Yonatan Sompolinsky
@hashdag
crypto addict | postdoc @Harvard @hseas | a real imposter
A new paper worth being excited about: proofs of useful work (pouw) by Ilan Komargodski @komargodski, Itamar Schen, and Omri Weinstein @WeinsteinOmri. arxiv.org/pdf/2504.09971 tldr; a pow function involving matrix multiplication such that the miner can choose the matrices freely…
עשרה קבין של יופי ירדו לעולם Kaspa Crescendo <3
dropped a few thoughts on moneyness culture + some context on the kas unofficial saga hashdag.medium.com/in-which-we-ar…
Seeing two prominent community figures clashing publicly over Kas X is very refreshing, and I genuinely hope to see more such fights being aired openly. Our strength as a community lies in our disunity; the strength of bitcoin lies in the reality that opposing entities and…
tldr; 100 BPS oracle mechanisms DAGKNIGHT <3
wholeheartedly agree with point (1): data manipulation aka the oracle problem is overlooked, is considered by crypto academia and crypto VC a second-order problem, whereas in truth it is as challenging to solve compared to computation validity, the voodoo math of zkp…
I think the kas community should avoid responding all over @hashdag's comments in every corner of X. If you truly admire him, let his words speak for themselves w/o everyone in the conversation getting constant external reminders about his greatness/satoshiness
During the good old big block bitcoin debates, Gregory Maxwell & @MeniRosenfeld proposed elastic block caps (bitcointalk.org/index.php?topi…). That idea was largely forgotten—but inspired by this line of thought, I’m proposing some flavour of it to enable elastic throughput and native…
Venice.ai is a good (currently best?) step towards LLM privacy; still the CCP can easily detokenize user input. Long term, fully homomorphic encryption should become the standard--user sends an FHE encrypted prompt, LLM server runs inference on the ciphertext, and…
If you want to use DeepSeek but don't want all your convos going to the CCP, use venice.ai All convos are private, stored only in your local browser. Must be Pro user to access DeepSeek
In undergrad studies we were told a true story about a fire that broke out in a conference hotel; the engineer woke up in their room, grabbed many buckets of water, threw them all over the room until the fire was extinguished, and went back to sleep. The physicist woke up,…
KIP14 — The Crescendo Hardfork, the exact spec and design of the upcoming Kaspa Crescendo is out for public review and discussion See link below >>
Dad @HSompolinsky is this the idea you told me about re a memory system with separate storage and retrieval encodings?
Your brain doesn't forget - it just loses the keys to unlock memories This paper introduces key-value memory architecture that separates storage and retrieval representations in brain memory systems, optimizing for both fidelity and discriminability. ----- 🧠 Original Problem:…