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Glue and Coprocessor Architectures

vitalik.eth.limo

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I've long envisioned a glue architecture around a scalable SmallTalk core. The ST bytecode can be run on various size compute cores from 8-bits to 64-bits. All the ST does is handle code flow. All compute is handed off to co-processors (Integer, floating-point, matrix, GPU, etc). The compute functions can be correspondingly scaled based on family design. The general goal is to allow thousands of cooperating compute processors with edge processors for communication.

Feels like I'm reading this classic, but with cryptography examples.

https://www.tcl-lang.org/doc/scripting.html

Why does anybody still listen to Vitalik?

because he’s a good writer and typically has nuanced takes about a variety of topics?

I'm out of the loop, why should he not be listened to? I know who he is. Going to take a guess: he's overpromised and undelivered on ETH?

a lot of people on HN hate cryptocurrencies

It will be interesting to see if the original commenter comes back and says what their criticism of Buterin is, but it seems to me that he gets more criticism from cryptocurrency die-hards (especially the more bitcoin-inflected kinds) at this point, because they increasingly see him as an out-group liberal, than from cryptocurrency haters.

As someone closer to that second group, I think he's been the most consistently interesting person in that whole space. He essentially never writes or talks much about the speculative asset side of the industry (which unfortunately comprises like 99.99% of what it is), but rather focuses on the computer science of it, which (IMO) continues to be interesting, even as (IMO) the fruits of that technology have continued to not be very interesting.

lotta people like crypto and will listen to anyone who helps them avoid admitting they're just grifters

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