Let’s start by setting up a context of just how much it costs to verify one Bitcoin transaction. A report on Motherboard recently calculated that
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Bitcoin bubble Bitcoin has risen 10x in value so far in 2017, the largest gain of all asset classes, prompting sceptics to declare it a
Artificial intelligence has reached peak hype. News outlets report that companies have replaced workers with IBM Watson and algorithms are beating doctors at diagnoses. New AI startups
As outlined in my previous post, blockchain faces number of fundamental – technological, cultural, and business – issues before it becomes mainstream. However, potential of
Bitcoin, blockchain, Ethereum, gas, … A new breed of snake oil purveyors are peddling “blockchain” as the magic sauce that will power all the world’s
Go is game whose number of possible moves – more than chess at 10170 – is greater than the number of atoms in the universe. AlphaGo,
AI and ML feed on data, and companies that center their business around the technology are growing a penchant for collecting user data, with or without
A birds-eye view of main ML algorithms In statistics, we have descriptive and inferential statistics. ML deals with the same problems and claims any problem
Story, context and hype Named after its inventor, the 18th-century Presbyterian minister Thomas Bayes, Bayes’ theorem is a method for calculating the validity of beliefs
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