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by wyas 6y ago
Original Hackernews article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17090733
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First implementation of the notorious Avalanche consensus protocol released(bloomberg.com)
11 points by wyas 6y ago|6 comments
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Another Killer Blockchain App(medium.com)
3 points by wyas 8y ago|0 comments
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by wyas 8y ago
If properly designed, the main net should really just be the test net. Any small issues should have been ratified on the test, and the chain should move to production without any issues. However, Tezos basically released a whole new product
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by wyas 8y ago
Worth pointing out: these guys worked for a long time off a very large capital-raise round to implement and run a test net, only to just replace it at the very last moment with a completely new main net.
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by wyas 8y ago
The way they self amend is that they literally will just vote to replace a particular file in their implementation with a new one.
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A (very) gentle introduction to glass-box models in AI(medium.com)
2 points by wyas 8y ago|0 comments
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A (very) gentle introduction to glass-box models in AI(medium.com)
2 points by wyas 8y ago|0 comments
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Alkali – Build intelligent apps and understand data without knowing AI(alkali.app)
4 points by wyas 8y ago|1 comments
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by wyas 8y ago
This is awesome. How can we access the code to play around with?
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by wyas 8y ago
Cursory reading, they do seem to discuss limitations. They say that the system is not guaranteed to provide liveness for double-spends.
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by wyas 8y ago
Seems like ambiguous wording on that part. However, they do not seem to require single-UTXO-inputs, but can consume multiple.
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by wyas 8y ago
This seems closely related to the work on proving the Riemann hypothesis, where there has been work on attempting to show some quasi-crystalline structure of the zeta function zeros ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rieman
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by wyas 8y ago
Very cool. Could standard Latex mathmode be used here?
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by wyas 8y ago
Looks like the logo for a stop-n-shop-style grocery store.
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by wyas 8y ago
There's a bunch of attack vectors, but most fall on the trusted publisher and client itself. IPFS and Ethereum are, by assumption (difficulty wise), ``secure''. Assuming both client and publisher's internal systems are i
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by wyas 8y ago
Quick browse seems to be like so: 1. Client generates necessary files (including keys and payloads). 2. Encrypted payload is placed on IPFS. 3. Keys are placed on a trusted published (potentially single point of failure). 4. A smart contrac
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by wyas 8y ago
Preston has some beliefs that don't make a lot of sense, I agree. But his ability to reason about technical facts is not impeded. There is no fundamental argument he makes that can be refuted soundly, besides just disagreements in opin
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by wyas 8y ago
Attacks on the author aren't the best thing in general ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Graham%2... )
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by wyas 8y ago
Stablecoins are fundamentally broken and unsound. Ignoring the tech-stack that achieves price stability, and looking at them purely economically, the math simply breaks down. This is a great writeup on Basecoin, but there's another pla
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by wyas 9y ago
This is surely not true. They say they have 4 treadmill desks, and I suspect their conference room can fit more than 4 people.
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by wyas 9y ago
I'm sorry, I don't follow. They are just saying they have treadmill desks that you can use. Not that all desks are treadmill desks. > Our conference room is made up of 4 treadmill desks that face each other so you can do a walk
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by wyas 9y ago
First time I'm hearing of these guys, however I'm not sure where -- if anywhere -- it says that only fit able-bodied should apply. In fact, the words "fit" and "able" aren't even anywhere in the page. The
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by wyas 9y ago
Unproven tech. There's nothing but a whitepaper to analyze its claims.
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by wyas 9y ago
> Most academic CS literature is complete BS Thats complete BS. Certain journals are complete BS, and certain subfields of CS are superfluous and often times lack substance in publications. But CS literature, from top tier journals, ha
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by wyas 9y ago
Care to elaborate why HBR is awful? Article needs to provide more evidence that political regulation from rent-seekers is higher than ever before, but ultimately there's nothing that I would consider "clickbait" here.