Part of my series debunking bad economics on the internet

TLDR: No, but it has different risks

I’ve recently been featured in a two-part interview on Aviv Milner’s excellent podcast “When the Music Stops”. We talk about bad economics in the cryptocurrency community and the online gambling ecosystem.

Tether is a fraud on the scale of Madoff or Enron and we’re in the middle of a bubble for the history books.

TL;DR People with real money betting on inflation think the 10 year inflation rate will be around 2.4%. Also, Economics Explained makes bad content.

This post is to explain my position on bitcoin and hopefully expedite the disappearance of the ecological scourge that is proof-of-work blockchain tech.

TL;DR: GNNs can provide wins over simpler embedding methods, but we’re at a point where other research directions matter more

This is an excuse to have a blog post on the economics of Bitcoin to refer people to.

It’s 2020, Canada is barely out of COVID, and here I am launching a physical business with my wife [footnote]I’m still also working as a data scientist. That explains my lack of blogging for the last few months[/footnote]. As someone who’s worked behind a computer his whole life, I learned a few things:

Since streaming services took over most TV show production, I wondered why we’re still stuck with strictly 22 or 45 minute TV shows.These timeslots were defined in the TV era to cleanly schedule the “primetime” slows and to keep 15min per hour of ad timeslots. None of this matters in the 2020 streaming landscape.