This video embedded below is a montage from a who’s who in venture capital. It really hits the nail on the head with respect as to why we should all care about cryptocurrencies and block-chain technologies. The part that really resonates with me is the potential for this technology to...Continue reading
Yesterday Mohammed Al-Mosaiwi published a summary of a scholarly study he undertook analyzing content and style of writings to determine if there could be some correlation between language and depression. The study (here’s a link to the scholarly work) showed that looking at frequency of usage of first-person pro-nouns, (I,...Continue reading
The non-locality aspect of quantum physics is tough enough to get a grasp of, but as a reminder, if you entangle a couple photons and separate them. Observation of one in location A will alter the state of the other in location B, which can be quite far away. The...Continue reading
This is turning into more of a crypto-currency blog than intended, but to be fair, this is the area I’m running active experiments right now so that’s a good reason to have so many posts in the crypto currency world. Each crypto-currency has an associated hashing algorithm. Bitcoin and BTC...Continue reading
Bettina Warburg, co-founder of Animal Ventures, recently released a video with WIRED showing her explaining block chain technology to 5 different skill levels. It’s a really great concept that was very well done. It’s certainly worth a watch. The expert level conversation covered some aspects of the technology I hadn’t...Continue reading
Much about the “bitcoin bubble” has been written and I can’t help but agree. Nevertheless, the value of BTC to the USD seems to continue to charge ahead with the value as of the time of this post being over $9,700/BTC. Could be interesting to see what the value is...Continue reading
Since the early aughts, (2000’s for you whippersnappers) I’ve believed that the same dynamics that played out in compute and storage must eventually happen in networking too. Moore’s Law, causing general purpose computers to become ever smaller and more powerful plus the open source software community made vertically integrated companies...Continue reading
The rise (and fall and rise) of crypto currencies has been fascinating to watch. For all the sound and fury, the relative place of a crypto currency like Bitcoin (BTC) with a market cap of approximately $41B is still miniscule, there is much room for growth. Having experimented a bit...Continue reading
If you’re a curious sort, you might have wondered what the model is for programming a quantum computer. By comparison, traditional computing using switches which are on or off (0 or 1) are now a common model and nearly anyone can understand how to at least apply digital technologies. Quantum...Continue reading
Defragged Zebra.