Laszlo Fazekas

I was introduced to Ethereum some time in 2017. I remember the excitement and awe I felt for this technology—a network of untrusted machines capable of creating the world’s most reliable computer. But what fascinated me even more was the promise of a new web: Web3. This new web would be owned by its users rather than controlled by large corporations. It was envisioned as perfectly democratic. Web3 represented the real web—the way the Internet

Sometime in 2023, a research paper was published discussing how we might escape if our world is, in fact, a computer simulation. To be honest, the first thing I checked was the date—I half-expected it to be an elaborate April Fool’s joke. However, as I read through the study, it became clear that its author, Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, took the subject seriously and thoroughly explored the possibilities. Instead of debating whether we live in a

I intend this article as a thought-provoking piece on a topic that has intrigued me for quite some time. In early 2024, the BitNet b1.58 paper was published, and I wrote a short article about it. The core idea behind this architecture is that highly efficient large language models (LLMs) can be built using only three types of weights (-1, 0, 1). (The name comes from the fact that log2(3) = 1.58.) This is particularly