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_reza··on How do layer 2s differ from execution sharding?
ZKP and FHE let you verify whatever you like. The former leaks data while the latter doesn't.
_reza··on Larry Tesler's Works
It's working for me.
_reza··on PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later
Paper is a vastly different medium compared to computers. The ignorance large companies(digital book distributors) show when dealing with humans(by only focusing on ebook sales and nothing more) is really annoying. Take Adobe Reader for example, it is really awkward in how dozens of researchers are unable to grasp the most basic feature of computers: dynamism. These people's minds are still stuck in Gutenburg era and they fail to notice how powerful computers are. Having had headaches with pdfs(I read lots of books) and the way knowledge is buried in this format, I started a project to inject some dynamism into our book reading.

Please check it out if you are interested.

https://github.com/rezahsnz/readaratus

_reza··on The Mothers of the Mother of All Demos
Its notable how defective our current computers are compared to glorious days of 60s-70s.
_reza··on Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being, and creativity
I once read somewhere that while designing Hypercard, Bill Atkinson used to consume LSD in order to get some mental boost.
_reza··on History of Logo
Santafe institute's 'Introduction to Complexity' online course uses NetLogo to run simulations.
_reza··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
FAILED IT! - (good ideas but not deep enough)

The Children's Machine, Rethinking School In The Age of Computers - (uprooted my mind completely about kids)

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas -

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds - (helped me to start thinking about phenoms in a decentralized way, a delightful perspective!)

_reza··on Ask HN: What is Alan Kay's email?
This address is not working.
_reza··on Ask HN: How much are you willing to pay to meet a very prominent person?
Yea, Consider meeting Elon Musk for a lunch. You and him alone without anyone around. You could ask anything you want... It is something like 'Warren Buffett's charity lunch'.