Economics, A.I., physics, & evolution
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Confederacy of Dunces: Ignatius Reilly modeled after Samuel Johnson?
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I wonder if Ignatius Reilly was modeled more on Samuel Johnson than Don Quixote or Thomas Aquinas. Johnson lived in the 1700's where Ign...
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Reverse Nakamoto Consensus
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Abstract POW consensus is problematic due to 51% attacks. Even BTC is potentially vulnerable as it shifts from rewards to fees.[1][2] ...
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Saturday, March 2, 2019
Fixing POW problems with a POW-VDF-POS-DAG scheme
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Introduction This is a coin design that combines a lot of ideas to prevent common POW problems and enable it function as a stable value cu...
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Consistent value in various contexts is the source of money's properties
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An ideal money has the same value in all relevant contexts or "dimensions". The numerous properties ascribed to money are just re...
Monday, February 18, 2019
The Problem with Avalanche (BCH & Ava)
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[ update #3. Here's my rant in a comment to their Sept 26, 2019 dev meeting Avalanche is not a consensus mechanism for two related ...
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Sunday, September 9, 2018
Zipf's law: causes & derivable from Pareto
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I specified the relationship between Pareto and Zipf distributions in wikipedia: Wikipedia's excuse for Zipf's prevalence:...
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Analaogy between Gravity/Momentum and Magnetism/Electrostatics
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There is a bewildering array of different ways to find mathematical analogies between mechanics and electromagnetism. Feynman discusses anal...
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