Explaining Fully Homomorphic Encryption to My mom
Baking bread by reading & following the recipe VS Baking bread without ever seeing the recipe
Baking bread by reading & following the recipe VS Baking bread without ever seeing the recipe
Thank you to Art, Fred & Jake for reviewing and providing feedback on this post! Question: Does your software use APIs? Where do you find the endpoints? How do you get the specifications? How do you ensure quality? đ¤ tl;dr There is a big opportunity to build the âGoogle home pageâ for finding and accessing open data sources and services. An open marketplace of APIs does not exist today. API Discovery and RPC Quality are the two core primitives necessary to enable this. ...
tl;drâââPocket Network will hard-fork from Morse MainNet to Shannon MainNet on June 3, 2025 at 10 a.m. PT.
tl;dr If you ever write documentation, add this to your LLMâs memory, system prompt, project, rules or whatever your equivalent of that is.
Pocket Network will undergo a major, consensus-breaking, non-backwards-compatible migration from Morse to Shannon before the end of Q2.
I recently gave a talk at dinfra.xyz, a side event hosted by 1kx.capital alongside Denverâs annual ETHDenver conference.
Claude, please provide the following:
Below is a very terse and opinionated set of steps to data labeling and model evaluation.
tl;dr Teams should build their own LLM tooling, starting with GitHub PR Description generators.
This is crazy
tl;dr If youâre invested in URA because of Uranium, consider diversifying that position into other ETFs or fully moving it over to NUKZ to broaden your nuclear exposure. This is not financial advice. Special thanks to ChatGPT, Google, Reddit and Claude for helping me research, prepare, write and edit this post. Last May I wrote about why Iâm allocating a large portion of my portfolio to Uranium with a bullish perspective on the nuclear sector at large. ...
đ If youâre not ready to spend ~10 minutes reading, I suggest you bookmark this post and return to it later. You wonât regret it. ItâsâŚ
Definitely Worth a read (pun intended).Good perspective on how much momentum a certain geography has when the flywheel kicks off.Itâs near impossible to reverse so need to get it right from the start. Letâs not fuck up the software industry.Critique - the article is great but, for me, a bit too dense with facts, dates, names and timelines.
Last year was the first time I published a âTop X Recommendationsâ blog post to close out the year. I heard from about half a dozen people who found at least one recommendation interesting or usefulâwhich means there were probably even more who never mentioned it but still got something out of the list. So, I figured Iâd do it again! In the very likely scenario that you either donât have the time, interest, or attention span to read this whole thing, just scroll to the very bottom because the last one is by far my favorite. ...
One of the things I love in our post âChatGPT Momentâ era is the fact that I increasingly get to follow through on more and more side projects. One of the things I find ridiculous in our 2025 post âChatGPT Momentâ era is the fact that there are still a ton of blogs that donât have a way for me to subscribe, be it through a proprietary service or a standardized RSS feed. ...
Earlier this week I asked myself: âWhy do I listen to so many podcasts?â This led me down a mental rabbit hole of reflection while I sought an answer to: âWhat is the source of my intrinsic motivation?â I came to the conclusion that if I were to listen to a podcast (or read a blog) of myself five years in the future, I want to be inspired by it today. Today, at 32, Iâm hoping my 27-year-old self would be inspired by this blog, just as I currently seek inspiration from him. Itâs how I know Iâm achieving my full potential at every step along the way. ...
Ulysses pact: a freely made decision to bind yourself in the future. Used for living wills in modern day but originated from Greek mythology.
tl;dr Next time you read, see, hear, give, get, ideate or invent a mantra, just remember that âevery mantra has a counter-mantra, including this one.â Tweet Sized Advice The Startup Seesaw Tools vs Solutions For every Mantra, there is an equal and opposite Counter-Mantra Concluding Thoughts Appendix Tweet Sized Advice For the better part of a decade now, I feel like at least once a week Iâm either on the giving or receiving end of âtweet-sized *adviceâ *thatâs intended to solve large, complex problems. ...
tl;dr This is a cross-post from our blog at grove.city. An explanation of what pokt.network is through a series of analogies. Donât have enough time to read? See the x-thread here. Subscribe if you want to be notified of when we post about a series of 7 use-cases! Table of Contents Table of Contents The Power of Analogies Relay MiningâââAn Incentive for Network Requests Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Analogies 7. Application Layer: Uber for Network Requests ...
tl;dr Explaining what Pocket Network is through a series of 7 internet networking analogies. Subscribe if you want to be notified of whenâŚ
tl;dr Stream-of-Thought Note Taking is an opinionated approach to brain-dumping thoughts on paper to aid the process of clarifying your own ideas. Table of Contents The Power of Deletion Tools for Modeling Thoughts Can you get to the point? Stream-of-Thought Note Taking Extending to Chain-of-Thought & LLMs The Power of Deletion One of my favourite Yuval Noah Harari quotes from his interview with Lex Fridman is on the power of the delete button: ...
Iâm going to share a small secret: a perfect solution to software documentation does not exist. Itâs hard to generalize what âgood documentationâ entails. It depends on the team, the product, the timing, and a million other things. Have you found PMF or are you iterating? Are you a small tight-knit team or are you scaling? Is your team remote, in-office or hybrid? Is open source and external collaboration a key component of your value proposition? Iâll stop here before it gets boring⌠...
tl;dr People come for the long-term vision but stay for the short-term gains. Success is measured only by how good your NGU algorithm is: Number Go Up. A vaporware product with good marketing can go the distance until it memes into existence. There is a lot of cynicism and politics behind open doors. Intelligent and authentic leaders are critical in upkeeping community optimism. Itâs still early. Table of Contents The Vent The Ugly The Fuel The Bad The Analogy The Liquidity The Good The Reasons Iâm Still Around ...
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Inspired by Simon Willisonâs How I make annotated Presentations, I figured Iâd annotate a presentation I did at ethcc.io in July 2024. He says it best: Even with that quality of presentation, I donât think a video on its own is enough. My most recent talk was 40 minutes longâIâd love people to watch it, but I myself watch very few 40m long YouTube videos each year I might also create a Twitter thread similar to what @_tessr did for her talk on optimism if anyone requests it. ...
Thank you for going through the pain (and documenting it) so we donât have to!
This is part of a series called â5 points & 1 resourceâ (think tl;dr but 5p;1r). I summarize 5 key concepts that would have helped me learn, relearn, or refresh my knowledge of a topic or paper. Today, Iâm reviewing a paper I contributed to myself so I added a personal forward :) The real value prop of a permissionless inference network 1 Reference 5 Points Point 1: POKT Network ...
Iâve been using ChatGPT since the first day it launched, have gone to dozens of AI events over the last couple of years, and feel like I finally have to say quite part out loud: vibe checks** are how 99% of LLM âevalsâ are done in practice today**. Quantitative benchmarks, evaluations, and verification are critical to the 1% tail-end, but a vibe check is the good enough solution. This is what most LLM developers and day-to-day but are afraid to admit due to the lack of rigour. ...
tl;dr Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing requires substantial energy, increasing the urgency for sustainable, scalable, and modular energy solutions. Major tech companies are actively adopting and investing in new ways to tap into nuclear power sources. The spot price for Uranium doubled over the past year due to a supply-demand imbalance, as current uranium supplies struggle to meet the demand from nuclear reactors. I argue that the current market presents a good entry point for diversifying into the uranium sector. Macroeconomic tailwinds could suggest a strong outperformance over the next decade at the cost of short-term volatility. I outline my thought process for choosing as a vehicle to do so. ...
The Road to a Personal Computer In the mid-90s, my family got their first computer. I vividly remember the Windows 95 logo loading up on the screen as I booted a computer up for the first time. Later that day, two things happened: I visited lego.com for about 5-10 minutes. I remember asking why thereâs a limit to how long I could spend on the web đ I loaded up a floppy disk with Doom II. This experience scarred me from playing first-person shooters for almost a decade đ ...
This is a post in a series of articles Iâm writing called â5 points & 1 resourceâ (think tl;dr but 5p;1r), where I summarize a list of 5 concepts that would have helped me start learning or re-learning a certain topic. It is intentionally far from a complete source of data. Edit: Thank you to Kautuk (founder of Stackr ) for reviewing this post. Micro-rollups (MRUs) are the answer to âa blockchain is too slow and expensiveâ for my use case, but âI still want some eventual Web3 security guaranteesâ in progressively porting a Web2 app to Web3. ...
Special thanks to Gabi, Mike, Art, Adz & ChatGPT for the discussion and feedback. tl;dr Self-hosting is not a long-term solution since users just want to pay for whatever is cheaper, faster and easier to use. Infrastructure companies in both AI and Web3 are in a race to the bottom in a commodity market. Excelling as both a hardware operator and gateway company is increasingly untenable in open-core ecosystems. Table of Contents Introduction Web3 vs AI Gateway ...
Whenever I get really excited about something, I tend to tell all my friends about it. This could range from a book or movie to an activity or something I bought. I can find a good handful of people who can attest that sometimes it gets excessive. Over the past couple of years, Iâve been slowly turning olshansky.info into the one place to find and search through my resources, but there is still a lot of work ahead, and I expect it to be a lifelong endeavour. ...
Snap! Smile! Turn around! Look here! On a sunny day, with a breath of fresh air, I took a short walk, on an off-day winter holiday, Witnessing families, both large and small, capturing memories on a casual stroll. These snapshots may sync to the cloud, or begin to traverse, Soaring about, sometimes emerging to the Metaverse, But without a digital frame, they often linger, forgotten, out and about. If the photo stands out, itâll likely be aired, But if not all are in frame, it may fade out, uncared. ...
Edit: 08/04/2024 - These instructions are applicable if you have one of the newer versions of Chrome installed. Chrome changed a lot of things recently so the settings from the first âUse Apps, Not Tabsâ are no longer applicable. The final result gives lets me easily âcmd + tabâ between all the different AI platforms out there. There are now two different ways to go about it. 1. Install ââŚâ Option Available I wanted to install meta.ai as a separate application. After clicking ââŽâ â âSave and Shareâ â âInstall Meta AIâ, things were flawlessly out of the box. ...
If youâve visited X in the last 24 hours, seen OpenAIâs Blog, or simply opened up Google, youâve probably heard that the board of OpenAI has fired its CEO, Sam Altman. There are already dozens of articles online covering the topic, including Ars Technica, The Information, Wired, The Verge, CNN and many others. I got a flurry of messages yesterday afternoon simply letting me know of this fact (my favourite one below). After a day of more information coming in, I figured Iâd share my thoughts because I believe it may be a signal that AGI is closer than we think. Iâm simultaneously excited and donât know what to expect. ...
This is a post in a series of articles Iâm writing called â5 points & 1 resourceâ (think tl;dr but 5p;1r), where I summarize a list of 5 concepts that would have helped me start learning or re-learning a certain topic. It is intentionally far from a complete source of data. I recently came by this one reference on the nuances between an individual, their insurance plan and a drug company from an article titled *âIs My Drug Copay Coupon a Form of Charity â Or a Bribe?â. *I thought it was important enough to be summarized in 5 points below. ...
This is a cross-post of the original article posted here and announced here a couple of weeks ago. Some of the tables and diagrams that are presented as screenshots can be viewed in more detail in the markdown GitHub gist here. tl;dr The Pocket Network core protocol team has decided to implement the first version of the next iteration of the protocol (Shannon Upgrade) as a âmicro-rollupâ using Rollkit with Celestia as a Data Availability (DA) layer. ...
I generally reserve my substack for blogging and writing down some of my ideas and reflections. However, on my personal site (olshansky.info), I also rate and capture my thoughts and reviews of books Iâve read or movies/tv Iâve watched. These are usually rougher and not as edited (I apologize in advance), but I wanted to do a one-time cross-post here so it is more discoverable in the future. In this one, I share my review of Barbie and The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin. ...
The Exposition: Roll Camera on Your Average Movie Watcher Not much different from your typical consumer, Iâve been a fan of films and TV shows since I was a kid. The genres have changed and my viewing frequency has dropped, but the essence remains. Once streaming became available, I never got into the habit of binging shows with the exception of a few cases (cough Lost cough); if I really like a show, I try to prolong that experience for as long as possible. About a decade ago, I realized that I was investing so many hours consuming the hard work and passion of others, so it seemed fair to spend a few minutes leaving a public rating or review. Thatâs when Olshanskyâs Rotten Tomatoes account was born đ . ...
OpenAI published an article today on the importance of Governance of Superintelligence. I wouldnât be surprised if at least half the readers, like myself, went straight to ChatGPT to ask for its ideas on governing itself. I pasted the entire article but cropped it out for the purpose of this postThe tl;dr is that we should hopefully figure it out within the next decade, but international tensions are the biggest risks we need to account for. ...
I recently had the fortune of stumbling upon a transcript from a 1986 seminar by Richard Hamming at the Bell Communications Research Colloquium titled âYou and Your Research.â If youâre ever looking for inspiration, this is it. A key point Hamming emphasizes is that when reading, itâs not the quantity but the quality that matters: âyou read, it is not the amount, it is the way you read that counts.â To showcase active reading, you can find my Proof of Active Reading here or at ipfs://bafybeifoz5tkbdd2v5bzxfuyvokuchnpoqthl63gwcuoadmmz3c7t5kfve. ...
GPT4 Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant strides in recent years, thanks in part to Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). However, the success of these models depends not only on the quantity of human labels but also on their quality. This blog post discusses the importance of high-quality labels in LLMs and proposes a blockchain-based solution to incentivize better labelling. tl;dr Data Quality Âť Data Quantity for fine-tuning a foundation model. ...
Lifeâs like a sauna session, Some things, like breath and thought, With the right approach, you can control, Your bodyâs tears and heartâs onslaught, Cannot be fought, so just embrace, For theyâre beyond control
âYouâll never use most of the things you learn in College.â - Olshansky circa 2014 There was a time when I thought that most of what I learnt in College was pointless since it didnât apply to my day-to-day work. However, as time passes, I increasingly reflect on how fortunate I was to be exposed to so many concepts across various fields. Most importantly, it teaches you to think, learn and work, but Iâll save the details for another post. ...
*This is a fun open idea for Ethereumâs KZG Ceremony: using your Apple Watchâs ECG as a source of entropy to participate in Ethereumâs KZG ceremony. I got a response when I first proposed it to the Ethereum foundation in December. Still, it does have some open-ended problems and requires a non-trivial amount of implementation effort. If you find it interesting and have the time to implement it, Iâd love to see it come to fruition! * ...
This post was rejected by Seeking Alpha Editors so am sharing it here instead. Summary Disneyâs strong brand can be trusted in uncertain macro-economic times COVID and Igerâs leave of absence was a transient hurdle Disney has hopped over Disney Plus keeps growing, and Disney Parks are returning Bob Iger is coming back to a strong & supportive team Disney shares are at a long-term low with relatively solid financials ...
tl;dr Configure your router to disable IPv6 and use a 2.4 GHz WiFi band if youâre running into the same issue.
Special thanks to Arthur Sabintsev for the feedback and review of this post. Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. - Bill Gates You have to live it to understand it, and this statement can only come from experience. The one thing Bill forgot to mention is how much will change in the span of 12 months within each of those 10 years. ...
It has barely been a day since ChatGPT launched, and I woke up to a timeline of different use cases that made it clear what the rest of this decade is going to look like: Daniel Olshansky | olshansky.eth đ @olshanskyđ to being a software engineer in the 2010s: knowing how to Google. đ to being a software engineer in the 2020s: knowing how to GPT.3:32 PM â Dec 1, 2022Until auto-tagging #ChatGPT is an option, or someone writes a script that scrapes Twitterâs firehose for GPT screenshots, here are just a few use cases I found today that blew my mind. ...
A friend of mine recently asked me this question: My immediate reaction was: âHow do I respond? People have literally written books about this.â I asked him to clarify with a few more details so I could direct my response accordingly. Thanks for reading Olshanskyâs Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a lot clearer and more actionable. Rather than adding to the noise and writing a whole book about it, as a Tim Feris fan, I figured Iâd create The 4-Week Project Checklist: Length: The architecture doc weâll prepare should be 1-3 pages and no more. ...
This is a post in a series of articles Iâm writing called â5 points & 1 resourceâ (think tl;dr but 5p;1r), where I summarize a list of 5 concepts that would have helped me start learning or re-learning a certain topic. It is intentionally far from a complete source of data. Edit: Thank you to Aaron (one of the JMT authors) for reviewing this post. An Addressable Merkle Tree (AMT) is a cryptographically authenticated deterministic data structure backed by a key-value store database used for account-based (non-UTXO-based) systems to map keys (i.e. addresses) to arbitrary binary data in each leaf node. ...
This is a post in a series of articles Iâm writing called â5 points & 1 resourceâ (think tl;dr but 5p;1r), where I summarize a list of 5 concepts that would have helped me start learning or re-learning a certain topic. It is intentionally far from a complete source of data. Celestia decouples transaction consensus and execution by splitting the responsibilities between Celestia (i.e. the core network) and other blockchains (i.e. clients/applications) built on top of it like so: ⢠Celestia: transaction ordering & availability ⢠Client: transaction validation & execution ...
Tl;dr Iâm incredibly excited to announce that Iâm now leading Pocketâs V1 Protocol R&D team! This post gives a glimpse into the exhilarating đ˘Â during my first six months at Pocket and the community behind this đ shaping the future of Web3. A bit of background A little over six months ago, I published about my life-changing trip to Mexico on the Day of the Dead, which is basically half a decade in crypto years. Since then, the only constant in my life has been change, and Iâm fortunate enough that almost all of it, though not always easy, still gets me excited and motivated to get out of bed every morning. ...
This is the second of a series of articles Iâm trying out called â5 points & 1 resourceâ (think tl;dr but 5p;1r) where I summarize a list of bullet points that would have helped me start learning a new topic. It is intentionally far from a complete source of data. You can find the first one here: 5P;1R - Bitcoinâs Elliptic Curve Cryptography A Patricia Trie is a prefix tree where edge values are concatenated as you navigate down the tree to form a key associated with the nodeâs value. All leaf nodes must have a value while it remains optional for parent nodes. ...
This is the first of a potential series of articles I want to call â5 points & 1 resourceâ (think tl;dr but 5p;1r) where I summarize a list of bullet points that would have helped me start learning a new topic. It is intentionally far from a complete source of data. This is an Elliptic Curve: y^2 = x^3 + ax + b; see the continuous function Image 1. Elliptic Curve Cryptography is defined over a Finite Field (very large prime) p along with a **Generator Point **((x,y) coordinate) G like so: y^2 ⥠(x^3 + ax + b) mod p ; see the scatter plot Image 2. ...
Could you split this into two PRs, please? Could you please approve this so I can merge it in? Why are you implementing XXX using A rather than B? NIT: extra space In the context of code reviews, Iâve found myself on both the giving and receiving end of these types of comments more than once. I must say that the following tweet still rings true today: Having worked on production systems at large companies, internal systems at mid-size companies and most recently joining a small and agile team, I increasingly realize that the purpose of code reviews depends on the stage and size of both the team and project. For example, for a mature, production-grade, critical system at a large established company: ...
Reading this statement made me think why fiction, in the form of films, TV, books, games, plays and more have such a big place in ourâŚ
Tl;dr I am incredibly excited to announce that Iâm joining pokt.network today as a full-time Protocol Specialist! This post documents my realization of how I want to devote my time to shape and build out the future of Web3. A bit of background Without diving into my life-long story, I spent most of my adolescence growing up in Toronto. I love the city and where itâs headed, but Iâll save that discussion for another post. ...
I remember thinking I had the foundation to tackle any problem that came my way around the time that I was graduating from College. Having studied a lot of theory in school, I believed that anything could be done by applying the concepts I had learned. With every year that goes by in the workforce, the number of things I find to learn and get better at far outpaces those I actually get to. This makes me both excited and scared of how Iâll feel in another 10 years. ...
On the most recent episode of The Investorâs Podcast Mastermind Discussion, one of the big topics of discussion were cash alternatives.
For lack of a better word, 2020 has been very interesting for financial markets. Volatility hit all-time highs, some fortunes were wipedâŚ
tl;dr You can find the source code for a bare-bones dockerized python HTTP server with hot reloading using fastapi on this Github page.
Joint Probability Matrices â An âExtension of the Confusion Matrixâ for Continuous Variables
You can try out all of the code in this article yourself using this Google Colaboratory notebook. If youâve ever tried to debug and optimize your python application, itâs likely that you stumbled upon Python Profiles to understand where most of the execution time is being spent. You enable the profiler at the beginning of a code segment youâre interested in profiling with pr.enable(), and call pr.create_stats() at the end. Afterwards, you can create a Stats object, and print the results in a human readable format with ps.print_stats(). ...
One of my favorite features of elixir is being able to start a shell that loads the entire context of my project: $ iex -S mix It provides easy access to all of the projectâs modules so you could easily iterate on your code by compiling it directly from within the shell. You have the option to recompile the whole project or just a single module: # single module $ r MyModulesNameSpace.MyModule # whole project $ recompile The other great thing about elixir is how easy it is to run unit tests: ...
Note: This is a repost of a blog published in early 2018.
Itâs difficult to objectively quantify Bitcoinâs adoption rate since there are too many factors to consider. Should it be the number of people holding Bitcoin? Bitcoinâs market cap? The number of brokerages with support for Bitcoin futures? The number of businesses accepting it as form of payment? A very different story can be told depending on the angle from which you look at it. Bitcoinâs market cap As a potential store of value, Bitcoinâs market cap needs to be sufficiently high for institutions and central banks to take it seriously. Governments must add some regulation around it so it has legitimacy, and a large enough portion of the general population must agree that it has inherent value. To agree that it has value, Bitcoin is very dependent on network effects such as those described by Metcalfeâs Law. ...
One of the major selling points of cryptocurrencies is that everything is decentralized and trust no longer lies in single a third party. However, the trust didnât simply dissipate, it got distributed to participants of the network. In my opinion, the incentive structure built into cryptoeconomics is one of its most overlooked benefits. The fundamental idea can be summarized as follows: no one wants to lose money, and everyone wants to maximize the profit they receive for the work that they do. ...
This post was originally written as a follow up email to this tweet where one of the hosts of The Investorâs Podcast ran a poll regarding peopleâs thoughts on Bitcoin. â â â â â â â â â â To provide a fair comparison between Ethereum and Bitcoin I will start by defining the basics, and expand on how each of them can be used without drilling down too deep into the technical details ...
One of the biggest disappoints I experienced after purchasing my Google Home is discovering that it cannot function as a Bluetooth speaker. As a Mac & iPhone user, most of my use cases were pretty well supported. I could talk to Google Home to play the news, podcasts or music. I could also manually cast a Chrome tab or use an application such as Spotify that has native Google Cast support. There were a couple use cases though where the Google Home and iPhone didnât play so well. ...
Commodities are tanking, the fed is still contemplating an increase in interest rates, and several countries are either in or on the verge of entering a recession. Over the past 7 years, a lot of cash has been injected into the US economy through quantitative easing, accompanied by very little inflation. All factors considered itâs difficult to determine where the economy is headed in the near future. Is the bull still raging? Is the US economy on the brink of another recession? Will the bear slowly creep up and take over? ...
Prior to my senior year in College, I made my way through the Hunger Games Trilogy. I read all three books back-to-back in a relatively short period of time. Having spent so much time in Suzanne Collinsâ world and writing, I felt as if her writing style had rubbed off on me at the time. On my first day of my senior year in College, I felt an overwhelming sensation to write something as I exited the subway. It took approximately 7 minutes to walk from the subway to the building where most of my classes were held, during which I wrote the piece below. The content is utter nonsense, but I think it really captures writing style and essence of the hunger games in some way. ...
tl;dr Investing in the S&P 500 is more profitable than buying a condo in Toronto with a 25% downpayment and renting it out while still paying for rent in San Francisco over a 10 year term. Everyone Iâve ever met can agree on one simple fact: itâs important to save money. However, it is well known that letting money sit around in a checking or savings account is pretty close to wasting it. Most interest rates offered nowadays donât even account for inflation, so you find yourself in a use it or lose it type of situation. Luckily, there are plenty of investment opportunities all around us. Some people opt to invest in real estate, others like to invest in a select thoroughly researched companies, and the rest just put everything in index tracking funds. While investing in individual stocks can be a lot of fun, it requires more effort and continuous maintenance. I decided to investigate and compare a couple of the more passive investment opportunities: real estate and index funds. ...
I just finished watching Bill Nye vs Ken Hamâs debate of creationism versus evolution and the origin of the earth. The debate was both entertaining and educational, but really bothered me because I felt that every single argument reached a dead end where the two academics chose to agree to disagree. Before I proceed, I think its important to state my biased opinion: I believe in evolution, I believe that the earth is billions of years old, and in general, I believe in the science that is taught in schools. Iâm using the word believe because even though I have some understanding of how a lot of things work, I usually just take the textbookâs word for it. That being said, Iâll try to remain as neutral as I can and even play devilâs advocate because Ken Ham did raise several good points. ...