09 / November 10
Hopeium, a hell of a drug
“Birds are very strange. Some people are like “whoa they’re flying around and stuff, what’s the deal with that?” This sentiment is shared by people across socioeconomic backgrounds.”
— Daniel T. Baldessarre, What’s the Deal with Birds?
Topics
Cipherpunks to Fintech to DeFi/CeFi; the Caesar Cipher to Enigma, Turing’s bombes; David Chaum, DigiCash, Tim May’s Crypto Anarchist Manifesto; Satoshi Nakamoto; Bubbles: AI, Metaverse, NFTs, crypto; quants, HFT, and dark pools; Robert Mercer: NLP to RenTech to Cambridge Analytica; On (Surplus) Value In Art; predatory journals and internet hoaxing
Readings
Additional Reading
Lab
Generative sound, sonification, AI without prompts