This week I started rereading Red Plenty by Francis Spufford, linear programming and economics in the USSR. It inspired me enough to get Mechanism Design: A Linear Programming Approach by Rakesh V. Vohra to see if there’s anything I can apply to work. Linear programming is fun, been a while since I’ve played with it.
This week is all about YFI Farming after yearn.finance yield aggregator released the YFI governance token. It can only currently be earned by contributing to one of the yearn liquidity pools. This caused LTV in those pools to shoot up, YFI price rocketing to >$1000 and giving APY of >1000% in the pools for early liquidity providers.
Yield Farming stats.
eUSD: A synthetic USD Token based on MCDEX ETH-PERP
A Credit Union called Union - under-collateralized loans in DeFi union.finance. Also by same author MetaMoneyMarket protocol for optimising yield. This is from August 2019 so would be interesting to compare to the yearn ecosystem.
Curve Finance: “Michael Egorov talks about Curve, the decentralized stablecoin exchange that’s taken DeFi by storm.”
A First Look into DeFi Oracles
16 Ways to Create Dynamic Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) Using Chainlink Oracles
Cryptoeconomics and Mechanism Design
Making sense of “Cryptoeconomics”
Kain, founder of synthetix_io, on protocol incentives
What is the difference between Transmining and Dividend?
A Crash Course in Mechanism Design for Cryptoeconomic Applications
Reasoning about shapes and probability in TensorFlow Probability
Data for Science blog
GPT-3 Creative Fiction by Gwern
A 2020 vision of linear algebra (HN) link to Gilber Strang MIT OCW
How to revolutionise AI and become famous “Perhaps there is an opportunity to reinvent evolutionary computation and exploit the competition ready training sets and massive amounts of computation. This will need innovations at the “genetic” level, but we have learned an awful lot in the last 30 years about mechansims in real genetics that we did not know existed–e.g. self repair, gene regulation, epigenesis, non-genetic inheritance, etc. Of course, like current DL and DRL perhaps an engineering answer does not need to include much similarity with biological systems.”
Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply (HN)
Deep learning to translate between programming languages from FAIR (HN)
I Am a Model and I Know That Artificial Intelligence Will Take My Job - sidenote: we were working on this at Metail when I was there.
The most remarkable legacy system I have seen
Why OKRs may not work at your company - “ Those successful companies aren’t successful because they use OKR’s. They use OKR’s because it is designed to leverage the empowered product team model. And as I have tried to make clear with years of articles and talks, the empowered product team model is a fundamentally different approach to building and running a tech-product organization.”
Computation Graphs and Graph Computation
Systems design for advanced beginners
Reactive Probabilisitc Programming
Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable
Terry Tao on some desirable properties of mathematical notation - which reminded me about APL and J again.
KDE Slimbook: Linux Laptop with Ryzen 4000
New Data on T Cells and the Coronavirus - In the Pipeline is a great blog, especially the ‘Things I Will Not Work With’ tag.
Facebook’s employees reckon with the social network they’ve built
Monoalphabetic Cipher: Encode and Decode Online