Zero Knowledge4 Mai 2022

Catch-up at DevConnect AMS with Tarun, Guillermo and Brendan

In this week’s episode, Anna catches up with Tarun, Guillermo and Brendan at DevConnect Amsterdam to cover a range of interesting and random topics like how blockchain and AI thinking differs, where it could intersect and how ZK tech could be implemented, how science could benefit from more adversarial testing, why peer review is broken, math theory, takeaways from DevConnect and more!

Here are some links for this episode:

DevConnet AMS 2022
zkSummit 7 in Amsterdam
zkSummit 7 Talk Videos | YouTube Playlist
Einstein Notation | Wikipedia
Wordcels vs. Shape Rotators, Explained
Diplomacy game
P-Value Explained
Topology
What is measure theory?

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