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Engineer Paul Baran made a number of breakthroughs that are relevant to the public, decentralized technologies to this day, including “message blocks” (a component in blockchain technology) and advocacy for private digital networks via cryptography.

Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs

The most interesting problems in the world exist at the intersection of disciplines, but it is uncommon for scientists to reach across their disciplines and collaborate with other scientists outside of their discipline

Michael Mauboussin • Michael Mauboussin — How Great Investors Make Decisions, Harnessing The Wisdom (vs. Madness) of Crowds, Lessons from Race Horses, and More (#659) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

Technologist Vinnie Mirchandani dedicated an entire book to applying the polymath analogy to the twenty-first-century corporation. It is the BPs and the GEs that are the ‘New Polymaths’; multinational companies that excel in multiple technologies and synthesise multiple talent pools from different sectors are today's Leonardos and Ben Franklins, he

Waqas Ahmed • The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility

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The bank bought a Hadoop cluster with fifty server nodes and eight hundred processor cores that is capable of handling a petabyte of data.

Thomas H. Davenport • Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities

A look at Meta's planetary-scale computing infrastructure, including some key lessons from its development, as the company

used the average number of different people phoned during a month (essentially the sympathy group, or 15-layer) to explore changes in network size with age.

Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

Now think about how the math continues to cascade through the network. Princeton hopes that I continue to be an active recruiting node on the network, providing the students with great employment options. But my cost/reward math doesn’t work. The denominator is zero. So Princeton lost a recruiter node in their network for now. Further, now those st... See more

nfx.com • Your Life Is Driven by Network Effects

Decentralized Science

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