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by svara 9y ago
As far as I've seen, the point is mainly PR. These private blockchains are usually not bitcoin-style proof of work chains, but would more accurately just be called distributed databases. For example, look at https://www.open
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So are you suggesting that shipping companies, their customers, customs and middlemen should be mining a cryptocurrency? Or that they should record their interactions on a blockchain running on a peer-to-peer network of random miners around
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I agree, although different people's experience may differ simply because they were or were not using certain language features often. What bites me all the time is the division operator. The 2to3 code will run, but produce incorrect r
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A really interesting question. It would seem far fetched at first that backpropagation could be used by the brain, because it's unclear what the mechanism for transmitting the error at every synapse backwards, to the synapses in the pr
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The idea of "zero-sum" economic activity sounds sort of plausible. And it feels like there's a lot of truth to it, but when I think about it harder I find it really difficult to nail down what that actually means. Most of t
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by svara 9y ago
When you think you want to plot a histogram, it's often a better idea to plot a (empirical) cumulative distribution [0] instead. You don't have to worry about how to select your bin limits and you can usually put several in the sa
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That's incredible, too bad really the photo resolution isn't higher, with more annotations. You could spend a day exploring. How do astronauts avoid bumping into and damaging tubes and cables while getting around? That looks reall
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This sounds interesting academically, but what I don't understand (I have the same problem with Siacoin, StorJ and Swarm) is: You could build a Dropbox clone where users have the option of contributing storage to get rewarded with real
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I just want to say that this is probably the best online discussion I have ever seen. Scott and Giulio respond to each other in clear, well thought out, detailed posts. Christof Koch and David Chalmers chime in in the comments section of Sc
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The article makes an interesting point in fleshing out an analogy between (a specific reading of) the concept of "software" and the mind, but does so in a needlessly condescending tone, which is very distracting. Take this example