Euler Finance on their $240M recovery: “On one of our company all-hands calls shortly after the attack I told everyone I would help them get new jobs, to which one person replied: “I’m not going anywhere until we find him”. That attitude really sums up how our entire team responded to this incident. Our team really gave everything to the recovery effort, and we simply wouldn’t have seen the outcome we achieved without this extraordinary commitment.
“We’re a stronger, more resilient team today than we were in March 2023. Not only have we retained almost everyone that was with us a year ago, we’ve added top talent that have been drawn to Euler Labs because they believe in our potential to build great software.”
“There are too many meetings,” he told them. “When do you have time to think about the customer?”
All would be expected to personally deliver succinct status reports and updates on their progress toward the company’s turnaround goals. Mulally asked probing questions and demanded yes-or-no answers.
What’s more, unlike central exchanges like Coinbase and Binance, Telegram is fundamentally a social app, meaning that in-app user behaviors differ drastically. In other words, because users login to Coinbase with the intention of trading crypto (a highly solitary and serious behavior), they will undoubtedly have a higher propensity to resist or churn when presented with any casual enjoyment-focused or social features.
Telegram, on the other hand, falls further on the other side of the spectrum, and thus, social-adjacent applications like games are more easily integrated and have a better product-market fit.
Where Catizen and Notcoin stand out through excellent monetization strategies and clever play on Web3 culture respectively, Hamster Kombat shines with its social presence. No game comes close to its community engagement, which saw an average of 2.2M impressions, 20k likes, and 2k+ retweets per post over the last seven days.
In terms of gameplay, Hamster Kombat is very similar to Notcoin at its core. Users access the game, tap on the screen, and accrue points over time. You play as the fictional Hamster CEO of a crypto exchange, and the goal is to mine as many HMSTR coins as possible. Players can boost their earnings by investing in marketing, licenses, talent, and new products in-game or referring new players.
This simple loop has attracted over 200M registered users to date. The prospect of potential returns paired with minimal effort requirements on the user side has led to exponential growth. The team didn’t focus solely on Telegram and Twitter but has put significant efforts into gamifying their YouTube channel. The team releases two 2-minute videos a day—one covering daily crypto news while the other is usually an educational video—and hides clues within the videos to incentivize users to stay continuously engaged.
Their account has grown to 28M+ subscribers, making it one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels ever. Their 137 videos have generated 461M+ views. To put this into perspective from a Web3 gaming standpoint, this comes down to about 100x more than the Illuvium YouTube channel.
Speculative frenzies are part of technology, and so they are not something to be afraid of. Those who remain level-headed through this moment have the chance to build extremely important companies.
But we need to make sure not to believe in the delusion that has now spread from Silicon Valley to the rest of the country, and indeed the world. That delusion says that we’re all going to get rich quick, because AGI is coming tomorrow, and we all need to stockpile the only valuable resource, which is GPUs.
AlphaFold3 appears to be more accurate than RoseTTAFold All-Atom. For example, in their analysis in Nature, the Google team found that their tool is about 76% accurate in predicting structures of proteins interacting with small molecules called ligands
Even at a lab institute like Francis Crick, which hosts high-performing computing clusters, it takes about a week to spit out a result, Uhlmann said. Google’s more powerful servers, by comparison, can make a prediction in 10 minutes
Often a doctoral candidate would spend their four or more years in graduate school crystallizing a single protein.
Three 21st-century decisions of the Supreme Court may limit the scope of administrative agency actions that receive Chevron deference to agency decisions that have the "force of law". This new doctrine has sometimes been referred to as "Chevron step zero".
Thus, for example, a regulation promulgated under the "notice and comment" provisions of § 553 of the Administrative Procedure Act would be likely to receive Chevron deference, but a letter sent by an agency, such as a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) "no-action" letter, would not.
In his senior year book, he quoted singer Fiona Apple: “I stand by everything I’ve ever said, apologies included.” And in the page next to his senior headshot, where some classmates listed their most embarrassing moment, Wang refused, writing: “Nice try, establishment.”.
Wang enjoyed a dizzying number of academic pursuits, including playing the violin and participating in debate tournaments. His parents, who worked as physicists at the Los Alamos National Lab, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, decorated their house with trophies from math, coding and physics competitions that he and his two older siblings won.
the greatest statesmen of all time and one of the few true philosopher-kings, the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Will Durant, in The Story of Civilization: Vol III, Caesar and Christ, said of Aurelius’s education that:
Never was a boy so persistently educated. . . Marcus liked games and sports, even bird snaring and hunting, and some efforts were made to train his body as well as his mind and character. But seventeen tutors in childhood are a heavy handicap. Four grammarians, four rhetors, one jurist, and eight philosophers divided his soul among them.
Spanning kingdoms and continents aristocratic tutoring had a several-millennia long run. If we fast forward almost 2,000 years we can find Bertrand Russell, one of the undeniable geniuses of the 20th century, who was a classic case of aristocratic tutoring—raised by his rich grandparents, he didn’t even attend school until he was 16, and had a revolving door of tutors to equal Marcus’s.
Many of whom were impressive scientists and intellectuals in their own right, e.g., J. Stuart, one of Russell’s tutors, had himself been a student of Lord Kelvin (that “Kelvin”). Russell, thanks to his detailed autobiography, gives us a clear impression of what aristocratic tutoring was like. Here’s from the graphic novel adaption of Russell’s life, Logicomix:
The title "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a literal translation of the Chinese idiom "臥虎藏龍" which describes a place or situation that is full of unnoticed masters. It is from a poem of the ancient Chinese poet Yu Xin (513–581) that reads "暗石疑藏虎，盤根似臥龍", which means "behind the rock in the dark probably hides a tiger, and the coiling giant root resembles a crouching dragon"... the Chinese idiomatic phrase is an expression referring to the undercurrents of emotion, passion, and secret desire that lie beneath the surface of polite society and civil behavior.
