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Rafaël Garcia-Suarez
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May 16, 2022

The free-market case against crypto

Free markets, as Adam Smith pointed out long ago, run on trust and regulation. The actors in a free market need to trust its mechanisms in order to participate in it; for example, they need to be confident that pricing will be transparent, that contracts will be honored and enforced…

Cryptocurrency

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The free-market case against crypto
The free-market case against crypto
Cryptocurrency

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Aug 16, 2020

Why does Donkeyskin’s donkey shit gold?

Many years ago, I was struck by the similarity between two very well-known fairy tales from Charles Perrault: Cinderella and Donkeyskin. …

Anthropology

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Why does Donkeyskin’s donkey shit gold?
Why does Donkeyskin’s donkey shit gold?
Anthropology

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Apr 23, 2017

The shift of perspective in “A Room of One’s Own”

Near the middle of A Room of One’s Own, while considering what could have been the life of women during the past centuries, Virginia Woolf regrets that they are largely absent from the writings of historians (themselves mostly men), unless they’re an Elizabeth, or a Mary. Remarkably, she published this…

Books

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The shift of perspective in “A Room of One’s Own”
The shift of perspective in “A Room of One’s Own”
Books

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Jan 7, 2017

The Turing Closet

In popular culture, the words “Turing Test” evoke a simple dialogue, a series of questions and answers, between a human interrogator and a computer, where the task of the computer is to make the interrogator believe that it’s actually a human being. Usually the discussion happens through some kind of…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Published in Booking.com Engineering

·May 1, 2013

Profiling in Production

At Booking.com, we’re big fans of monitoring. With the usual battery of system-level monitors, we keep an eye on the health of our servers. As you would expect from any commercial internet company, we also keep track of various business metrics. However, we also collect data specifically for monitoring the performance of our applications and subsystems. — We’re practitioners of frequent and liberal deployment (our twist on continuous deployment), and as such we need to quickly pinpoint any problem introduced by a specific code roll-out, or by the activation of a new feature — either plain run-time application errors, or noticeable performance problems. …

Big Data

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Profiling in Production
Profiling in Production
Big Data

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