tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10811201.post1331134158225853796..comments2022-03-21T15:18:46.067+01:00Comments on Squobble Blog: Machine learning and cryptocurrenciesSteven Van Vaerenberghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06370501234218207306noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10811201.post-58762653463344046572014-03-20T19:13:04.982+01:002014-03-20T19:13:04.982+01:00I'm not sure I understand what you mean by &qu...I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "maintaining" the ledger. General optimization would be nice, but there are restrictions. For instance, as pointed out by a G+ comment, in Bitcoin etc. the block data is used for calculating the hash. This assures that the work was done for this particular block and is not a repetition of previous work. It's a little hard to fit ML in the picture, but it's worth some thought.Steven Van Vaerenberghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06370501234218207306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10811201.post-6340155822868619512014-03-20T02:00:33.776+01:002014-03-20T02:00:33.776+01:00Interesting idea, but how is the ledger going to b...Interesting idea, but how is the ledger going to be maintained? We'll need some clever tricks to solve big problems due to data sets. Perhaps we could use the computing power to do general optimization? Each worker tries to improve upon the current solution of a difficult problem; much like genetic algorithm?memminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09953928397618019455noreply@blogger.com