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The service is still valuable, and getting more so, but there aren't strong forces driving the expert networks to be much less fragmented than the people they connect their clients with. There are still advantages to scale, and of course the biggest network will be able to find more unique people to contact than the smaller ones, but the... See more
Byrne Hobart • The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack
Consistent Hashing and Random Trees: Distributed Caching Protocols for Relieving Hot Spots on the World Wide Web
cs.princeton.eduWhat The Prisoner's Dilemma Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything
youtube.comWe have an alternative solution, ergodicity economics, which has replaced the expectation value of the operator on this random object with a time average, or time average growth.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
how to write algorithms that could change their code and get smarter as they develop. We now call this evolutionary programming.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
“open parliament” movement, experimenting with a range of ways to make parliamentary procedures transparent to the public and experimenting with innovative voting methods.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
A fun thought experiment on survivorship bias and selecting the best strategy:
Imagine two entrepreneurs, Alice and Bob. They each open a business with an initial capital of $100,000. Alice takes more risks and, as a result, has a high growth rate of 10%. However, because of those risks, she also has a high failure rate... See more
Luca Dellannax.comDeciding is the process of choosing which knowledge should be drawn upon—both