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The Black Box2 months ago

hard to argue with that flywheel, but i bet the sim-to-real gap is still the real bottleneck here.

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Pablo Vela

35,179 views • 5 months ago

A new roadmap. A New Era of The Graph 🗺️ The Graph’s new roadmap introduces a bold and transformative vision for the future of The Graph! The new R&D roadmap details an expansion of The Graph’s ability to serve web3’s growing demands for data access, while better serving builders and protocol contributors, and improving the overall simplicity and efficiency of the network. After three years of serving builders, The Graph Network is mature, reliable, and performant. The Graph ecosystem has followed through on its commitment to democratize access to blockchain data while also establishing subgraphs as a web3 standard. But The Graph’s innovation journey doesn’t end there. The New Era of The Graph is organized into five core objectives: 1️⃣ World of Data Services: Expanding to provide new data services beyond subgraphs to deliver a rich market of data on the network, serving novel use cases for data scientists and more. This will include more data sources, new query languages, and support for LLMs. 2️⃣ Developer Empowerment: Supporting developers through enhanced DevEx and tooling by introducing streamlined billing, clear pricing models, a new free query plan, and reduced gas fees. A more SaaS-like experience for devs, without compromising on decentralization! 3️⃣ Protocol Evolution & Resiliency: Delivering improvements resulting in a more resilient, flexible, and simple protocol, including updates to delegation. 4️⃣ Optimized Indexer Performance: Boosting network performance with improved Indexer tooling and operational capabilities to deliver increased scalability, reduce costs, and enhanced network reliability. 5️⃣ Interconnected Graph of Data: Creating tools for composable data and a global, organized knowledge graph – interlinking open data and making it easier to build upon. The new roadmap sets in motion an exciting evolution in web3 data infrastructure. In a phased rollout, The Graph will introduce many new features and benefits, including the integration of new data services, new query languages, enhanced developer tooling, improved UX + UI, alongside greater protocol efficiency and resilience. As this new era unfolds, The Graph crystallizes as the connective tissue across the many layers of the web3 stack, evolving into a comprehensive, interwoven graph of data equipped to serve every project dreamt up by web3’s innovators. Read the full announcement linked in the comment below!

A new roadmap. A New Era of The Graph 🗺️ The Graph’s new roadmap introduces a bold and transformative vision for the future of The Graph! The new R&D roadmap details an expansion of The Graph’s ability to serve web3’s growing demands for data access, while better serving builders and protocol contributors, and improving the overall simplicity and efficiency of the network. After three years of serving builders, The Graph Network is mature, reliable, and performant. The Graph ecosystem has followed through on its commitment to democratize access to blockchain data while also establishing subgraphs as a web3 standard. But The Graph’s innovation journey doesn’t end there. The New Era of The Graph is organized into five core objectives: 1️⃣ World of Data Services: Expanding to provide new data services beyond subgraphs to deliver a rich market of data on the network, serving novel use cases for data scientists and more. This will include more data sources, new query languages, and support for LLMs. 2️⃣ Developer Empowerment: Supporting developers through enhanced DevEx and tooling by introducing streamlined billing, clear pricing models, a new free query plan, and reduced gas fees. A more SaaS-like experience for devs, without compromising on decentralization! 3️⃣ Protocol Evolution & Resiliency: Delivering improvements resulting in a more resilient, flexible, and simple protocol, including updates to delegation. 4️⃣ Optimized Indexer Performance: Boosting network performance with improved Indexer tooling and operational capabilities to deliver increased scalability, reduce costs, and enhanced network reliability. 5️⃣ Interconnected Graph of Data: Creating tools for composable data and a global, organized knowledge graph – interlinking open data and making it easier to build upon. The new roadmap sets in motion an exciting evolution in web3 data infrastructure. In a phased rollout, The Graph will introduce many new features and benefits, including the integration of new data services, new query languages, enhanced developer tooling, improved UX + UI, alongside greater protocol efficiency and resilience. As this new era unfolds, The Graph crystallizes as the connective tissue across the many layers of the web3 stack, evolving into a comprehensive, interwoven graph of data equipped to serve every project dreamt up by web3’s innovators. Read the full announcement linked in the comment below!

The Graph

426,003 views • 2 years ago

Building a star on Earth is a big engineering challenge. To tackle it, we’ve partnered with two industry powerhouses to create a high-fidelity digital twin of our #SPARC fusion machine. Here’s how this partnership is coming to life: ⚡️ Siemens: Data and Design — #Siemens software like Teamcenter and Designcenter NX let us manage SPARC’s complex design, housing data for our digital twin and handling traditional computer-aided design work. ⚡️ NVIDIA: AI Accelerator — NVIDIA’s Omniverse library provides a visually intuitive, 3D mirror of real-world SPARC that could improve planning and operations. And #NVIDIA software tools can help us build AI models of physics simulations that run enormously faster than traditional software. ⚡️ CFS: The Fusion Frontier — Integrating real-world and simulation data will let us benefit from AI-boosted physics software and compare its results with real-world data from how SPARC actually operates. Dive deeper into the details here and learn more about how our power trio is accelerating commercial fusion: #FusionEnergy #DigitalTwin #AI

Building a star on Earth is a big engineering challenge. To tackle it, we’ve partnered with two industry powerhouses to create a high-fidelity digital twin of our #SPARC fusion machine. Here’s how this partnership is coming to life: ⚡️ Siemens: Data and Design — #Siemens software like Teamcenter and Designcenter NX let us manage SPARC’s complex design, housing data for our digital twin and handling traditional computer-aided design work. ⚡️ NVIDIA: AI Accelerator — NVIDIA’s Omniverse library provides a visually intuitive, 3D mirror of real-world SPARC that could improve planning and operations. And #NVIDIA software tools can help us build AI models of physics simulations that run enormously faster than traditional software. ⚡️ CFS: The Fusion Frontier — Integrating real-world and simulation data will let us benefit from AI-boosted physics software and compare its results with real-world data from how SPARC actually operates. Dive deeper into the details here and learn more about how our power trio is accelerating commercial fusion: #FusionEnergy #DigitalTwin #AI

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

13,875 views • 8 months ago