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Technology bridging education gap between rural and urban communities

  There’s an Education Gap Between Rural and Urban Communities. Can Technology Bridge It? " those who had been exposed in middle school to lectures recorded by high-quality urban teachers ultimately completed more education than their peers and earned significantly more once they started working." evidyaloka  too provides recorded lectures which are played in a rural classroom.

The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment

  The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment

Byrne Hobarts interview

  future that is politically optimal institutional incentives " These increases only elaborate supply chains, where there are these really narrow slices that are super profitable. And, as, as they get more profitable, they get harder to duplicate." on semiconductor supply chains.

Pabrai

  Pabrai  interview with Babson college fund. He learnt that first lesson of perils of leveraging in a Buffet lunch  talking about margin loans of Rick Guerin . Dakshana  foundation scaling  Super 30 .

Thin, horizontal, enabling layers

 Along with  electricity , Jeff Bezos identifies  AI as a horizontal enabling layer . Other notables from his  TED talk The Electricity Metaphor for the Web's Future "The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the lightbulb... They were really thinking about.. they weren't thinking about putting electricity into the home, they were putting lighting into the home. And but really it got the electricity.." "They both broadly decentralize at one level by being increasingly centralized at a different level. " -  Byrne Hobart  on similarities between AWS and electricity. Another line in the article piqued me about the  side effects of pre-industrial advances of naval technology  aka one step close to globalisation. Its sort of like breaking down the  Chestertons fence  of natural geographic limitations or immunity bounds. Recursive invention.

Late Bloomers: The Hidden Strengths of Learning and Succeeding at Your Own Pace

  Late Bloomers: The Hidden Strengths of Learning and Succeeding at Your Own Pace  The Art of Blooming Late  or the upside of blooming late.

Women in Blockchain

  FUTURE WOMEN: Minority Female Entrepreneurship and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the era of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency by  Chrissa MacFarlane Welcome to another talk about women in Block chain from Helen Disney from Unblocked  and  Dr Ann Sofie Cloots . Blockchain as a Trust Machine vs Incentive Machine when it comes to policy reforms. Case studies Airtm Iryo Artifacts  - Proof of Existence for  scientific research . Genomes  your DNA Vault Hedera hashgraph vs blockchain  to monitor covid vaccine cold chain thebiggerpie 21:00 Decentralized spotify Throughput of micropayments. Why not execute the transaction after enough has been accumulated. Bundle it like the earlier freight railways or pod shipping. Also referred to as  ticks or tiny buckets  in the case of Uniswap.

How to create a public Ethereum address using MetaMask

  How to create a public ethereum address using metamask A n asset can start out as an ERC-20 and then move on to its own blockchain . This is mainly done to gauge interest in the project and then make case for the need to build its own blockchain. Its a type of vertical integration. Selling your phone first and then manufacturing it too, so you can save some costs. Layer 1 or Layer 2 blockchain  aka why  Algorand Matic is layer 2. Difference between Cryptocurrencies and tokens  " Cryptocurrencies or crypto coins are crypto assets that have their   own   blockchain, or record of transactions. Bitcoin is a prominent example. Tokens, on the other hand, use  another  blockchain instead of their own. The most popular example of a token would be the  ERC20 token , which are tokens that use the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain." -  How to create a custom token It all starts with a smart contract. Hack the System | Polygon Workshop: Building with Poly...

All about NFT

NFT redefining value How to Create an NFT  in Alchemy Cryptokitties " we have the beginnings of is a world where digital assets that are created in one place can be freely integrated into other places." - Nick Grossman Meter Supply The NFT Craze and the Future of Spotify and Streaming Music

Who Gets What ― and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design

  Who Gets What ― and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design by Alvin Roth The art of designing markets The thickness of the markets is also referred to as  The Cold Start problem  of social networks by Andrew Chen as a required usage before network effects can begin to flow. Another  you cant build a risk model without giving bad loans  from  The Money Hackers: How a Group of Misfits Took on Wall Street and Changed Finance Forever . Professor Roth is referred to as "unfreakonomics". He wants to expand the audience's understanding of what a market is. Market Design to address Market failure. 3:38 Market clearing institutions for unoversity classes - Applications process, essays, interviews, admissions. Matching Markets.  When you are chosen, you dont worry about what matching markets are. When you are not chosen, you go off and start  Stanford University . If you are disappointed like me, here's the  real story .  La...

Efficient covid vaccination site

  Efficient Covid vaccination site As you go through the vaccination process, be on the lookout for various roles of the volunteers.  Could you tell who the pod manager was?  What about pharmacist, registrar/scheduler, vaccinator, physician, navigator, screener, flow master and the staff coordinator.

Bitcoin ATM

Bitcoin as battery How we come to Botcoin as a battery   Coinflip NYDIG  a fintech for bitcoin company. Aker ASA launches Seetee to invest in Bitcoin and blockchain technology . Read  Seetee's shareholder letter . Seetee sees it as economic load balancing battery. stranded electricity to economic assets. Micropayments without user ID and thus you control your data. Adam back of Hashcash Blockstream  is  a global leader in Bitcoin and blockchain technology. bitcoinmagazine lightning.network  solve sbitcoin's power hungry problem. Ecocoin   rewards focused startup

Learn Python in a fun way

  In Python, there is a cool construct called Generator. Let's try to understand what it is, where would you use it and why that's important But before that, we need to understand what is an iterable… 1/8🧵 — Luiz GUStavo (@gusthema) March 8, 2021

Follow the flow

  When the auto was down  where did the parts on teh conveyer belts go? If there was no pile up of parts.. someone else was hungry for them. one time when inventory costs  are bearable if you are able to send cars out the door.