Earth we aren't used to seeing.

United Kingdom and Ireland as seen from Space on a rare clear day.

If you ever get lost in the Milky Way galaxy, this is your map to get back to EARTH.