Podcasts about Quadratic

Rosario Gennaro is a Professor of Computer Science at City University of New York (CUNY) and a Director for the Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software (CAISS). 1996, he received his PhD from MIT and was a researcher at the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center until 2012.  Rosario's most recent work includes privacy and anonymity in electronic communication, along with proactive security to minimise the effects of system break-ins. He has received over 24,500 citations on his work and has an h-index of 72, and has published classic papers of “Non-interactive verifiable computing: Outsourcing computation to untrusted workers” and “Quadratic span programs and succinct NIZKs without PCPs”.

Starlight Thursdays Episode 256 featuring Quadratic Spheres in his “Burning Psytrance CDs” mix. Although most DJs aren't spinning CDs these days—hell, most don't even own CDs, let alone the gear to mix them. Well, Quadratic Spheres isn't like most DJs. He embraces the old school and the nostalgia, digging into the tactile roots of the craft with a deep appreciation for sound, format, and flow. This mix is a trip, relentless, hypnotic. Psytrance in its purest, blazing through time and space like a smoked out rave spaceship with cracked vape cases rattling on the dash. There's something beautiful about hearing music that wasn't just selected, but summoned. The mix pulses with intention, layering cosmic frequencies and acid etched textures that transport you far beyond the club. Quadratic Spheres doesn't just play tracks, he conducts a séance with the past, channeling the chaotic spirit of DIY raves and basement parties where lasers met sweat and the music never lets up. This is trance for heads who remember what it felt like to burn their favorite mix onto a blank disc, scribble a Sharpie title and hand it off to a close friend. So whether you're deep in the woods, on a long night drive, or just looking to fry your third eye for a while, press play. The past is alive and it's still kicking 4 to the floor.

This week there's controversy in L.A., college degrees for former hockey players, and two members of the crew talk about their experience seeing eight hockey games. 0:00 Benjamin welcomes SJ to the Neutral Zone Hotel2:50 The crew discusses the controversy over Turkish-manufactured scarves for the Los Angeles Kings' Armenian Night.12:45 Boston College and the NHLPA have introduced a program for former hockey players to get a degree after their career is over. The crew outlines the plan and discusses the progress of the PA on these kinds of programs.25:23 It's Hockey Week in Canada Part Two. SJ and Benjamin spent last week seeing eight hockey games in nine days. They recap all of them. 26:02 Montreal Canadiens at Ottawa Senators32:44 Brantford Bulldogs at Ottawa 67's 37:47 Toronto Sceptres at Montreal Victoire (warning: museum talk)44:21 New York Sirens at Ottawa Charge49:02 San Jose Sharks at Montreal Canadiens56:20 Val-d'Or Foreurs at Gatineau Olympiques1:02:34 Boston Fleet at Montreal Victoire1:05:08 Belleville Senators at Laval Rocket1:09:00 Quebec Remparts at Gatineau OlympiquesNeutral Zone Hotel is a production of the Neutral Zone Hotel Team.More information is available at https://neutralzonehotel.comLogo design by Emily Mowbray.We're available on YouTube and all the major podcast platforms.You can follow us on social media:Instagram: @neutralzonehotel Bluesky: @neutralzonehotel.bsky.socialYou can join our Discord server at https://neutralzonehotel.com/discord

In recent years, Bitcoin has undergone a major culture shift which promotes stagnation, complacency & simping to politicians over maximizing the utility of the money. Eric Voskuil & John Carvalho join the show to remind everyone what the mission really is. State of Bitcoin - [00:01:17] Bitcoin Maximalism - [00:01:32] Bitcoin as a Ponzi Scheme - [00:02:27] Transaction Fees - [00:04:57] History of Bitcoin Tokens (Omni, Counterparty, Mastercoin) Definition of Tokens - [00:08:01] Custodial Problems with Tokens - [00:09:12] Bitcoin and Fiat Money - [00:11:09] Why Bitcoiners Talk About Money - [00:15:49] Stateless Money - [00:17:44] Austrian Economics and Bitcoin - [00:21:01] Monetary Inflation vs. Price Inflation - [00:26:01] Cantillon Effect - [00:29:00] Dollar Inflation and Gold - [00:33:59] Misunderstandings in the Bitcoin Community - [00:41:42] Bitcoin Semantics - [00:43:21] Bitcoin Divisibility - [01:00:13] Bitcoin Deflation - [01:03:41] Maxi Price and One Coin Assumption - [01:07:43] Competition Between Monies - [01:13:42] Scaling Bitcoin - [01:22:41] Bitcoin for the Unbanked - [01:26:14] Maximizing Throughput - [01:36:11] Right to Fork - [01:45:45] Running Old Bitcoin Versions - [01:51:35] Bitcoin as Money vs. Credit - [01:56:26] Settlement in Bitcoin - [02:07:45] Peer-to-Peer Credit Systems - [02:14:47] Fractional Reserve Banking - [02:26:32] Bitkit Wallet and Spending vs. Saving - [02:36:13] Block size increases and Bitcoin adoption - [03:00:00] Scaling Bitcoin and transaction validation - [03:01:00] Bitcoin overflowing into Litecoin and quantum resistance - [03:02:00] Pruning historical data and exchange price - [03:03:00] Lightning system complexity and Bitcoin's value proposition - [03:05:00] Bitcoin as an investment and speculation - [03:07:00] Optimizing Bitcoin throughput and developer motivations - [03:09:00] Scaling Bitcoin and speculation - [03:11:00] Shitcoins, scams, and Bitcoin's security model - [03:13:00] Litecoin's extension blocks and Mimblewimble - [03:15:00] Bitcoin's security and the legitimacy of altcoins - [03:17:00] Shitcoins and Bitcoin's essential aspects - [03:19:00] Majority hash power censorship and attacks - [03:21:00] Bitcoin speculation and market dynamics - [03:23:00] Michael Saylor's Bitcoin strategy and MicroStrategy's history - [03:26:00] Saylor's Bitcoin investment and market manipulation - [03:29:00] Saylor's stock sales and Bitcoin's future - [03:31:00] Blockstream's accomplishments and the Chia project - [03:33:00] Blockstream's influence and SegWit - [03:35:00] Adam Back's influence and Blockstream's hype - [03:37:00] Bitcoin Core's power and the need for competition - [03:39:00] Initial block download performance and Bitcoin Core's architecture - [03:41:00] UTXO store and Bitcoin Core's performance - [03:43:00] Parallelism in Bitcoin Core and assumed UTXO - [03:45:00] Initial block download time and Bitcoin Core's scalability - [03:47:00] Monoculture in Bitcoin development and IBD performance - [03:49:00] UTXO cache and shutdown time - [03:51:00] Trust assumptions in Bitcoin Core and UTXO commitments - [03:53:00] Bitcoin Core's halting problem and theoretical download limits - [03:55:00] Sponsorships: Sideshift, LayerTwo Labs, Ciurea - [03:57:00] Drivechains and ZK rollups - [04:02:00] ZK rollups and liquidity on Ethereum - [04:04:00] Drivechains and altcoins - [04:06:00] Scaling Bitcoin and cultural taboos - [04:08:00] Engineer-driven change and Monero's approach - [04:10:00] Confidential transactionsL Zano & DarkFi - [04:12:00] Fungibility and Bitcoin's metadata - [04:14:00] Privacy, metadata, and state surveillance - [04:16:00] Privacy, taint, and Bitcoin mixing - [04:18:00] Bitcoin mixing and plausible deniability - [04:20:00] Mining and company registration - [04:22:00] Block reward and hash power - [04:24:00] Privacy and mixing - [04:26:00] Privacy in the Bitcoin whitepaper and zero-knowledge proofs - [04:28:00] Dark Wallet and John Dillon - [04:30:00] Dark Wallet and Li Bitcoin - [04:32:00] Amir Taaki's projects and software development - [04:34:00] Dark Wallet funding and developer costs - [04:36:00] Libbitcoin's code size and developer salaries - [04:38:00] John Dillon and Greg Maxwell - [04:40:00] Opportunistic encryption and BIPs 151/152 - [04:42:00] Dandelion and privacy - [04:44:00] BIP 37 and Bloom filters - [04:46:00] Consensus cleanup and the Time Warp bug - [04:48:00] Merkle tree malleability and 64-byte transactions - [04:50:00] 64-byte transactions and SPV wallets - [04:52:00] Coinbase transactions and malleability - [04:54:00] Invalid block hashes and DoS vectors - [04:56:00] Core bug and ban list overflow - [04:58:00] Storing hashes of invalid blocks - [05:00:00] DoS vectors and invalid blocks - [05:02:00] Malleated Merkle trees and 64-byte transactions - [05:04:00] 64-byte transactions and Merkle tree malleability - [05:06:00] Null points and malleated blocks - [05:08:00] Redundant checks and the inflation soft fork - [05:10:00] Op code separator and code complexity - [05:12:00] Transaction order in a block - [05:14:00] Forward references in blocks - [05:16:00] Coinbase transaction rules - [05:18:00] Time Warp bug and Litecoin support - [05:20:00] Quadratic op roll bug - [05:22:00] Stack implementation and op roll - [05:24:00] Templatized stack and op roll optimization - [05:26:00] Non-standard transactions and direct submission to miners - [05:28:00] Mempool policy and DoS - [05:30:00] Monoculture and competing implementations - [05:32:00] Consensus cleanup and Berkeley DB - [05:34:00] Code vs. consensus - [05:36:00] Bitcoin Knots and Luke-jr - [05:38:00] 300 kilobyte node and Luke-jr's views - [05:40:00] Bitcoin Knots and performance - [05:42:00] Bitcoin Knots and censorship - [05:44:00] Censorship and miner incentives - [05:46:00] Censorship and hash power - [05:48:00] Soft forks and censorship - [05:50:00] Ordinals and covenants - [05:52:00] RBF and zero-confirmation transactions - [05:54:00] Double spending and merchant risk - [05:56:00] First-seen mempool policy and RBF - [05:58:00] Low-value transactions and RBF - [06:00:00] Computational cost of actions - [06:00:15] Building infrastructure and system disruption - [06:00:20] Threat actors and economic disruption - [06:00:26] Double spending detection and system control - [06:00:29] Safety and manageability of zero comp transactions - [06:00:41] Security of zero comp transactions - [06:00:51] RBF (Replace-by-fee) and its relevance - [06:01:06] Bitcoin's mempool and transaction handling - [06:01:25] Mempool overflow and resource management - [06:02:08] Transaction storage and mining - [06:02:45] Miners' incentives and fee maximization - [06:03:07] Mempool policy and DOS protection - [06:03:41] Transaction validation and block context - [06:04:11] Fee limits and DOS protection - [06:05:13] Transaction sets, graph processing, and fee maximization - [06:06:24] Mining empty blocks and hash rate - [06:07:34] Replace-by-fee (RBF) and its purpose - [06:08:07] Infrastructure and RBF - [06:09:14] Transaction pool and conflict resolution - [06:09:44] Disk space, fees, and DOS protection - [06:11:06] Fee rates and DOS protection - [06:12:22] Opt-in RBF and mempool full RBF - [06:13:45] Intent flagging in transactions - [06:14:45] Miners obeying user intent and system value - [06:17:06] Socialized gain and individual expense - [06:18:17] Service reliability and profitability - [06:19:06] First-seen mempool policy - [06:19:37] Mempool policy and implementation - [06:20:06] User perspective on transaction priority - [06:21:14] Mempool conflicts and double spending - [06:22:10] CPFP (Child Pays for Parent) - [06:22:24] Mempool management and fee rates - [06:24:30] Mempool complexity and Peter Wuille's work - [06:25:54] Memory and disk resource management - [06:27:37] First-seen policy and miner profitability - [06:29:25] Miners' preference for first-seen - [06:30:04] Computational cost and fee optimization - [06:31:10] Security, Cypherpunk mentality, and the state - [06:35:25] Bitcoin's security model and censorship resistance - [06:41:02] State censorship and fee increases - [06:43:00] State's incentive to censor - [06:46:15] Lightning Network and regulation - [06:48:41] NGU (Number Go Up) and deference to the state - [06:51:10] Reasons for discussing Bitcoin's security model - [06:53:25] Bitcoin's potential subversion and resilience - [06:55:50] Lightning Network subsidies and scaling - [06:57:36] Mining protocols and security - [07:02:02] Braidpool and centralized mining - [07:04:44] Compact blocks and latency reduction - [07:07:23] Orphan rates and mining centralization - [07:08:16] Privacy and threat environments - [07:08:40] Social graphs, reputation, and identity - [07:10:23] Social scalability and Bitcoin - [07:12:36] Individual empowerment and anonymity - [07:16:48] Trust in society and the role of the state - [07:18:01] Payment methods and trust - [07:20:15] Credit reporting agencies and regulation - [07:22:17] Hardware wallets and self-custody - [07:23:46] Security vulnerabilities in Ledger - [07:27:14] Disclosure of secrets on Ledger devices - [07:36:27] Compromised machines and hardware wallets - [07:42:00] Methods for transferring signed transactions - [07:48:25] Threat scenarios and hardware wallet security - [07:50:47] Hardware wallet usage and personal comfort - [07:56:40] Coldcard wallets and user experience - [08:02:23] Security issues in the VX project - [08:03:25] Seed generation and hardware randomness - [08:12:05] Mastering Bitcoin and random number generation - [08:17:41]

What if your $1 donation could result in a $100 contribution to a cause you believe in? That's the promise of quadratic funding: a new kind of crowdfunding model that uses math to distribute funds based on the number of contributors, rather than the amount given. Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki dives into the principles and pitfalls of this approach to philanthropy, where “many small donors are more powerful than one large donor.” After the talk, Sherrell reflects on how digital tools are transforming the way communities get their needs met. 

What if your $1 donation could result in a $100 contribution to a cause you believe in? That's the promise of quadratic funding: a new kind of crowdfunding model that uses math to distribute funds based on the number of contributors, rather than the amount given. Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki dives into the principles and pitfalls of this approach to philanthropy, where "many small donors are more powerful than one large donor."

What if your $1 donation could result in a $100 contribution to a cause you believe in? That's the promise of quadratic funding: a new kind of crowdfunding model that uses math to distribute funds based on the number of contributors, rather than the amount given. Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki dives into the principles and pitfalls of this approach to philanthropy, where "many small donors are more powerful than one large donor."

What if your $1 donation could result in a $100 contribution to a cause you believe in? That's the promise of quadratic funding: a new kind of crowdfunding model that uses math to distribute funds based on the number of contributors, rather than the amount given. Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki dives into the principles and pitfalls of this approach to philanthropy, where "many small donors are more powerful than one large donor."

This is a selection of highlights from episode #194 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear governmentAnd if you're finding these highlights episodes valuable, please let us know by emailing podcast@80000hours.org.Chapters:Rob's intro (00:00:00)Vitalik's "d/acc" alternative (00:00:14)Biodefence (00:05:31)How much do people actually disagree? (00:09:49)Distrust of authority is a big deal (00:15:09)Info defence and X's Community Notes (00:19:35)Quadratic voting and funding (00:26:22)Vitalik's philosophy of half-assing everything (00:30:32)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong

A Dialogue on Quadratic Formulas

Michael Freedman is a mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for his solution of the 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture. Mike has also received numerous other awards for his scientific contributions including a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Medal of Science. In 1997, Mike joined Microsoft Research and in 2005 became the director of Station Q, Microsoft's quantum computing research lab. As of 2023, Mike is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Mathematics and Scientific Applications at Harvard University. Patreon (bonus materials + video chat): https://www.patreon.com/timothynguyen In this wide-ranging conversation, we give a panoramic view of Mike's extensive body of work over the span of his career. It is divided into three parts: early, middle, and present day, which respectively include his work on the 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture, his transition to topological physics, and finally his recent work in applying ideas from mathematics and philosophy to social economics. Our conversation is a blend of both the nitty-gritty details and the anecdotal story-telling that can only be obtained from a living legend. I. Introduction 00:00 : Preview 01:34 : Fields Medalist working in industry 03:24 : Academia vs industry 04:59 : Mathematics and art 06:33 : Technical overview II. Early Mike: The Poincare Conjecture (PC) 08:14 : Introduction, statement, and history 14:30 : Three categories for PC (topological, smooth, PL) 17:09 : Smale and PC for d at least 5 17:59 : Homotopy equivalence vs homeomorphism 22:08 : Joke 23:24 : Morse flow 33:21 : Whitney Disk 41:47 : Casson handles 50:24 : Manifold factors and the Whitehead continuum 1:00:39 : Donaldson's results in the smooth category 1:04:54 : (Not) writing up full details of the proof then and now 1:08:56 : Why Perelman succeeded II. Mid Mike: Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT) and Quantum Computing (QC) 1:10:54: Introduction 1:11:42: Cliff Taubes, Raoul Bott, Ed Witten 1:12:40 : Computational complexity, Church-Turing, and Mike's motivations 1:24:01 : Why Mike left academia, Microsoft's offer, and Station Q 1:29:23 : Topological quantum field theory (according to Atiyah) 1:34:29 : Anyons and a theorem on Chern-Simons theories 1:38:57 : Relation to QC 1:46:08 : Universal TQFT 1:55:57 : Witten: Donalson theory cannot be a unitary TQFT 2:01:22 : Unitarity is possible in dimension 3 2:05:12 : Relations to a theory of everything? 2:07:21 : Where topological QC is now III. Present Mike: Social Economics 2:11:08 : Introduction 2:14:02 : Lionel Penrose and voting schemes 2:21:01 : Radical markets (pun intended) 2:25:45 : Quadratic finance/funding 2:30:51 : Kant's categorical imperative and a paper of Vitalik Buterin, Zoe Hitzig, Glen Weyl 2:36:54 : Gauge equivariance 2:38:32 : Bertrand Russell: philosophers and differential equations IV: Outro 2:46:20 : Final thoughts on math, science, philosophy 2:51:22 : Career advice   Some Further Reading: Mike's Harvard lecture on PC4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSF0i6BO1Ig Behrens et al. The Disc Embedding Theorem. M. Freedman. Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, and Weyl. arxiv:2206.14711   Twitter: @iamtimnguyen   Webpage: http://www.timothynguyen.org

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E56: FTCE | General Knowledge | Mathematics | linear, quadratic, and exponential functions In today's episode, we are reviewing the definition of a function. This is part of a multi-series review of what YOU need to know to pass the Mathematics subtest of the GK. About FTCE Seminar How do you PASS the Florida Teacher Certification Exams (FTCE)? On this podcast, we will be discussing concepts from the FTCE Testing Blueprint to help you prepare for the exam. ..Not only is each episode based on the FTCE General Knowledge essay subtest, English Language Skills subtest, Reading subtest, and Mathematics subtest, but I am also using my experience as a FTCE Tutor, 10 year classroom teacher who has passed the FTCE GK Exam, FTCE Professional Education Exam, FTCE Exceptional Student Education Exam, FTCE English 6-12 Exam, FTCE Journalism Exam, and the Reading Endorsement to help you pass and start teaching. ..How do educational podcasts work? Each podcast covers one concept from the FTCE Testing Blueprint. This method is called micro-learning where you listen repeatedly to concepts to reinforce your knowledge and understanding. Try it out! Check it out! And leave your questions and comments below. ----------------------------------------------- RESOURCES (Free)

In 2019 Erik Torenberg sat down with Balaji Srinivasan and Glen Weyl to talk about the future of a decentralized world. They cover decentralized governance, politics, voting, and more. This conversation was recorded orginally for Village Global's Venture Stories. -- RECOMMENDED PODCAST:  The Riff Byrne Hobart, the writer of The Diff, is revered in Silicon Valley. You can get an hour with him each week. See for yourself how his thinking can upgrade yours. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rANlV54GCARLgMOtpkzKt Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riff-with-byrne-hobart-and-erik-torenberg/id1716646486 -- SPONSORS: BEEHIIV | SQUAD

Today on the Ether we have DoraHacks hosting the AEZ Quadratic Grant R2 Kickoff. You'll hear from Abstract Money, Reyth, CosmosHOSS, Curious J, Nena, Liam McDonald, Crypto___Scotty, AARON, Serdar, Trev, Interchain Adair, and more! Recorded on May 24th 2024. Make sure to check out the two newest tracks from Finn and the RAC FM gang over at ImaginetheSmell.org! The majority of the music at the end of these spaces can be found streaming over on Spotify, and the rest of the streaming platforms. Check out Project Survival, Virus Diaries, and Plan B wherever you get your music. Thank you to everyone in the community who supports TerraSpaces.

5 years, 20 Grants, 3715 projects crowd-funded and over $60M raised towards public goods funding, from 4.2M unique donations. Gitcoin's headline numbers are indicative of the massive success their quadratic funding (QF) and public goods funding models (PGF) have seen over the years. With Gitcoin 2.0, crowd-funding is further decentralised, Allo Protocol being open-source and permissionless: any ecosystem treasury can create their own Gitcoin Grants program to help their community fund what matters to them.Topics covered in this episode:Kevin's background and Gitcoin's journey so farThe utility of Gitcoin PassportGitcoin Grants sybil protection dilemmaPublic goods & capital allocationQuadratic funding (QF) & retroactive public goods funding (RPGF)New allocation models introduced by Gitcoin 2.0$GTC token utility & decentralising Allo ProtocolThe current landscape of DAOsEpisode links:Kevin Owocki on TwitterGitcoin on TwitterGitcoin Governance ForumsSponsors:Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at - gnosis.ioChorus1: Chorus1 is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at - chorus.oneThis episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst.

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In today's podcast we host two guests: Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin, and Meg Lister, GM at Gitcoin Grants Labs. Gitcoin is a platform that connects developers with open-source projects for funding, collaboration, and building digital public goods through various forms of contribution like coding, design, and more. In our conversation we learn about the origin story of Gitcoin and breakdown the main funding mechanisms, such as quadratic funding and retroactive funding, benefits of onchain capital allocation over traditional funding mechanisms, and we delve into Allo Protocol, an open-source protocol that enables groups to efficiently and transparently allocate pooled capital. 0:00 Intro 1:37 Kevin Owocki and Meg Lister 4:12 The Story of Gitcoin 12:39 Quadratic and Retroactive Funding 18:21 Main Usecases 24:35 Grants Programs in the Bull 28:44 Onchain Capital Allocation 33:53 Allo Protocol 37:33 Gitcoin Token 38:17 Revenue 41:01 Ultimate Vision 49:05 Fiat Onramps Our sponsor Synfutures: https://oyster.synfutures.com/ ✨ Check out our new website ✨ https://thedefiant.io/

In episode 138, we're excited to welcome Paul Burg, a regen legend and Founder of ReFi Phangan, GreenPill Phangan, and EcoSynthesisX, and Founding Steward of PhanganQF and DeSpace QF. We discuss the growing ReFi movement in Phangan, Quadratic Funding as a valuable tool to advance public goods, building partnerships with local NGOs and business, and much more. --Three Key Takeaways--Koh Phangan is a unique setting with a booming tourist economy that also faces a lot of challenges related to pollution and air quality. ReFi Phangan aims to shift mindsets away from an extractive approach, to build a more regenerative local economy in Phangan.It's vitally important to engage and empower local builders when trying to create local impact – including NGOs, businesses, governments, and individuals. It's important for projects entering communities, especially in the global south, to learn from local experience and engage local stakeholders.Quadratic Funding, implemented at a local level, can be a great way to rally the community around local initiatives, engage donors and businesses, and ensure funds are distributed equitably to drive local impact.--Full shownotes with links available at--https://www.cryptoaltruism.org/blog/crypto-altruism-podcast-episode-138-refi-phangan-regenerative-finance-quadratic-funding-and-local-impact--Support us with a Fiat or Crypto contribution--Learn more at cryptoaltruism.org/supportus--This episode was recorded on Zencastr!--Interested in starting your own podcast? Use my special link to save 30% off your first month of any Zencastr paid plan. Alternatively, head to zencastr.com/pricing and use my code "CryptoAltruism".Please note: we make use of affiliate marketing to provide readers with referrals to high quality and relevant products and services.--DISCLAIMER --While we may discuss specific web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice, and please make sure to do your own research on potential investment opportunities, or any opportunity, before making an investment. We host a variety of guests on this podcast with the sole purpose of highlighting the social impact use cases of this technology. That being said, Crypto Altruism does not endorse any of these projects, and we recognize that, since this is an emerging sector, some may be operating in regulatory grey areas, and as such, we cannot confirm their legality in the jurisdictions in which they operate, especially as it pertains to decentralized finance protocols. So, before getting involved with any project, it's important that you do your own research and confirm the legality of the project. More on the disclaimer at cryptoaltruism.org.

Today on the Ether we have CosmosHOSS hosting a discussion about Atom Economic Zone Quadratic Funding building public goods in Cosmos. You'll hear from Jack Zampolin, barry, Marko Polo, Trev, Landslide Network, and more! Recorded on January 18th 2024. Make sure to check out the newest tracks from Finn and the RAC FM gang over at ImaginetheSmell.org! The majority of the music at the end of these spaces can be found streaming over on Spotify, and the rest of the streaming platforms. Check out Project Survival, Virus Diaries, and Plan B wherever you get your music. Thank you to everyone in the community who supports TerraSpaces.

In this week's episode Greg and Patrick explore alternative parameterizations of the SEM-based latent curve model to capture various forms of nonlinearity, some that are approximations and others that are exact. Along the way they also discuss Swifties, remastering your life, bull testicles, the world's worst RA job, Yerkes-Dodson law, show a little ankle, the St. Louis Arch, bachelorette parties, deck screws, DIY-ing a model, being a little too quiet, complete nonsense, blasting your pecs, haters gonna hate, the worst day ever, Frankenspline's monster, being left off at the third floor, and looking for a new cohost.  Stay in contact with Quantitude! Twitter: @quantitudepod Web page: quantitudepod.org Merch: redbubble.com

In this episode, we explore the transformative vision of Pablo, co-founder of MoonDAO, as he shares how decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) can reshape space exploration, fostering accessibility and collective governance. From his departure from BigTech to pioneering decentralised solutions, Pablo envisions a future where space is truly for everyone. OUTLINE: Here's approximate timestamps for the episode. 00:00 Intro to Episode - Pablo Moncada-Larrotiz 01:13 What is a Dao? 02:48 Similar to Bitcoin 03:47 Why the Moon? 07:07 How does it work and who does it serve? 10:00 Sending people to actual space! 10:52 How people can be in with a shot! 11.15 Internet instituions  15:27 Fixed supply of Moon Dao? 17:41 How do decisions get made? 19:25 Quadratic voting 20:37 Using Dao system in space? 22:30 Pablo's background 25:18 Founder conflicts 28:10 The challenges in educating people on crypto 32:44 The Moon Dao fitting into the wider space industry 34:35 Wrap Up & Socials Follow Pablo & Moon DAO Website: https://www.moondao.com/ Discord: https://discord.com/invite/XFCD6WmQmk X: https://twitter.com/OfficialMoonDAO Moon DAO app: https://app.moondao.com/ Stay connected with us! Use #Astroben across various social media platforms to engage with us! (NEW - YOUTUBE): www.youtube.com/@astrobenpodcast Website: www.astroben.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astrobenpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gambleonit LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/astrobenpodcast/

A Friday surge sent the Nasdaq and S&P 500 higher for the week while the Dow remained fractionally in the red. Morgan Stanley's Andrew Slimmon and Quadratic's Nancy Davis break down the market action as we head into earnings season. Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok reacts to the September jobs report coming in red hot and the impact strikes are having on the labor market. Wells Fargo's Roger Read and Roth analyst Leo Mariani on what rumors of Exxon buying Pioneer Natural Resources means for investors. Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility CEO Cid Wilson talks the unique aspects of the Latino jobs market. United Launch Alliance CEO Tony Bruno on today's launch with Amazon's Project Kuiper. 

Show Notes:0:37 - Jackson Heights, Queens in New York0:42 - Cambridge, Massachusetts1:54 - Picasso3:39 - Barnes and Noble, Union Square3:51 - Denyse Schmidt 4:12 - Drunk Love in a Log Cabin by Denyse Schmidt 4:27 - Gee's Bend quilters4:28 - Denyse Schmidt 5:15 - Denyse Schmidt: Modern Quilts, Traditional Inspiration: 20 New Designs with Historic Roots by Denyse Schmidt5:19 - Gee's Bend quilters5:26 - Purl Soho 6:48 - Sears 8:32 - Sherri Lynn Wood13:58 - Modern Quilt Guild14:04 - Cambridge Modern Quilt Guild15:03 - Procreate 15:54 - A Song for my Father quilt by Maritza17:01 and 17:33 - Procreate 20:12 - Complementary colors20:14 - Triadic colors20:14 - Quadratic colors20:19 - Shades20:20 - Tints20:21 - Color temperature21:13 - Tones21:21 - Grayscale 21:25 - Shades22:43 - Kona Cotton in Bright Pink22:44 and 22:51 - Kona Cotton in Celestial Blue23:25 - New England 23:26 - New York 23:29 - Florida23:30 - Texas23:44 - Relativity of color24:07 - Kona Cotton in Celestial Blue25:52, 26:11 and 27:16 - QuiltCon28:49 - Kona Cotton29:32 - Massachusetts30:40 - Double wedding rings30:59 - Trapunto31:10 - Olfa ruler 6in x 12in31:58 - Victoria Van Der Laan Quilts (@victoria_vanderlaan)32:02 - Jennifer Candon (@jennifercandon)32:52 - Chawne Kimber (@cauchycomplete)33:21 - Kelly Spell (@kellyspell)34:14 - The Quilty Architect (@thequiltyarchitect)Follow Maritza:Instagram - @SotoSewnhttps://sotosewn.com/Follow Us:Amanda: @broadclothstudio https://broadclothstudio.com/Wendy: @the.weekendquilter https://the-weekendquilter.com/Quilt Buzz: @quilt.buzzhttps://quiltbuzzpodcast.com/Intro/Outro Music:Golden Hour by Vlad Gluschenko

SummaryQuadratic funding (QF) is a mechanism that has gained attention as a potential way to improve resource allocation in a number of philanthropic decision situations. In this post, I explain how the mechanism works, discuss some of its drawbacks, and discuss how these drawbacks relate to several proposed use cases. I argue that its drawbacks severely limit the practical applicability of the mechanism, and that QF will generally not be an attractive option for philanthropic applications.IntroductionQuadratic funding is a mechanism for providing public goods which was first proposed by Buterin, Hitzig and Weil (2019) (henceforth BHW). It is related to (but different from) quadratic voting, and has attracted attention in the philanthropic space in the past few years. For example, Gitcoin and DoraHacks are two of the main platforms that currently use QF for funding software development, with Gitcoin alone distributing over $50 million using this mechanism. WeTrust has used QF for matching donations. The effective altruism (EA) community in particular has also demonstrated interest in the mechanism. Two of its proponents were guests on the 80,000 Hours podcast (Vitalik Buterin and Glen Weyl), the paper proposing the mechanism has been cited in the GPI research agenda, and a number of EA Forum posts discuss it. One project proposal suggested [...]The original text contained 6 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.--- First published: July 4th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kHDjtqSiSohZAQyjG/some-thoughts-on-quadratic-funding --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. Share feedback on this narration.

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This is the part of the podcast where we talk about voting systems, specifically the quadratic voting on the blockchain that Ruth has made into an app that's in use in the Park.  Then we moved into her work with Government ministries and big corporations, bringing the aliveness and liveliness, and special insight of Live Action Role Play into politics and industry to help people see things from a wider context.  This is how we change the world: one new idea at a time... 

In this week's episode, we have a return guest to the podcast. Ruth Catlow has taken the amazing work she did in lockdown and held live festivals in the park where people get to become one of the seven core species: a dog, a Canada goose (just visiting!) a tree, grass… and, yes, a stag beetle. What they're not being, are people. So they're looking at the world through new eyes, hearing it with new ears, smelling, tasting, sensing in all ways - and the whole experience of what it is to live in this place as home, instead of just dropping in…becomes deeper, and more complex and more alive.  And then each of the species can put forward ideas for the Interspecies Treaty of Finsbury Park which will make it a much better place for everyone - including the people. And then - because Ruth's enthusiasm and expertise range widely over the ways things can be made more fair and equitable, as well as work better, she's designed the app that allows a much fairer voting system, so the people-become-MoreThanHumans can vote on the seven ideas put forward for the Treaty in ways that allows more nuance than simply ranking them. This last became a whole other hour of conversation on voting systems and how we can create a decent democracy - so that's the bonus... well worth a listen! The Treaty of Finsbury Park https://treaty.finsburypark.live/CultureStake App https://culturestake.org/Episode #163 https://accidentalgods.life/cultures-of-commoning/Experiences of the Interspecies Festival https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/now-we-know-how-trees-in-the-park-feelNordic LARP https://nordiclarp.org/Quadratic Voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_voting

Episode 26: On today's show I speak with Nancy Davis, Founder & CIO of Quadratic Capital "Innovative Asset Management" and 2 ETFs on the NYSE. She is part of the "100 most influential women in US Finance" and received awards such as "Rising Star" in 2014. Well she is a star and so brilliant and beautiful! We all learn something today! How this Woman Leader in Business and Finance Began Challenges Nancy Overcame Nancy's 2 ETFs on NYSE: IVOL - Quadratic Interest Rate Volatility BNDD - Quadratic Deflation ETF  Macroeconomics:  FED, Rate Hikes, & Inflation Labor Market Slowed Growth & GDP Deceleration Stagflation QT Bond Market Dollar Earnings Equities Market Alternative Asset Classes: Equities Credit FX Commodities Rates   https://www.rosannaprestia.com ✨SUBSCRIBE to The RO Show Podcast!✨ https://youtube.com/@theroshowpodcast   ➡️CONNECT with ROSANNA PRESTIA & The RO Show⬅️ ✨ONE STOP FOR ALL: https://sociatap.com/RosannaPrestia ✨YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@TheROShowPodcast ✨TWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/@rosannainvests ✨TWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/@theroshowpod ✨WEBSITE: https://www.rosannaprestia.com THINK Different with Rosanna ©️ 2022-2023

On today's episode, host Tom Butta is joined by two amazing guests from Southwest Airlines, Jonathan Clarkson, VP & Head of Marketing, and Megan Self, Senior Manager of Digital Experience. Needing no introduction, Southwest has consistently stood out from other airlines, and now aims to continue their deep focus on customer experience as they retool their mobile app for the future. Jonathan has been with Southwest for more than fifteen years, with prior experience at Pepsico, Pizza Hut, and Dr Pepper/Seven Up. Megan joined more recently back in 2019, but brings a wealth of experience to the team. In the conversation, you'll hear how they view the Southwest mobile app as the way-finder to their customers' flight paths, navigating them through each step of the process and providing them key, up to date details along the way. Additionally, listen for some of the ways Jonathan gauges customer engagement through each step of the process. With a lot of drive focused on the initial app download, there are other key milestones he outlines that you can't leave behind when building everlasting brand loyalty. —Jonathan's BioJonathan joined Southwest in 2007 to help start the first Customer Insights Team in Marketing. He then moved his talents to the Loyalty Team to help launch the All-New Rapid Rewards program, and later took on additional responsibility for ancillary and boarding products. Now, as VP Marketing with a focus on Southwest Airlines' Loyalty, Partnerships and Products, Jonathan and his Teams are responsible for all ancillary and loyalty revenue initiatives at Southwest. These include general management of the Rapid Rewards program; the Chase Visa co-brand credit card portfolio and other partnerships; fare and day-of-travel products including Early Bird and Upgraded Boarding; ancillary revenue products including Hotels, Vacations, and Ground Transportation; and Customer Insights & Analytics. Prior to joining Southwest, Jonathan held marketing roles at Pepsico, Pizza Hut, and Dr Pepper/Seven Up.Megan's BioMegan is a proven leader with over 22 years of experience building brands and driving results across multiple industries. Prior to joining the team at Southwest Airlines, Megan was responsible for leading key agency accounts at the Richard Group as Principal, Vice President. The Richards Group, located in Dallas, Texas, is the largest independent branding agency in the U.S. Quadratic is a wholly-owned subsidiary focusing on direct response, CRM, digital analytics, data intelligence, and advanced analytics.At Southwest, Megan is the Senior Manager of Digital Experience, where she is focused on using data to build the brand while driving results. Just some of the skills she brings to the table include business development, team leadership, marketing strategy, branding, traditional advertising (television, radio, print, and out-of-home), direct response advertising and marketing (direct mail, email, and mobile) digital, social media, customer relationship management (CRM), loyalty marketing, product marketing, media planning, media buying, test plan development (A/B and experimental design), data analytics, data visualization, web design, site analytics, site testing and personalization, and user experience.—Guest Quotes“It goes back to a customer-centric focus in recognizing that everything starts with the customer, and that we need to appeal to the customer's needs first and foremost, because that's what generates brand loyalty.” - Jonathan Clarkson“Once you're checking in for your flight through completing your flight and getting to your destination, the app is what's in your hand facilitating that journey. It's truly the wayfinder in the person's hand to get them where they need to go as quickly as possible, and to make that as frictionless as possible is the goal.” - Megan Self—Time Stamps *(01:30) Background*(03:30) How data has changed things *(05:36) The Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Program *(08:07) Leveraging data to offer relevant promotions*(13:58) First time app-users, first time flyers*(17:56) Why you should merge your digital and customer experience teams*(19:56) Rapid Fire Questions*(22:26) New live activities *(24:56) Best advice given and received*(28:47) Wrap-up—LinksConnect with Jonathan Clarkson on LinkedInConnect with Megan Self on LinkedInConnect with Tom Butta on LinkedInCheck out the Airship WebsiteBook your next flight with Southwest

In this episode of Ventures, I (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wclittle) introduce a new non-profit called Impact Stream (https://impact.stream), which is all about creating transparent streams of impact between digital communities and real-life communities. Our first project - in partnership with Gitcoin, Supermodular, Prota Ventures, International Literacy and Development, and Primordia - will create a software application to onboard 100 Togolese (West Africa) into Web3 and allow them to create, submit, and vote on proposals to fund public goods in their community with a global matching pool. Visit https://satchel.works/@wclittle/ventures-episode-151 for more information. You can watch this episode via video here. 0:03 - Tee-up for the episode, audio/video options.0:29 - Introduction to Impact Stream - creating transparent streams of impact between digital communities and real-life communities. https://impact.stream 1:45 - Local solutions to local problems -- with strategic injection of help from the global community2:18 - Starting in Q3 we will onboard 100 Togolese into Web3 and allow them to submit proposals, vote on them, and get them funded by the global community. 3:11 - Quadratic voting as our mechanism for prioritizing projects 3:40 - Future vision about creating fractions of validator rewards to stream into IRL impact4:15 - Give (impactstream.eth) and join our community on Discord --> https://discord.gg/we344V4QP7

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Our podcast is designed to provide you with top business insights, fresh perspectives from world-class guests, and the tools you need to lead better than before. This week, Tony welcomes Nancy Davis, the founder, Chief investment officer, and managing partner of Quadratic Capital Management. Nancy has been the recipient of numerous industry recognitions and was named by Barons to their inaugural list of the 100 most influential women in US finance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's Grizzle podcast we interview Nancy Davis, Founder of Quadratic Capital to discuss her outlook on the disconnection between the Federal Reserve versus the bond market, her outlook on rates, and how she's navigating market volatility from banking woes as a rate investor. Quadratic Capital: https://quadraticllc.com/ Nancy Davis' Twitter: @nancy__davis Follow Grizzle on Twitter: @grizzlemedia @margot_rubin @thomasg_grizzle @scottw_grizzle Grizzle Research & Quant Substack: https://grizzleresearch.substack.com/

Welcome back to NFT Alpha! Your #1 source for NFT news. In this video, Taco covers the latest NFT news, including Otherside Meta's next trip, a Vitalik-centric NFT collection being manipulated by one whale, and the world's leading coffee chain getting into the NFT space. ➡️ NFT Alpha Discord (join now!) https://discord.gg/jCatrUuWdg 

DoubleLine Deputy Chief Investment Officer Jeffrey Sherman and Portfolio Manager Samuel Lau welcome back Nancy Davis, Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Quadratic Capital Management, to The Sherman Show. Messrs. Sherman and Lau, and Ms. Davis kick things ... Read More

This week's conversation ranges over an astonishingly wide range of topics from ways to facilitate interspecies communication through play and ways to play 3-person pacifist chess (and thereby change the world), to the nature of democracy and how the use of quadratic voting on the blockchain to inspire artistic endeavours in north London might be expanded nationally and internationally on the scale of global governance to shift the cultural dominance away from capital hegemony to a more fluid, genuinely inclusive democracy. All this in conversation with Ruth Catlow.  Ruth is co-founder (with Marc Garrett) and co-director (with Charlotte Frost) of Furtherfield, a project based in Finsbury Park in London which organises for inclusivity and equity in art and technology and advocates for their use in imagining and building real social change and positive environmental impact.Background and Bio: Furtherfield's mission is to open up the tools and debates of the exclusionary realms of art and technology for collective action for collective good. Ruth and her colleagues invest time and energy in decentralised and distributed p2p practices, fostering new creative collaborations between artists and communities, as well as challenging debates about the role of art and technology in society.With this, Ruth's work advances critical discussions of emergent technologies and their implications and she has, for example, led the way in terms of understanding what blockchain technologies mean for the arts and beyond. She directs the Furtherfield decentralised arts lab, DECAL and is also key to the development of live action role play (LARP) games for research, partnering with researchers to craft imagined/futuristic scenarios in which a group of players explore a complex socio-digital issue. Since late 2020, Ruth has been immersed in the massive Interspecies Treaty LARP as  part of her participation in the EU Horizon 2020 funded CreaTures project. All participants advance more-than-human justice by playing the game as other species, representing them in Assemblies to discuss and plan an Interspecies Festival that will celebrate the signing of 'an Interspecies Treaty of Cooperation (known as 'The Treaty of Finsbury Park') in 2025. Ruth is also one of the organisers of the 'Radical Friends' conference in 2022 and co-author/editor of the book that arose from it called 'Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts' and co--PI of the Serpentine Galleries Blockchain Lab.Furtherfield https://www.furtherfield.orgDECAL https://decal.furtherfield.org/ Ruth's website  https://ruthcatlow.net/CultureStake app https://www.furtherfield.org/culturestake/More on the XDai blockchain https://medium.com/mycrypto/what-is-the-xdai-chain-and-why-should-i-try-it-40f539732fb4Radical Friends https://torquetorque.net/publications/radical-friends/Serpentine Galleries Blockchain Lab. https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/blockchain-lab/The Treaty of Finsbury Park  https://www.furtherfield.org/the-treaty-of-finsbury-park-2025/Cade Diehm - paper co-written with Ruth https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/finsbury-park-2025 Finsbury Park https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/finsbury-parkPBES Report https://ipbes.net/global-assessment

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Read The Sequences, published by Quadratic Reciprocity on December 23, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. There is heavy overlap among the effective altruism and rationality communities but they are not the same thing. Within the effective altruism community, especially among those who are newer to the movement and were introduced to it through a university group, I've noticed some tension between the two. I often sense the vibe that sometimes people into effective altruism who haven't read much of the canonical LessWrong content write off the rationalist stuff as weird or unimportant. I think this is a pretty big mistake. Lots of people doing very valuable work within effective altruism got interested in it via first interacting with rationalist content, in particular The Sequences and Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I think that is for good reason. If you haven't come across those writings before, here's a nudge to give The Sequences a read. The Sequences are a (really long) collection of blog posts written by Eliezer Yudkowsky on the science and philosophy of human rationality. They are divided into sequences - a list of posts on a similar topic. Most of the posts would have been pretty useful to me on their own but I also got more value from reading posts in a particular sequence to better internalise the concepts. There are slightly fewer posts in The Sequences than there are days in the year so reading the whole thing is a very doable thing to do in the coming year! You can also read Highlights from the Sequences which cover 50 of the best essays. Below, I'll list some of the parts that I have found especially helpful and that I often try to point to when talking to people into effective altruism (things I wish they had read too). Fake Beliefs is an excellent sequence if you already know a bit about biases in human thinking. The key insight there is about making beliefs pay rent (“don't ask what to believe—ask what to anticipate”) and that sometimes your expectations can come apart from your professed beliefs (fake beliefs). The ideas were helpful for me noticing when that happens, for example when I believe I believe something but actually do not. It happens a bunch when I start talking about abstract, wordy things but forget to ask myself what I would actually expect to see in the world if the things I am saying were true. Noticing Confusion is a cool sequence that talks about things like: What is evidence? (“For an event to be evidence about a target of inquiry, it has to happen differently in a way that's entangled with the different possible states of the target”) Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality - noticing confusion when something doesn't check out and going EITHER MY MODEL IS FALSE OR THIS STORY IS WRONG Absence of evidence is evidence of absence, and conservation of expected evidence (“If you expect a strong probability of seeing weak evidence in one direction, it must be balanced by a weak expectation of seeing strong evidence in the other direction”) I am often surrounded by people who are very smart and say convincing-sounding things all the time. The ideas mentioned above have helped me better recognise when I'm confused and when a smooth-sounding argument doesn't match up with how I think the world actually works. Against rationalisation has things that are useful to remember: Knowing about biases can hurt people. Exposing subjects to an apparently balanced set of pro and con arguments will exaggerate their initial polarisation. Politically knowledgeable subjects, because they possess greater ammunition with which to counter-argue incongruent facts and arguments, will be more prone to some biases. Not to avoid your belief's real weak points. “Ask yourself what smart people...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How my thinking about doing good changed over the years, published by Quadratic Reciprocity on December 18, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is a Draft Amnesty Day draft. That means it's not polished, it's probably not up to my standards, the ideas are not thought out, and I haven't checked everything. I was explicitly encouraged to post something unfinished! Commenting and feedback guidelines: I'm going with the default — please be nice. But constructive feedback is appreciated; please let me know what you think is wrong. Feedback on the structure of the post is also appreciated. I first came across effective altruism as a teenager a few years ago, and the core idea instantly clicked for me after reading one post about it. In this post, I will talk about some ways in which my thinking around doing good has evolved over the years as a young person with a strong interest in making the world better. The emotions I feel when thinking about others' suffering are less intense. I don't know if teenage-me would have predicted this. As a child, I remember crying a lot when watching videos on animal suffering, when I first confronted the idea of infinite hell I was depressed for an entire summer, I wanted to give all the money I received on my birthday to people who were less fortunate because I knew they needed it more. I think the change is partly from just getting used to it. The first time you confront the horrors of factory farming it is awful but by the hundredth time, it's hard for my brain to naturally feel the same powerful emotions of sadness and anger. Partly, the change is from starting to believe that it isn't actually that virtuous to feel strong emotions at others' suffering. Some of that is from having been in the effective altruism community, where it is easy to feel that what matters are the results of what you do and not the emotions behind what you do. I still feel strong emotions of empathy for those who are suffering some of the time when I am feeling particularly introspective and emotional. However, and this is because of being in the effective altruism community, I am much more aware of my own ranking of what the biggest problems are and it is harder for me to direct a lot of empathy towards causes that feel less “big” compared to factory farming, extreme poverty, and existential risk - even though, in absolute terms, the suffering of people living in terrible conditions in rich countries is still massive. At the same time, my ability to live according to my values has increased. I haven't eaten meat in a couple of years whereas as a child and young teenager, this was really difficult for me to do even though I really wanted to be vegetarian. I have more tools now to do what I think is right, and the biggest of them all is having a social community where there are others who take their beliefs seriously and try to do good. I am much less willing to try to hack my brain in order to force myself to do and feel things I endorse. I used to be much more ashamed of some of my feelings and actions and felt a strong desire to figure out how to trick my brain into being more willing to sacrifice myself for others, into working all the time and being more ambitious. This involved doing things adjacent to self-deception. This was a really bad idea and caused me lots of pain and frustration. Instead, the thing that worked for me is acknowledging that I have “selfish” desires, that sometimes I take actions that actively hurt others, and that I have things that I deeply care about besides just maximising the good. Having a better picture of myself and what I actually value allowed me to work with the “altruist” and “selfish” sides of me to do things like be able to enjoy spending money and time on things that make me happy without feeling guilty and then ...

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For this interview I spoke to Eli Zeger (@ezeger16), a  writer, editor, and musician. He is also a worker-owner at Ampled and a member of the Exit to Community Collective.  He recently published a piece for the Zora Zine titled Appetite for Redistribution: Budgeting for All  talking about how blockchains and quadratic funding could be used to facilitate and scale participatory budgeting .During the interview we spoke about the history of public campaign fund matching  in NYC, how the local NYC election system used to be more democratic until the Cold War, and how adding quadratic funding mechanisms could be a powerful tool for democracy.    More from EliRanked Choice Voting in NYCPublic Matching Funds in NYCHow to make voting more truly representativeIf you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month. It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion.Support the show

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In this week's episode of DAO or Never, we interview Kevin Owocki, founder of web3events.co and Gitcoin.Kevin has a BS in Computer Science, 15 years of engineering leadership experience in open source software and web startups, and is a community organizer in the Boulder, Colorado tech scene. We discuss regenerative society, the Green Pill, Gitcoin and more.Ready? Let's dive in!Key Takeaways:The origins of the green pill (00:57)Positive sum games (04:13)Owocki at work (06:03)Quadratic funding explained (08:14)The Merge and proof of stake (12:27)Gitcoin rounds and project categories (13:33)Gitcoin passport and digital identity (19:09)Solar Punk vs Lunarpunk philosophy (30:49)The Green Pill Book (35:38)Additional Resources:Follow GitcoinExplore Gitcoin GrantsConnect with OwockiTake the Green PillListen to the Greenpill.party PodcastQuadratic Payments: A Primer by Vitalik ButerinLearn more about Logos DAOConnect with Logos DAO on LinkedIn and TwitterGet all the news from DAO or NeverIf you enjoyed this episode, please follow, rate, and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform!

On episode 4 of ReFi Podcast Season Two, John chats with Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin and thought leader working to incentivize public goods. We explore Kevin's story, dive into what it means to take the “Green Pill”, and learn all about Kevin's vision for how web3 can solve some of the most pressing challenges of our time. Recorded live at SBS in Paris.. 00:00 Intro 01:56 Quadratic Funding History 04:30 Why we launched GTC 08:10 Gitcoin Passports 10:47 The idea of ‘Lunar Punk' 13:28 Green Pill 16:33 What kind of world are our kids going to grow up in? 18:22 Galaxy brain ideas into memes. 22:00 Local people are best to solve problems 23:55 Quadratic funding in Colorado during pandemic 25:28 Why blockchain is well positioned to solve global communication failure 29:00 Spinning the flywheel of sybil resistance 30:00 Web3 has to provide mainstream utility 34:04 ‘Carbon credits' for poverty reduction, biodiversity restoration 36:44 Solar punk & web3 ready to bear fruit 39:20 Why Kevin stood down from leadership at Gitcoin 44:00 What can we do to help? 47:14 Advice for a young entrepreneur? 50:38 Ideas are fun but stressful 52:38 How do you manage a business of this size? 54:30 Hyperstructures Follow Kevin and check out Gitcoin: Website: https://gitcoin.co/ Gitcoin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gitcoin Kevin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/owocki -------------------------------------------- Join the conversation on Twitter, follow: https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/simarsmangat Thanks to our friends at Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com 

Brice and Wendell are back breaking down CBS The Challenge: USA! This week the pair is joined by Netflix's The Circle Season Two and The Floor is Lava, Jack Atkins (@JackAtkins21). The post Purple Pants Podcast | Quadratic appeared first on RobHasAwebsite.com.

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For anyone concerned about the current global state of Democracy, which should be everyone, Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Digital Minister, may be our greatest hope:“I'm not here to make citizens transparent to government, I'm here to make government transparent to citizens.”She has flipped Big Brother, proving that this very same unprecedented internet connectivity can be harnessed to cultivate and manifest the very best of us as well — connecting instead of isolating, confirming truths instead of spreading lies, distributing power instead of consolidating it.Very much due to Audrey's work, Taiwan shot from 31st to 11th on the Economist's Global Democracy Index to become a “Full Democracy,” and Asia's most advanced democracy. At the same time, the U.S. dropped from 8th to 25th, now a “Flawed Democracy,” also due very much to one man.Here's a foundational story of how she started down this road. During the 2014 Sunflower Revolution in Taipei, students and dissidents peacefully occupied the Taiwan Yuan, or parliament, for 22 days protesting a trade deal with mainland China, or the PRC. Audrey flew in from Silicon Valley, borrowed a laptop, plugged into 300 meters of ethernet cable, and connected over 500,000 citizens and over twenty NGOs in a real-time dialogue towards what she would ultimately call “rough consensus.” The demonstration won the day and resulted in a new trade agreement, very much due to Audrey's remarkable and unprecedented real-time connectivity. The students remained completely peaceful throughout and respectfully cleaned up the parliament before they left, unlike other Congressional occupations of late. Powerful people in Taiwan's conservative government took note of what Audrey was doing, and called her in to talk… and so it began…I've listened to this interview countless times while editing, and I'm still hearing new things, so the odds are she's going to just lose you, both with the technology and her philosophy. So here are two quick shorthands for each.Per the tech: Virtually everything referred to, from Distributed and Polycentric ledgers to Multi-dimensional spaces to reverse accountability assures transparency, and empowers citizens, inspiring openness, real-time action, and the deployment of people's different viewpoints. It all encourages plurality as a way to demonstrate, as she puts it, “our shared values are hiding in plain sight.”     And all her philosophy, from calling herself a “post-gender, conservative anarchist” to the Lao Tzu and Taoist quotes sprinkled through this interview, are about cycling and returning power and voice to citizens, re-energizing the deepest, most fundamental precept of democracy: Power to the People.View our complete show notes here: http://zioncanyonmesa.org/podcast-archive/steer-the-wind-audrey-tang-is-saving-the-worldhttps://oftaiwan.org/social-movements/sunflower-movement/https://g0v.tw/intl/en/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tanghttps://theasiadialogue.com/2018/05/23/tsais-second-year-the-emergence-of-non-partisans-in-taiwan/https://wtfisqf.com/?grant=&grant=&grant=&grant=&match=1000https://www.snopes.com/articles/386830/misinformation-vs-disinformation/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_voting#:~:text=Quadratic%20voting%20is%20a%20collective,voting%20paradox%20and%20majority%20rule.

On this Episode of Rehash: a web3 podcast, we sat down with Scott Moore, Co-Founder of Gitcoin. Gitcoin is the place where the world's leading web3 projects are born, validated, and funded.We kickoff the episode getting to know Scott, his background, and how he ended up Co-Founding Gitcoin. Scott explains several definitions of a public good and we discuss the intersection of public goods and the open web. Scott explains the terms refi and regen as they relate to public goods and web3, and we talk about the responsibility that we owe to one another as stewards of public goods. Scott defines quadratic funding and lays out some of its pros and cons, and we discuss quadratic voting and implementations of innovative DAO governance. We close out our conversation taking a look at the current bear market and evaluate the importance of not getting too cynical, and instead taking this time to focus on what really matters - community.To continue this conversation and stay up to date on all things Rehash, you can follow Diana on Twitter @ddwchen and Rehash @rehashweb3. You can also follow Scott @notscottmoore and learn more about Gitcoin with the links below:  Gitcoin