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by AsymetricCom 4678 days ago
I love this blog's UI. Did you make it yourself?

I like the idea of the doorman but what if you could somehow pass back useful math to the client? Of course, then you'd have to disregard that useful work yourself or double check it negating the energy savings. Or, perhaps return a map of traveling sales man type problem (maybe a map of metadata and their traversal cost), and they could navigate that map depending on exactly what kind of data they really want, thus reducing your load for valid, heavy requests and if they return a path with lots of nodes, you know to de-prioritize it or drop the request.

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> I love this blog's UI. Did you make it yourself?

Thank you! Yes, I made the UI. It's open source: sidenote.io

> I like the idea of the doorman but what if you could somehow pass back useful math to the client?

I think it would be great to have clients perform useful computations instead of just burning cycles. But that's not MVP, even for a research project.