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founder @ArgusLabs_ @WorldEngineGG , larp @egirl_capital , distributed systems, minji stan account, prev: @trailofbits , @darkforest_eth , @Berkeley_EECS '22

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Scott Sunarto ◢ ✦ ◣
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We suspend regularly scheduled poasting to announce...
@ArgusLabs_
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Thrilled to announce our $10M seed round led by @HaunVentures with participation from prominent funds, strategic investors, and angels, including @AlchemyPlatform @robotventures @eladgil @balajis , @cjliu49 , @blader , and other to push the envelope of fully onchain games.
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It perplexes me that calculus is "advanced math" in the US and people are debating whether it should be a part of the curriculum at all im from a 3rd world country and we just call it math there lol
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@real_bb666 it's not about being smu; im the furthest thing from a math whiz. the point is that it makes zero sense for calculus class to be removed citing equity reasons when 3rd world countries can teach them just fine; especially when the STEM-inclined student need those classes for uni
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*ducks*
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@RileyGrant @real_bb666 the calculus teacher is the same as the math teacher 🤷‍♂️
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used to play a lot of Minecraft growing up my dad told me, "don't just be a user" ended up running Minecraft servers, made mods/plugins, and found my love for programming. nudges in the right direction > telling kids no
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My kids are allowed one hour of video games per day. A while ago, they asked me if Roblox counts towards the limit - technically, they are not playing but developing their own games in it. I immediately told them that the rules are clear and left the room. My wife and I are…
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in AI, people act like they are 30 IQ points smarter than they are in crypto, people act like they are 30 IQ points dumber than they are
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Fortunate to be able to share a sneak peek at what we have been very secretively working on at @ArgusLabs_ Introducing World Engine -- a sharded rollup SDK built to horizontally scale onchain games and blur the line between onchain games vs. traditional game server 1/4
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Of course that's your contention. You're an ivy league fresh grad turned crypto VC. You just finished reading handwavy thoughtpieces that you found, Chris Dixon probably. You're gonna be convinced of that until you realized that every other VCs like you all sound the same
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@real_bb666 it's not about being smu; im the furthest thing from a math whiz. the point is that it makes zero sense for calculus class to be removed citing equity reasons when 3rd world countries can teach them just fine; especially when the STEM-inclined student need those classes for uni
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I genuinely wish our enemies luck, cause this is where our team is coming from
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Introducing 225Capital -- a venture capital firm dedicated to investing in founders that can bench 225
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software is hard and shit happens, but im generally disappointed that we are just sweeping consensus failure under the rug when we (the eth community) absolutely railed Solana when they fked up
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superphiz.eth 🦇🔊🛡️
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The beacon chain stopped finalizing about thirty minutes ago. I don't know why yet, but in general the chain is designed to be resilient against this, transactions will continue as usual and finalization will kick in when the problem is resolved.
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Cosmos and the modular stack is the prob the only meaningful brain drain Ethereum have ever received It's one hell of a powerful nerdsnipe that Solana, Cardano, and other alt L1s dont have
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@shroomburger no, mixup. high school covers US college Calc 1 and most of Calc 2
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people have their own snarky takes on @solana , but i genuinely havent seen many blockchain team with the same level of sophistication in distributed systems engineering as them
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cant belive a fund with a bunch of ppl larping as cartoon characters can lead a round
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I don't understand people who antagonize Lido If someone uses the system in an intended way and in good faith but ends up being a threat to the system, then it's a failure of the system.
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im increasingly convinced that BD and partnership in crypto needs to be founders-led. the space has so much noise that it exacerbates poor incentives in BD. Orgs that scaled BD/partnership prematurely end up creating an illusion of adoption while sacrificing value alignment.
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@InverseQube have you considered the idea that these countries might have been colonized by the western countries for centuries, natural resources siphoned, deprived of education and basic human rights, and only recently have free election?
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on my birthday last year, i was grinding out of my berkeley apartment to get argus off the ground on my birthday this year, the grind continues in @ArgusLabs_ 2024 office. here's to 23 and one year closer to my parents asking me when wife
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start a startup jn your 30s? you have to juggle it with your family start a startup in your 20s? you grind when everyone else is enjoying their prime this is why i only fund 3 y/o founders. who cares about learning how to write
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My hot take is that universities need to push harder on splitting CS majors into two more opinionated paths Computer Science - CS theory is upper div requirement, not elective. Computer Engineering/EECS - EE, comp arch, and systems programming (compiler, db, prog lang,…
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@ronawang everyday we stray further from god
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if your girl: - is from shanghai/beijing - is doing her 2nd master degree (lol) in education in Columbia... - her ig is "SH | NY | LA" just focus on urself king 🫡
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sf in a nutshell: watching a white tech bro trying to flex his mandarin skillz on his fob date and the waiter telling him to just order in english 🫡
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with all due respect, this kind of BS works with retail but to any serious operators you'll quickly realize this number is completely made up. this number is NOT sales, but instead a completely made up number that represent "predicted value" of games that he keeps dodging from…
@0xferg
Robbie Ferguson 🅧 | Immutable
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A pretty insane update: @Immutable onboarded more games last month than ever in its lifetime. Incredibly proud of the product and GTM machine that is working tirelessly to bring true property rights to gamers. The endgame infra is here with @immutable and @0xPolygonLabs .
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i cant date within the industry because it always end up with: - the girl asking me about zk - me talking about zk - the girl asking me whether i know yi sun is single or not
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i bought this thing and now my life is controlled by it
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just saw a crypto founder bought his new girlfriend that he met last week in denver a birkin time to nuke it all back to zero
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I always forget how beautiful Fremont is until I visit for Christmas. Maybe I should move back here and get a house with a backyard, a minivan, and 2.5 kids
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(1/1) @cosmos Roadmap: Account Abstraction There is no roadmap, it's already there.
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hot take: abuse your time in college to sample everything. you have your entire life to build a startup and only 4 years to be able to job/career hop unpunished. in hindsight, my biggest work regret is not interning at bigger companies. i.e. i think i would have better…
@cory
Cory Levy
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What advice do you have for the following group: Smart college builders who can add lots of value to the world by joining a startup or starting their own company but think they want to work in big tech as a launching pad for their careers? What would you tell this group…
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another one of my angel investment founder just posted this its so over
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the biggest reason why funds should have investors who have founded companies is simple: empathy to not make founder's life harder everyone know building a startup is hard, but you don't truly understand it until you live it
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thinking of making a tg group chat for devops/infra engineering ppl in crypto 🤔
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the interns built a fully onchain with 10 tick per second on world engine we are so back
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every crypto bro need a berlin baddie to womensplain them core protocol engineering
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On the angel investment that made me the most money, I intro-ed the founder to his now girlfriend. Got the alloc I wanted. VCs need to up their game and start wingman-ing to get into the round.
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When I first started recruiting for venture a decade ago, one firm gave me an interview question I still think deeply about: "Pick a startup you think is interesting and draft a cold email to the founder that would compel them to take a meeting with you". According to that firm…
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Big. Congrats @niraj
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Cosmos SDK is hands down the best framework for building expressive blockchains, regardless of whether you want to build a new L1 or rollup. It's not perfect, but it has improved significantly in the past year + the alternatives don't even come close.
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@ArgusLabs_ will be another shining example of this soon ™️
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the original modular vs monolithic
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imo we need a blockchain engineering summit. not research or product, good ol' software engineering.
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gotta love some self irony
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dating in asia survival tips 1. parents gave her a cartier love bracelet for bday or graduation? run 2. her mom has a Birkin closet? run the dad will not approve of you 🫡
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when you are in high school, you want to be in college. when you are in college, you want to be working when you are working, you want to be in college
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rollup are backend server larping as a blockchain that post calldata to a DA layer but y'all are not ready for this conversation
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Josh Stark
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ok I'll bite: what's a rollup?
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the truth about the shared sequencer
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dark forest also had more actual players than a lot of these "AAA crypto games" without NFTs and crypto incentives :) all that while being built in an airbnb in rhode island by a team of college students with zero venture funding ... only getting started ;)
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Vader
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Onchain games is a solution looking for a problem Change my mind • Bots can interact with smart contracts wo permission • Cost of writing, auditing, maintaining smart contracts • Risk of s. contract hack Dark Forest was a hackathon for software devs, not a game for retail
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starting a startup in early 20s is so crazy like imagine doing this for 10 years and you would still have your whole life ahead of you
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OP Stack is just Mr. Beast Burgers for rollups
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You call it account abstraction. I call it "reasonable features to have in an account system that should have been there in day one"
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@zengjiajun_eth Well then i disagree with Danny Ryan. this appeal to authority shit is for mids
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wtf did they just changed the mbti label
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at a founder dinner, everyone talking about their second brain setup "scott how do you do it i told them i just remember it on my head and if i dont remember it, it's probably not important enough they stare at me like im savages
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people sometimes ask me what is the secret of being solo founder running the company, fundraising, while still being hands on in everything from engineering to design the secret? stan newjeans👇🏻follow me for more founder tips
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This was a long night, but I am glad we are able to resolve it. To avoid confusion between the project and the original @darkforest_eth , we are moving forward as Dark Frontier. 1/n
@DarkFrontierGG
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The universe is a 「 Dark Frontier 」 -- a fully onchain, ZK space conquest MMORTS game inspired by Dark Forest. Powered by @ArgusLabs_ 「 World Engine 」 A limited first batch of game keys will be dropped 🪂 on December 5th, 2023. Pre-registration now open (link in bio)
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>Sugondat bro who tf is in charge of names in Polkadot
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Emil Kietzman Dot⭕️
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Polkadot to become a Data Availability Hub for L2’s ⭕️ Last two weeks it was loud about Sugondat, offering Ultra-Scalable Data Availability More DA needed -> more Polkadot Cores used Hyped about this & know it will rock Cores, cause it’s done by @rphmeier & his awesome Team 🥇…
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if you are a student of the crypto business, the rollup vertical (rollapp dev, RaaS, DA layer, etc) is probably one of the best place to grind your teeth in. mature enough to see light at the end of the tunnel, but nascent enough where creative product & execution strategy…
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Hot take: "Good BD" being a key differentiator in a tech-driven space is a signal for saturated and undifferentiated market, where B2B sales speaks volume instead of product Soon, we will see the unbundling of blockchains that will win their category without splurging on sales
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A girl I was going out with asked me to make a powerpoint explaining "Rollups", I did. I've used it on 3 other dates since then whenever "Rollups" confusion comes up. They all now keeps talking about this fking guy named Jon Charbonneau. Tf?
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last night at argus' first office 🫡 felt like it was only yesterday when i hauled a bed from costco to sleep on the corner of the loft i'll miss you fren
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why is there no bullet train between sf and la???
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accepting that i'm a generic techbro who - made their company their personality - goes to the stereotypical techbro gym - only notable hobby is checking out new restaurants have made me happier instead of pretending to be interesting not sorry for working at my dream job UwU
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What people think: Uniswap implementing a frontend fee is centralization. What it actually is: a call to action for people to work on frontend/protocol client diversity. If the Uniswap protocol is Internet, frontends are the Internet Service Provider (ISP) 1/n
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when she is from shanghai and did undergrad at nyu 🚩⛳️🚩⛳️🚩⛳️🚩⛳️
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Ah yes, we should definitely take a lesson from @Delphi_Digital about their amazing PMF a.k.a Axie Infinity, Terra, and Thorchain!
@JACL_e9
JACL 🎮
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There are no players. There is no PMF. AWs will NEVER replace traditional games. The reality is that it will forever remain a niche offering to a select few who find meaning there. There will be great AWs, but we need to completely rethink how we measure success.
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laughing in cs61b
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I can’t imagine having one life to live and spending it not benching 225
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your guy pulling girls at the club by mansplaining formal verification? call him the Security Rizzearcher
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i honestly think Gen Zs thinks too much stress too much abt mindfulness, get depressed thinks too much abt career, end up not being satisfied with career choices just be dumb ™️
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Sam Altman revenge arc is gonna be crazy
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OpenAI
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OpenAI announces leadership transition
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It seems like people are stuck in the EVM mental model when reasoning about onchain game engine. Thing like bitpacking and indexer are primarily EVM tech debt (or generalized blockchain in general, because its not designed to run games) Dedicate blockchain runtime like World…
@IOSGVC
IOSG Ventures
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4/7 MUD v2 is the OG, battle-tested & go-to choice for EVM games. Dojo is the only provable game engine. Argus is ambitious & across the entire "stack" but emphasises itself as a content studio >> infra. Curio is an experiment to open source engine & attract devs in their AW.
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is this true: a "public good" project trying to push a "public good" narrative powered by token printer to early contributor that "public good" project forked a GPL3 "actually public good" codebase, shipped proprietary code by deleting the GPL3 license (hello counsel) ...
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it just dawns on me that there is no more "summer holiday" for the rest of my life
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@InverseQube for you, clearly, learning history and the development of civilization would have helped lol. not being able to acknowledge that the western civilization is built on the back of colonization and calling these countries "making excuses" is beyond pathetic.
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crypto brand designers be like user persona: - Brooklyn ppl
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Matt Huang
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*The Casino on Mars* It’s useful to think of crypto as a new planet that’s being settled. Skeptics see a desolate planet without purpose. Or worse, a haven for an unsavory casino. Optimists see the planet’s potential: a blank slate on which we can build an upgraded financial…
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With crypto fundings warming up again, ppl have been reaching out to get my thoughts on which VC/termsheet should they go with, etc Some generic advises I give: - Do your reference check: Always ref check with port co founders, especially those that haven't been doing as well.…
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my theory is that worldcoin have both: an eng/product team that is operating in good faith a biz/marketing/growth team that is operating in bad faith many such cases
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me right now
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is there any @jump_firedancer or @solana core devs chads in SF? hosting a small event with a "masterclass"-ish format to discuss/highlight Solana's architectural decisions/innovations
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>be me >just graduated college >my social circle is talking about marriage and kids help
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I unironically have more respect for Solana than some ETH sidechains
@DCbuild3r
dcbuilder.eth ⚪️
1 year
@evan_van_ness even though I disagree with most of the values of the Solana blockchain, they are still building lots of cool distributed system tooling and tech and that can't be denied. Coming from a person that loves Ethereum more than anything else, it's not worth being this aggressive…
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"the average programmers are getting worse every year" i hear this time to time from older programmers. what i think: 1) programming have become orders of magnitude more accessible, which swings the avg 2) modern SWE job DDOS-es your brain with so much narrow domain knowledge…
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While people are busy debating whether or not fully onchain game will scale, @ArgusLabs_ 's World Engine just got stupid fast. 10,000 entity write operations in ~10ms without parallelization. just getting started... are you reading for the endgame anon?
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golang is the best programming language for people with ~130 iq truly the dream language of us mids
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aiyo?
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Scott Sunarto ◢ ✦ ◣
1 year
TIL: the cofounder of @NEARProtocol is one of the co-authors of the "Attention is all you need" paper
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Scott Sunarto ◢ ✦ ◣
1 year
holy shit, boston is so freaking cold. THANK GOD MIT rejected me 3x
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Scott Sunarto ◢ ✦ ◣
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@AshleyKang @T1Keria Hey bro thanks for lending me your lambo the other day and thanks for letting me stay in the mansion the personal gym and pool was great cheers bro
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Scott Sunarto ◢ ✦ ◣
1 year
oh god no they found a new strat
@laurathesimp
laura 
1 year
python or javascript as a first language?
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Scott Sunarto ◢ ✦ ◣
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Optimism is taking a bottom-up eco dev approach with their OP Stack Arbitrum, on the other hand, is verticalizing its stack. Offchain Labs's value capture in the short term might look better, but they are taking the risk of alienating any grassroots development.
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Scott Sunarto ◢ ✦ ◣
11 months
winning at startups comes down to winning 2 layers of the game core mechanic: building product and team meta game: fundraising, narrative, MinMax-ing 1st time "hacker" founder: good at core game VC turned founder: good at meta game many 2nd time founders: good at both
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Scott Sunarto ◢ ✦ ◣
4 months
People in crypto have some really cool sounding job titles Crypto researcher? You mean more like "terminally online on twitter"?
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Scott Sunarto ◢ ✦ ◣
7 months
new personal trainer just asked what's my fitness goal told him i wanted to look jacked at next @modular_summit
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Scott Sunarto ◢ ✦ ◣
11 months
trying to avoid sounding like a tech bro, but I've learned the limits of physical and mental state much more by just... doing things. so many ppl my age fall into the deep thinkoooor phase of their life and getting frustrated on why they feel stuck
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Smokey The Bera 🐻⛓
11 months
I’ve seen the greatest minds of my generation rot in introspection attempting to understand themselves instead of simply *doing things* that would accomplish the same
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Scott Sunarto ◢ ✦ ◣
2 months
dawn song pivoting to crypto again rn
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Scott Sunarto ◢ ✦ ◣
10 months
fren has been dating his current gf for 3 years and he still havent made it to the insta. man oh man happy july 4th
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