Fascinating study of countries' reported COVID cases using Benford's Law. If you do not trust your country's reported number of cases/deaths, this is a statistical way to check their veracity.
Benford's Law says that leading digit of numbers from real data sets follow a certain distribution that favors small digits. Eg. the leading digit should be 1 about 30% of the time, 9 only 5% of the time.
When people make up numbers, they typically violate this distribution.
So @zekib collated data from many countries, and analyzed them using Benford's Law. You can see the results on page 27 of the following link.
The reported case numbers from Switzerland follow Benford's Law pretty well.
Case numbers from Russia, Turkey, and the US clearly diverge from what Benford would predict.
Keep in mind that the test is statistical. It needs large numbers, and it needs the data to span multiple orders of magnitude. Even then, a divergence doesn't immediately mean malfeasance; there may be other explanations.
Nevertheless, many people distrust official numbers, and this is a way to perform a sanity check.
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Please don't get taken in by another project that is faster at inventing new terminology than it is at transferring value. That is all.
This is especially true for projects that are trying to adopt technical terminology from the humanities.
Remember "effective altruism"? The silicon valley cover story for stealing everyone's money? The head guy, who was inventing enough highfalutin words per minute to fill a few humanities journals, just had his institute shut down, after Sam used his ideology to power fraud.
1/N After much demand, it's finally here: a proposed roadmap for AvalancheGo, or how to build the future of next-gen blockchain networks by leveraging all the best components of of monolithic and modular designs into one.
Note, this non-exhaustive and requires ACP approvals!
2/N The roadmap is divided across three major pillars:
1. Modular programmability: Making the building of permissionless, highly customizable, sovereign chains best-in-class. 2. Monolithic performance: Increasing performance of the monolithic stack to 100K+ tps / chain
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3. System reliability: Improvements to time to finality and overall system reliability.
For modular programmability, it is all about upgrading subnets into powerful, sovereign chains. This includes:
Is the Twitter/X app as buggy for you as it is for me?
1. I see my own tweets twice in my own threads, even though they were posted once. Clear threading error incoming recently posted tweets.
2. Sent messages seem to go into limbo for a while, until they are posted. I tried setting that send-wait period to its lowest setting but there's still a wait period. This is probably why interactions are down -- ever since @elonmusk took over, the app has become laggy.
1/7 Sound ways to do fee isolation, a quick thread.
There are multiple ways to do fee-isolation on chain. For those that need a refresher, fee isolation is the idea of localizing fees based on some specific restriction that the protocol may want to enforce.
2/7 For example, one thing that can be done is if a smart contract is taking up a lot of traffic, then that smart contract will need to pay more than others.
One form of this is what Solana does. This is my understanding based on the code review (please correct me if I'm wrong).
3/7 Solana has 4 execution cores which process txs in parallel as long as they don't conflict. If they do, they form queues behind the core. The priority fee then executes txs in the order of the priority fee. It is not enforced by chain, just by the block-building heuristic.
While these ideas are in it's infancy, there are ways distributed ledgers can ensure intellectual property rights are preserved, and attribution can still flow back to creators.
The launch of AvaCloud addresses many challenges businesses face with blockchain technology. AvaCloud is a Web3 Launchpad and a landmark step for massive blockchain adoption.
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