bartholomew πββ¬π΄ (@bmorphism) β’ Hey
"A bidirectional transformation is a specification of when the joint state of two systems should
be regarded as consistent, together with a protocol for up
Publications
- "{...} As the reference to Kongzi suggests, this tendency toward inclusivity threatened the humanistic ethics of the Confucians. Their main response addressed a gap in the cosmogonies exemplified by the Laozi. These explained the dynamism inherent in particular things and the broader patterns of nature, but they did not address the differences between kinds of thingsβwhat makes human beings differ consistently from dogs? The concept that arose to fill this gap and to justify Confucian humanism is xing ζ§. Xing is most often translated as the βnatureβ of a thing or kind of thing, but it refers specifically to the way a thing responds spontaneously to its environment. In human beings, xing manifests itself primarily as desires and emotions, broadly labeled as qing ζ
(genuine affects). One of the key questions debated by the Confucians was the degree to which ethical concerns like care, respect, and shame were embedded in these natural spontaneous affects."
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-metaphysics/
- Physics, chemistry and biology study the organization of matter at various scales, from subatomic to cosmic. The behavior of each scale is determined by the laws that govern behavior of the underlying scale, but the nature of relations between scales is full of surprises. For example letβs consider a simple idea: matter consists of tiny, constantly moving particles, which attract each other at close distances, but repel when they are too close. Lennard-Jones potential is one of possible mathematical formalizations of the above idea. In spite of the apparent simplicity of microscopic dynamics, at large scales these rules give rise to a plethora of complex phenomena, such as aggregate states of matter, thermodynamics, acoustics, hydrodynamics and turbulence. In scientific and engineering practice we can often abstract microscopic details behind macroscopic models, such as diffusion or Navier-Stokes equations, that operate at the scale of interest. But in some domains, like material science or biochemistry, we have to focus on the relationship between many orders of magnitude in scale. How do changes in molecular structure reflect in macroscopic material properties? How do genomic sequences translate into morphological appearance? In the field of biology these ties between scales are especially important and obscure at the same time. Thatβs why development of practical methods of capturing and analyzing such relations are of a great need. In silico multi-agent models provide a computational playground for creation and improvement of such methods. We may use such models for efficient design of local microscopic rules that lead to a desired global behavior. Thus, creation of simulated Artificial Life serves as a stepping stone in deep understanding of life in the real world.
https://youtu.be/AP3zeHyWakw
- https://youtu.be/p4iRU4pBkCo?t=4957
- gm! ππ§
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k98HQGYCdgQ2YerrLR3hAYzdoL1BKOdOs
- Do the dance
LES, 5783
- gm! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXBwU9ieLL0
- https://github.com/bmorphism/xm
- CatDAO πββ¬
Our mission is to:
Help cats achieve their full potential
Help humans achieve their full potential
Help humans achieve their full potential by helping cats achieve their full potential
https://showtime.xyz/t/polygon/0x548776B80EAf63649573B3e1Fb171066F64C9518/0
- gm! https://linebender.org/druid/lens.html
- In Portlandia! If you are in town for @BSidesPDX https://bsidespdx.org/events/2022/schedule -- let's hang out! βοΈπ΄ββ οΈ
Looking forward to ~16:20 talk "Engaging bike theft victims in the OSINT process" π²π₯·π
- gm (good math!)
https://www.brunogavranovic.com/posts/2022-02-10-optics-vs-lenses-operationally.html
- Who's going to SF Tech Week?
https://sf-techweek.com
- "When you keep forecasting that simple, you free up time and bandwidth to invest elsewhere."
https://collabfund.com/blog/good-enough/
- On developing web wallet for Penumbra (native privacy chain). Requires the application developer to manage synchronization of users' private state, unlike a transparent chain, where user state is accessible via RPC.
https://github.com/penumbra-zone/penumbra/issues/1373
- Saturday vibes π #1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2U4Ge_bQo8
- πΈ gm bus at #DWebCamp2022
From the landing of very rare birbs @ Camp Navarro (August 2022)
First stop for the bus!
Peace βοΈ
- #DWebCamp2022 is a much needed chapter break for my tortured soul: surrounded by redwoods and incredible people, it is easy to feel optimistic about blocks to come! β
Today, not yet thinking about the coming chapter, I was vibing with this tree in front of me, and now reflecting on it, I revisited this paragraph from a roadtrip long ago, when I listened to Buber on the forest drive west through the Rockies and beyond:
"I consider a tree.
I can look on it as a picture: stiff column in a shock of light, or splash of green shot with the delicate blue and silver of the background.
I can perceive it as movement: flowing veins on clinging, pressing pith, suck of the roots, breathing of the leaves, ceaseless commerce with earth and airβand the obscure growth itself.
I can classify it in a species and study it as a type in its structure and mode of life.
I can subdue its actual presence and form so sternly that I recognise it only as an expression of law β of the laws in accordance with which a constant opposition of forces is continually adjusted, or of those in accordance with which the component substances mingle and separate.
I can dissipate it and perpetuate it in number, in pure numerical relation.
In all this the tree remains my object, occupies space and time, and has its nature and constitution.
It can, however, also come about, if I have both will and grace, that in considering the tree I become bound up in relation to it. The tree is now no longer It. I have been seized by the power of exclusiveness.
To effect this it is not necessary for me to give up any of the ways in which I consider the tree. There is nothing from which I would have to turn my eyes away in order to see, and no knowledge that I would have to forget. Rather is everything, picture and movement, species and type, law and number, indivisibly united in this event.
Everything belonging to the tree is in this: its form and structure, its colours and chemical composition, its intercourse with the elements and with the stars, are all present in a single whole.
The tree is no impression, no play of my imagination, no value depending on my mood; but it is bodied over against me and has to do with me, as I with it β only in a different way.
Let no attempt be made to sap the strength from the meaning of the relation: relation is mutual."
- Martin Buber, I and Thou
- gm! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAGJw7YBy8E
- https://codingthematrix.com
- purple music is the best music! β―οΈ
https://lenster.xyz/communities/0x1f02-0x0b
- From the IBC / Wyvern ogs! Tools for a more perfect consensus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGHrB7_PIZc
- #128 This week 'bj' is the new 'gm' #ETHCC #Paris
- here's to _infinite_ variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being! π΄β
- Blockchain @ Berkeley
Blockchain @ Columbia
Blockchain @ Michigan
#Celo #Paris
https://youtu.be/y6b_AfuccKY
- 130,000 tx/sec π«’
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.11827
- https://ebuchman.github.io/posts/socially-responsible-investing/
- this is your life as a #degen
TGIF
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P0wZ6Akew0
- Funded by French government! π«π·
https://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/fr/signature-du-marche-d-acquisition-de-l-un-des-supercalculateurs-les-plus-puissants-d-europe-46733
**Hardware**
Training:
384 x A100 80GB GPUs (48 nodes)
Additional 32 x A100 80GB GPUs (4 nodes) in reserve
8 GPUs per node Using NVLink 4 inter-gpu connects, 4 OmniPath links
CPU memory: 512GB per node
GPU memory: 640GB per node
Inference:
10x GPUs at >40GB (unless using https://huggingface.co/joaoalvarenga/bloom-8bit)
https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom
- gm!
https://www.risczero.com/blog/starter
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyFySXwVvUM π΄
- π Slava Ukrajini!
Not too long ago - as a San Franciscan of Ukrainian extraction - I've undertaken a Ukrainian language translation of DAO DAO (https://v1.daodao.zone): a way to bootstrap and entrench a new, modular, permanent structured revolution βπ½ type organization in Ukraine and Europe more broadly, that enfranchises all from the start (e.g. https://github.com/DA0-DA0/dao-contracts/wiki/DAO-DAO-v1-Contracts-Design#proposal-modules #pluralvoting)
This translation required a whole new way of reframing what tools for a sort of lex naturalis network state emergence could be, what post-capitalist desires should they instill, while navigating a living language in the context where civil society and the notion of universal participation in governance are finally (!) possible (the true flowerings of Ukrainian democracy prior - centuries back, if you choose to dig out the history books - were alas too few π₯² and not very long-lasting at that π»).
Not only are these radical transformative changes now possible, but today, they are routinely _necessary_ as the only way forward, as a matter of survival. #UkraineDAO #UnchainFund
https://opensea.io/collection/sirensgallery
https://u24.gov.ua/dronation
I am eternally grateful for the seemingly bottomless patience of my coequal transatlantic collaborator in bringing this translation about , Olena! Thank you, comrade! https://twitter.com/netlenochka
To conclude this brief missive, I'd like to quote from Slavoj Zizek's late May address to Kyiv School of Economics "What is Freedom Today? π΄"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MhKWLCIwD8&t=2047s
"What about necessity of fate that can realize itself _only_ through being known?"
If you speak Ukrainian, or have a friend who does - please forward for their feedback, and stay tuned for the launch of the translation on the mainnet DAO DAO UI (https://v1.daodao.zone/ua when live). You can use the gist below to see what new freedoms (and, inevitably, some new unfreedoms βοΈπ΄) 'token', 'staking', 'unstaking', 'multisig', 'proposal', 'voting', 'liquid', and indeed 'DAO' itself seem to foretell for the next very engaged cohort of our users (#regenerative #quadratic #revolutionary). π±β¨πΊπ¦πͺπΊπΊπ³
https://gist.github.com/bmorphism/4d290faae52bb652940324259242ba27
All proceeds from collections of this post on Lens (**1991 MATIC** each) will be redirected to bounties supporting more translations of #web3 tooling and making quality Ukrainian language documentation an instantiation of mutual credit application of https://github.com/DA0-DA0/dao-contracts that will aim to be inclusive of _all_ the existing #web3 efforts to aid Ukraine and Ukrainians, as well as people on the ground!
Herojam Slava! ππΈ
P.S. What is mutualism? https://www.mutualismcoop.com
- to Be
- to Be or not to Be? π¦π€
- π
- First!1!!!\
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-4-431-73167-2>
- effective accelerationism. now.
- "Conventionally, intelligence is seen as a property of individuals. However, it is also known to be a property of collectives. Here, we broaden the idea of intelligence as a collective property and extend it to the planetary scale. We consider the ways in which the appearance of technological intelligence may represent a kind of planetary scale transition, and thus might be seen not as something which happens on a planet but to a planet, much as some models propose the origin of life itself was a planetary phenomenon. Our approach follows the recognition among researchers that the correct scale to understand key aspects of life and its evolution is planetary, as opposed to the more traditional focus on individual species. We explore ways in which the concept may prove useful for three distinct domains: Earth Systems and Exoplanet studies; Anthropocene and Sustainability studies; and the study of Technosignatures and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). We argue that explorations of planetary intelligence, defined as the acquisition and application of collective knowledge operating at a planetary scale and integrated into the function of coupled planetary systems, can prove a useful framework for understanding possible paths of the long-term evolution of inhabited planets including future trajectories for life on Earth and predicting features of intelligentially steered planetary evolution on other worlds."
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/intelligence-as-a-planetary-scale-process/5077C784D7FAC55F96072F7A7772C5E5
- Today is easily my happiest day on lenster dot com -- my fren and #KB5 fellow traveler @horsefacts.lens has joined our decentralized composable social graph, a fantastic follow for your follow Wednesday (or Thursday, if you are in NZ)
- So you're telling me this *isn't* a Haskell message board?
- https://blog.celestia.org/july-engineering-update/
- Forget your shitcoin $TOKEN, mutual credit is where it's at! (the integer in obligation clearing can be anything, even your friendly monopoly-on-violence jurisdiction CBDC!) #outcoordinate π΄
https://www.mutualismcoop.com/contemporary-mutualist-text/a-mutualist-theory-of-credit
- https://www.radicalxchange.org/concepts/plural-funding/
- The paper describes a funding mechanism called Quadratic Finance (QF) and deploys a bit of calculus to show that within a very clean and simple linear model QF maximizes social utility. They differentiate the social utility function. The mathematical content of this note is that by taking one further derivative, one may also deduce that QF is the unique solution.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14711
- https://open.spotify.com/track/4szjxArYAkmFngIoAngvOz?si=28de40a50a014cdf
- How is everyone's #ReFiSummer?
Check out this episode of **The Ownership Economy** if you wanted to stay up to date what other regens and solarpunks are up to / get inspired! β¨π±
**Episode 022 - Scaling Regenerative Economies with Local Currencies and New Markets in Natural Assets**
"In this episode, Jahed and Martin sit down with Luuk Weber of Kolektivo to dive into the opportunity for regenerative, non-extractive economic designs built on tokenization of natural capital assets and localist economic principles. Luuk's story starts in Curaçao where he experienced the consequences of living on an island whose currency is pegged to the dollar, and the vicissitudes that come along with it. He was among the first people experimenting in the DAO space, using his learnings to bootstrap a local currency called CuraDAI, enabling local Curaçaons to keep their economy local in times of massive inflation. In the conversation we cover how Kolektivo is working with Celo and other entities to create new economic models that value ecosystems, land, and water for their regenerative capabilties, and not just their extractive, priced capabilities, with an eye to building markets that can price and provide liquidity for natural assets for people to take regenerative actions. This episode will be of particular interest to folks interested in the intersection of climate, impact, and web3."
https://anchor.fm/theownershipeconomy/episodes/Episode-022---Scaling-Regenerative-Economies-with-Local-Currencies-and-New-Markets-in-Natural-Assets--with-Luuk-Weber-of-Kolektivo-e1km4d1
- gm! π»πΈ
https://topos.institute/networked-mathematics
- **dYdX chain is coming to Cosmos** π
Order Books + Zero Fees trading + Decentralization! β¨
As someone working with IBC Tendermint chains, this has been an extremely welcome announcement! By volume alone (if v3 is a reference), it is one of the most significant events in the Cosmos ecosystem to date.
Love the measured approach in clarifying on the choice of technology - no hype, simply engineering decisions.
https://dydx.exchange/blog/dydx-chain
- Pretty amazing to get ~ 51 α΄α΄Ι΄α΄ΚΙͺΚα΄α΄α΄Κκ± ~ for a niche graph learning dataset grant!
**Our aim:** raise enough for a 24 hour indexing event that becomes a research dataset for graph ML - ideally in the run-up and aftermath of The Merge; we will index several chains simultaneously using Akash compute.
There's still time to contribute and get your funds generously matched; we are going to be gradually increasing the treasury as we build out the codebase and release insights for the contracts that are most utilized across the chains we index.
https://gitcoin.co/grants/6467/ogb-interchain-canonical-research-dataset-for-graph-learning
- **DAODAO.zone v1 contracts and fresh UI coming to mainnet**
An incredible milestone for DAO contracts for JunΓΈ / CosmWasm and the broader Interchain ecosystem! #IBC
Modular contract architecture allows for innovation in governance and structured transition to new voting mechanisms (= peaceful permanent revolution) -- rank-choice voting, NFT-based voting, plural voting, and even random shuffle - the principled exploration of the configuration space of decentralized organizations continues!
I was incredibly happy to participate in auditing these (through securityDAO) and seeing quick turnaround to address any disclosures makes me bet on the team's success.
Try it out on testnet today: https://testnet.daodao.zone/