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by zodiac 9y ago
And yet, I'm not aware on any current cryptocurrencies that implement bounded estimator-based stabilization - not trying to be snarky, but stablecoins will indeed be pretty useful, if you think bounded estimator-based inflation would b
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by zodiac 9y ago
I'm really interested in the stablecoin space but I don't think it's realistic to expect bitcoin to have started out as such. Firstly bitcoin was already testing some unknown assumptions (mainly "is our PoW scheme secure
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by zodiac 9y ago
How would you propose making bitcoin "have stable value"?
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by zodiac 9y ago
Of course you need some objective function and feedback about how well you're doing wrt that. In RL this is true too. The feedback needed for backpropagation might be, for each action you take in life, what your chance of death is ri
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by zodiac 9y ago
There was an article about that recently - it wasn't proactively pushing an agenda so much as, if FB wanted to release any software as OS, without the grant, the lawyers would have had to review every commit to avoid violating someone
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by zodiac 9y ago
Well then, do you think they're wrong about it? If so why? How would you address the point about past litigation (e.g. by Yahoo)?
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by zodiac 9y ago
You can read a bit more about the token's intended use-case in Kin's white paper. Doesn't answer all your questions bit it's better than the article
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by zodiac 9y ago
I think he means something like the difficulties shown by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function . There are a lot of conditions a function must satisfy to be differentiable.
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by zodiac 9y ago
> What would be the startup performance of parsing the above 5 line class compared to a namedtuple? I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15135147 explains why you can't optimize namedtuple like that, since d
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by zodiac 9y ago
Just to point out, "equal by comparing addresses" is symmetric and transitive as well. (whether you call it reflexive is an uninteresting question, if you think about it)
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by zodiac 9y ago
A centralised system would also "allow banks to transfer directly to/from each other in near real time"
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by zodiac 9y ago
It's 13bn raised by alums among all investors, not just yc.
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by zodiac 9y ago
annoyingly, on dvorak ls is typed with the pinky of the right hand for both characters, and then I usually use the same finger to press enter again after
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by zodiac 9y ago
How would you set up a btc lending (for shorts) contact with eth?
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by zodiac 9y ago
Well then the value of that stock reflects the future dividends of that stock in that scenario, weighted by how likely that scenario is to happen. Not sure what your point is then.
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by zodiac 9y ago
other than dividends there's usually 1. rights to vote in the board 2. some claims on the company's assets in case of bankruptcy
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by zodiac 9y ago
> Suppose there was a company that publicly stated that it would never give out dividends, but it was making bank. People like yourself would assume at some point in the future dividends would be paid out Why would we do that?
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by zodiac 9y ago
I found the part which use Zorn's Lemma pretty un-computational :) It's equivalent to the axiom of choice and is used to show that every vector space has a basis
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by zodiac 9y ago
I think coinbase's withdrawal limits aren't quite high enough for this amount of cash
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by zodiac 9y ago
How else would you estimate N?
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by zodiac 9y ago
Interesting, which packages did you try running it on for which it took too much execution time? Where was most of the time spent?
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by zodiac 9y ago
It was making a lot of sense until the part about recursive dependencies. To my mind, once this happens it becomes a dependency graph instead of a tree, and instead of trying to satisfy dependencies "locally" I would work out all
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by zodiac 9y ago
No, init still relies on the OS scheduler to switch between it and each of its child threads
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by zodiac 9y ago
Really? I think Vitalik writes with a lot more precision than most in the space. E.g. https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/16/secret-sharing-erasure-...
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by zodiac 9y ago
As someone who plays both games I would say it's less common in Go than in chess. But yeah, by no means is it rare.
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by zodiac 9y ago
You might be right, but Jessica isn't funding "traditional" VC amounts but much earlier than that.
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by zodiac 9y ago
If that is really your definition, wouldn't public domain be the "most open source" license?
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by zodiac 9y ago
Why the hate for interns :'(
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by zodiac 9y ago
Are you referring to Canadian permanent residency?
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by zodiac 9y ago
I don't know much about this, but I've read that the standard model and GR are mutually inconsistent? How do you "glue them together"?

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