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
@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
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
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…
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
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
@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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
@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?
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
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
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,…
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 🫡
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…
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
.
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
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
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…
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…
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
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.
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…
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.
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 🫡
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
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 ;)
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
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
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
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
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)
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 🥇…
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…
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
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?
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
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
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
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.
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 ™️
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…
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.
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)
...
@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.
*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…
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.…
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
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
@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…
"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…
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?
@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
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.
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
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
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