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by proofofstake 9y ago
In an interview RAW was asked what could be the cause of the popularity of the Illuminati conspiracy. His answer was three-fold: There is too much information nowadays. Life's truths used to be simple: USA good, Russia bad. You adopted
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by proofofstake 9y ago
Old vs. new money. It's a lot easier to get money from 15.000 people who got so rich with BTC and ETH, they have money to spare, than to find and convince 15 Venture Capitalists to put up 1.4 million.
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by proofofstake 9y ago
> Why are people throwing money at these? Futures for Tezos are already trading at 6x the amount people invested during ICO. > It makes no sense. In the short term it makes a lot of sense (600% ROI). In the long term: An Ethereum base
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by proofofstake 9y ago
Maybe you are right. Couldn't quite gather it from your post.
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by proofofstake 9y ago
Do you think neural encryption is closer to encryption? GAN-style: One network encrypts while preserving structure, another network tries to reverse engineer to the original features. Edit: No specific sources for what Numerai is using, but
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by proofofstake 9y ago
They switched from structure-preserving encryption to neural encryption (using a neural net's layer activations). > Just a few months ago this package was released by Louis Aslett at Oxford http://www.louisaslett.com&#x2F
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by proofofstake 9y ago
> This work leaves much room for improvement, however. For example, the throughput and latency can be significantly improved by using GPUs and FPGAs to accelerate the computation. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/rese
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by proofofstake 9y ago
Yes, but not to the same degree. Numerai uses structure-preserving encryption / neural encryption. This allows people to use any existing machine learning algorithm on the data. For fully homomorphic encryption you would need specializ
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by proofofstake 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsaXMUelOEA "CryptDB: Processing Queries on an Encrypted Database - Microsoft Research"
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by proofofstake 9y ago
Do you mean by "the real world" that Bitcoin price prediction does not work in the real world? Or that stock market prediction/strategies do not work in the real world?
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by proofofstake 9y ago
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/db15/1836543d8a70db1dabef3d... "Bayesian regression and Bitcoin" > The strategy is able to nearly double the investment in less than 60 day period when run against real dat
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by proofofstake 9y ago
Do you consider cryptocurrency mature?
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by proofofstake 9y ago
Every time Bitcoin hits an all-time-high, these news articles get posted. "Oh, it's all a bubble! Surely, it will all come crashing down.". But now you also see analysis posted like: http://fortune.com/2017&#x