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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
11 months
OpenAI is nothing without its people
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Ben Leimberger
11 months
❤️
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Sam Altman
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i love the openai team so much
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
Thrilled to share I'll be part of the @paradigm fellowship! Can't wait to build w/ everyone in SF 🛠️
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Ben Leimberger
1 year
Excited to shared that I’ve started a new position at @OpenAI on the Platform Runtime team & moved to SF!!
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
Participating in the @artgobblers testnet was an incredibly fun challenge - many different possible strategies. Can’t wait to see it play out on mainnet. I took the Gobbler maxi approach (opposite of @OttoSuwenNFT ) Hoping to write a post/thread detailing the experience soon
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frankie
2 years
We also ran an accelerated play test, organized with some help from @grugcapital . We sped up gameplay by 30x, and invited a group of searchers and developers to play and see if they could break anything. Prizes were given for the most gobblers and goo collected.
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
Thoroughly enjoyed testing / providing feedback on this mechanism in the context of @artgobblers ! Brilliant mechanism design - worth the read.
I've been working on a new mechanism for @artgobblers with @FrankieIsLost and @_Dave__White_ . VRGDAs, as featured in our on-chain racing game 0xMonaco, let you sell tokens close to a custom schedule by adjusting prices as sales get ahead of/behind it.
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
got super nerd-sniped by huff & wrote a merkle distributor that made it's way into Huffmate! highly recommend checking out the language - great resource for deeply understanding the EVM will write a blog post benchmarking the huff v solidity impl's gas consumption soon
@huff_language
Huff
2 years
Today we're excited to release Huffmate, a new library of modern, hyper-optimized helper Huff contracts 🎉 Special thanks to @asnared @0xKaden @vex_0x and @Maddiaa0 for their legendary contributions as well as @PENTAGONXYZ for hosting the codebase 🙏
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Ben Leimberger
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
Most insightful & digestible article I’ve read this week. Excellent analysis on the FED’s monetary policy & its implications. “The problem was the transformation of emergency government intervention into permanent government policy.”
@EpsilonTheory
Ben Hunt
2 years
Over the past 25 years, our leaders have intentionally constructed an Apocalypse Now world of proclamation and fiat, where our wealth has grown much faster than our economy. The bill is due for their hubris, and inflation is here to collect it.
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
Mood
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Ben Leimberger
1 year
Wouldn’t bet against an engineer whose room looks like this
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
You can’t just call everything you don’t like a “zero interest-rate phenomenon”
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
My gf doesn’t know her Valentine’s Day depends on whether or not I can get a fred again ticket for tonight
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Ben Leimberger
1 year
my contribution w absolutely no physics background
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
11 months
🚀🚀🚀
@OpenAI
OpenAI
11 months
We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
Wall Street analysts shocked to discover a “layer 2” is not wearing a Patagonia vest over a dress shirt.
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
Finding money in an old crypto wallet is the modern equivalent of finding coins in a couch
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
@milichab @nytimes “This response reflects a lack of faith in good governance” That’s the whole point.
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
11 months
Spent some time in the temple of nature
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
there's 250k+ UniswapV3 Positions listed on OpenSea kinda surprised no one has developed a dedicated secondary market
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
3 years
Nobody: Absolutely Nobody: Penn: “hey i see u haven’t graduated yet & are on financial aid, but wanna give us money?”
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
11 months
babe wake up Anduril released a new weapon system
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
there's always a bigger fish
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
1 year
coding to rufus du sol improves performance by at least 20%. few know this.
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Ben Leimberger
1 year
Summer streets run views
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
goo morning
@_Dave__White_
Dave White
2 years
When NFT projects have a fungible token, the communities holding the NFT and the token often diverge over time. @FrankieIsLost , @transmissions11 and I built a mechanism for @artgobblers to disincentivize this divergence and fix it when it happens anyway.
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
Maturing is realizing much of blockchain’s value prop is regulatory arbitrage
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
annoyance is a super powerful motivator for cleaning up technical debt
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
1 year
US gov shut down 🤝 Me moving into new apt lack of liquidity
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
For indep research this sem, I've been writing a CLI for detecting DEX arbitrage on Ethereum - check it out! Going to keep contributing & adding to the feature set, would love more ideas / recs
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
Guy across from me benching while wearing a Rolex The barbell is clearly not impressed
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
10 months
Hard to overstate how phenomenal of a book the Three Body Problem is
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
3 years
Citadel LP’ing on Uniswap was definitely not on my 2022 bingo card
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db
3 years
CITADEL'S KEN GRIFFIN: "It’s fair to assume that over the months to come, you will see us engage in making markets in cryptocurrencies"
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Ben Leimberger
1 year
"vegan leather" might be the best rebranding of "plastic" I've ever heard
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
all bytes are equal but some bytes are more equal than others
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
Growing up is realizing most the foods you ate as a child are horribly unhealthy
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
9 months
Killer founder & killer product
@kenschumacherr
Ken Schumacher
9 months
Today I’m excited to share what we’ve been working on at my new company, Ropes. We’ve created a new type of asynchronous coding assessment, that uses AI to deliver the same high-signal results as a live, onsite interview. 🧵
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
3 years
Brooklyn to Manhattan really be a long distance relationship
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Ben Leimberger
1 year
if you saw me carrying a crockpot on the uptown 1 train, no you didn't
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
9 months
sunday evenings are for deep coding sessions
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Ben Leimberger
1 year
a mid-day workout is the ultimate modern status symbol
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
tomorrow, the fed will raise rates & I’ll take my econometrics final exam. the likelihood of a “soft landing” for either is low.
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
1 year
Uber to the airport is the same cost as my one-way plane ticket No wonder Uber is finally profitable
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
my portfolio can’t be down if I don’t check it Schrödinger's portfolio
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
Wall Street analysts frantically googling “L2”s this morning
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
3 years
When will someone hostile takeover Penn?
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
more ubiquitous & less intrusive storefront design would make nyc so much more beautiful soho does this well
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
it’s only the first inning, but watching the block building war is incredibly cool truly new era for mev
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
All I'm saying is that Github has been generating profile pics for years & no one paid 6figs for them
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
If I see another consulting firm tweet a blatantly plagiarized "top 10 tech trends" list, i'm gonna lose it
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
9 months
i'm convinced owning a ranch would solve all of my problems
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
If you want to lose faith in society, look at photos of the old Penn Station
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
feels like a hard tech renaissance is on the horizon
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Ben Leimberger
3 years
Hockey is MMA on ice
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
would love to see coding initiatives like Hour of Code / Code .org advocate for establishing hs competitive programming teams cp had a huge impact on my cs education
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
It's a bad day to be a high-altitude balloon.
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
3 years
Scheduling a midterm right after spring break is a cruel & unusual punishment
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
started learning rust recently - highly recommend the rust-lang/rustlings repo very high quality exercises 🦀
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
Babe wake up Joji released a single
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
TIL creamed corn is a southern food, took 5 grocery store trips in Manhattan to find it
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
1 year
Incredibly well-written piece. The level of ideological capture & moral rot within UPenn is hard to comprehend. As an alum, I'm deeply ashamed of this university.
@BillAckman
Bill Ackman
1 year
An extremely thoughtful letter from Marc Rowan to the University of Pennsylvania community and the world.
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
You may not like it, but coding in a Snuggie is what peak performance looks like
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Ben Leimberger
1 year
My favorite thing about sf buses is how they don’t show up
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
3 years
Cancelling student loan debt w/o fixing the systems that created this problem feels short-sighted
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
Turns out limited trading hours is a feature not a bug
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
Success.
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
the groundhog didn't see his shadow, so we're not in a recession yet
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
still can't believe silicon valley is just like... a really nice suburb
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
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pretty sure we're in the middle of a Seldon crisis
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Ben Leimberger
1 year
bon iver produced & featured in a song from Travis Scott's new album Utopia the cross over I never knew I needed
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
Didn’t check twitter for a day & now Martin Shkreli is a crypto influencer This can’t be good
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
3 years
CPI YoY inflation: 8.5% S&P 500 (YTD): 6.89% Oof.
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Ben Leimberger
1 year
both oct 1 too 🫡
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
Is there a city where Salesforce doesn’t have a tower ??
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
@transmissions11 goo morning
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
why would u spread the ethcc talks across 6 youtube channels
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
3 years
DeFi is clearly trying to speed run every possible type of financial disaster
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
1 year
boomer MEV strat: there are many US coins that have higher raw material value than their denomination
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
Dynamic Island is great marketing for “we can change which pixels around the notch are black”
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
@FrankieIsLost “The proof is left as an exercise to the reader”
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
3 years
But have u read the code, anon?
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
Drinking far too much coffee & not eating until like 2pm is my character flaw
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
Great article. “Cut the red tape & build”
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
9 months
Texas needs an autobahn
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Ben Leimberger
1 year
so like what if we rewrote the Golang std lib with generics
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
1 year
Men used to go to war & now they pitch guerrilla marketing strategies
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
Binging tech talks from conferences (ex: QCon, GOTO) is a very underrated way to learn software systems
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
that being said - I love it.
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
just discovered "rizz" comes from charisma not sure if brilliant or awful
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@ben_leimberger
Ben Leimberger
2 years
not being able to cash checks on the weekend is so maddening
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
@JetJadeja come to penn ser
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Ben Leimberger
1 year
@CapitalGrug the swifties hate him
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Ben Leimberger
2 years
“Political science” would sound a lot cooler if rebranded to “Statecraft”
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