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Month: September 2018
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Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains – How Are They Doing After 10 Years?
2 comments on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains – How Are They Doing After 10 Years?Bitcoin was created about a decade ago, with the release of the original design paper, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, under the pen name of Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin aimed to become a decentralized cryptocurrency and digital payment system that would enable the secure exchange of digital money without the need for central government authorities…
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Fewer workers is one of the key reasons for our stagnant economic growth. Over the coming decades, the labor force is expected to shrink in most parts of the world as fertility rates continue to decline, especially in advanced and emerging economies. The US labor force is growing very slowly while fertility rates keep hitting…
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Social physics first emerged over 200 years ago as an attempt to understand society and human behavior using laws similar to those of the physical sciences. But, it wasn’t until the past two decades that we finally had enough data, powerful computers and sophisticated mathematical algorithms to develop quantitative theories of human social interactions. We…
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Deep learning and related machine learning advances have played a central role in AI’s recent achievements, giving computers the ability to be trained by ingesting and analyzing large amounts of data instead of being explicitly programmed. In just the past two years, Google’s deep-learning-based AlphaGo defeated the world’s top Go players, surprising most AI experts…