brwong

I learn. I develop.

I was listening to an interview of Peter Thiel, and he said something that caught my attention. The quote is, "If crypto is libertarian, then AI is communist." This little nugget of wisdom helped me piece together some stray thoughts I've had, between which I previously had not made any connections....

This is a lead-up article to How Blockchains Work that I will publish soon. Cryptographic hash functions are vital to the blockchain, so I'm writing this to give a little bit of background. However, these functions are useful in so many applications, that it merits its own explanation.

A couple days ago, I discovered that my experiments with IPFS has racked up our home internet's data usage, and that we were approaching our plan's limit. Since then - and over the coming week from now - we have been limiting our internet usage. I've been downloading interesting videos from YouTube...