Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth)

Preventing human-machines conflicts since 2014. Ethereum Foundation Alumni (2014-2018), co-founder of ENS (2017), co-founder of Higher Order Company (2023).

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

* helped launch ethereum
* launched the first Ethereum Wallet and Web3 Browser.
* coded one of the first ERC20 tokens, DAO, token sale and NFT (ENS!) contracts, and they were used as templates in the Ethereum home.
* spent 2 years promoting ENS as a primary means of login

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

Life is what happens while Claude is busy making other plans.

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

@nicksdjohnson It’s insane but I doubt it’s just a one shot of asking fable to “go crazy”.

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

Gemini finding new math solutions for nuclear fusion: now that’s the news I wanted.

[Lucas José @lucasjvds]

The 3D codes that design fusion stellarators need exact solutions to check accuracy. Existing solutions covered at most 2 repeating segments, but real stellarators have 3 or more.

With Gemini 4 Carbon agents working together, we found solutions for any number N of segments.

[Taelin @VictorTaelin]

Tendrils is building an interaction net computer. It has been my view for a decade that this is the optimal way to build hardware in this physical universe. They're brave enough to try. Great things may come out of it. Wishing them luck!

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

@xmuse_ Has anyone tried a hexagon?

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

This is such a revealing logic:

1) imagine we’d bombed the shit out of Iran even more
2) suppose that works, dictatorship is gone! Yay!
3) we’re the heroes, everybody loves us!
4) then we steal their oil!

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

I wonder what would have happened in an alt timeline:

1/ Sufficient supply of both interceptors and courage
2/ Ayatollah surrenders, secular republic installed
3/ Iranian men and women celebrating
4/ Iranian oil transferred back to the partially western pre-1979 ownership

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

@Cardoso @vidaalheiaoff Os pequenos nadadores estavam “treinamos a vida toda por esse momento, talvez nunca mais surja outra oportunidade dessas!”

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

@PaulRBerg @timurguvenkaya @RaymondIbrahim5 @DanBurmawy @grok what does the bible says about spreading Christianity?

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

@Ideiasradicais Você não estava outro dia mesmo fazendo campanha para um candidato que chamava Vorcaro de irmão?

[Alex Netto (netto.eth) @alextnetto]

Curiosity about formal verification:

Both of the major languages, Lean and Bend, were created by Brazilians 🇧🇷

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

What's the end goal here? Just exploration. I learned something and want to share it, isn't that the primitive human behavior that motivates most of the internet existing?

I could probably take it a step further, generate a synthetic video influencer that narrates the stories and looks nicer on camera – but that would defeat the purpose, which is a human connection.

I don't believe people want to talk to bots. People want to connect to real people, and these are the tools we use to communicate.

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

I don't get people who say they use AI for reading emails, setting calendars or writing.

Personally I've been using it for years to explore time and space!

https://t.co/bUQf0BHZog

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

So I decided to make a zoomable website. Claude was very helpful at this and in a few days I had a zoomable version of the same poster I spent weeks making the previous year.

So I decided to record a video, by zooming in the website and explaining it all – that's when I realized I could do better. So my process is that I talk on the microphone, then Claude transcribes, reviews, suggests new takes where I'm incorrect or not very audible, and then it's able to take all these takes and do the zooms and animations for me. It's not a single prompt, but rather a long ping pong between me, a cloud agent, my Mac agent, and sometimes other AIs.

[bread.mega @bread_]

Tired of these DPRK hacks. So I built the ultimate defense.

DPRKaptcha[.]com

Simple questions with existential outcomes (for them).

Live now to protect the internet from North Korea.

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

Curious that the stated privacy goal is to protect the model’s information from the user, not the other way around.

[Albiona Hoti @albicodes]

well well well, things I didn’t expect:

• anthropic shipping zk proofs for ai inference
• with that ofc the proof system is similar to what ethereum rollups use (so surprising to see which rollups got mentioned) cc @gluk64
• part of the jump on speed is that they used h100, the earlier proof of the same model was done in 14 hrs for 1k tokens, compared to 9sec today

https://t.co/rLUEbSOeZz

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

@ZorzettoPaloma @ibama_explode Entao.. viva o Temer?

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

Distrital misto é uma excelente opção (dependendo de como é implementado) porque aí você não tem a situação que tem um deputado gigante e milhares de desconhecidos. Cada distrito tem um candidato por partido e dá pra ter até debate para deputado da região entre todos os candidatos.

[Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) @avsa]

Fabio, concordamos mais do que discordamos. Acho impossível que uma decisão que involva presidentes (ou candidatos a) não tenha viés político: teve na prisão do Lula, teve na do Jair. Também não acho que ninguém ali seja inocente: do triplex, do sítio, do golpe, do envolvimento com milícia, de juíz do STF sendo advogado do Vorcaro.

Onde discordo é chamar Flávio de exilado político. Ele fugiu porque tinha rabo preso mesmo.