BenoitP

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by BenoitP 9y ago
I wish there was more discussion around the technical stuff, especially the things in the pipeline: The lightning network, Schnorr signatures, Hashed TimeLock Contracts, Merklized Abstract Syntax Trees, the Simplicity language, etc.
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by BenoitP 9y ago
Depends on the startup and their product. If you are generally interested in the domain and want to get your hands dirty: Being able to do 'Hello World`'s in the following techs: * A simple contract on https://blockstre
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by BenoitP 9y ago
Or like a very Google/Java strategy
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by BenoitP 9y ago
> These instances designed for compute-heavy applications like [...], highly scalable multiplayer gaming Is he referring to specific titles? It's been a while, but to me, the max lobby size for multiplayer games was stuck at ~70 con
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by BenoitP 9y ago
> A core design principle/choice in ZGC is the use of load barriers in combination with colored object pointers (i.e. colored oops). [...] In addition to an object address, a colored object pointer contains information used by the l
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by BenoitP 9y ago
It does not have absolute meaning, but it is a good relative measure -coupled with order book depth-.
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Project: Loom (delimited continuations/coroutines, tail calls for the JVM)(mail.openjdk.java.net)
4 points by BenoitP 9y ago|0 comments
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by BenoitP 9y ago
Sophie Wilson[1], designer of the ARM instruction set -among other things- comes to mind too. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson
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by BenoitP 9y ago
The fees are very low, and all the same sizes. My take on this is this is partisans of big blocks saturating the original chain; as if to try to prove a point. It does cost them some little amount of money, though.
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by BenoitP 9y ago
+1 ; especially for the "Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability" Friday digest.
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by BenoitP 9y ago
Thanks for this reference code! I got to say, Ethereum really is showing the way to Bitcoin here. The smart contract ecosystem surrounding it is astounding. ---- The BTC equivalent would be to do it by hand; and I don't think it is al
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by BenoitP 9y ago
How is that technically possible to prevent? The miners in the two chains gain from listening to what is going on in the other chain, and could just copy transactions and take the commission. Have no miner attempted to grab some fees? Or ma
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by BenoitP 9y ago
Not years. The difficulty is recalculated every 2016 blocks (14 days)[1]. If one chain has 10% hashing power, for less or equal to 14 days the transactions could take 10 times more to validate. But that's assuming markets aren't c
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by BenoitP 9y ago
I'm starting to see a bit clearer on how a fork would pan out: Miners: Hashing power has little influence. As long as there are miners, and two chains rejecting each other transactions will be processed. At first, transactions processi
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by BenoitP 9y ago
As long as one miner is still mining the core chain, the transaction will be validated. It may take a little while at first, but difficulty will adapt. It's going to be 2 legitimate currencies that are going to differ in value in excha
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by BenoitP 9y ago
That's assuming hashing power will determine the outcome. In the exchanges runs will take place. The actual economic users will vote this issue out. In the end spreadsheets will be updated, and miners won't want to spend their ele
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by BenoitP 9y ago
Macron -being a former Rothschild investment banker- could tremendously help firms and individuals in relocating to Paris. They just removed entirely the tax on standing capital (only real estate will remain taxed), and more could be follow
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by BenoitP 9y ago
Nope. I have made profitability assessments on several different cloud GPU solutions having different hardware. As a general rule, for every 100 USD you'd only mine about ~50 USD's worth of crypto-currencies. Which is not surprisi
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by BenoitP 9y ago
You are actually right. It is not the exchange that would be affected, provided they haven't taken positions in their own markets. Exchanges should make it pretty clear on which chain they will be operating, still. I don't think t
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by BenoitP 9y ago
To me, hashing power is not the process by which the outcome will be decided. IMHO, the percentage of technical signalling will not even matter that much. Two chains will get created quite quickly. And some BTC holders will try to take adva
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by BenoitP 9y ago
Interesting! There is a lot going on that isn't seen by the classical hierarchical structure. This is a great way to capture this. I have been talking about doing a PageRank of sorts at work. To me, the interaction structure is a graph
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by BenoitP 9y ago
I ran the 3 visualizations at the end of the article and made imgur albums: Images are in order. JOLSample_22_Compaction: http://imgur.com/a/agJaR JOLSample_23_Defragmentation: http://imgur.com/a/A
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by BenoitP 9y ago
A step in the right direction. I'm still waiting for a TLA+-like language where you can build proofs for high level custom properties like "Robust to some parts of the contract being indefinitely delayed".
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by BenoitP 10y ago
You're not the only one. A neuron nucleus can be as small as 3 μm, ... which could pack about tens or hundreds million 5nm transistors. There is plenty of room at the bottom, as Feynman said.
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by BenoitP 10y ago
> "and first, we get the user to switch their browser" Since they are on a blockchain, I believe they could solve this by including the user in the selling of the attention. I, for one, would like to have some chump change in m
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Using JDK 9 Memory Order Modes(gee.cs.oswego.edu)
197 points by BenoitP 10y ago|36 comments
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by BenoitP 10y ago
I'd love for a portfolio manager to chime in and comment on this. BTC has often had uncorrelated or inversely-correlated behavior with regards to the market; Making it a very good component to manage risk in a portfolio.
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by BenoitP 10y ago
+1 for incremental materialized views. There are workarounds for emulating it with triggers, though. I have found the following discussion to have helped in a problem I had: https://hashrocket.com/blog/posts/materi
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by BenoitP 10y ago
Posting this mainly for the "fused VM" idea that I have seen floating around here: Having the language and the systems it talks to fused by a JIT that eliminates the communication overhead; which is something that (does?|can?|coul
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2.2 seconds to insert a million rows in the browser with WebAssembly+Web Workers(hackernoon.com)
5 points by BenoitP 10y ago|1 comments

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