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Dispelling some myths about Bitcoin, from a Bitcoin fan

Written by L.M. Goodman. Hosted here as a courtesy.

Blind experiment

Double-blind studies are the gold standard in medicine. I contend they should be triple-blind. The statistician analyzing the data should be given anonymized, whitened, normalized data from the experiment and...

Reputation networks and branding

I can think of a couple of things that branding achieves:

Arbitrage et algorithme de Bellman-Ford

Originally written for Quadrature n° 81 (2011), p. 23-26.

Sampling & Mixing

I’m in a club, and my girlfriend asks the DJ to play music from another DJ. He refuses; he knows the other guy and thinks he’s an asshole. There is...