This weekend was the #MITBitcoinExpo. Attendance was down from last year, but it was filled with interesting people and talks.

2008 was a historic US election year, with turnout at historic highs. I think this year may be another such year, so I decided to repost my experience as an election judge so people can glimpse what it

Recently, Flow Pharma posted a press release about FlowVax, their therapeutic cancer vaccine technology: “In order to make a personalized therapeutic cancer vaccine, you have to know the genomic information

Originally posted on the Elixxir blog. The current definition of Proof of Stake is too broad and generic to be useful. It does not imply any information about the security or insecurity of a platform.

For the human race to continue in the far future, we're going to have to live beyond planet Earth. Here are the 5 best options in our own solar system. The 5 best options for colonizing in our solar system

This week the Elixxir team released a technical brief on the project, a first look into the design of the Elixxir platform. After months of preparation, we were thrilled to be able announce the project

I've been thinking about building a tool to help me play Alphabear, so I thought I'd write up some notes on data structures used for word problems. An interesting feature of Alphabear not covered by tools

Computer Science education teaches "Big O" notation for describing complexity upper bounds, and Big-Theta and Big-Omega get introduced as well. Mathematicians and complexity theorists sometimes

This midterm election season, some in the press are calling blockchain the next big thing, enabling online voting and generally being a key part of solving all election security and transparency problems.

Hmmm should I put this post in my AI series? Well, this is a technique that is used in a practice for machine learning, so if a machine can learn something, we can say, I guess, that it’s intelligent.

In 2008, I started working with Kieran Harty on a startup focused on storage for virtual machines, called Tintri. We got venture capital funding and built a successful product that our customers love.

The Great Courses Plus is currently available to watch through a web browser to almost anyone in the world and optimized for the US market. The Great Courses Plus is currently working to both optimize

Welcome to the 72nd issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team. SteemSTEM aims to make Steem a better place for STEM, a task which we believe crucial for the

Yeah, thanks for your donation! (I'm being totally facetious now.) Every once in a while I check my Steem wallet to see how far away I am from being a dolphin and lo, and behold! messages to promote my

There's an algorithm which solves SAT instances in polynomial time, if and only if P=NP. If P=NP, then it runs in polynomial time. If P is not equal to NP, it runs in the best possible non-polynomial time

We rely on the secret ballot to prevent vote selling and voter intimidation, but the "secret" ballot is not very secret. In this post I will discuss problems that very few people know about or

Hilbert's Tenth Problem from his famous list published in 1900, asks whether it is possible to create an algorithm which solves every Diophantine equation, that is, one whose solutions must be integers.

There are four major mechanisms of value transfer in Steem: Transfer of money to and from exchanges, where it may be bought by other Steem members or by speculators not involved with Steem directly.

They look young but act older and they are in charge of their own businesses. The pups' vehicles are larger on the inside, which would also explain the physics issues. Have you paid attention to what Rubbble's