Ala Shaabana is the cofounder of Bittensor, an open-source protocol that powers a decentralized machine learning network. He has a PhD in computer science and has previously held roles at Instacart and VMware.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Key metrics of the decentralized network: Maintaining the optimal amount of competition, Difficulty, Total TAO staked, and Sequence length
- Challenges of decentralized compute
- Making heterogeneous nodes work together
- Bandwidth constraints
- Security considerations
- Mechanism to maximize utilization
- Measuring the value of Server responses

Ala's favorite book: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (Author: Carlo M. Cipolla)

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