Loredana Cirstea

high-bandwidth integrity infra @is_provable
exMD, solocoded max-flexible blockchain engine: wasmX (not crypto)
360+ tech YT demos
scouting promising startups

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

After 2 years of programming 12-16h/day (self-funded) and more than 50 progress demo videos, I built the most flexible WASM-based blockchain engine.
Today, I made the source code public.

This is the only blockchain engine capable of metamorphosis:

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

@danlynch Been trying to tell people this … @is_provable

[gabriel @gabriel1]

learning for the sake of learning is fake

humanity have some brain poison mindset "oh are you working on X now? i thought you studied thing Y"

any finance, lawyer, programmer, etc learned 98% of skills at their jobs. the only hard part is getting the job. the world is yours

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

a BB-8-style dog with a screen for a face that can do happy moves when you come home from work or wake up in the morning could do wonders for people's wellbeing, especially if people cannot take care of pets.
plus you get an alarm system, or medical emergency alarm system etc. etc.

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

I've volunteered 600h in the biggest emergency department in my home country. And one of the worst bottlenecks that I saw was patients being kept for hours in the emergency room because their paperwork was not ready yet, because they were not urgent enough & doctors were busy with other cases.

For the first time, I can imagine how this problem can be solved:
For medical info processing, I used @corti_ai 's APIs for speech-to-text, medical codes, and extracting medical facts from text.

With a headphone & a microphone, emergency medicine could be made a lot more efficient.
You can have real-time patient status while in the ambulance, shared with ER + suggestions for diagnostics & treatment in your ear.

(this is a prototype I just did yesterday, not paid advertisement; I just think making medical processes efficient is important, and any software/AI company improving the medical system can take this idea - I would be happy to help)

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

@yacineMTB oh noo. my recurrent dream is to build a long-range directional speaker, so I can whisper in the ears of people who make noise on the street at night, as if I were God.

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

The best type of capitalism works on aligning interests.
The worst thing for capitalism is when one's ego gets in between these naturally aligned interests.

E.g., one time I put my reputation on the line, aligning it with the reputation of a project. So I had an interest in keeping my word to release the project when we agreed upon and (I) publicly promised.

Can you believe that this was held against me? Even by people who should have had an interest in releasing the project as soon as possible?

Making a promise and then keeping it is powerful. Because it demonstrates that it is possible if you actually want it.

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

@timo_rf @rookepoole so if I got this right: what you have to do is go to burning man and come back stronger to work on your startup :))

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

Seems like generic methods in interfaces are not going to be implemented:
https://t.co/0DWj0FCyha
"Note that methods of interfaces may not declare type parameters nor can interface methods be implemented by generic methods."

Such a bummer. I love Go and this would have made coding even more beautiful.

So now ... instead of this, I need to make some top-level functions with generics and see how the code evolves.

@cameronbalahan, @muncus, so generic types on interfaces are not in plan at all 👉👈? I saw this issue closed https://t.co/rHzqxJgIYJ
Or it could be open if someone comes with an implementation plan that makes sense?

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

I was trying out the new generic methods in @golang 1.27 (built from source, from the master branch) and saw that generic methods in interfaces don't work.
e.g.
```
type List[T any] interface {
Get(int) T
Map[U any](func(T) U) List[U]
}
```
I get "interface method must have no type parameters" - so `Map[U any]` does not work.
This means I need to define `List[T, U any]` which ties me to a specific `U` type, which is ... limiting and makes things more complex.

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

PSA: don't encourage your very young children (under 14) to read "Sans Famille"/"Alone in the World" by Hector Malot and similar books with orphans (David Copperfield, Les Miserables etc.), that put "having parents" as the purpose of life itself (the most important thing you can aspire to as a kid)

I read these ~ 6-7 years and they cracked my soul. Left it exposed to a very specific bias where I devalued my own needs and will to cater to the emotions of those around me. Because, subconsciously, if I didn't make them happy, I would have no use and I could be tossed out like in these books.

If kids read them, reinforce their independence, and encourage them to directly disagree with you.

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

Carpe! Tamper-evident data ingestion from BLE devices at the database record level

with @is_provable cryptographic data integrity infrastructure

We are building the integrity matrix for digital data.

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

I was looking at this €6B Scaleup Europe Fund that was announced for fixing the startup ecosystem in the EU.

Only to realize that these are like money lost in the EU's couch cushions.

E.g., the EU will give Ukraine €90B this year for the war. After giving ~€220B already.

The EU doesn't want a startup culture. They are fully in line with the plans of the man who cannot be named: keeping a permanent war on the eastern front. The levels of 🤦 hypocrisy here are off the charts.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I loved the Project Hail Mary movie (and the book).

Science, technology, competence, and openness – this is my culture.

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

The era of the coding nerd is over
The era of the coding influencer has begun

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

My life is a mix of wild things at opposite ends of the spectrum.

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

A new comic book about Joan of Arc from @ctzurcanu

https://t.co/Zvbc2aTsDv

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

30 May 1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, after months of being kept in a cold dungeon, poisoned with fish by the Catholic Church, left without clothes so she was forced to dress in men's pants, so the Catholic representatives could say that she had "relapsed" and deserved to die.

She started from ZERO people believing her, but through her confidence in her vision, she inspired a volunteer army to fight for the liberation of France, at 17 years old.
She had a rare clarity of thought in her documented trial answers. She was a master cannoneer & strategist. She asked for and accepted people's votes on local issues regarding prisoners of war.

@Pontifex, 600 years from Jeanne's martyrdom is coming soon. Will you visit her place of burning in @Rouen?

Mark Twain spent around 12 years researching Joan before writing what he said was his best book ("Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc"). He read trial records, historical accounts, and traveled in France for research.

Still, much of her history is unknown or considered myth.

Want to know more historically documented facts or see art about Jeanne?
https://t.co/XkoyIWMJjE

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

30 May 1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, after months of being kept in a cold dungeon, poisoned with fish by the Catholic Church, left without clothes so she was forced to dress in men's pants, so the Catholic representatives could say that she had "relapsed" and deserved to die.

She started from ZERO people believing her, but through her confidence in her vision, she inspired a volunteer army to fight for the liberation of France, at 17 years old.
She had a rare clarity of thought in her documented trial answers. She was a master cannoneer & strategist. She asked for and accepted people's votes on local issues regarding prisoners of war.

@Pontifex, 600 years from Jeanne's martyrdom is coming soon. Will you visit her place of burning in @Rouen?

Mark Twain spent around 12 years researching Joan before writing what he said was his best book ("Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc"). He read trial records, historical accounts, and traveled in France for research.

Still, much of her history is unknown or considered myth.

Want to know more historically documented facts or see art about Jeanne?
https://t.co/XkoyIWMJjE

[Christian Tzurcanu @ctzurcanu]

Oath at #Rouen for Joan of Arc.
#joanofarc #jeannedarc

[Christian Tzurcanu @ctzurcanu]

Oath at #Rouen for Joan of Arc.
#joanofarc #jeannedarc

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

@dpachov @paulg @RoKhanna "growing fast" in a startup context implies clients and revenue, not investment.

[Loredana Cirstea @lorecirstea]

So true. One person recognizing your abilities can carry you through many hard years.

I will never forget my primary school teacher. She composed a poem on the spot, for me, after I recited her 27-stanza poem on a stage.
One verse was something like "you are one step ahead of both your parents and teachers." First time I ever felt seen. Broke down crying.

Probably the only time I ever saw her being a little emotional. But this made me super resilient in middle school, when I needed it. I already had confidence in myself.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

https://t.co/cRwIIexCa9