What is a good use of blockchain outside of Bitcoin? I've heard some plausible ideas - like verifying a chain of custody or the provenance of an artwork - but I don't see how these small-scale, specialized versions can deal with the 51% attack problem.
Can anyone come up with more realistic uses of blockchain?
I went to a meetup a few years ago where some of its developers presented Julia. I left at the break because it was clear that this was yet another mutt offspring of a couple of popular scientific languages - R and Matlab - without even a vague idea of grammar or consistency. Also, yet another language that works with arrays but does not know how to treat them as first-class citizens. "An array? Let's start a loop!"
The initial comment about language not mattering could have come from anyone who thinks all languages should look like C - mainly because most of them do. Get outside your little box - take a look at LISP or J or K or APL, for instance. Language does matter but mono-lingual people have no idea that it does - see, e.g. Feynman notation.
The most interesting thing I got from the half of the presentation I saw was when I noticed that in their performance comparisons between Julia and other languages was that Javascript was the winner or one of the best for many of their examples. I imagine the language has improved since then but not in any way that makes an important difference since their primary emphasis was on speed of execution.
Still waiting for the rest of you to show even a sign of catching up....
> I know there are a lot of research funds and grant dollars riding on getting people to panic...
Question: which number is larger: the amount spent in the U.S. on all government-funded research in a month, or the amount spent on oil in the U.S. in a day?
Trick question because these numbers are roughly comparable. In other words, the amount of money in oil dwarfs the amount in research, not even counting all the oil-related spending.
Yes - blame the CRA even though CRA-backed mortgages defaulted at a quarter the rate of other sub-primes and that the percent of the mortgage market that was sub-prime went from 7% in 2000 to 21% in 2006.
>...don't compare the behaviour of Russia or China to US-Israel-stuxnet.
The attack that legitimized cyber-war, for which the most vulnerable country is the US, and which did not significantly slow down Iranian uranium enrichment for very long ( https://www.tandfonline.com/do... ) ?
It's interesting that so many of the responses here are addressed to the standing of the group requesting this rather than on the merits of the request itself. It's almost as if the moral dimensions of technology are invisible to most Slashdot posters.
Since these fad diets are not based on science - and the people who adopt either don't know or don't care - maybe pasta companies could emphasize...oh, never mind, reason will always be a distant second, at best.
I bought one of their early models for $79 a few years ago. It is funny-looking - a rectangular box about the size of a hot-dog - but is intriguing for its possibilities. The image you get actually includes depth information. One of the fun things you can do is create a 3-D image from the single-lens shot.
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Did you notice the part in the summary that states that this flaw looks like an NSA backdoor?
What is a good use of blockchain outside of Bitcoin? I've heard some plausible ideas - like verifying a chain of custody or the provenance of an artwork - but I don't see how these small-scale, specialized versions can deal with the 51% attack problem. Can anyone come up with more realistic uses of blockchain?
And they managed to get the list wrong. If you look at the screenshot in the article, "Mulatto" is mis-spelled "Mulato".
= single point of failure.
I went to a meetup a few years ago where some of its developers presented Julia. I left at the break because it was clear that this was yet another mutt offspring of a couple of popular scientific languages - R and Matlab - without even a vague idea of grammar or consistency. Also, yet another language that works with arrays but does not know how to treat them as first-class citizens. "An array? Let's start a loop!"
The initial comment about language not mattering could have come from anyone who thinks all languages should look like C - mainly because most of them do. Get outside your little box - take a look at LISP or J or K or APL, for instance. Language does matter but mono-lingual people have no idea that it does - see, e.g. Feynman notation.
The most interesting thing I got from the half of the presentation I saw was when I noticed that in their performance comparisons between Julia and other languages was that Javascript was the winner or one of the best for many of their examples. I imagine the language has improved since then but not in any way that makes an important difference since their primary emphasis was on speed of execution.
Still waiting for the rest of you to show even a sign of catching up....
Don't you worry about clean water - the short-fingered one is on that too: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1... .
I'm planning a Kickstarter campaign to buy the Republicans a spine.
Yes.
Question: which number is larger: the amount spent in the U.S. on all government-funded research in a month, or the amount spent on oil in the U.S. in a day?
Trick question because these numbers are roughly comparable. In other words, the amount of money in oil dwarfs the amount in research, not even counting all the oil-related spending.
So, who has the most incentive to lie?
Yes - blame the CRA even though CRA-backed mortgages defaulted at a quarter the rate of other sub-primes and that the percent of the mortgage market that was sub-prime went from 7% in 2000 to 21% in 2006.
By "legacy media" you mean traditional news sources that fact-check, edit, and issue corrections when mistakes are discovered?
What place is there for irony when the biggest promoter of the term "fake news" is someone who averages five untrue public statements a day?
> ...don't compare the behaviour of Russia or China to US-Israel-stuxnet.
The attack that legitimized cyber-war, for which the most vulnerable country is the US, and which did not significantly slow down Iranian uranium enrichment for very long ( https://www.tandfonline.com/do... ) ?
Because Russia and China are the two largest and most dangerous? BTW, you would have heard about China if you had been paying attention.
It's interesting that so many of the responses here are addressed to the standing of the group requesting this rather than on the merits of the request itself. It's almost as if the moral dimensions of technology are invisible to most Slashdot posters.
None, since that never happened? Water is the low-energy waste product of many chemical reactions. You might as well try to burn ashes.
No, no, no - he only lies about 70% (or more) of the time: http://www.politifact.com/pers... .
and con-men.
No alternatives except for walking, biking, bus, taxi, Lyft...
... doing 0.1 * 0.2 in JavaScript, the answer is 0.020000000000000004!
That's what happens in floating point arithmetic regardless of the language. Try it in Python.
Moron.
That's called floating point arithmetic. It has nothing to do with the language.
Since these fad diets are not based on science - and the people who adopt either don't know or don't care - maybe pasta companies could emphasize...oh, never mind, reason will always be a distant second, at best.
Yeah, no trade war except the one China thinks they are in: https://www.washingtonpost.com... .
I bought one of their early models for $79 a few years ago. It is funny-looking - a rectangular box about the size of a hot-dog - but is intriguing for its possibilities. The image you get actually includes depth information. One of the fun things you can do is create a 3-D image from the single-lens shot.
Or the language with the most newbies.
I live in Manhattan and ride my bike to work. It's expensive to live here but it's worth it to me.