The 2024 is almost over and it is time to look back and summarise the whole year of progress on Beerus.

While I was doing-some-blockchain recently, I have found out that Elliptic Curve algebra does not seem to fit easily into u128, so this is a second attepmt, now done properly, using arkworks-rs.

Typos in code and comments can be annoying. But they don’t have to be, with typos it is super easy to introduce automated typos checking (and fixing).

Some 10+ years ago on a job interview I was asked to query the database for the comments tree in a front-end friendly way, meaning no heavy processing/sorting to happen on the back-end. Turns out this question was to check if I knew about the Hierarchical Queries with Oracle (WITH RECURSIVE on other databases), which I did not back then.

TL/DR: read [1] and watch [2]:

1. Actor Model of Computation
2. The Actor Model (Hewitt, Meijer, Szyperski)