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I-like-foodon Nightshade: Near Protocol Sharding Design [pdf]

FYI: found a pretty neat paper describes a new sharding design for proof-of-stake blockchains

I think the company that's building it just announced or opened up a beta program too

I-like-foodon TherML – Thermodynamics of Machine Learning

Related paper/blog post by baez! It's quite interesting and very readable (assuming a background in ugrad thermo). He ends up creating algorithmic analogs to measures like temperature, energy etc much like in this.

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/algorithmic-...

I-like-foodon Bitcoin D3.js chart

This seems like a direct use of the dc.js demo https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/

I-like-foodon Show HN: Reverse engineering the Chefsteps Joule immersion circulator

I had a lot of fun with this, and wanted to share/document the process of reverse engineering I went through. If you happen to own a Joule and want to give it a whirl, here's the chrome app store link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-joule/lifgg...