My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026
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x.com/Math_files/s...
I'm impressed that Qwen 35B was able to figure this one out.
(took 15k tokens, a little under 3 min on my laptop)
Anyway, the way that you can use trigonometric functions to sneak modular arithmetic into what looks like clean smooth elementary functions is really cool.
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[X] I affirm the direction set out in the mandate, will help translate it into thoroughly reasoned strategies for my domain, and will maintain an exclusive and energetic focus on the mission-critical tasks necessary for its implementation, from today until my last day at the EF.
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Open-source vaccines, so the whole world can participate in manufacturing them and in better analyzing and understanding their medical properties.
Funded by Balvi.
The full-stack d/acc roadmap is shipping.
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An excellent post explaining the importance of Ethereum having a dynamically available consensus, that both provides economic finality and ensures chain progress even under conditions where economic finality is impossible.
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A new fast confirmation rule mechanism lets you get a hard guarantee that Ethereum will not revert after one slot (12 seconds)
Security assumptions are (i) supermajority honest, (ii) network latency under ~3s. So one step below economic finality, but very strong for many use cases.
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We should be open to revisiting whole beacon/execution client separation thing.
Running two daemons and getting them to talk to each other is far more difficult than running one daemon.
Our goal is to make the self-sovereign way of using ethereum have good UX. In many cases that means running your own node. The curre...
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This is the new EF Mandate.
For many of you, the contents should be no surprise, and a clarification along the lines that we have been going and thinking for the past few months. But the clarification is nevertheless worth making.
Ethereum is a unique object and has a unique role in the world. Its role is to be a san...
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One tool that seems to me would lead to large wins for safety at very low cost to civil liberties, is that everyone should have easy and deniable on-hand ways of calling the police.
Think: you pre-select a few secret words, and when your watch or phone or local device in your house hears these words, it silently auto ...
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There are often posts mentioning that I donated a very large amount of funds to @FLI_org years ago and connecting me to various policy actions that they take. I thought I would make clear the record both on the nature of my connection to them, and on similarities and differences between my approach to the AI risk topic...
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I was recently at Real World Crypto (that's crypto as in cryptography) and the associated side events, and one thing that struck me was that it was a clarifying experience in terms of understanding *what blockchains are for*.
We blockchain people (myself included) often have a tendency to start off from the perspectiv...
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Deep funding is continuing, and recently finished a major round!
gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg23-predi...
I think my main advice to @devanshmehta is to keep refining this (incl the prediction market version) but figure out how to make sure that the details of the design, the fund...
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The Ethereum Foundation is using DVT-lite to stake 72,000 ETH:
firefly.social/post/x/20262...
My hope for this project is that in the process, we can make it maximally easy and one-click to do distributed staking for institutions. Choose which computers run your nodes, make a config file where they...
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I actually do the whole new year's resolutions thing, and it actually works.
The key thing to understand is that humans are creatures of habit. Doing the same action you've already done regularly takes very little mental effort, whereas inserting a new one-time task takes much more. And so if you want yourself to do c...
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