joeykrug

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Alchemy is secretly fixing blockchain’s node nightmare – Techcrunch(techcrunch.com)
13 points by joeykrug 7y ago|1 comments
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Invisible Super Intelligence for the Stock Market(medium.com)
12 points by joeykrug 10y ago|0 comments
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Numerai, a hedge fund built by a community of anonymous data scientists(medium.com)
178 points by joeykrug 10y ago|81 comments
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by joeykrug 10y ago
Yep it is statistically correct. For anyone interested in the potential reasons: one of the most posited ones is that the creators of the tests are inherently biased. i.e. if someone creating an IQ test is a white male, chances are white ma
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by joeykrug 10y ago
1. Where? I don't see any of that on the sources you linked [AMA on Reddit] 2. Where [breitbart article linked doesn't really get into it beyond other people saying it]? 3. I do think Hoon is a bit too complex 4. If the company d
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by joeykrug 10y ago
> There is no such thing as a trustless app Reread my post, I said almost. Nothing in life is trustless [for instance, solar flares could effect my computer's state], but you can get close. So we agree there > Ethereum adds no va
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by joeykrug 10y ago
If the blockchain is useful in those areas where [almost] no trust exists, Urbit has the potential to be useful for essentially everything else. To give a concrete example, this would be useful for any Ethereum app that doesn't want to
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Algorithmic Markets Could Save Us from Another Financial Crisis(venturebeat.com)
1 points by joeykrug 11y ago|0 comments
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by joeykrug 11y ago
One example of an app you'd want to run on ethereum is something like a prediction market (PM). A PM is a pretty general financial market and can be used to speculate on things from "Who will become the US President in 2016?&quot
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by joeykrug 11y ago
Augur allows you to create any sort of predictive marketplace without counterparty risk. It utilizes Ethereum for its smart contracts and Bitcoin as a currency
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by joeykrug 12y ago
Checkout my reply above --- no proof of work required (for the reputation aspect, that is)!
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by joeykrug 12y ago
but you can't make more reputation out of thin air by creating new accounts/addresses, just as you can't create Bitcoin by making new addresses
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by joeykrug 12y ago
;) --- idea is that truth is a schelling point
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by joeykrug 12y ago
In events without a clear outcome (say greater than 65% certainty, this is a tunable parameter) there's an audit system where a different group of reporters is asked to answer the question. The idea is that they'd notice the extr
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by joeykrug 12y ago
Sybil attacks are addressed due to the way reputation works. Reports are a weighted average - so the more reputation you have, the more your votes are weighted. You could make a billion separate accounts and send them each one reputation,
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A Decentralized Lie Detector(augur.net)
54 points by joeykrug 12y ago|25 comments
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by joeykrug 12y ago
I'm also interested in this, got the same email seems like a scam?