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by sword_smith 4y ago
Good point. The spot price is definitely not the most accurate measure of this probability. For liquid stocks with advanced derivates it's probably possible to find a better probability using one of those advanced derivatives.
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by sword_smith 4y ago
I just realized that we can use the current stock price to derive a probability that Elon Musks offer will be accepted. Let `cp` be the current stock price; let `op` be the original price, before the offer was made; let `bp` be the bid pric
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Minimizing Storage Using Merkle Mountain Ranges(neptune.cash)
7 points by sword_smith 4y ago|1 comments
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by sword_smith 4y ago
Author here. Merkle Mountain Ranges allow for appending leafs to the data structure even when only the roots are known. Merkle trees do not support that and this makes Merkle Mountain Ranges much more convenient for long-lived updateable da
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by sword_smith 5y ago
STARK is supposedly a technology that is good for proving the correct evaluation of program, or calculation since the proofs can be built in nlogn time, and the verification can be done in logn time, where n is the number of cycles for the
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by sword_smith 5y ago
Nice. This looks like a more comprehensive tutorial than the other STARK tutorials I have seen.
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by sword_smith 5y ago
No. It's the center-left all the way to the far left I am referring to.
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by sword_smith 5y ago
Poor Zuck. Can't have a day in peace from the people who want to control public discourse. The internet had a great run though: 20 years of relatively free speech.
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by sword_smith 5y ago
What's their lobbying budget?
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by sword_smith 5y ago
It asks me to get a captcha on https://signalcaptchas.org/registration/generate.html , but the site does not seem to work.
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by sword_smith 5y ago
So arithmetization-oriented ciphers are used e.g. used in ZK-SNARKs? How long have these ciphers existed?
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by sword_smith 6y ago
It's probably the responsible thing to do and Denmark is a 1st world country, so they can afford it. But would the same thing happen if this problem occured in a poorer country? Probably not. So isn't it inevitable that a similar
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by sword_smith 6y ago
It's probably the responsible thing to do and Denmark is a 1st world country, so they can afford it. But would the same thing happen if this problem occured in a poorer country? Probably not. So isn't it inevitable that a similar
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by sword_smith 6y ago
It was the first language that was taught in computer science at the University of Copenhagen until around 2015, then they changed that language to F#/ Judging from the activity on Stack Exchange, it seems to be pretty dead. Maybe a fe
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by sword_smith 6y ago
Exciting stuff! Could you consider also making an elaboration on this blog post where you show how this parallel execution of for example the "square root if positive" function is parallelized?
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by sword_smith 6y ago
Is the time it takes to generate an image the sum of 'BVH' and 'render'?
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by sword_smith 7y ago
This is just what SML has been missing since the 90s! Awesome project. It seems to work pretty well already.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
Russia did not agree to Saudi Arabia's proposal to reduce output so Saudi Arabia are now turning up the faucets to pressure Russia into a deal. Saudi Arabia has no intention starting a price war with US shale producers, this is pure ta
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by sword_smith 7y ago
Controlling the narrative is a lot of political power to have. And I guess alot of people don't want to see traditional media lose that power.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
I think you mean lack of static type checking. Python is more strongly typed than e.g. Perl and JavaScript.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
I wonder if this language has spread beyond Europe yet. Do any Americans use it?
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by sword_smith 7y ago
Which university? :)
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by sword_smith 7y ago
This sounds smart. I haven't programmed Futhark yet, though, but I really enjoy functional programming. Where is this language primarily used, at universities or also in industry?
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by sword_smith 7y ago
I agree. Why pay for the energy to grow food when you can get the enegy for free by putting it out in the sun? This is an example that some scientifically minded people forget an important aspect in the world: economics. Can your New Way of
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by sword_smith 7y ago
Yes. US oil production fell from around 1971 until the fracking boom took off in 2008. Remember when everybody talked about Peak Oil? That's where it came from. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37416
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by sword_smith 7y ago
That's an amazing graph. The other side of the same story is the US production of oil: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=W...
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by sword_smith 7y ago
> Governments the last few decades seem to insist on the power to seize the electronic money of just about anyone. Going tangential here but that is why Bitcoin is so powerful. Because it takes that power away from government.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
I like that these things are being revealed and I previously read stories that these techniques were getting less effective since more people are aware of them. That's at least half the battle. Legal punishment of this behavior is not
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by sword_smith 7y ago
Beat me to it. For context, the web site is currently responding 503 Service Unavailable with a clarification that the server is too busy.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
The opposite also applies: You couldn't buy up a large proportion of Bitcoins without the price skyrocketing. Prices are determined at the margin, what the marginal seller (probably miners) will sell for and what the marginal buyer wil

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