Ryan Walker

Former Roboticist


Timelock Puzzles With VDFs

Written by Ryan Walker, former MistyWest employee. Proof of work is the traditional method of forming consensus on a distributed network; it relies on an arbitrary set of decentralized nodes which are all solving similar hashing puzzles. Unfortunately, PoW has a non negligible carbon footprint and as a response, researchers have been building alternate consensus …

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Robotic Steve II: Eyes

Written by Ryan Walker, former MistyWest employee. As you learned in the first part of our RoboSteve series, we are building a Machine Learning and Machine Vision platform inspired by our office dog Steve. There’s only one thing biological Steve loves more than food, and that’s playing with his girlfriend Miso. In order to emulate …

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Robotic Steve I: Origins

A few weeks back, a handful of brave Westies began a quest to build a robot dog. When this concept was pitched, it was widely regarded as some animatronic dog covered in servos that would walk around – in reality, it’s a Machine Learning and Machine Vision platform. The goals of the project are to …

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