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More recently, new sites like Sci-Hub and LibGen have achieved far faster and more complete results by playing outside the rules and essentially making every academic paper in the world free of charge, to anyone, at any time, in any country – including poor people in poor places without access to expensive journal subscriptions. Let's call this the... See more
Crypto Sci-Hub and the Decentralization of Science
Instantaneous access to everything obviously comes at a cost. The cost being that we all behave like demented Roman emperors, at once bored and deranged, summoning whatever we want at any time.
Catherine Shannon • Your phone is why you don't feel sexy
Free communication is not free. By decreasing the cost of information, we have decreased its value and invited its adulteration. To restore the health of our information ecosystem, we must understand the vulnerabilities of our overwhelmed minds and how the economics of information can be leveraged to protect us from being misled.
Scientific American • Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It
The AI boom is not just probably bigger than the two previous ones I've seen (integrated circuits and the internet), but also seems to be spreading faster.
Paul Grahamx.comThe list of factors making ontology a bad fit is, also, an almost perfect description of the Web -- largest corpus, most naive users, no global authority, and so on. The more you push in the direction of scale, spread, fluidity, flexibility, the harder it becomes to handle the expense of starting a cataloguing system and the hassle of maintaining... See more
Clay Shirky • Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
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While bitcoin’s open-source core code allowed anyone to peruse it and suggest additions and improvements, only a handful of people, essentially five men assigned to the core development team, had password access to the live code inside the core protocol.
Paul Vigna , Michael J. Casey • The Age of Cryptocurrency
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Chris Burniske • Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond
The importance of the golden ratio comes from a Pythagorean discovery that is now barely remembered. In modern schools, children learn of Pythagoras for his famed theorem: the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. However, this was in fact ancient news. It was known more than 1,000
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