BlogHide Resteemsrhyzome (27)in science • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.How to Create a Malevolent Artificial IntelligenceFrom MIT Technology Reiew : The possibility that a malevolent artificial intelligence might pose a serious threat to humankind has become a hotly debated issue. Various high profile…rhyzome (27)in science • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence ContainmentArxiv.org paper : Due to the “basic AI drives” mentioned above, an unsafe AGI will likely be motivated to falsify tests or monitoring mechanisms to manipulate the researchers into thinking it’s…rhyzome (27)in technology • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Inventing the “Google” for predictive analyticsFrom MIT News : Platform analyzes big data to answer plain-language business queries in minutes instead of months Now MIT spinout Endor has developed a predictive-analytics platform that…rhyzome (27)in technology • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.How Neural Networks ThinkFrom MIT News : General-purpose technique sheds light on inner workings of neural nets trained to process language. Artificial-intelligence research has been transformed by…rhyzome (27)in ethereum • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Vyper: Minimalist Pythonic Smart Contracts Paradigm for the EVMFrom CoinBureau : Vyper is a smart contract language paradigm deriving from Python 3 syntax and conventions and targeting the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The EVM is a simulated global…rhyzome (27)in cryptocurrency • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Directed Acyclic Graph Topology in Public Distributed Ledgers: Nano, ByteBalls, IOTAFrom CoinBureau : Directed acyclic graphs are a general category in graph theory, computer science and mathematics which essentially constitute a topological ordering where vertices (e.g., a…rhyzome (27)in news • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Identifying optimal product prices via Machine Learningvia MIT news : New research describes a price-optimization method to increase online retailers’ revenue, market share, and profit. How can online businesses leverage vast historical data…rhyzome (27)in crypto • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.There are now gold-backed cryptocurrencies for Muslims that conform with ShariaFrom qz.com : That doesn’t go down so well with Muslim nations. In the Islamic faith, it’s believed that economic activity should be based on real, physical assets, not speculation; observant…rhyzome (27)in crypto • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Nano (NANO) Amping Adoption With Twitter Tip BotFrom EthereumNews : Tipping Nano (NANO) on Twitter to other fellow users just become easier using the Nano Tip Bot (@NanoTipBot). This means that the popular social media coin known as…rhyzome (27)in cryptocurrency • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Chainalysis, Crypto-tracing Software Company expands to cover more cryptocurrenciesCrypto-lines : Anti-money laundering software maker, Chainalysis Inc is expanding its operations to cover more cryptocurrencies as the demand for more secure transactions rises. Jonathan Levin…rhyzome (27)in news • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Bloomberg: Former Mt. Gox CEO Is No Longer a Bitcoin BelieverFrom Bloomberg : The former chief executive officer of the once-largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, said he no longer is a Bitcoin believer, and sounded pessimistic about cryptocurrencies in…rhyzome (27)in ethereum • 6 years agoIntroducing DAOStack: Decentralized Governance PlatformIntroducing DAOStack — a framework for DAOs (which is a DAO) Decentralized Governance Matters : In consensus systems, increasing the threshold for consensus increases resilience but lowers…rhyzome (27)in ripple • 6 years agoRipple & Western Union Collaboration Is Big For XRPvia cryptodaily.co.uk : Now that the initial hype around cryptocurrency has died down, attention has switched to the relationships that cryptocurrencies can build with companies to increase…rhyzome (27)in news • 6 years agoWall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets realityFrom Reuters : Reuters has found several blockchain projects launched by major financial institutions that have been shelved, as development of the technology enters a hype-meets-reality…rhyzome (27)in news • 6 years agoHow Cambridge Analytica Purchased The Facebook Data via Amazon Mechanical Turkvia NYTimes : In 2014, Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company that would later provide services for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, reached out with a request on Amazon’s…rhyzome (27)in ethereum • 6 years agoAugur's Prediction Markets Platform: A Historical Experiment With a Long Lineage of Intellectual LegacyFrom Cryptoslate : Augur is a decentralized oracle and prediction markets platform, built to conform to the logic of the Ethereum network protocol. Prediction markets as such are event…rhyzome (27)in ethereum • 6 years agoBeginners Guide to the Vyper Smart Contract LanguageFrom Coinbureau : Vyper is a smart contract language paradigm deriving from Python 3 syntax and conventions and targeting the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The EVM is a simulated global…rhyzome (27)in news • 6 years agoMalware attacks with cryptocurrency miners increased by 8500 percent, says SymantecFrom techworm : Symantec, a cybersecurity company, have found that cryptocurrency coin miners have grown by a massive 8,500 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017 in so-called ‘crypto-jacking’…rhyzome (27)in cryptocurrency • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.The Economist: New ways to trade data (IOTA and Fetch)Second Economist Article mentioning IOTA : Another project, called IOTA, operates a similar scheme. Bosch, a German engineering giant, thinks that it could use IOTA to earn money from the data…rhyzome (27)in crypto • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Monero: The Dark Web’s Favorite Currency Is Less Untraceable Than It SeemsFrom BoingBoing : In some ways, this is normal: security is a process, not a product, so technologies thought to be secure are often revealed to be defective in some way and need to be…