Coincidences. Cellular Automata. Free will. Fate.
I believe there are things in the Universe, which are best described as not-coincidences. The scientists in the crowd might dismiss them, out of sheer logical presumptions, ignoring the fact that Science is only a method, and that it is improvable while not having all the answers right now...
Will there be a never-ending intelligence explosion? or not?
Things are limited by the qualities of its parts. No good knife can be made out of bad steel, and certainly no boat either (i.e. the Titanic). Things exist within the many limits of our Universe. These limits determine when something changes and under which exact mathematical conditions...
Polynomial models for 7 countries' costs of living, and stuff.
Sometime ago I was about to move elsewhere, and I was really curious where was I going to pay more in taxes. I did my calculations and stored the files for years. In case you're not from Argentina, lately there's been a big fuss over here on the topic of income tax...
Classic Meta-heuristics with creative hacks
I don't consider myself an expert on AI. I am as much as a student as the next fellow curious person, and will ever remain to be. However, I do consider my perspective to be different. If you've read my résumé , perhaps you already know that I'm a college dropout...
Moving value, shopping, micro-payments and a bit more.
The world is changing, and crypto-currency is becoming mainstream; this is good because right now it is not "What can YOU do for bitcoin?" but rather "What can BITCOIN do for you?". If you have to know only one thing, let it be this one...
ASIC Mining vs Cloud Mining, bitcoin mining efficiency, and more.
Perhaps you were thinking the same I was thinking: do the cloud mining providers take a big % of your profits? Apparently not. I've had the pleasure of receiving some data from another cloud mining service (MegaMine.com), and some ASIC mining...
ASIC Mining vs Cloud Mining, bitcoin mining efficiency, and more.
What should you think before buying Cloud Mining? You might wonder if it is profitable at all. There are cloud mining haters, and there are cloud mining enthusiasts; you might be wondering whom to trust, the answer is: none of them...
It's profitable, but... just don't do it.
It is profitable. For the owner of the cloud-mining service, and for you too. I've been "cloud-mining" for about 150 days with PBMining, and I should be reaching break-even soon. I'm not a shill, but I'm not a dissatisfied customer either...
Have you ever wondered about how abstract—and exploitable—can ARPG mechanics get?
And by best, I mean, the most efficient way to finish an ARPG. Let’s develop this idea. An ARPG can be thought of as a series of Fight-Reward cycles, with increasing variety of attack choices and scaled difficulty and rewards....
When design spaces and problems grow, it can sure be daunting to maintain balance amidst chaos.
Literally, a game without balance breaks down, falling apart. The same could be said about your life, a company, your body, etc. Games are sequences of decisions, exercises in willpower, each choice carrying an irreversible fate...
A simple quote about efficiency gets analyzed, to give insights on how much time to spend training or working.
Abe Lincoln said: “If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” I believe he was right, for there are problems that can be solved swifter (if at all) if the tool is better...
A multiplatform solution for game building that really needs to be updated.
Back in the day when Flash did not have Stage3D, wannabe game developers like me wanted more performance from it. My games had to be better than every other playable kludge at Kongregate and Newgrounds...
An AI that has proven to be very good—but not excellent—for many different problem types.
This yet to be named AI, can find good enough solutions for multi-variable problems; and that’s it. Have you got a natural phenomenon to infer? Input your scientific data into the program...
The Universal Crypto Currency Trading Platform. One place for all of your trades.
The program can search every exchange for complex arbitrage opportunities. It performs a detailed, exhaustive search including each and every buying/selling decision...
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Argentina’s new president, Mauricio Macri, is good news for the legal status of Bitcoin in the country. He is the one behind the sponsorship of the First Bitcoin Forum in Buenos Aires, earlier in July 2015...
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If the Bitcoin blockchain validates financial transactions, why not use it to validate other things from the real world? That’s what startup founders Franco Amati, ...
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This week the Bitcoin Uncensored Podcast with Junseth and Chris Derose interviewed the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics, Eugene Fama. Bitcoin Uncensored has given CoinTelegraph the first peek...
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Yesterday afternoon EST, a small Spanish Bitcoin association posted a mysterious press release on several Facebook Bitcoin groups, stating that the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto’s addresses were subject to “movement.”...
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CoinTelegraph spoke with Jose Rodriguez, the VP of payments at Bitso, a Mexican based Bitcoin exchange, payment processor and Ripple Gateway...
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For outsiders, Venezuela is a big unknown. For insiders, the country is a subsidiary of economic hell. Everybody knows Venezuela’s struck with hyperinflation, but that’s like knowing someone with Ebola has a fever....
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July 31 saw participants such as the World Bank and other financial elite from Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan gather in Argentina and Brazil to witness the potential of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, particularly for the Latin American region...
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No sane person can deny the many benefits of cryptocurrency compared to fiat, and certainly the government can’t deny them, either. The age of e-money seems to be taking off...
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According to owner and president Dave Bradley, Bitcoin Brains is perhaps the world’s first full-service, brick-and-mortar Bitcoin store in the world — certainly in Canada...
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Ponzi is a type of scam where you promise people earnings while you don’t produce anything, and pay them with newcomers’ money...
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In response to a lengthy NY Times article, the Casa Rosada’s Community Manager posted on the @CasaRosadaAR Twitter account what would soon echo throughout social networks: “Apparently bitcoin is disrupting our economy now (?)”...
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In the event of an attack, who would defend Bitcoin? The fast answer would be its users—a distributed collective of like-minded individuals. But would they be enough?...
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Latin American Social Networking Giant Taringa! has started Taringa! Creadores a revenue sharing program to start paying its users bitcoin for their content contributions...
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SatoshiTango is one of Argentina’s most well-known Bitcoin market makers. Since its beginning, the startup has differentiated itself through ease of use and a user-centric approach...
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Blockchain is just a distributed ledger, a database of sorts. Being simplistic, games can be thought as a database too, one with a very fancy UI. Why would any game need the blockchain?...