An undergrad student broke a 40-year-old belief in computer science.
Since 1985, it was believed that hash tables, when nearly full, must check many spots to find or add data.
Andrew Krapivin discovered a new way to organize data inside a hash table that avoids this slowdown.
Instead of checking slots randomly or in order, his method uses a more efficient structure to guide the search.
This reduces the worst-case time from O(n) to (log n)² steps, even when the table is almost full.
The world is a large theater with a small exit door. The definition of the sucker is someone who focuses on the size of the theater, not the size of the door.
Hacking time to recover $3m worth of lost Bitcoin.
Sounds crazy, right?
This is how two white hackers cracked an 11 year old password behind this massive fortune.. 🧁
Your brain consumes 20 W of power. A single GPU consumes a kilowatt. A data center has tens of thousands of them, and is still not as powerful as your brain. Chew on that before you say AGI is imminent.
With the recent launch of @Aavegotchi Wearable Rentals going live on our marketplace, the ability to lend and borrow NFTs has never been easier!
But how do you accept NFT Rental offers for wearables?! 😲
Here's Partnership Lead @nofuture going through the process 🚀
“Wooow! What a huge library you have! How many of these books have you read?”
Buy more books than you can read. The more unread books you have, the better.
Nassim Taleb (@nntaleb) confessed in The Black Swan he was mesmerized by Umberto Eco’s erudition.
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“There’s something you don’t know yet.”
If a business opportunity seems obvious and nobody has done it, there’s a reason for it.
You just don’t know it yet.
I’ve learned you must keep searching until you find it.
This can be asking experts, customers, or others who failed.
We did a quick run through of the process of renting an @aavegotchi wearable at the Buildr Cafe at #ETHDenver2024
Here is a video of @ernani_eth walking @nofuture through the process 🚀🚀
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I've always thought that Hal Finney was the main person behind Satoshi Nakamoto (Supported by 1 or 2 other minor characters)
And I think the new emails help back that up overwhelmingly: