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Claude Code Setup: The DevOps Guide Nobody Warned You About
Sick of manual Claude Code setup? Automate your config easily with CLI tricks, custom API keys, MCP servers, permissions, and hidd...
Learning About GANs Showed Me Why AI Needs More Local Data
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a type of machine learning model. GANs are used to generate images of entirely new cats...
Understanding Parallelism and Performance in Databricks PySpark
Efficient PySpark performance in Databricks depends on correctly balancing executors, cores, and partitions. This guide walks thro...
Abundant Oracles: How Much Data Is Too Much Data?
Blockchain applications live and die by the data they consume. In decentralized finance (DeFi), gaming, and beyond, smart contract...
What Reddit’s “Hug of Death” Taught the Internet About Scaling
Reddit’s early scaling journey is a masterclass in real-world system design—going from a duct-taped Python app to a distributed, r...
The Psychology of Scarcity Messages: Lessons from Real-World Experiments in Trav...
Scarcity messages like “Only 1 room left!” really do drive bookings — but not for the reasons people admit. We ran real experiment...
Why “Immediacy Bias” Might Be the Secret to Faster, Smarter Blockchain Transacti...
This section compares deterministic and randomized allocation functions within discount models where miner ratios and time-based d...
How the Greedy Algorithm Shapes Miner Rewards in Blockchain Networks
This section of the article models blockchain mining as a game between an adversarial “nature” and a miner with incomplete knowled...
How Auction Theory Shapes Smarter Blockchain Transaction Fee Models
This paper examines how auction theory and randomized scheduling algorithms can improve transaction fee mechanisms (TFMs) in block...
The Algorithmic Evolution of Blockchain Fee Design
This section examines the gap in current blockchain Transaction Fee Mechanism (TFM) research, noting that most models assume myopi...
Modeling Miner Incentives in Discounted Transaction Fee Mechanisms
This paper explores how blockchain miners decide which transactions to include in limited-size blocks when future profits are disc...
Fed’s Anna Paulson Backs Rate Cuts, Downplays Trump Tariff Impact
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Anna Paulson has shared her thoughts on the economic outlook, while backing more Fe...
