Changelog

New Pages

• Saylor’s Bitcoin thesis — 101 words
• Optimal piece size in BitTorrent — 345 words
• Bootstrapping in computer systems — 179 words
• Notes on How Elon Thinks About Petrol Cars and Electric Cars — 63 words

Edited Pages

• Cryptography and blockchain:

  • - Michael Saylor - see his bitcoin thesis.
  • - Arthur Hayes.
  • - Philosophy.
  • - Saylor’s Bitcoin thesis.

• Culture:

  • ## Consciousness.
  • - The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (podcast)
  • - The World According to Rene Girard
  • - Never Play to the Gallery - David Bowie

• Distributed systems:

  • - Reliable system from unreliable parts:
  • - Consensus (Paxos/Tendermint): failure detector (timeouts) + leader-based system from unreliable nodes
  • ## Networking.
  • - Random linear coding is quite interesting.
  • - Onion routing - used by Tor.
  • - Notes on Google Bigtable

• Comparing IPFS and BitTorrent in 2023.:

• Maths:

  • - On Tables of Random Numbers - Kolomogrov complexity.

• Misc:

  • - Mathematics

• A translation book between software and machine learning:

  • * intelligence = prediction
  • * ??? = differentiable (some things are not differentiable)

• Programming:

  • - P2P networks: BitTorrent

• Source code archives:

• Science:

  • - growing plants using photons is like putting a solar panel on an iPhone. It’s really ridiculous if you think about it. Think about electric cars for an example.
  • - What’s inside the digits of pi?
  • - intelligence = prediction = compression (hutter)
  • - you can convert any ML model (like an LLM) which outputs probabilities to a compression algorithm by using arithmetic coding
  • - arithmetic coding converts data to a single float. it turns out, base-10 is a special case of arithmetic coding for uniform probabilities 1/10.
  • - is pi just the output of an arithmetic coding, for which we lack the ML model?