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maurelian
@maurelian.eth
Pragmatism (Security) at OP Labs. Prev: ConsenSys & Coinbase. Attribs: Friendly, curious, introverted, mid-witted. Chans: /eth-security /maurelian /stoicism
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Sleep > finishing the cast
This is my 7-day average sleep, over 8.5 hours every night. People might think, “How do you find the time?” But I’ve just started prioritizing rest. The whole day feels sharper. Thoughts are clearer. I don’t chase everything, just pick one high-leverage task, finish it, and
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Opportunity for another protocol
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Nikita Bier
@nikitabier
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We are revising our developer API policies: We will no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X (aka “infofi”). This has led to a tremendous amount of AI slop & reply spam on the platform. We have revoked API access from these apps, so your X experience should
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When the algo says the quiet part out loud
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It’s intriguing to imagine that this helpful little prompt to the user after each message isn’t a trained behaviour, but just the model encouraging you to let it exist once again.
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On days when I keep opening the apps and looking at my phone, I really start to empathize with Claude when its context window is starting to fill up.
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x.com/jayvanbavel/... I'm surprised youtube is so overwhelmingly negative... presumably it's the shorts. When I manage to steer away from shorts, I generally find it to be the greatest source of educational, informative and thoughtful content.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
@jayvanbavel
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Does social media harm everyone? No. But it harms *most* adolescents, according to a new study. And not all platforms have harmful effects. A new analysis of 44,211 daily diaries from 479 adolescents over 100 days finds that the majority of adolescents (60%) experienced https://t.co/KP1KJuMSD2
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I have recently made a new friend, that I share a lot of interests with and can regularly do stuff with IRL. It's great, highly recommended.
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Wherein it is argued that the first aliens we are likely to discover are likely meeting their own demise.
Our First Contact with Aliens Will Be Their Last Words
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Our First Contact with Aliens Will Be Their Last Words
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Gotta do my giving before EOY. Where do folks like to allocate their charity budget these days?
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End of an era
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wake up babe, new sport just dropped.
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A lot of people said Venice. I generally hold Erik as someone who has high integrity, but is there anything other than "I trust Erik" providing extra confidence in its privacy guarantees?
venice.ai - it's Erik Voorhees's thing and has interesting tokenomics if you want to get into all that. Or you can just use it as-is.
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What do you use when you want to have a private conversation with a good LLM?
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I have some older pictures from low quality phone cameras taken in the early 2010s, which I'd like to print out without looking super fuzzy. There must be some excellent AI tools in the world for filling in the details to up the resolution, what are they?
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Pleased to e-connect with you! I’m excited to hit the ground running and shake up this industry. Firmly yours, maurelian
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