Notions of value of #currencies such as Bitcoin and the US Dollar presuppose that the exact value of each coin equals its exchange rate or price at each point in time, ie, the price of one coin is only ever defined in terms of another. Alternative notions of value are also defined in relative terms […]
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Date: 1 April 2022 Yaron Katzir is Vice President Product Management in OrboGraph Ltd. Yaron Joined Sapience to study the utility value of currencies.
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Last week’s DevBizOps blog entry (“Developer Documentation: Developers don’t like writing docs, what’s the alternative?“) asked: How programmers can get their answers from documentation, and are there alternatives? As ever Mark’s post advises on questions every developer has to ask in understanding software. Open source or proprietary, documentation is necessary either for using, extending, or
Facebook has recently revised their privacy policy by virtually admitting to errors made in the 2016 presidential elections campaign. But that’s clearly not enough. Is legislation required? Is government intervention appropriate? Should Facebook be broken up? What about other information giants? Here to help us answer this question is the term ‘policy vacuum’ introduced in 2005 by Jim Moor, a professor of ethics in Dartmouth College and celebrated technology ethicist.
Should Facebook be broken up? The lesson of Policy Vacuums Read More »
HSBC will upgrade their blockchain technology to control $20 billion in assets by March 2020. Digital Vault, the blockchain HSBC announced today, will control assets referred to as “private placements”, which are securities bought on private markets. Digital Vault will use distributed ledger technology to “give investors real-time access to their records”.
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Last month Deep Mind’s latest AI broke another record, winning 5-0 against one of the world’s strongest professional players. This victory forces us to revisit our preconceptions and recognise how creative machine learning has become.
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Researchers at Sapience.org foresee market instability intensifying by the computer trading ‘arms race’ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sterling’s Flash Crash was long overdue—and there will be many more Read More »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sapience Project announces: TOFFLER FORESIGHT AWARD Celebrating Visionary and Prescient Futurism
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We are delighted to announce that The Singularity Lab PC, a small startup in Greece and the owner of Magicpress, has donated-in-kind €612 to Sapience Project. Thank you!
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