Juan Orbea

The momentum for nuclear power goes beyond what’s happening in Ukraine. 

A popular misunderstanding of smart contract technology is that smart contracts work “automatically” without human intervention. Smart contracts are just passive object code stored on the blockchain. This code is called by miners/validators when users request it to be called by offering to pay miners for making such calls. In other words, smart... See more

In Farsighted, Steven Johnson uncovers powerful tools for honing the important skill of complex decision-making. 

These examples seem haphazard, and indeed, to some extent they are so intentionally: the goal is first and foremost to shock the reader out of their existing world model so they can start downloading Balaji's own.

Human and Machine IntelligenceStudents will learn to tackle the challenges of designing and building artificial intelligent systems that attain or exceed human-level performance in complex tasks. Suggested subjects are 6.034, 6.006 and 6.009.

Portfolio construction is the careful calculus of a number of different decisions related to how a fund is run and the impact that each of those inputs have on each other . The major contributing factors to portfolio construction are:

A more controversial application than this scanning-the-brain-to-understand-it scenario is scanning-the-brain-to-download-it. When an entire network of neurons receives input (from the outside world or from other networks of neurons), the signaling amongst them appears at first to be frenzied and random. So the question addressed by the San Diego... See more

Hunter Walk recommends that folks avoid “snacking” when they prioritize work. If you’re in a well-run organization, at some point you’re going to run out of things that are both high-impact and easy. This leaves you with a choice between shifting right to hard and high-impact or shifting down to easy and low-impact. The later choice–easy and... See more