Silicon Photonics for Next-Generation Computing
An influential paper examining the integration of silicon photonics into computer architectures to overcome traditional semiconductor scaling limits.
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A comprehensive analysis of physical, engineering, and theoretical limits to computation, discussing how materials, thermal dissipation, and quantum effects constrain semiconductor scaling.
A Deeper Look at Uber's Dynamic Pricing Model
Argues Uber is a true marketplace and that dynamic pricing is the standard solution leading internet marketplaces use to clear supply scarcity.
DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide
An early conceptual guide defining decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), decentralized autonomous corporations (DACs), and other decentralized entities, helping to standardize the terminology of the early Eth...
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Frames the prevention of existential risks, including misaligned AGI, as a supreme global public good and economic priority.
The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?
A seminal paper estimating that 47% of total US employment is at high risk of automation, particularly in administrative, sales, and service occupations.
The Magical iPad
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Traveling the Silk Road: A Measurement Analysis of a Large Anonymous Online Marketplace
An empirical measurement of Silk Road, illustrating the practical, real-world operation and economic utility of decentralized, censorship-resistant money.
Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age
A landmark ethnography of San Francisco tech culture that details how early social media creators used self-branding, micro-celebrity, and status seeking to build digital audience value.
Intel's Silvermont Architecture Revealed
A highly technical, opinionated analysis of Intel's groundbreaking low-power Silvermont microarchitecture, which represented Intel's first major architectural effort to directly counter ARM in mobile devices.
2013-10-11Bitcoin, what is it good for?
Nick Szabo details the unique security and trust properties of Bitcoin, explaining how its decentralized architecture provides a reliable store of value and medium of exchange independent of traditional institutions.
A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy
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Centip3De: A Many-Core Prototype Exploring 3D Integration and Near-Threshold Computing
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Deconstructs the traditional smartphone market share metrics, arguing that Apple's capture of high-end revenue is more strategically important than low-end unit volumes.
The Bitcoin Ecosystem
Venture capitalist Fred Wilson analyzes the emerging business and developer ecosystem around Bitcoin, highlighting how a decentralized protocol is enabling a new class of financial applications and services.
Limits of Parallelism and Boosting in Dim Silicon
Investigates the concept of 'dim silicon'—operating transistors at lower power voltages rather than turning them off completely—under power and temperature limits for advanced semiconductor nodes.
What is Digital Labour? What is Digital Work? What is their Difference? And why do these Questions Matter for Understanding Social Media?
A foundational theoretical paper differentiating digital work and digital labor, analyzing how social media platforms extract value from user-generated content and creative activity.
Andrew Sullivan's New Model: How the Dish Will Work
An in-depth look at blogger Andrew Sullivan's landmark move to an ad-free, direct subscription-supported model, predicting the future rise of direct creator-to-audience monetization platforms like Substack.
Manufacturing Belle: The Creative Labor of Fashion Bloggers
Investigates the creative and emotional labor of fashion bloggers as precursors to modern influencers, highlighting the gendered dynamics of self-branding and amateur production.
Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
Introduced the concept of selfish mining, showing that Bitcoin consensus is not fully incentive-compatible and can be exploited even if attackers have less than 50% hashing power.
Information Propagation in the Bitcoin Network
An empirical study analyzing network propagation delays in the peer-to-peer network and their impact on consensus and forks.
Overview of Beyond-CMOS Devices and a Uniform Methodology for their Benchmarking
Establishes a uniform and comprehensive benchmarking methodology for Beyond-CMOS devices, evaluating spintronic and other exploratory semiconductor technologies against conventional silicon transistors.
The Relevance of 'Women's Work' to Social Media: Social Reproduction and the Digital Labor Debate
Examines the labor of social media users and content creators through the lens of feminist political economy and social reproduction, drawing parallels to unpaid domestic labor.