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Brandon Ramirez designed the cryptoeconomics / incentive mechanisms for The Graph protocol. If you're curious about how a complex decentralized Ethereum protocol is designed and ma…

This 26 minute talk was given by George Dyson at NICE 2018, which brings together engineers and neuroscientists. If you like the intersection of analog, digital, history, and AI, y…

I'm pretty sure the author understands sha256: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pd-IjLcAAAAJ

Agreed. There were 391,000 distracted driving injuries in the US in 2015 [1]. Experiencing some fender benders is worth it, if we can decimate the number of injuries. Let's make th…

It would cook whatever ecosystem is there. Better to just dig a man made cave somewhere else.

This land should be bought for preservation by the state, feds, or a nonprofit. There are always unique species and history in places like this.

At the ISCA conference last week, Yoshua Bengio, of DNN fame, talked about their early efforts in analog computing. Here are some related slides of his: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca…

2 deep 4 me

If you liked the beach apple story, perhaps you'll find this article about intentionally and regularly eating poison oak to be fascinating. https://yankeebarbareno.com/2011/03/03/e…

Glad you liked the video! You can implement an analog neural network yourself using a Field Programmable Analog Array. (I've never done it, but you'll see academics online writing …

I think Optalysys looks interesting! For the curious, Optalysys has built a general purpose optics-based correlation/pattern matching machine. From some of their predecessor-compan…

If you have an application that can tolerate error (like classification), then analog computing can give enormous gains in terms of speed _and_ power efficiency. Essentially, the s…