Ad hoc heuristics for approaching complex systems and the "unknown unknowns". Techne & episteme. Verum ipsum factum. In the words of Archimedes: "Give me a lever and a place to rest it... or I shall kill a hostage every hour." Rants, share-worthy pieces and occasional insights and revelations.
14 Feb 2020 3 minute read 3 comments rhyzom
Thought I'd post/share my freshly updated curated list of bookmarks. Imagine some of you may find things worthwhile - and maybe also add/contribute something relevant I may have been unaware of. Plus, just also good to have it here for myself / own u...
13 Feb 2020 1 minute read 4 comments rhyzom
So, that's interesting. I admit I haven't had the opportunity to really keep up with the developments taking place on the IOTA front, but just recently discovered the research discussion forum at iota.cafe which is pretty cool. So, Hans Moog posted s...
13 Feb 2020 4 minute read 2 comments rhyzom
Quantitative or mathematical finance is applied mathematics which deals with modeling of financial markets and it's mostly focused in two areas - derivatives pricing and risk/portfolio management. It overlaps with the related domains of computational...
8 Feb 2020 2 minute read 1 comment rhyzom
That's a really interesting concept I just came across in a Medium post by Taiyang Zhang (better known for his Ren project). Posted late December last year, so fairly recent. What he's proposing is a DeFi-oriented DAO where participants pool their ca...
31 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
Mythril is a security analysis tool for smart contracts running on EVM-compatible blockchains (targeting the EVM one way or another). It was introduced at HITBSecConf 2018 and detects a range of known and documented security issues and vulnerabiliti...
31 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
Vyper is a very nice, clean and simple python-like language for writing contract logic on Ethereum, one that has been under active development for some time now and while usable, mature in many ways and increasingly popular it isn't yet considered to...
31 Jan 2020 3 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
David Iach has just recently proposed a rather interesting and, in my opinion, very sensible alternative to the ICO/IEO models for crowdfunding/fundraising in launching a project or a startup. ICOs have already demonstrated to be far from ideal a way...
31 Jan 2020 1 minute read 4 comments rhyzom
Security researcher Harry Denley just tweeted the following few days ago: Shodan is a search engine for Internet connected devices that is well known among security professional and penetration testers. Security swiss-army knife Linux distributions...
30 Jan 2020 2 minute read 9 comments rhyzom
On Jan. 27th 2020 Texas-based Vertalo officially announced a transition from Ethereum to Tezos citing a number of factors which have influenced the decision and which make Tezos more preferable for their purposes (among which transaction speed, netwo...
29 Jan 2020 3 minute read 4 comments rhyzom
USDtz is the stablecoin used in the Tezos ecosystem. It's an interesting and fairly unique stablecoin design and an impressive feat of (decentralized) financial engineering implementing a set of mechanisms in maintaining the peg to the US dollar. US...
