Blockchains in Space: Non-Euclidean Spacetime and Tokenized Thinking - Two requirements for the large-scale beyond-terrestrial expansion of human intelligence into the universe are the ability to operate in diverse spatiotemporal regimes and to instantiate thinking in various formats. Newtonian mechanics describe everyday reality, but Einsteinian physics is needed for GPS and the orbital technologies of telescopes and spacecraft. Space agencies already integrate the Earth-day and the slightly-longer Martian-sol. A more substantial move into space requires facility with non-Euclidean spacetimes. One challenge is that general relativity and quantum mechanics are non-interoperable. However, the theories can be formulated together when considering black holes and quantum computing since geometric theories and gauge theories are both field-based. Quantum blockchains instantiate blockchain logic in quantum computational environments. Blockchains have their own temporal regime (blocktime: the number of blocks for an event to occur), and hence quantum blocktime is a non-classical functionality for operating in diverse spatiotemporal regimes. Thinking is a rule-based activity that is unrestricted by medium. Central to thinking is concepts, which are referenced by words. Word-types include universals, particulars, and indexicals which can be encoded into a formal system as thought-tokens, and registered to blockchains. Blockchains are contemplated as an automation technology for asteroid mining and space settlement construction, and thought-tokening adds an intelligence layer. Time and tokenized thinking come together in the idea of smart networks in space. In blockchain quantum smart networks, spatiotemporal regimes and thought-tokens are simply different value types (asset classes) coordinated with blockchain logic, towards the aim of extending human capabilities into the farther reaches of space.
The slides of the tutorial "Graph-based Management and Mining of Blockchain Data" by Arijit Khan (https://twitter.com/rijitk) and Cuneyt Akcora (https://twitter.com/cuneytgurcan) at the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2022) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Blockchain Crypto Jamming: Subverting the Instrumental Economy
The ultimate subversion is money, refusing the pecuniary resources of the state. This project applies a philosophical and critical theory lens to examine the use of nomenclature in one of the most radical longitudinal transformations in contemporary times, the shift away from state-run monetary resources towards cryptocurrencies and smart contracts in citizen-determined decentralized financial networks.
A Cryptoeconomic Theory of Social Change is presented in which linguistic progression serves as a tracking mechanism. The steps to lasting change have their own vocabulary (Brandom). First, there is the social critique, the complaint about what is wrong, the negative side (Adorno and Horkheimer highlight instrumental reason and the empty culture industry). Second, there is the antidote, an alternative that can overcome the complaint, the positive side. Third, the solution becomes the new reality, and as a consequence, the whole of reality is now seen in this context, adopting its vocabulary (“fiat health” system for example, referring to the antiquated method). The social movement graduates from language game (Wittgenstein) to form of life (Jaeggi).
Blockchains are Occupy with teeth, notable in the level of personal responsibility-taking by individuals to steward their own financial resources. The crypto citizen is not merely trading CryptoKitties and Bored Ape Yacht Club tokens, but getting blocktime loans through DeFi liquidity pools instead of fiat banks, earning labor income in crypto, and shifting all economic activity to blockchain networks. The artworld signals mainstream acceptance with Christie’s non-fungible token digital artwork auctioned from Beeple for $61 million. At the global level, coin communities constitute a new form of Kardashev-level (planetary-scale) democracy. Blockchains emerge as a robust smart network automation technology for super-class projects ranging from space-faring to quantum computing and thought-tokening. The further stakes of this work are having a language-based theory of social change with broad applicability to social transformation.
The document is a project report on developing a blockchain-based banking system. It includes an introduction, background study on blockchain technology concepts like blocks and mining, a detailed design section describing transaction processing and block creation, and an implementation section showing smart contract code for creating tokens and implementing standard ERC20 functionality. The goal is to upgrade existing banking systems to leverage blockchain technology for processing payments in a decentralized manner without a central authority.
Methods for Securing Spacecraft Tasking and Control via an Enterprise Ethereu...David Wood
Presentation at ICSSC 2019 (see http://www.kaconf.org) associated with the following academic paper:
David Hyland-Wood, Peter Robinson, Roberto Saltini, Sandra Johnson, Christopher Hare. Method for Securing Spacecraft Tasking and Control via an Enterprise Ethereum Blockchain. Proc. 37th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), 29 October - 1 November 2019.
Blockchain-Based Internet of Things: Review, Current Trends, Applications, an...AlAtfat
Advances in technology always had an impact on our lives. Several emerging technologies, most notably the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain, present transformative opportunities. The blockchain is a decentralized, transparent ledger for storing transaction data. By effectively establishing trust between nodes, it has the remarkable potential to design unique architectures for most enterprise applications. When it first appeared as a platform for anonymous cryptocurrency trading, such as Bitcoin, on a public network platform, blockchain piqued the interest of researchers. The chain is completed when each block connects to the previous block. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of networked devices that can exchange data and be managed and controlled via unique identifiers. Automation, wireless sensor networks, embedded systems, and control systems are just a few of the well-known technologies that power the IoT. Converging advancements in real-time analytics, machine learning, commodity sensors, and embedded systems demonstrate the rapid expansion of the IoT paradigm. The Internet of Things refers to the global networking of millions of networked smart gadgets that gather and exchange data. Integrating the IoT and blockchain technology would be a significant step toward developing a reliable, secure, and comprehensive method of storing data collected by smart devices. Internet-enabled devices in the IoT can send data to private blockchain networks, creating immutable records of all transaction history. As a result, these networks produce unchangeable logs of all transactions. This research looks at how blockchain technology and the Internet of Things interact to understand better how devices can communicate with one another. The blockchain-enabled Internet of Things architecture proposed in this article is a useful framework for integrating blockchain technology and the Internet of Things using the most cutting-edge tools and methods currently available. This article discusses the principles of blockchain-based IoT, consensus methods, reviews, difficulties, prospects, applications, trends, and communication between IoT nodes in an integrated framework.
Blockchain-Based Internet of Things: Review, Current Trends, Applications, an...AlAtfat
This document provides a comprehensive literature review of blockchain-based Internet of Things (IoT) networks. It begins with introductions to blockchain technology and IoT. It discusses consensus methods, blockchain architecture layers, trends, and the role of blockchain in IoT. It explores communication among IoT nodes in blockchain-IoT frameworks and associated challenges. It also reviews applications and provides comparisons to related work. The document aims to analyze trends in blockchain approaches and tools for IoT environments to explore opportunities and challenges in further integrating blockchain and IoT technologies.
AdS Biology and Quantum Information ScienceMelanie Swan
Quantum Information Science is a fast-growing discipline advancing many areas of science such as cryptography, chemistry, finance, space science, and biology. In particular AdS/Biology, an interpretation of the AdS/CFT correspondence in biological systems, is showing promise in new biophysical mathematical models of topology (Chern-Simons (solvable QFT), knotting, and compaction). For example, one model of neurodegenerative disease takes a topological view of protein buildup (AB plaques and tau tangles in Alzheimer’s disease, alpha-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease, TDP-43 in ALS). AdS/Neuroscience methods are implicated in integrating multiscalar systems with different bulk-boundary space-time regimes (e.g. oncology tumors, fMRI + EEG imaging), entanglement (correlation) renormalization across scales (MERA, random tensor networks, melonic diagrams), entropy (possible system states), entanglement entropy (interrelated fluctuations and correlations across system tiers), and non-ergodicity (implied efficiency mechanisms since biology does not cycle through all possible configurations per temperature (thermotaxis), chemotaxis, and energy cues); Maxwell’s demon of biology (partition functions), conservation across system scales (biophysical gauge symmetry (system-wide conserved quantity)), and the presence of codes (DNA, codons, neural codes). A multiscalar AdS/CFT correspondence is mobilized in 4-tier ecosystem models (light-plankton-krill-whale and ion-synapse-neuron-network (AdS/Brain)).
The main things you need to know about blockchain:
+ What Is A Blockchain. Theory
+ Ordering Facts
+ Blocks
+ Mining
+ Money and Cryptocurrencies
+ Contracts
The slides of the tutorial "Graph-based Management and Mining of Blockchain Data" by Arijit Khan (https://twitter.com/rijitk) and Cuneyt Akcora (https://twitter.com/cuneytgurcan) at the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2022) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Blockchain Crypto Jamming: Subverting the Instrumental Economy
The ultimate subversion is money, refusing the pecuniary resources of the state. This project applies a philosophical and critical theory lens to examine the use of nomenclature in one of the most radical longitudinal transformations in contemporary times, the shift away from state-run monetary resources towards cryptocurrencies and smart contracts in citizen-determined decentralized financial networks.
A Cryptoeconomic Theory of Social Change is presented in which linguistic progression serves as a tracking mechanism. The steps to lasting change have their own vocabulary (Brandom). First, there is the social critique, the complaint about what is wrong, the negative side (Adorno and Horkheimer highlight instrumental reason and the empty culture industry). Second, there is the antidote, an alternative that can overcome the complaint, the positive side. Third, the solution becomes the new reality, and as a consequence, the whole of reality is now seen in this context, adopting its vocabulary (“fiat health” system for example, referring to the antiquated method). The social movement graduates from language game (Wittgenstein) to form of life (Jaeggi).
Blockchains are Occupy with teeth, notable in the level of personal responsibility-taking by individuals to steward their own financial resources. The crypto citizen is not merely trading CryptoKitties and Bored Ape Yacht Club tokens, but getting blocktime loans through DeFi liquidity pools instead of fiat banks, earning labor income in crypto, and shifting all economic activity to blockchain networks. The artworld signals mainstream acceptance with Christie’s non-fungible token digital artwork auctioned from Beeple for $61 million. At the global level, coin communities constitute a new form of Kardashev-level (planetary-scale) democracy. Blockchains emerge as a robust smart network automation technology for super-class projects ranging from space-faring to quantum computing and thought-tokening. The further stakes of this work are having a language-based theory of social change with broad applicability to social transformation.
The document is a project report on developing a blockchain-based banking system. It includes an introduction, background study on blockchain technology concepts like blocks and mining, a detailed design section describing transaction processing and block creation, and an implementation section showing smart contract code for creating tokens and implementing standard ERC20 functionality. The goal is to upgrade existing banking systems to leverage blockchain technology for processing payments in a decentralized manner without a central authority.
Methods for Securing Spacecraft Tasking and Control via an Enterprise Ethereu...David Wood
Presentation at ICSSC 2019 (see http://www.kaconf.org) associated with the following academic paper:
David Hyland-Wood, Peter Robinson, Roberto Saltini, Sandra Johnson, Christopher Hare. Method for Securing Spacecraft Tasking and Control via an Enterprise Ethereum Blockchain. Proc. 37th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), 29 October - 1 November 2019.
Blockchain-Based Internet of Things: Review, Current Trends, Applications, an...AlAtfat
Advances in technology always had an impact on our lives. Several emerging technologies, most notably the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain, present transformative opportunities. The blockchain is a decentralized, transparent ledger for storing transaction data. By effectively establishing trust between nodes, it has the remarkable potential to design unique architectures for most enterprise applications. When it first appeared as a platform for anonymous cryptocurrency trading, such as Bitcoin, on a public network platform, blockchain piqued the interest of researchers. The chain is completed when each block connects to the previous block. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of networked devices that can exchange data and be managed and controlled via unique identifiers. Automation, wireless sensor networks, embedded systems, and control systems are just a few of the well-known technologies that power the IoT. Converging advancements in real-time analytics, machine learning, commodity sensors, and embedded systems demonstrate the rapid expansion of the IoT paradigm. The Internet of Things refers to the global networking of millions of networked smart gadgets that gather and exchange data. Integrating the IoT and blockchain technology would be a significant step toward developing a reliable, secure, and comprehensive method of storing data collected by smart devices. Internet-enabled devices in the IoT can send data to private blockchain networks, creating immutable records of all transaction history. As a result, these networks produce unchangeable logs of all transactions. This research looks at how blockchain technology and the Internet of Things interact to understand better how devices can communicate with one another. The blockchain-enabled Internet of Things architecture proposed in this article is a useful framework for integrating blockchain technology and the Internet of Things using the most cutting-edge tools and methods currently available. This article discusses the principles of blockchain-based IoT, consensus methods, reviews, difficulties, prospects, applications, trends, and communication between IoT nodes in an integrated framework.
Blockchain-Based Internet of Things: Review, Current Trends, Applications, an...AlAtfat
This document provides a comprehensive literature review of blockchain-based Internet of Things (IoT) networks. It begins with introductions to blockchain technology and IoT. It discusses consensus methods, blockchain architecture layers, trends, and the role of blockchain in IoT. It explores communication among IoT nodes in blockchain-IoT frameworks and associated challenges. It also reviews applications and provides comparisons to related work. The document aims to analyze trends in blockchain approaches and tools for IoT environments to explore opportunities and challenges in further integrating blockchain and IoT technologies.
AdS Biology and Quantum Information ScienceMelanie Swan
Quantum Information Science is a fast-growing discipline advancing many areas of science such as cryptography, chemistry, finance, space science, and biology. In particular AdS/Biology, an interpretation of the AdS/CFT correspondence in biological systems, is showing promise in new biophysical mathematical models of topology (Chern-Simons (solvable QFT), knotting, and compaction). For example, one model of neurodegenerative disease takes a topological view of protein buildup (AB plaques and tau tangles in Alzheimer’s disease, alpha-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease, TDP-43 in ALS). AdS/Neuroscience methods are implicated in integrating multiscalar systems with different bulk-boundary space-time regimes (e.g. oncology tumors, fMRI + EEG imaging), entanglement (correlation) renormalization across scales (MERA, random tensor networks, melonic diagrams), entropy (possible system states), entanglement entropy (interrelated fluctuations and correlations across system tiers), and non-ergodicity (implied efficiency mechanisms since biology does not cycle through all possible configurations per temperature (thermotaxis), chemotaxis, and energy cues); Maxwell’s demon of biology (partition functions), conservation across system scales (biophysical gauge symmetry (system-wide conserved quantity)), and the presence of codes (DNA, codons, neural codes). A multiscalar AdS/CFT correspondence is mobilized in 4-tier ecosystem models (light-plankton-krill-whale and ion-synapse-neuron-network (AdS/Brain)).
The main things you need to know about blockchain:
+ What Is A Blockchain. Theory
+ Ordering Facts
+ Blocks
+ Mining
+ Money and Cryptocurrencies
+ Contracts
Demystifying Blockchain for businessesScott Turner
Blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and permanently. It works by linking transaction records into blocks secured by cryptography, forming a chain. Tampering with a block would change its hash and break the chain. Blockchains use consensus algorithms like proof-of-work and proof-of-stake to validate transactions without centralization. Smart contracts enable blockchain applications. Supply chain management may be a promising application area due to blockchain's decentralization, immutability, and transparency. Examples include partnerships between IBM/Walmart and Everledger for provenance tracking.
How Blockchain Technology Is Evolving In The CloudShikhaKonda
https://go-dgtl.com/whitepaper/how-blockchain-technology-is-evolving-in-the-cloud/?utm_source=offpage&utm_medium=thirdparty&utm_campaign=alo-seo - Cloud and blockchain are increasingly becoming the most valuable combinations to enhance the security of enterprise data living on the cloud. Learn more
How Blockchain Technology Is Evolving In The Cloud - GoDgtl.pdfPeeterParkar
Blockchain technology is evolving to provide security benefits when used with cloud computing. Major cloud platforms like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft now offer blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) to securely store data in the cloud using blockchain's decentralized, immutable ledger. Blockchain addresses cloud computing's security risks like data loss and lack of transparency. Its use in the cloud is expected to grow significantly, expanding to applications in digital identity, payments, supply chain management, and more.
Blockchain technology can be applied to space applications like supply chain management, healthcare, and finance. SpaceChain is building a decentralized blockchain infrastructure in space using aerospace engineering and blockchain development expertise. Blockchain uses a distributed ledger of encrypted blocks to securely record transactions without intermediaries. It incentivizes participation and deters hacking through economic incentives like rewards for adding blocks and penalties for malicious acts.
Introduction to Blockchain Web3 SessionDSCIITPatna
Blockchain technology has been around since 2008 with the introduction of Bitcoin. It utilizes a decentralized digital ledger called a blockchain, which consists of records called blocks that are linked together in a growing list. Each block contains transaction data as well as a reference to the previous block. This allows transactions to be recorded in a verified and permanent way without the need for a central authority. There are various components that make up a blockchain network including nodes that host copies of the blockchain and wallets that store private and public keys for sending and receiving cryptocurrency. Various consensus mechanisms like proof-of-work and proof-of-stake are used to verify transactions and reach agreement across the decentralized network. Blockchain technology provides advantages like reduced costs and increased
A blockchain is a distributed ledger that records transactions across a peer-to-peer network. It uses cryptography to allow participants to interact securely and anonymously to validate transactions without a central authority. The technology began with Bitcoin and enables applications like cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and decentralized databases. Understanding blockchains requires grasping both technical aspects like distributed databases and consensus algorithms, as well as philosophical concepts like disintermediation.
Decentraland. Whitepaper.
Decentraland is a virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Users
can create, experience, and monetize content and applications. Land in Decentraland
is permanently owned by the community, giving them full control over their creations.
Users claim ownership of virtual land on a blockchain-based ledger of parcels.
Landowners control what content is published to their portion of land, which is
identified by a set of cartesian coordinates (x,y). Contents can range from static 3D
scenes to interactive systems such as games.
This document provides an overview of blockchain technology and its history. It discusses how blockchain emerged from concepts developed in the early 1990s, and how Bitcoin launched in 2009 helped popularize the use of blockchain. The document then defines blockchain as a distributed ledger of transactions shared across a network of computers, and explains how blockchain works using private/public key cryptography and a distributed network to validate transactions. It also covers different types of consensus protocols like proof-of-work, proof-of-stake, and Byzantine fault tolerance. Finally, it discusses applications of blockchain like smart contracts and supply chain audits.
Blockchain, Blockchain Platform, Private and a Public Blockchain?dipankarmondal42
Blockchain does not store any of its information in a central location. Instead, the blockchain is copied and spread across a network of computers. Whenever a new block is added to the blockchain, every computer on the network updates its blockchain to reflect the change. By spreading that information across a network, rather than storing it in one central database, blockchain becomes more difficult to tamper with. If a copy of the blockchain fell into the hands of a hacker, only a single copy of the information, rather than the entire network, would be compromised
Improved Particle Swarm Optimization Based on Blockchain Mechanism for Flexib...BRNSSPublicationHubI
This document summarizes a research article about developing an improved particle swarm optimization algorithm using blockchain for flexible job shop scheduling and online gambling applications. It discusses how blockchain collects data from IoT devices and uses machine learning to analyze the data in real-time. The paper presents a blockchain-based betting application that was developed using Node.js, Web3 API, and Remix IDE. Key aspects of developing and testing the application are described, including user registration, login, and placing bets processes. The conclusion recommends further enhancing the system by fully implementing it on the blockchain for improved security and reliability.
This conference presentation provides a background of blockchain and blockchain networks, delivers a concept map and architecture of a blockchain network, and outlines a case study of a tactical edge blockchain network.
Blockchain: The New Technology of TrustMarco Segato
An introductory presentation of the technology that is said to change the world, the result of practical research and participation in the Permanent Observatory of the Polytechnic University of Milan.
Cryptography, entanglement, and quantum blocktime: Quantum computing offers a more scalable energy-efficient platform than classical computing and supercomputing, and corresponds more naturally to the three-dimensional structure of atomic reality. Blockchains are a decentralized digital economic system made possible by the 24-7 global nature of the internet.
BigchainDB: A Scalable Blockchain Database, In PythonTrent McConaghy
This document introduces BigchainDB, a scalable blockchain database built using Python. BigchainDB takes a "blockchain-ify big data" approach by leveraging existing big data database techniques like Paxos to provide performance, while adding blockchain characteristics like decentralization, immutability, and digital assets. It uses a federated voting system across nodes to validate transactions in blocks for speed and scalability. Benchmarks show it can process thousands of writes per second across dozens of nodes. Examples of potential use cases include supply chain tracking for diamonds, energy, and medical journals.
This document introduces BigchainDB, a scalable blockchain database built using Python. BigchainDB takes a "blockchain-ify big data" approach by leveraging existing distributed database techniques like Paxos to provide high throughput and low latency, while also incorporating blockchain characteristics like decentralization, immutability, and digital assets. It uses a federated voting system across nodes to validate transactions in blocks for decentralization. Benchmarks show it can process thousands of writes per second across dozens of nodes. Potential use cases include supply chain tracking for diamonds, energy, and medical journals.
This document discusses blockchain technology and its potential applications. It begins by explaining how blockchains work and how transactions are recorded in an immutable public ledger. It then discusses the evolution of blockchain from its origins with Bitcoin (Blockchain 1.0) to include smart contracts (Blockchain 2.0) and a wider range of applications beyond finance (Blockchain 3.0). Examples of potential applications are provided across various sectors like government, healthcare, education, and supply chain management. The document concludes by summarizing some existing blockchain-based applications and prototypes.
Exploring blockchain technology and its potential applications for educationeraser Juan José Calderón
Exploring blockchain technology and its potential applications for education
Guang Chen1,2, Bing Xu1
, Manli Lu1 and Nian-Shing Chen3*
Abstract
Blockchain is the core technology used to create the cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin. As part of the fourth industrial revolution since the invention of steam engine, electricity, and information technology, blockchain technology has been
applied in many areas such as finance, judiciary, and commerce. The current paper focused on its potential educational applications and explored how blockchain technology can be used to solve some education problems. This article first introduced the features and advantages of blockchain technology following by exploring some of the current blockchain applications for education. Some innovative applications of using blockchain technology were proposed, and the benefits and challenges of using blockchain technology for education were also discussed.
Keywords: Blockchain, Educational evaluation, Instructional design, Learning is earning
Blockchain 101, Enabler of Cryptocurrencies - v1.0en (2021/03) Young Suk Ahn Park
Introduction to Blockchain.
Describes what blockchain is, how it works, how it guarantees trust.
Introduces to to different use cases and how blockchain can enable the new economies based on trust.
Blockchain: a Singularity-class technology - No other technology has the power to
pull 2 billion people out of poverty overnight (with intermediary-free international remittances), produce a safe and orderly transition to the automation economy (with humans and machines in collaboration, and enacting friendly artificial intelligence), and fundamentally transform the only remaining sectors not yet re-engineered for the Internet era: economics and politics. There are growing classes of activities for smartnetwork execution, moving up the stack, pushing different qualitative states through the Internet pipes, building future smartnetworks. The smartnetworks thesis is that complex future operations will involve automated fleet coordination of “quantized” items via smartnetworks, using some kind of technology like blockchains with algorithmically-derived trust.
AI Health Agents: Longevity as a Service in the Web3 GenAI Quantum RevolutionMelanie Swan
Health Agents are a form of Math Agent as the concept of a personalized AI health advisor delivering “healthcare by app” instead of “sickcare by appointment.” Mobile devices
can check health 1000 times per minute as opposed to the standard one time per year doctor’s office visit, and model virtual patients in the digital twin app. As any AI agent, Health Agents “speak” natural language to humans and formal language to the computational infrastructure, possibly outputting the mathematics of personalized homeostatic health as part of their operation. Health Agents could facilitate the ability of physicians to oversee the health of thousands of individuals at a time. This could ease overstressed healthcare systems and contribute to physician well-being and the situation that (per the World Health Organization) more than half of the global population is still not covered by essential health services.
The computational infrastructure is becoming a vast interconnected fabric of formal methods, including per a major shift from 2d grids to 3d graphs in machine learning architectures
The implication is systems-level digital science at unprecedented scale for discovery in a diverse range of scientific disciplines
Demystifying Blockchain for businessesScott Turner
Blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and permanently. It works by linking transaction records into blocks secured by cryptography, forming a chain. Tampering with a block would change its hash and break the chain. Blockchains use consensus algorithms like proof-of-work and proof-of-stake to validate transactions without centralization. Smart contracts enable blockchain applications. Supply chain management may be a promising application area due to blockchain's decentralization, immutability, and transparency. Examples include partnerships between IBM/Walmart and Everledger for provenance tracking.
How Blockchain Technology Is Evolving In The CloudShikhaKonda
https://go-dgtl.com/whitepaper/how-blockchain-technology-is-evolving-in-the-cloud/?utm_source=offpage&utm_medium=thirdparty&utm_campaign=alo-seo - Cloud and blockchain are increasingly becoming the most valuable combinations to enhance the security of enterprise data living on the cloud. Learn more
How Blockchain Technology Is Evolving In The Cloud - GoDgtl.pdfPeeterParkar
Blockchain technology is evolving to provide security benefits when used with cloud computing. Major cloud platforms like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft now offer blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) to securely store data in the cloud using blockchain's decentralized, immutable ledger. Blockchain addresses cloud computing's security risks like data loss and lack of transparency. Its use in the cloud is expected to grow significantly, expanding to applications in digital identity, payments, supply chain management, and more.
Blockchain technology can be applied to space applications like supply chain management, healthcare, and finance. SpaceChain is building a decentralized blockchain infrastructure in space using aerospace engineering and blockchain development expertise. Blockchain uses a distributed ledger of encrypted blocks to securely record transactions without intermediaries. It incentivizes participation and deters hacking through economic incentives like rewards for adding blocks and penalties for malicious acts.
Introduction to Blockchain Web3 SessionDSCIITPatna
Blockchain technology has been around since 2008 with the introduction of Bitcoin. It utilizes a decentralized digital ledger called a blockchain, which consists of records called blocks that are linked together in a growing list. Each block contains transaction data as well as a reference to the previous block. This allows transactions to be recorded in a verified and permanent way without the need for a central authority. There are various components that make up a blockchain network including nodes that host copies of the blockchain and wallets that store private and public keys for sending and receiving cryptocurrency. Various consensus mechanisms like proof-of-work and proof-of-stake are used to verify transactions and reach agreement across the decentralized network. Blockchain technology provides advantages like reduced costs and increased
A blockchain is a distributed ledger that records transactions across a peer-to-peer network. It uses cryptography to allow participants to interact securely and anonymously to validate transactions without a central authority. The technology began with Bitcoin and enables applications like cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and decentralized databases. Understanding blockchains requires grasping both technical aspects like distributed databases and consensus algorithms, as well as philosophical concepts like disintermediation.
Decentraland. Whitepaper.
Decentraland is a virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Users
can create, experience, and monetize content and applications. Land in Decentraland
is permanently owned by the community, giving them full control over their creations.
Users claim ownership of virtual land on a blockchain-based ledger of parcels.
Landowners control what content is published to their portion of land, which is
identified by a set of cartesian coordinates (x,y). Contents can range from static 3D
scenes to interactive systems such as games.
This document provides an overview of blockchain technology and its history. It discusses how blockchain emerged from concepts developed in the early 1990s, and how Bitcoin launched in 2009 helped popularize the use of blockchain. The document then defines blockchain as a distributed ledger of transactions shared across a network of computers, and explains how blockchain works using private/public key cryptography and a distributed network to validate transactions. It also covers different types of consensus protocols like proof-of-work, proof-of-stake, and Byzantine fault tolerance. Finally, it discusses applications of blockchain like smart contracts and supply chain audits.
Blockchain, Blockchain Platform, Private and a Public Blockchain?dipankarmondal42
Blockchain does not store any of its information in a central location. Instead, the blockchain is copied and spread across a network of computers. Whenever a new block is added to the blockchain, every computer on the network updates its blockchain to reflect the change. By spreading that information across a network, rather than storing it in one central database, blockchain becomes more difficult to tamper with. If a copy of the blockchain fell into the hands of a hacker, only a single copy of the information, rather than the entire network, would be compromised
Improved Particle Swarm Optimization Based on Blockchain Mechanism for Flexib...BRNSSPublicationHubI
This document summarizes a research article about developing an improved particle swarm optimization algorithm using blockchain for flexible job shop scheduling and online gambling applications. It discusses how blockchain collects data from IoT devices and uses machine learning to analyze the data in real-time. The paper presents a blockchain-based betting application that was developed using Node.js, Web3 API, and Remix IDE. Key aspects of developing and testing the application are described, including user registration, login, and placing bets processes. The conclusion recommends further enhancing the system by fully implementing it on the blockchain for improved security and reliability.
This conference presentation provides a background of blockchain and blockchain networks, delivers a concept map and architecture of a blockchain network, and outlines a case study of a tactical edge blockchain network.
Blockchain: The New Technology of TrustMarco Segato
An introductory presentation of the technology that is said to change the world, the result of practical research and participation in the Permanent Observatory of the Polytechnic University of Milan.
Cryptography, entanglement, and quantum blocktime: Quantum computing offers a more scalable energy-efficient platform than classical computing and supercomputing, and corresponds more naturally to the three-dimensional structure of atomic reality. Blockchains are a decentralized digital economic system made possible by the 24-7 global nature of the internet.
BigchainDB: A Scalable Blockchain Database, In PythonTrent McConaghy
This document introduces BigchainDB, a scalable blockchain database built using Python. BigchainDB takes a "blockchain-ify big data" approach by leveraging existing big data database techniques like Paxos to provide performance, while adding blockchain characteristics like decentralization, immutability, and digital assets. It uses a federated voting system across nodes to validate transactions in blocks for speed and scalability. Benchmarks show it can process thousands of writes per second across dozens of nodes. Examples of potential use cases include supply chain tracking for diamonds, energy, and medical journals.
This document introduces BigchainDB, a scalable blockchain database built using Python. BigchainDB takes a "blockchain-ify big data" approach by leveraging existing distributed database techniques like Paxos to provide high throughput and low latency, while also incorporating blockchain characteristics like decentralization, immutability, and digital assets. It uses a federated voting system across nodes to validate transactions in blocks for decentralization. Benchmarks show it can process thousands of writes per second across dozens of nodes. Potential use cases include supply chain tracking for diamonds, energy, and medical journals.
This document discusses blockchain technology and its potential applications. It begins by explaining how blockchains work and how transactions are recorded in an immutable public ledger. It then discusses the evolution of blockchain from its origins with Bitcoin (Blockchain 1.0) to include smart contracts (Blockchain 2.0) and a wider range of applications beyond finance (Blockchain 3.0). Examples of potential applications are provided across various sectors like government, healthcare, education, and supply chain management. The document concludes by summarizing some existing blockchain-based applications and prototypes.
Exploring blockchain technology and its potential applications for educationeraser Juan José Calderón
Exploring blockchain technology and its potential applications for education
Guang Chen1,2, Bing Xu1
, Manli Lu1 and Nian-Shing Chen3*
Abstract
Blockchain is the core technology used to create the cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin. As part of the fourth industrial revolution since the invention of steam engine, electricity, and information technology, blockchain technology has been
applied in many areas such as finance, judiciary, and commerce. The current paper focused on its potential educational applications and explored how blockchain technology can be used to solve some education problems. This article first introduced the features and advantages of blockchain technology following by exploring some of the current blockchain applications for education. Some innovative applications of using blockchain technology were proposed, and the benefits and challenges of using blockchain technology for education were also discussed.
Keywords: Blockchain, Educational evaluation, Instructional design, Learning is earning
Blockchain 101, Enabler of Cryptocurrencies - v1.0en (2021/03) Young Suk Ahn Park
Introduction to Blockchain.
Describes what blockchain is, how it works, how it guarantees trust.
Introduces to to different use cases and how blockchain can enable the new economies based on trust.
Blockchain: a Singularity-class technology - No other technology has the power to
pull 2 billion people out of poverty overnight (with intermediary-free international remittances), produce a safe and orderly transition to the automation economy (with humans and machines in collaboration, and enacting friendly artificial intelligence), and fundamentally transform the only remaining sectors not yet re-engineered for the Internet era: economics and politics. There are growing classes of activities for smartnetwork execution, moving up the stack, pushing different qualitative states through the Internet pipes, building future smartnetworks. The smartnetworks thesis is that complex future operations will involve automated fleet coordination of “quantized” items via smartnetworks, using some kind of technology like blockchains with algorithmically-derived trust.
AI Health Agents: Longevity as a Service in the Web3 GenAI Quantum RevolutionMelanie Swan
Health Agents are a form of Math Agent as the concept of a personalized AI health advisor delivering “healthcare by app” instead of “sickcare by appointment.” Mobile devices
can check health 1000 times per minute as opposed to the standard one time per year doctor’s office visit, and model virtual patients in the digital twin app. As any AI agent, Health Agents “speak” natural language to humans and formal language to the computational infrastructure, possibly outputting the mathematics of personalized homeostatic health as part of their operation. Health Agents could facilitate the ability of physicians to oversee the health of thousands of individuals at a time. This could ease overstressed healthcare systems and contribute to physician well-being and the situation that (per the World Health Organization) more than half of the global population is still not covered by essential health services.
The computational infrastructure is becoming a vast interconnected fabric of formal methods, including per a major shift from 2d grids to 3d graphs in machine learning architectures
The implication is systems-level digital science at unprecedented scale for discovery in a diverse range of scientific disciplines
We know that we are in an AI take-off, what is new is that we are in a math take-off. A math take-off is using math as a formal language, beyond the human-facing math-as-math use case, for AI to interface with the computational infrastructure. The message of generative AI and LLMs (large language models like GPT) is not that they speak natural language to humans, but that they speak formal languages (programmatic code, mathematics, physics) to the computational infrastructure, implying the ability to create a much larger problem-solving apparatus for humanity-benefitting applications in biology, energy, and space science, however not without risk.
This document summarizes a presentation on quantum intelligence and socially responsible artificial intelligence. The key points are:
- Quantum intelligence refers to intelligence operating in the quantum realm, which may help with potential convergence of AI and quantum computing around 2030. Scale-free intelligence is formulated as a generic capacity for learning.
- AI adoption is happening rapidly through technologies like research copilots, AI engines, chips, and potential for software 2.0 with machine-written code. This may facilitate knowledge generation and problem solving.
- Socially responsible AI (SRAI) for well-being is proposed as a social and technological objective, to be realized through short-term regulation, medium-term value learning, and
The Human-AI Odyssey: Homerian Aspirations towards Non-labor IdentityMelanie Swan
The visionary progression in The Odyssey from shipbuilding to seafaring to advanced civilization informs contemporary tension in the human-AI relation forcing a broader articulation of human-identity beyond labor-identity. Edith Hall analyzes why one of the earliest known literatures, The Odyssey, remains a central cultural trope with numerous references in the storytelling vernacular of all eras, ranging from 1860s British theater to a highly-watched 1990 episode of The Simpsons. The argument is that The Odyssey provides a constant aspirational reference for human identity – who we think we are and where we are going on the epic journey of life, especially at the current crossroad in our relationship with technology.
The contemporary moment finds humanity, and the humanities, experiencing an identity crisis in the relationship with technology. Information science is having an ever more pervasive role in academia, and the machine economy continues to offload vast classes of tasks to labor-saving technology giving rise to two questions. First, at the level of labor-identity, humans wonder who they are as they have long defined their sense of self through their professional participation in the economy. Second, at the level of human-identity, with AI now performing cognitive labor in addition to physical labor, humans wonder if there is anything that remains uniquely human.
The effect of The Odyssey is to provide world-expanding imaginaries to change the way we see ourselves as subjects; in this way, Homer is an early modernist in reconfiguring our self-concept.
This work applies a philosophy (of literature)-aided information science method to discuss how Homer’s Odyssey persists as a literary imaginary to help us think through potential futures of human-AI flourishing as rapid automation continues to impact humanity. The intensity of the human-AI relation is likely to increase, which invites thought leadership to steward the transition to a potential AI abundance economy with fulfilling human-technology collaboration.
The shipbuilding-seafaring-advanced civilization progression in The Odyssey identifies that the human-AI relation is not one of the labor-identity-crisis of “robots stealing our jobs,” but rather one of the more difficult challenge of envisioning who we can be in the new larger world of human-AI partnership addressing a larger set of planetary-scale problems. Towards this new configuration of human-AI relation, the longer-term may hold radically different notions of identity, as we become physical-virtual hybrids, augmented post-disease entities in the health-faring, space-civilizing, energy-marshalling post-scarcity cultures of the future.
Humanity’s constant project is expanding the range of attainable geography. Melville’s romance of the sea gives way to Kerouac’s romance of the road, and now the romance of space. In expanding into new geographies, markets (commerce) is the driving impulse, entailing a legal and judiciary system to order the new larger continuous marketplace, which brings a bigger overall scope of world under our control, and hence a new idea of who we are as subjects in this bigger domain.
Space Humanism is a concept of humanism based on the principles of inclusion, progress, and equity posited as a condition of possibility for a potential large-scale human movement into space. A philosophy of literature approach is used to contextualize Space Humanism, first through Melville-Foucault to articulate the mind-frame of extra-planetary geographies as one of human expansion, and second through posthuman philosophy extending from Shakespeare’s Renaissance humanism to contemporary enhancement-based theories of subjectivation.
Historical imaginaries outline subjectivation moments that have changed the whole notion who we are as humanity. Four examples are: the concept of the “new world” in Hegel’s philosophy, von Humboldt’s infographic maps, Baudelaire as the Painter of Modern Life, and Keats’s seeing the world in a new way upon reading an updated translation of Homer.
The reach to beyond-Earth geographies is a two-cultures project involving both arts and science. Technical competence is necessary to realize the aspirational, explorational, and survivalist aims of humanity pushing beyond planetary limits. Space was once a fantastic dream that is becoming quotidian with fourteen U.S. spaceports, six completed Blue Origin space tourist missions, and SpaceX having over 155 successful rocket launches including human space flights to and from the International Space Station. The notion of Space Human articulated through Shakespeare, Moby-Dick, and neuroenhancement informs the project of our reach to awaiting beyond-Earth geographies.
Quantum Information Science and Quantum Neuroscience.pptMelanie Swan
This document summarizes a presentation on quantum neuroscience given by Melanie Swan. It discusses how quantum effects may be relevant to neuroscience, outlines various research topics within quantum neuroscience like imaging and protein folding, and describes mathematical approaches like wavefunctions and topological data analysis that are being applied. It also provides background on the levels of organization in the brain from the nervous system down to ion channels, and reviews the current status of the connectome and motor neuron mapping projects in different organisms. Finally, it discusses modeling of neural signaling across scales using techniques like partial differential equations.
The document summarizes a presentation on quantum information and technologies. It discusses:
1) How quantum computing could enable solving problems in fields like space science, biology, and finance faster than classical computers by taking advantage of quantum properties like superposition and entanglement.
2) Some of the basic concepts in quantum information like qubits, qudits, wavefunctions, error correction, and different methods for building quantum computers like superconducting and optical approaches.
3) The status of quantum computing including cloud access to quantum processors with over 100 qubits now available from IBM, though fully error corrected quantum computers still remain in development.
Grammatology and Performativity: A Critical Theory of Silence: Silence is a crucial device for subversion, opposition, and socio-political commentary, the theoretical underpinnings of which are just starting to be understood. This work illuminates another position in the growing field of critical silence studies, theorizing silence as an asset whose ontological value has been lost in a world of literal and figurative noise. Part 1 philosophizes silence as a continuation of Derrida’s grammatology project. Such a grammatology of silence valorizes silent thinking over noisy speaking, and identifies the deconstructive binary pairing not as silence-speaking, but rather as silence-noise. Noise has a simultaneous physical-virtual existence as Shannon entropy calculates signal-to-noise ratios in modern communications networks. Part 2 employs the philosophy of noise to assess what is conceptually necessary to overcome noise in a critical theory of silence. Malaspina draws from Simondon to argue that noise is a form of individuation, essentially a living thing with unstoppable growth potential, not defined by a binary on-off switch but as a matter of gradation. Hence different theory resources are required to oppose it. Part 3 then develops a critical theory of silence to oppose noise in both its physical and virtual instantiations, with the two arms of a deeply human positive performativity (Szendy, Bennett) and a beyond-computational posthumanism (Puar). The result is a novel critical theory of silence as positive performativity that destabilizes noise and recoups the ontological status of silence as not merely an empty post-modern reification but a meaningful actuality.
Philosophy-aided Physics at the Boundary of Quantum-Classical Reality The philosophical themes of truth-knowledge and appearance-reality are used to interrogate the contemporary situation of the quantum-classical boundary, and more broadly the quantum-classical-relativistic stratification of physical scale boundaries. The contemporary moment finds us at breakneck pace in the industrial information revolution, digitizing remaining matter-based industries into a seamless exchange between physical-digital reality. Digitized news is giving way to digitized money and perhaps in the farther future, digitized mindfiles (such as personalized connectome files for precision medicine, autologous (own-DNA) stem cell therapies, and CRISPR for Alzheimer’s disease prevention). Our technologies are allowing us control over vast new domains, the relativistic with GPS and space-faring, and the quantum with quantum computing, harnessing the properties of superposition, entanglement, and interference. Philosophy provides critical thinking tools that can help us understand and master these rapid shifts in science and technology to avoid an Adornian instrumental reality (subsuming humanity under societal structures) and to maintain a Heideggerian backgrounded and enabling relation with technology (versus technology enframing us into mindless standing reserve).
The philosophical theme underlying the investigation of the scales of planets, persons, and particles is the relationship between truth and knowledge (or appearance and reality). The truth-knowledge problem is whether knowledge of the truth, true knowledge, the reality under the appearance, is even possible. Three salient moments in the history of the truth-knowledge problem are examined here. These are the German idealism of Kant and Hegel, the deconstructive postmodernism of Foucault and Derrida, and the unclear leanings of the current moment. The German idealism lens incorporates the self-knowing subject as agent into the truth and knowledge problem. The postmodernist view breaks with the subject and emphasizes the hidden opposites in the formulations, the constant reinterpretation of meaning, and porous boundaries. The contemporary moment wonders whether truth-knowledge boundaries still hold, in a Benjaminian view of non-identity between truth and knowledge, and truth increasingly being seen as a Foucauldian biopolitical manufactured quantity. Contemporaneity has a bimodal distribution of the subject: the hyperself (the constantly digitally represented selfie self) and the alienated post-subject subject.
These moments in the truth and knowledge debate inflect into the scale considerations of relativity, classicality, and quantum mechanics. Whereas general relativity and quantum mechanics are domains of universality, totality, and multiplicity, everyday classical reality is squeezed in as a belt between the two multiplicities as the concretion of drawing a triangle or tossing a ball. Recasting truth and k
Comprehensive philosophical programs arise within a historical context (for Hegel and Derrida in the democracy-shaping moments of the French Revolution (1789) and the student-worker protests (1968) in which French politics serve as a global harbinger of contemporary themes). In the Derrida-Hegel relationship, there is more rapprochement concerning core notions of difference, history, and meaning-assignation than may have been realized. In particular, Hegel’s philosophy, despite being assumed to be a totalizing system, in fact indicates precisely some of the same kinds of revised metaphysics-of-presence formulations that Derrida exhorts, namely those that are flexible, expansive, and include non-identity and identity.
A crucial Derrida-Hegel interchange is that of différance and difference. Derrida develops the notion directly from Hegel (“Différance,” “The Pit and the Pyramid”), but only draws from the Encyclopedia, not Hegel’s masterwork, the Phenomenology of Spirit. For Derrida, the “A” in différance is inspired by the form of the pyramid in the capitalized letter and in Hegel’s comparing the sign “to the Egyptian Pyramid” (“Différance,” p. 3). Derrida invokes the symbolism of the pyramid, antiquity, and Egyptian hieroglyphics as an early semiotic system. However, when considering Hegel’s central definition of difference in the dialectical progression of thesis-antithesis-synthesis in the Phenomenology of Spirit (§§159-163), the articulations of différance and difference are remarkably aligned.
Parallel formulations are also seen in history as a series of reinterpretable events, and indexical wrappers as a mechanism for meaning assignation. The thinkers examine the universal and the particular by exploring regulative mechanisms such as law (natural and social). In Glas, Derrida highlights not the singular-universal relation, but the law of singularity and the law of universality relation as being relevant to Hegel’s Antigone interpretation (Glas, p. 142a), a theme continued in “Before the Law.” Finally (time permitting), there is a question whether the most valid critiques of Hegel (Nietzsche’s unreason and Benjamin’s non-synthesis), as alternatives to Hegelian dialectics, are visible in Derrida’s thought.
The upshot is that the two thinkers produce similar formulations, derived from different trajectories of philosophical work; a situation which points to the potential universality of fundamental solution classes to open-ended philosophical problems, including the future of democracy.
This presentation discusses quantum concepts including:
1. The quantum mindset of thinking in terms of superposition and multiplicity to solve problems.
2. Kant's view of time as both transcendentally ideal and empirically real, with infinite multiplicities existing simultaneously.
3. Applying the quantum mindset to economics, with money having both virtual and physical properties like quantum objects, and blockchain enabling new economic designs based on use value over exchange value.
This work argues that the emerging understanding of time in quantum information science can be articulated as a philosophical theory of change. Change and time are interrelated, and one can be used to interrogate the other, namely, a theory of change can be derived from a theory of time. What is new in quantum science is time being regarded as just another property to be engineered. At the quantum scale, time is reversible in certain ways, which is quite different from the everyday experience of time whose unidirectional arrow does not allow a dropped egg to reassemble. At the quantum scale of atoms, though, a particle retains the history of its trajectory, which may be retraced before collapsed in measurement.
Quantum scientists evolve systems backward and forward in time, controlling phase transitions with Floquet engineering. Quantum systems are entangled in time and space, with temporal correlations exhibiting greater multiplicity than spatial correlations. The chaotic time regimes of ballistic spread followed by saturation are implemented in quantum walks for faster search and heightened cryptosecurity. In quantum neuroscience, seizure may be explained by chaotic dynamics and normal resting state by Floquet-like periodic cycles. Time is revealed to have the same kinds of repeating structures as space (described by entanglement, symmetry, and topology), differently instantiated and controlled.
The quantum understanding of time can be propelled into a macroscale-theory of change through its connotation of a more flexible, malleable, probabilistic interface with reality. Change becomes less rigid. Probability is the lever of change, but notoriously difficult for humans to grasp, as we think better in storylines than statistics. The idea of manipulating quantum system properties in which time, space, dynamics (change), are all just parameters, is an empowering frame for the acceptance of change. The quantum mindset affords greater facility with probability-driven events (change).
Complexity and Quantum Information ScienceMelanie Swan
This document discusses using quantum information science and quantum computing to model complex systems like the human brain. It proposes the "AdS/Brain Theory of Neural Signaling" which uses wavefunctions, tensor networks, and neural field theories at different scales from brain networks to molecules. Quantum computing could provide a new platform to model the brain across its nine orders of magnitude of complexity and help complete the human connectome by handling the large data and processing requirements. The AdS/Brain theory represents the first application of the AdS/CFT correspondence across multiple scales of the brain.
Quantum Neuroscience: CRISPR for Alzheimer’s, Connectomes & Quantum BCIsMelanie Swan
This talk provides an introduction to quantum computing and how it may be deployed to study the human brain and its diseases of pathology and aging. Refined to its present state over centuries, the brain is one of the most complex systems known, with 86 billion neurons and 242 trillion synapses connected in intricate patterns and rewired by synaptic plasticity. Research continues to illuminate the mysteries of the brain. Quantum computing provides a more capacious architecture with greater scalability and energy efficiency than current methods of classical computing and supercomputing, and more naturally corresponds to the three-dimensional structure of atomic reality. The vision for quantum neuroscience is to model the nature of the brain exactly as it is, in three-dimensional atomically-accurate representations. Neuroscience (particularly genetic disease modeling, connectomics, and synaptomics) could be the “killer application” of quantum computing. Implementations in other industries are also important, including in quantum finance, quantum cryptography using Shor’s factoring algorithm (“the Y2K of Crypto”), Grover’s search, quantum chemistry, eigensolvers, quantum machine learning, and continuous-time quantum walks. Quantum computing is a high-profile worldwide scientific endeavor with platforms currently available via cloud services (IBM Q 27-qubit, IonQ 32-qubit, Rigetti 19Q Acorn) and is in the process of being applied in various industries including computational neuroscience.
Art Theory: Two Cultures Synthesis of Art and ScienceMelanie Swan
Thesis: Aesthetic resources contribute broadly to the human endeavor of progress, self-understanding, and science, beyond the immediate experience of art. Aesthetic Resources are frameworks, concepts, and modes of expression in art, literature, and philosophy that capture the imagination and the intellect through the senses. The role of art is to inspire the future: the romance of the sea, the open road, space.
The arts are a hallmark of civilization, but can their benefit be crystallized as aesthetic resources that can be mobilized to new situations? How can aesthetic resources help in moments of crisis?
A worldwide social identity crisis has been provoked by pandemic recovery, politics, equity, and environmental sustainability. Philosophical and aesthetic resources can help. Understanding art as a reflection of who we are as individuals and groups, this talk explores conceptualizations of art, with examples, in different periodizations from the 1800s to the present. A marquis definition as to what constitutes an artwork is Adorno’s, for whom the work must promulgate its own natural law and engage in novel materials manipulation. For many theorists, art is the pressing of our self-concept into concrete materiality (whether pyramids, sculpture, or painting). What do contemporary periodizations of art mean to our current and forward-looking self-concept? Recent eras include the neo-avant-gardes of 1945, the conceptual art of the 1960s, and post-conceptual art starting in the 1970s, produced generatively with found materials, the digital domain, and audience interactivity. What is the now-current idea of art? Is today’s Baudelairian flâneur and Balzacian modern hero incarnated in the quantum aesthetic imaginary and the digital cryptocitizen? Far from an “end of art” thesis sometimes attributed to Hegel, aesthetic practices are more relevant than ever. Individually and societally, we are reinventing creative energy and productive imagination in venues from science, technology, health, and biology to the arts.
Philosophy of Time, Science, and AestheticsMelanie Swan
Aesthetics and science are two modes of understanding reality, with a greater possibility of rapprochement through the philosophical consideration of time
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
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An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
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I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
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During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
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See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Webinar: Designing a schema for a Data WarehouseFederico Razzoli
Are you new to data warehouses (DWH)? Do you need to check whether your data warehouse follows the best practices for a good design? In both cases, this webinar is for you.
A data warehouse is a central relational database that contains all measurements about a business or an organisation. This data comes from a variety of heterogeneous data sources, which includes databases of any type that back the applications used by the company, data files exported by some applications, or APIs provided by internal or external services.
But designing a data warehouse correctly is a hard task, which requires gathering information about the business processes that need to be analysed in the first place. These processes must be translated into so-called star schemas, which means, denormalised databases where each table represents a dimension or facts.
We will discuss these topics:
- How to gather information about a business;
- Understanding dictionaries and how to identify business entities;
- Dimensions and facts;
- Setting a table granularity;
- Types of facts;
- Types of dimensions;
- Snowflakes and how to avoid them;
- Expanding existing dimensions and facts.
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Blockchains in Space
1. Blockchains in Space
Time and Thinking in the ethically-aware reach to Space
SSoCIA Oxford 9 March 2022
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Melanie Swan, MBA, PhD
Quantum Technologies
Centre for Blockchain Technologies
University College London
“The past is never dead.
It's not even past.“
– Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, 1951
2. 9 Mar 2022
Blockchains in Space 1
Advanced time and thinking technologies, implemented
with blockchains, quantum computing, and artificial
intelligence (smart network technologies) are next-
generation “telescopes” and “microscopes” for
extending humanity’s ethically-aware reach into space
Framing question: What philosophical tools are
required to extend the reach into space?
Better time interoperability of physical theories (GR, CM, QM)
Better link between General Relativity, Classical (Newtonian)
Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics in our technology platforms
Developing thinking itself as a technology
Thesis
3. 9 Mar 2022
Blockchains in Space 2
Smart network technologies: terrestrial+ intelligent self-
operating networks, possibly with native time regimes
1. Blockchain (distributed ledger technology)
2. Artificial intelligence (deep learning networks)
3. Quantum computing
4. Internet of Things sensor networks
5. 3D prototyping gaming-engine asset networks (Unity, Unreal, Outerra)
6. Virtual reality headsets/BCIs (Oculus Rift, Valve Index, HTC Vive)
7. Bio: CRISPR, quantum genomics, quantum protein folding
4. 9 Mar 2022
Blockchains in Space 3
Research program
Smart Network Theory
2015 2019 2020
Blockchain Blockchain
Economics
Quantum
Computing
Quantum
Computing
for the Brain
2022
Aim: progression towards a Kardashev-plus society
marshalling all tangible and intangible resources
5. 9 Mar 2022
Blockchains in Space
Agenda
4
Introduction
Very-large very-small
Blockchains
Blockchains in space
Smart network
convergence
Time
Thinking
6. 9 Mar 2022
Blockchains in Space
We are Here~!
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Source: Tully, R.B., Courtois, H., Hoffman, Y. & Pomarede, D. (2014). The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies. Nature. 513(7516):71.
Laniakea Supercluster
Milky Way Galaxy
Distribution of Galaxies
Milky Way (Virgo Supercluster) in the Laniakea Supercluster
Analyze relative velocities of galaxies as watershed divides
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James Webb Space Telescope (Dec 2021)
Hopefully enabling us to “see” farther back into the
Big Bang in the
infrared spectrum
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Source: https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/comparisonWebbVsHubble.html
Hubble (HST) can see “toddler galaxies”
Webb (JWST) can see “baby galaxies”
6.25x larger collecting area than Hubble
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5,000+ exoplanets discovered (Jan 2022)
NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Over 800 have more than one planet
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Source: https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/comparisonWebbVsHubble.html
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The small scale of things
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“Quantum” = anything at the scale of
Atoms (Nano 10-9)
Ions and photons (Pico 10-12)
Subatomic particles (Femto 10-15)
Nanotechnology is already “quantum”
Microscopy: atoms (femtosecond 10-15); electrons (attosecond 10-18)
Scale Entities Special Properties
1 1 x 101 m Meter Humans
2 1 x 10-9 m Nanometer Atoms Surface-to-volume ratio, van der Waals and
electrostatic forces, thermodynamics (heat transfer,
melting point, crystallization, glass transition),
magnetism and conductivity, solubility and dissolution
3 1 x 10-12 m Picometer Ions, photons Superposition, entanglement, interference, entropy
(UV-IR correlations), renormalization, thermality,
symmetry, scrambling, chaos, quantum probability
4 1 x 10-15 m Femtometer Subatomic particles Strong force (QCD), plasma, gauge theory
5 1 x 10-35 m Planck scale Planck length
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Life: one proposed theory
3 phases per computational sophistication
Life 1.0 Biology: evolves both its hardware and software
Life 2.0 Culture: evolves hardware & designs software
Life 3.0 Technology: designs both hardware and software
Any matter can be a substrate for computation
Has many different stable states
The stable states can be used as building blocks
Combined to make computational functions
Namely a NAND (NOT-AND) gate
Complement to AND gate
NAND gates and neurons
Universal “computational atoms”
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Source: Tegmark, M. (2017). Life 3.0: Being human in the age of artificial intelligence. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, pp. 42, 106.
NAND gate (NOT-AND): logic gate producing an output which is false only if all its inputs are true
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Introduction
Blockchains
Blockchains in space
Smart network
convergence
Time
Thinking
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internet transfer.
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information.
email.
voice.
video.
money.
neural files. High Sensitivity
Low Sensitivity
Medium Sensitivity
transfer various types of content on the internet, each traffic type has its own instructions or protocol
(webpages with http; mail with smtp; voice with voip; and blockchain is the protocol for transferring money)
file header indicates traffic type, software version, routing, etc.
challenge: secure internet
transfer of increasingly
valuable and unique files
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Digital money: special requirements
Information: send a PDF file or image many times
Money: requires unique instances (no double-spending)
Enabled by the internet as an always-on 24/7 global
network technology to check transactions in real-time
Network time-stamps every transaction
Can submit duplicate transactions (try to double-spend) but the
network only counts the first one
Blockchain network checks every transaction
Computational confirmation by each node
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EMR: Electronic Medical Record
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Cryptoeconomics (digital economic system)
Blockchain (distributed ledger technology): distributed
database of asset ownership
1.0 Cryptocurrency (Bitcoin)
2.0 Smart contracts (Ethereum)
Automatically-executing blockchain contract
DeFi (decentralized finance)
3.0 Beyond financial markets applications
Problem: need for trustable information
Cryptographically tamper-resistant
Computational verification, zero-knowledge proofs
Cryptographically-trustable space applications
Time-keeping, secure comms, supply chain
Transnational economic system, contracting
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Digital financial and legal
infrastructure
Digital institutions better
serving the public good
Blockchain 1.0: Currency
Blockchain 2.0: Contracts
Blockchain 3.0: Beyond
financial market applications:
space, genomics, supply chain
Blueprint for a New Economy
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How does Bitcoin (any cryptocurrency) work?
Use Wallet app to submit transaction
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Scan recipient address and submit transaction
Address: 32-character alphanumeric string
Coin appears in recipient wallet
(receive immediately, confirm later)
Wallet has keys not money
Creates PKI signature address pairs A unique PKI signature for each transaction
PKI: public-private key pair (cryptography standard )
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5JGQXCTe3c
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What happens in the background?
P2P network confirms & records transaction
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5JGQXCTe3c
Transaction computationally confirmed
and ledger account balances updated
Transactions submitted to a pool and miners assemble
new batch (block) of transactions each 10 min (btc)
Each block: transactions and a cryptographic hash of
the last block, chaining the blocks, hence “blockchain”
Wallet 1
Wallet 2
Peer network maintains the blockchain:
ledger nodes and mining nodes
Citizen Infrastructure
Github
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How robust is the network?
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Source: https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/
15,010 global nodes hosting Bitcoin ledger (Mar 2022)
Historical context: 5,404 global nodes (Dec 2016)
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Blockchain primitive (building block)
Hash functions
Hash function: function converting any length input (image,
movie, legal document) to a fixed length encrypted output
Example: output (digest) of the SHA-256 hash function for
“My last will and testament on this day”
13789917A50601C55D396B83FD98F1A0BED628948AD5F84890C63
210E0897D76
“My last will and testament, on this day”
C6E9D7F4C9F7D0C8CD24E4D674BED1146331DB61555F9D68EBA
AA3A0E827BBAB
Adding one comma results in a completely different hash digest
NP-complete problem: hard to compute, easy to verify
Cannot guess the output ahead of time without putting the inputs
into the algorithm and performing the calculation
Must do the actual “work” to compute the output
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Source: SHA-256 hash algorithm: https://passwordsgenerator.net/sha256-hash-generator/
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Hash-linked data structure (IPLD)
Merkle tree: hierarchical structure of hash codes
corresponding to a large data structure
A hash is made for each data element, then a hash of these
hashes, and so on, hierarchically until there is just one top-
level hash that calls the entire data structure, the Merkle root
One top-level Merkle root calls an entire data corpus
Bitcoin blockchain: 725,000+ transaction blocks since
inception (Jan 2009) as of Mar 2022
All Github code, all Pubmed publications
An entire brain or cloudmind (brain of brains)
All human knowledge (digitally encoded)
Data pillar (crypto science fiction, Bear, Eon, 1985)
Whole human genome or brain file
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IPLD: interplanetary hash-linked data structure standard Source: Swan, M., dos Santos, R.P. & Witte, F. (2020). Quantum
Computing: Physics, Blockchains, and Deep Learning Smart Networks. London: World Scientific.
Blockchain:
transaction blocks
hashed together
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Automated supply chain
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Call entire project as a unified data structure
Source: PwC (2019). PwC’s Global Blockchain Survey.
https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/industrial-products/library/blockchain-industrial-manufacturing.html
Automotive track and trace
Aircraft/spacecraft product lifecycle
Blockchain data structure calls
multiple levels and items
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A brain is a Merkle forest of ideas
A group of Merkle trees, each calling
an arbitrarily-large thought trajectory
Brain DAC I: Basic Brain DAC
Instantiate thinking in a blockchain
Brain DAC II: Quantum Brain DAC
Brain DAC on a quantum platform
Quantum blocktime and superpositioned
states (Egan’s solipsist nation)
Personalized connectome scan
NFT-controlled hash structure
Quantum Brain DAC
Hash-linked data structure applications (IPLD for the Brain)
Brain DAC and quantum brain DAC
DAC: distributed autonomous corporation = package of blockchain-based smart contracts for automated execution
Source: Swan, M. (2015). Blockchain thinking: The brain as a DAC (decentralized autonomous corporation). IEEE Technology and Society
Magazine 34(4):41-52
Crypto science fiction: corporations
replaced by AI DACs (Schroeder,
Stealing Worlds, 2019)
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Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/bitcoin-miners-exit-china-beat-a-path-to-the-u-s-as-crypto-climate-shifts/
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Source: https://www.illumina.com/science/technology/next-generation-sequencing.html
Mining shifting to US as China bans
cryptocurrency production (June 2021)
USD $45 million/day business:
block reward 6.25 btc/block ($312,500) x 6
blocks/hour x 24 hours/day ~= $45,000,000
(at Bitcoin = $50,000)
Mining. technical deep-dive.
Miners calculate a hash value using the block header (constant for
a specific block) and a nonce (random string changed repeatedly)
to create a hash output that hopefully meets the block requirements
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How does mining work?
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How does Bitcoin mining
work?
https://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000000000002274a2b1f93c85a489c5d75895e9250ac40f06268fafc0
Difficulty: a measure of how hard it is to create a hash that
is less than the target (system-set computational number
involving floating point operations, exponents, integrals);
re-tuned every 2016 blocks (~2 weeks) to keep PoW as a
meaningful deterrent against rogue miners as the overall
network computation power increases or decreases
The winning nonce (number used once) for
this block, a number appended to the current
header, that when re-hashed, meets the
difficulty level (for any block, the Bitcoin nonce
is an integer between 0 and 4,294,967,296)
Step 2: Record the block. The block hash is the digest of
SHA-256 run on six data elements: 1. Bitcoin version number
2. previous block hash 3. Merkle Root of all the transactions in
the block 4. timestamp 5. difficulty target 6. nonce
18 leading zeros (can vary)
Step 1: Find the nonce (NP-complete problem). A miner guesses a nonce
(random string), appends it to the hash of the current header, rehashes
the value, and compares to the target hash value (which has a certain
number of leading zeros). If the resulting hash value is equal to or lower
than the target, the miner has a solution and is awarded the block
HERE: Oct 7, 2018 (18 leading zeros)
https://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000000000002274a2b1f93c85a489c5d75895e9250ac40f06268fafc0
RECENT: Nov 6, 2021 (19 leading zeros)
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/0000000000000000000633b91a8cd72235104935c9d3af0b0edae9ad6f89f4ef
Summary: the hash is calculated using the block header, which
is constant for a specific block, and a nonce, which is changed
repeatedly by the miner, to create different hash digests in the
hope of finding a digest that fits the block requirements
Target value: an integer in the range of [0, (2256 - difficulty)]
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PoW mining energy consumption
Proof-of-work competition among miners ensures
security of blockchain ledger
Critics argue “wasteful” use of resources but provides secure
computational system (725,000 btc blocks Jan 2009-Mar 2022)
39 per cent of proof-of-work mining is powered by renewable
energy, primarily hydroelectric energy (Cambridge study, 2021)
Alternatives: proof-of-stake, entropy
Energy consumption
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Sources: Statista. (2021). https://www.statista.com/chart/18632/estimated-annual-electricity-consumption-of-bitcoin/
Blandin, A. et al. (2021). 3rd Global Cryptographic Benchmarking Study. University of Cambridge.
Less than all the world’s data centers
Less than China, USA, Germany
Less overhead than worldwide bank
branch infrastructure
Resource substitution from
physical to digital domain
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economic system.
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old model.
networks.
banks.
new model.
Digital transformation
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Bitcoin denominations
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Satoshis: common unit of transfer (wallet default)
500 satoshis = USD $0.25 (at Btc = $50,000)
$5 coffee = 10,000 satoshis
1 satoshi = USD $0.0005 (at Btc = $50,000)
Source: Bitcoin Foundation, https:// bitcoin.org/
Unit Abbreviation Description BTC
1 Satoshi SAT Satoshi 0.00000001 BTC
2 Microbit uBTC Microbit or bit 0.000001 BTC
3 Millibit mBTC Millibitcoin 0.001 BTC
4 Centibit cBTC Centibitcoin 0.01 BTC
5 Decibit dBTC Decibitcoin 0.1 BTC
6 Bitcoin BTC Bitcoin 1 BTC
7 Decabit daBTC Decabitcoin 10 BTC
8 Hectobit hBTC Hectobitcoin 100 BTC
9 Kilobit kBTC Kilobitcoin 1000 BTC
10 Megabit MBTC Metabitcoin 1,000,000 BTC
100 millionth of a BTC
1 millionth of a BTC
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Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
NFT: unique IP token registered to a blockchain
CryptoKitties (early NFT)
Ethereum smart contracts for breeding digital cats
CryptoDragons game: own dragon NFT and feed it CryptoKitties
(send the dragon contract tokens from the kitties contract)
NFT marketplaces
Mint cryptoart: OpenSea, Rarible, Foundation
NFT registries of physical-world assets
Baseball cards (Candy Digital), Marvel comics
(VeVe), Hot Wheels cars (Wax)
Owner/author rights
SIAE Italy 4.5 mn author rights tokenized (Algorand)
Genomics (Nebula Genomics) (Oasis) NGTs
Pharmaceutical supply chain (MediLedger)
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“Catribute” DNA
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Christie’s $69 million NFT sale (2021)
Collage created over 5,000 days
by US-based digital artist Beeple
Political cartoons of current events
Themes: fear and obsession with
technology, resentment and desire
for wealth, political turbulence
First purely digital artwork (NFT)
offered at Christie’s
Sold online for $69,346,250 (2021)
NFT as a guarantee of authenticity
Christie’s accepting Ether payments
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Source: https://www.christies.com/features/Monumental-collage-by-Beeple-is-first-purely-digital-artwork-NFT-to-come-
to-auction-11510-7.aspx
Everydays: The First 5,000 Days
Beeple, 2007-2020
“Beeple is looking at his whole body of work as it is
presented on Instagram as a kind of Duchampian
readymade” – specialist Noah Davis
Artworld
acceptance:
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Financial infrastructure
Gaming and 3d prototyping NFTs
Space prototyping automatically NFT-registered
Unity and Unreal engine 3d prototyping digital asset creation
Virtual reality CAD-CAM prototyping, product design and test
Game Asset Store merchandizing (analog to the App Store)
Blockchain-register game engine-developed assets as NFTs
Plug-ins (e.g. Arkane-Unity) enable NFT contract creation
Model for molecular printing design exchange (Etsy + Unity + NFTs)
Creating digital infrastructure of CAD/CAM design blueprints
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Sources: https://unity.com/products; Corke, G. (2019). Unity for manufacturing. Develop 3D.
https://develop3d.com/features/unity-visualisation-vr-manufacturing-industrial-design-game-on-simulation/
Digital Twin software
Lightweight CAD viewer Robotic simulation Prototyping in VR
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Blockchain supply chain: Maersk
Maersk TradeLens supply
chain blockchain
Provenance chains
Food security, cold storage
Operating at 20+ ports
Hong Kong, Singapore,
Halifax, Rotterdam, Bilbao
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Provenance chain: global supply chain of flowers
TradeLens (Maersk-IBM supply chain blockchain)
Source: Musienko, Y. (2021). Maersk Blockchain Use Case. Merehead. 16 November 2021.
https://merehead.com/blog/maersk-blockchain-use-case/.
Maersk TradeLens blockchain (Hyperledger
Fabric/IBM): operating at 20+ worldwide ports
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Introduction
Blockchains
Blockchains in space
Smart network
convergence
Time
Thinking
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Blockchains in space
Integrated supply chain management
Automated multi-level asset registries
Missions, equipment, personnel
Transnational economic and legal system
Contracting, payment, audit, dispute resolution
IP registration (sNFTs: space NFTs)
In-space manufacturing
Lot feedstock serialization (additive manufacturing powders)
Printers (electromagnetic field directed aerosol)
B-SURE: biomanufacturing, survival, utility and reliability
beyond Earth
Blockchain science
Replicability, evolution
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Sources: Chin, A.C. (2020). Blockchain Biology. Front. Blockchain. 3:606413. Short, K. (2014). Printable spacecraft.
https://spacenews.com/darpa-to-launch-dods-first-in-space-manufacturing-research-program
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Status: space agency planning
Blockchains in space
Secure comms and extra-planetary economic system
European Space Agency Space 4.0 vision:
A sustainable space sector connected with the global
economy using DLT (distributed ledger technology)
applications for payments, procurement, supplier
agreements, and automated smart contracts
Applications (ESA Space 4.0, NASA SensorWeb)
Financing and smart contract trustless execution
Supply chain management (provenance blockchains)
Networking and communications, traffic management
Identity and intellectual property rights management
Space-as-a-service (SpaceChain)
2019 Bitcoin demo in space, Jun 2021 Ethereum launch
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Sources: Torben, D. (2017). Distributed Ledger Technology Leveraging Blockchain for ESA’s Success. ESA HQ: Strategy
Department; Jones, K.L. (2020). Blockchain in the Space Sector. The Aerospace Corporation space consultancy. https://www.aero.org
NASA
SensorWeb:
interoperable
satellite sensors
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Smart contracts in space
Problem: secure asynchronous space communications
NASA grant to University of Akron (Jin Wei) for research into
data analysis and other topics related to space exploration
Develop a resilient networking system partially based on the
Ethereum blockchain
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Source: NASA. 13 January 2018.
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Smart contract-based satellite coordination
Proposal for blockchain
application within a multi-
sensor satellite architecture
Platform: Hyperledger
Fabric
Source: NASA and academic researchers Mital, R. et al. (2018). Blockchain application within a multi-sensor satellite architecture.
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NASA Mission Priorities
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Source: NASA. (2019). https://www.nasa.gov/ames/spacescience-and-astrobiology/overview
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Introduction
Blockchains
Blockchains in space
Smart network
convergence
Time
Thinking
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Various temporality regimes
Phenomenological human time
Time parallelism: access unlived trajectories
History, literature, social media streams
Biotime: natural cycles and rhythms
Birth-development-maturity-aging-death
The temporality of biological processes
Cellular lifecycles, oscillatory patterns,
circadian rhythms, disease (cancer)
Migratory flight, krill swarms (bioconvection)
Compute-time: information technology
Blockchain blocktime
Quantum computing
Deep learning network function-finding time
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Source: Winfree, A.T. (1980). The Geometry of Biological Time. Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Germany.
(lived experience)
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Blocktime
Blocktime: native time regime of blockchains
Average time to add a new block
Bitcoin ~10 min so enough miners have time to confirm (Ethereum ~10 sec)
Blockchain events are specified in blocktime
Blockheight: total number of blockchain blocks (Btc 725,000 Mar 2022)
Software protocol updates go into effect at a certain blockheight
Taproot activated at blockheight 709, 632 (Nov 2021)
Miner rewards paid 100 blocks after block is added (~17 hours)
Mining difficulty changed every 2016 blocks (~2 weeks)
Block reward halving every 210,000 blocks (~4 years)
Completely separate alternative time domain
Time lock: restricted time period: escrow, check-dating
Time arbitrage opportunities between FiatFi and DeFi
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FiatFi and DeFi: fiat finance and decentralized finance
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Quantum blocktime
Quantum blocktime: time regime of quantum blockchains
Quantum blockchains: blockchains using quantum methods for
cryptography, mining (consensus), and protocol implementation
Migrate to quantum networks entails quantum blockchains
Quantum blockchains as a technology platform
Multi-time interface, implement diverse time regimes
Quantum computational time formulations
Traditional construction of Schrödinger wavefunction
in the background of absolute time and space (Newton)
More recent discoveries of time entanglement, information scrambling,
chaotic ballistic spread and saturation cycles, discrete time crystals,
Floquet engineering (periodicity), spacetime superfluids, OTOCs
(out-of-time-order-correlation functions)
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Source: Hayden, P. & May, A. (2019). Localizing and excluding quantum information; or, how to share a quantum secret in
spacetime. Quantum. 3(196).
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The time of GR-CM-QM
Warped time
Normal time
Superpositioned time
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General Relativity
Classical Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics
The “same” time, treated differently
Bent and stretched, distorted; same time multiple instances
GR-QM: similar domains of universal multiplicity
What is strange is the “squeezing in” of Earth’s classical regime
Simultaneity and multiplicity
Infinite magnitude
Euclidean spacetime
Time is simply a clock, an event
denomination system (Oriti)
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General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics
Incompatible as traditionally formulated
GR: Riemannian curved geometry in dynamic space-time
QM: (Schrödinger wavefunction) Newtonian absolute space-time
Wheeler DeWitt: GR-QM linked in a universe without time
Integrated modern formulations
Field-based approach in gauge theories and gravity theories
AdS/CFT (Anti-de Sitter Space/Conformal Field Theory)
correspondence: gauge/gravity duality
Random tensors (tensors generalized to 3+D), melonic diagrams
Relativistic quantum information
Study of GR and QM together: black holes, Big Bang, dark energy
Applicability of quantum information when relativistic effects become
important in gravitational waves, spacetime structure, Hawking
radiation, black hole information paradox
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Sources: Barbour, J. (2009). The Nature of Time. Foundational Questions Institute essay competition (The Nature of Time) first prize
winner. arXiv: 0903.3489. Rovelli, C. (2015). The Strange Equation of Quantum Gravity.” Classical & Quantum Gravity. 32:12, 124005.
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Interoperability: GR-CM-QM
Status: technology platforms link GR-CM-QM
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General Relativity Classical Mechanics Quantum Mechanics
GPS, spacecraft navigation, orbits, cometary trajectories
(classical computing)
Next-generation computing (quantum computing)
Quantum computing in space: orbits, trajectories, navigation (quantum blockchains)
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Time on Mars
Mars24 Sunclock
Earth-day and Martian-sol
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Sources: https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24, https://marsclock.com
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Quantum astronomy (of the future)
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Source: Luo, L. (2021). Architectures of neuronal circuits. Science. 373:eabg7285
Optical interferometry: European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in
northern Chile is the world’s premier astronomical facility for optical interferometry,
comprised of four 8.2-meter telescopes that can act as one
Quantum optical methods could allow astronomers to
make larger more capable optical interferometers
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Time
interoperable
Thinking
interoperable
Communications Networks
interoperable
Economics
interoperable
Quantum blockchains
AI (IPLD for the Brain)
Internet
Blockchain
Low
Med
High
News/information
Money/contracts
BCI/headset/connectome
Smart Network Domain Sensitivity
Smart network convergence story
Med
Med
Low
High
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IPLD hash-linked data structure for the brain
Source: IPLD: interplanetary hash-linked data structure (call an entire data structure with top-level Merkle root). Swan, M. (2015).
Blockchain thinking: The brain as a DAC (decentralized autonomous corporation). Technology and Society Magazine 34(4):41-52
A brain is a Merkle forest of ideas
A group of Merkle trees, each calling an
arbitrarily-large thought trajectory
Brain DAC II: IPLD for the Brain
Thought content compatibility through
multi-hash protocols and Merkle roots
Blockchain overlay realizes B/CI
cloudminds through secure thought
interoperability between minds
IPLD is an overlay for the web; IPLD for
the Brain is an overlay for cloudminds
Brain DAC I
Instantiate thinking in a blockchain
IPLD for the Brain
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Neuroscience physics
Neuroscience Physics Description
AdS/Neuroscience AdS/CFT correspondence bulk-boundary relationships for neuroscience
AdS/Brain 4-tier AdS/CFT model of neural signaling network-neuron-synapse-ion
AdS/Memory Trigger information storage with highly-critical states
AdS/Superconducting Neural signaling is a phase transition with ordered-disordered phases
AdS/Energy Energy = Entropy (Hamiltonian energy calculation equated to entropy)
Chern-Simons/Neuroscience Geometrical curvature-based min/max model indicates anomaly
AdS/Chern-Simons Geodesic-determined neural signaling path (shortest-length curve)
Neuronal Gauge Theories Gauge fields reset universal symmetry quantity (free energy)
Network Neuroscience Graph theoretical basis for multiscalar brain function
Random Tensors Extend random matrices (2D) to 3+D to consider high-dimensional systems
Melonic Diagrams Solve graph particle interactions as geometry, label fields with vertices
Neuroscience physics: neuroscience
interpretation of foundational physics findings
Source: Swan, M., et al. (2022). Quantum Neurobiology. Quantum Reports. 3:1-30.
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AdS/Neuroscience
AdS/CFT Correspondence
Mathematics to compute physical system
with a bulk volume and a boundary surface
AdS/Brain (Neural Signaling)
Multiscalar phase transitions
Floquet periodicity-based dynamics
bMERA tensor networks and matrix
quantum mechanics for renormalization
Continuous-time quantum walks
AdS/Information Storage (memory)
Highly-critical states trigger special
functionality in systems (new matter
phases, memory storage)
Sources: Swan, M., dos Santos, R.P., Lebedev, M.A. & Witte, F. (2022). Quantum Computing for the Brain. London: World
Scientific. Dvali, G. (2018). Black Holes as Brains: Neural Networks with Area Law Entropy. arXiv:1801.03918v1. 48
Tier Scale Signal
1 Network 10-2 Local field potential
2 Neuron 10-4 Action potential
3 Synapse 10-6 Dendritic spike
4 Molecule 10-10 Ion charge
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Quantum blocktime applications
Thought tokening
Thinking functionality as an overlay
AI deep learning nets
Pattern recognition (sound, image, object, face)
Concept identification (tennis game)
Generative learning (make new samples)
Quantum AI deep learning nets
Born machines replace Boltzmann machines
Output interpretation of loss function based on Born rule
Thought-tokening overlay for computational “thinking”
Thinking as a rule-based activity
Word-types: universals, particulars, indexicals
Encoded into a formal system as thought-tokens,
registered to blockchains
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Existing
New
Source: Cheng, S., Chen, J. & Wang, L. (2018). Information perspective to probabilistic modeling: Boltzmann machines versus Born
machines. Entropy. 20:583.
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Quantum blockchains in space
Smart network technologies needed for next
steps in beyond planetary expansion into space
Indexicality tools: persistent form, fillable content
Tensor networks: canonical quantum index technology
Treat dimensions as indices (expand and contract)
Quantum blockchain (blocktime) applications
Multi-time interface
Quantum blockchains in space application
Integrate GM-human-QM time, and Euclidean and
non-Euclidean time regimes for interoperability
Tokenized thinking
Quantum blockchains in space application
Tokenized thinking automation technology for asteroid mining and
space settlement; thought-tokening adds an intelligence layer
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Index Tech
Tensors are indexical
Thinking is indexical
Time is indexical
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Introduction
Blockchains
Blockchains in space
Smart network
convergence
Time
Thinking
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Advanced time and thinking technologies, implemented
with blockchains, quantum computing, and artificial
intelligence (smart network technologies) are next-
generation “telescopes” and “microscopes” for
extending humanity’s ethically-aware reach into space
Framing question: What philosophical tools are
required to extend the reach into space?
Better time interoperability of physical theories (GR, CM, QM)
Better link between General Relativity, Classical (Newtonian)
Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics in our technology platforms
Developing thinking itself as a technology
Thesis
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Risks and limitations
Technology cycle too early
Blockchains: deployments remain as get-rich-quick schemes not
foundational life-improving information technologies
Quantum: no semiconductor supply chain roll-out for QPUs
Smart network technologies are complicated to understand
Quantum error correction stalls
Unable to move from ~100-qubit to million-qubit machines
Blockchain trust issues
Unclear consequences of network-based digital financial system
Social adoption stalls and alienation
Increasing difficulty adapting to intense presence of technology
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QPU: Quantum Processing Unit
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Shipmind thinker
Standard SciFi tropes
Thinking as a technology (shipmind)
Interface as a technology (everything is
an interface technology (i.e. yourself))
Alcubierre drive: idea to compact space in
front and stretch it out in back for efficient
travel (requires lots of energy)
Bear SciFi: Alcubierre-White drive: warp
bubble FTL, intergalactic rescue of ships stuck
in warp bubbles, dropping out of white space
Alcubierre: would not work IRL
White: exploring possible structure of the
energy density present in a Casimir cavity
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within general relativity. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 11:L73-L77. White, H. et al. (2021). Worldline numerics applied to custom
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Machine, 2020
Ancestral Night, 2018
White Space series
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SSoCIA Oxford 9 March 2022
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Melanie Swan, MBA, PhD
Quantum Technologies
UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies
“The past is never dead.
It's not even past.“
– Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, 1951
Thank you!
Questions?
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Conclusion
Blockchains in space
Smart network automation technology for advanced projects
Multi-level tracking, economics, contracting coordination
Convergence with other smart network technologies: CRISPR,
BCIs, deep learning nets, molecular manufacturing, IoT
Kardashev-level (planetary scale) technologies
Internet, cryptoeconomic networks, coin community democracy
Blockchains and quantum blockchains: theoretical
tools for extending humanity’s reach into space
Interoperability of major physical theories (GR, CM, QM)
Quantum blocktime interoperability
Thinking as a technology: IPLD for the Brain
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