There are technical implementations for all types of payment services outside of the typical on-chain transaction, from micropayments, which allow video streaming companies to pay for each unit of video transcoded, to state channels that allow two people to agree on a value exchange that only gets executed if something happens, and paid subscriptio... See more
Wendy Xiao Schadeck • Bridges across the Chasm to Web 3.0
This is a very general phenomenon. You see it in the dashboard of every internet disruptor. With Uber, for example, relative to the time of a standard taxi ride, some Uber trips are much longer and others much
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Let’s close this section with a quick example. Web logs are very large and contain a lot of useless data. MapReduce is useful for sifting through the haystack to find the valuable needles. Imagine a MapReduce process working through the logs in near real time in order to identify immediate actions that are needed. For example, find all customers wh
... See moreBill Franks • Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
I actually think stock and flow is a useful metaphor for media in the 21st century. Here’s what I mean:
Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that reminds people you exist.
Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is toda... See more
Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that reminds people you exist.
Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is toda... See more
