tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59276642024-03-27T19:53:39.786-04:00William EntrikenAnalysis of all...William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.comBlogger256125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-17526963698470623702023-07-31T19:59:00.004-04:002023-07-31T19:59:36.838-04:00NEW BLOG URL Hello, please update your RSS feed / email to the new blog address:https://blog.phor.net/William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-62481878011866040342021-09-29T17:23:00.005-04:002021-12-14T09:21:30.343-05:00There are no NFT contracts before Terra NulliusI have reviewed every smart contract on Ethereum Mainnet starting from Genesis up to Terra Nullius.If you think Terra Nullius in 2015 is an NFT that's cool. But clearly nothing before then is an NFT. The search is over. Complete notes attached.After you have read everything below and verified it, you must agree that the search any NFT before Terra Nullius is done. Now that the search is overWilliam Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-51489641616924635262021-07-30T12:58:00.006-04:002021-10-02T16:28:42.587-04:00Whitelist and blacklistWhitelist and blacklist are very simple words and have an unambiguous meaning. Below is a demonstration.> I ordered a new Tesla but was underwhelmed by their lack of paint options. Their whitelist only had one choice, "Pearl White Multi-Coat".> Gothic clothes are fun, you have a variety of things you can wear mostly black, but their blacklist is expansive and includes "dark black", "off William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-49378120973858459172021-05-08T10:11:00.001-04:002021-05-08T10:11:10.267-04:00Multiqueue data structureA multiqueue is to a queue as a multisite is to a set. This generic structure might be useful to some programmer somewhere and I haven't seen it in textbooks, so here is an example in Swift.// This implementation uses O(N) memory, O(1) enqueue and O(N) dequeue.
// Other implementations with faster dequeue are possible by either
// sacrificing enqueue speed or using more memory.
struct MultiQueue&William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-40790354257064422862021-03-24T23:00:00.010-04:002021-12-11T12:11:49.021-05:00Tesla Announces the New Model TUPDATE 2021-04-05: Added some notes and caveats, thanks to a discussion with Russell ThomasYou may have already seen them on the road. The Model 3 has been largely successful, everybody and their mother knows these cars run on electricity, not directly making harmful carbon emmisions that pollute our planet and contribute to climate change.Last week, Elon Musk has announced plans to fix that by William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-78638958126773862212020-07-15T16:05:00.003-04:002020-07-16T09:38:15.357-04:00Biosample Permission Token with Non-Fungible TokensA new model for tracking permissions using established blockchain standards, and an application for biosample data, is introduced.
Written by: William Entriken, Daniel Uribe.
The permission problem space
Permission is a broad problem space covering any permit, where a permitter will ultimately authorize some property use to a permittee. These permits cover a broad field of authorizations, which William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-1593262850461227922019-10-19T23:42:00.002-04:002019-10-19T23:42:44.692-04:00Will's ZKSNARKS Bibliography
Will's ZKSNARKS Bibliography
Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2013/879 - Succinct Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge for a von Neumann Architecture
BCTV14
https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/879
Our circuit generator is the first to be universal: it does not need to know the program, but only
a bound on its running time. Moreover, the size of the output circuit depends additively (rather than
William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-53778684087737783982019-10-10T17:21:00.003-04:002019-10-10T17:21:55.673-04:00Penna Turnpike Commission overbills ~$40M per year on turnpike violation notices, successfully avoids public disclosure
I have been sending Right To Know requests to the PA Turnpike to expose how much they are collecting by overbilling drivers that exit the turnpike with a ticket.
PA law states how much they can charge:
In the event of a lost toll ticket, the patron shall pay the fare from the farthest point of entry on the Turnpike to the actual point of exit. 67 Pa. Code § 601.12(d).
But William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-3080373774829219212019-04-14T16:07:00.001-04:002019-04-14T16:07:51.416-04:00Testing deployed Ethereum contracts with ESTIMATEGAS
This article is cross-posted at https://0xcert.org/news/live-testing-smart-contracts-with-estimategas-william-entriken-tadej-vengust.
Testing smart contracts live without spending gas
0xcert is publishing a series of tech papers in collaboration with various authors. The present article is a contribution by our advisor and the lead author of ERC-721 standard, William Entriken, andWilliam Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-21410255547558329752018-12-22T12:58:00.001-05:002018-12-22T12:58:36.126-05:00Mac Software Worth Buying and Free Software Worth Getting
Mac Software Worth Buying
Apple – Final Cut Pro https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/
Video editing
Adobe – Lightroom Classic CC
Photo cataloging and manipulation. "Classic" version prevents you from having your photos leaked if you work with photos that are important or sensitive.
Microsoft – Office 2019 (not cloud)
This is god-awful software that has click-throughs for OneDriveWilliam Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-70956102503977802172018-11-15T01:50:00.001-05:002019-03-29T10:28:52.849-04:00Storing Arbitrary-Length Data in a Merkle TreeA hash tree, or a Merkle tree, is a data structure that allows you to take a lot of information and summarize it together in such a way that you (the "prover") can succinctly prove to somebody else (the "skeptic") that certain data is included.
Background
Here is a typical Merkle-tree implementation:
Arrows represent inclusion in a hash. For example, A = hash(B, C). Hash() is customarily William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-11886274780736030612018-07-21T00:56:00.000-04:002018-07-21T00:58:24.723-04:00Algorand white paper reviewThis article briefly reviews the Algorand technical paper as well as their white paper for investors. I don't know if the investor paper is public, so I wont link to it. But if you have seen you then you will know you have the right on if:
* In Chinese
* 1,208,476 bytes
* SHA256 d2fe315b4410dbf88e6054555d5b04c6edddef6c2ea6e1d1a12bbedf47b9eeff
Investor analysis:
* 写软件好容易。为什么找投资方?为什么不要William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-22940412053650500432018-06-24T21:04:00.000-04:002019-03-27T00:41:40.250-04:00Nontechnical: What is ERC-721?Read time: 6 minutes. This post explains how ERC-721 works and does not require any prior knowledge of Ethereum or blockchain.
简体中文 --> http://www.sfgroup.hk/news_post/通俗易懂的告诉你什么是erc-721/ (奇点财经翻译)
How does your phone connect to a web server?
Most of your time on computers/phones/technology is spent with a web browser accessing a web page. Most of the screens you see out in the William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-789069009409422822018-06-09T19:10:00.001-04:002018-06-09T19:10:08.516-04:00The Timeline of ERC-20 ApprovalIn Ethereum, the EIP process tracks standards, which are improvements to the state of affairs. Usually these standards affect interoperability of systems.
Either way, ERC-20, the token standard, is surely the most influential standard to date. I have researched the timeline of this standard, presenting below.
2015-11-19: Issue opened
https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/20#issue-117778189
William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-43734320738430541722018-03-27T20:50:00.000-04:002018-03-27T20:50:49.156-04:00The Blockchain and Know Your Customer (KYC) LawsRight now Web 3.0, "the blockchain", the decentralized web, etc. are making a lot of people rich. People will do anything to get a few Ether so they can spend it on a pictures of kitties or whatever. Here is the current best practice of how you can get Ether:
Send Western Union payment to somebody recommended by a company that is not in your legal jurisdiction to get Bitcoin, then using an William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-87710057697757628992018-03-09T17:23:00.002-05:002018-03-09T18:00:33.925-05:00Martin Fluss "Businesses" for SaleEXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A man named Martin listed an “established” distance learning education business for sale. In actuality, no such business exists, as proven by a successful lawsuit against him, warnings published about him by others, and documents he himself has published. IntroductionWe reached out to Martin regarding a business that was for sale on BizBuySell. He offered the business for sale William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-67368808355045313172017-08-09T01:09:00.000-04:002017-08-09T01:19:23.680-04:00I Was Kidnapped in Manila and Lived to Tell About itOther potential titles:
The US Embassy Doesn't Want You Know About This Kidnapping in Manila
Scopolamine / Devil's Breath Trip Report
It started Easter weekend
This story starts at Noon Tuesday April 18th, 2017 on Makati Avenue. I just finished a meeting with the Philippines Board of Investments to discuss how my company can expand our business in Manila. (Also saw the QBO Innovation Hub, itWilliam Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-60852572003544689942017-02-18T12:41:00.003-05:002017-02-18T12:42:33.060-05:00New Questions for Socialist Thinkers: A 1950s View of Socialism and Capitalism on the Modern US Economy(This essay was originally presented Monthly Review for publication, but their review department is unresponsive.)
A review and modern interpretation of socialist works from the 1920s to 1950s.
Paul M. Sweezy, a founding editor of The Monthly Review, wrote The Present as History in 1953 to collect and analyze many angles of socialist thought. The book includes writing by several authors across William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-40233963284652185702016-09-30T09:46:00.000-04:002016-09-30T09:46:00.735-04:00Trump has turned media into liarsThis is just one example of the continual stream of poor journalism related to US presidential candidate Donald Trump. I do not have an opinion on Trump and I do not defend him. However, when I dig a little deeper than just skimming the news, I consistently find that journalists are unethical or extremely incompetent when reporting him. And nearly every time this results painting a more damning William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-85508506775035710802016-03-08T17:09:00.000-05:002016-03-08T17:09:05.653-05:00Measuring economic growth over generationsBerkshire Hathaway's annual report was released last week and it of course includes another letter written by Warren Buffet. There are always nuggets in there to help understand our world, business management, and even obligatory diet advice (burgers and cola all the way down). But in this issue I found a theme on measuring "economic growth" over time.
The percentage of people employed in William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-4049994130222948422015-10-12T23:09:00.000-04:002015-10-12T23:27:43.451-04:00Generic process to unroll any recursive algorithmIn computer programming, you run into recursive algorithms when dealing with a problem that exhibits similar substructure. Recursion will apply the exact algorithm to a subset of the problem and then combine the result in some way with the remainder of the problem. Using recursion can be very readable and elegant. You are not likely to come across a contrived usage of a recursive algorithm.
William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-48000475255011116332015-02-06T21:24:00.001-05:002015-02-06T21:24:19.186-05:00Practical dreams about saving the human raceAmong the things that have kept me up at night:
Your species is being attacked by a superior invader that takes apart peoples' brains and assimilates the knowledge into their collective hive. How do you stop them?William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-52905979891029951182015-01-02T14:55:00.000-05:002019-08-05T20:14:17.237-04:00Best radio shows from from 1940s to the end of the 20th centuryUPDATE 2019-08-05: Added links to for shows to archive.org
This is second in a series started with a review of comedy acts in the 20th century.
Old Time Radio is enjoying a comeback. There are plenty of original and creative shows recorded over the years and have expired copyright which makes them great for repackaging and reselling. There is great selection on ISOHunt and for sale on William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-72511908877114593502014-09-26T14:11:00.000-04:002014-09-26T14:11:30.134-04:00Page One Power -- SEO Services Billed Hourly, Plagiarism, Claiming Others' Work, No AccountabilityWe have been a customer of Page One Power for 12 months and after a failure to glean results from the campaign have cancelled the campaign.
Poor results are a common result of business dealings but when a company employs tactics to cover up shortcomings, misrepresent results and fails to take any accountability, then this is blog-worthy.
The Contract
We have contracted with Page One Power forWilliam Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5927664.post-72471988150706866932014-08-10T21:52:00.000-04:002014-08-10T21:52:13.868-04:00How to make the best out of jury dutySu just got her third notice today about needing to reply to a jury duty summons.
Su: Wait... so why did they pick me?
Su: So it's like a lottery? And I hit the lottery? I've never hit the lottery before, this is awesome!
Su: So I have to interview them first and see if they will pick me?
Su: And I don't have to go to work that day!? Even better!
Su: I'm going to say yes to every question they William Entrikenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013205951793960304noreply@blogger.com0