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Fine-grained, secure and efficient data provenance on blockchain systems

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Fine-grained, secure and efficient data provenance on blockchain systems Ruan et al., We haven’t covered a blockchain paper on The Morning Paper for a while, and today’s choice won the best paper award at VLDB’19. ” In other words, smart contracts cannot access historical blockchain states in a tamper-evident manner. .

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 9th, 2018

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This is the key problem with every musical blockchain initiative I've ever seen. Proposals whose "blockchain" would need to add 1GB/hour, that sort of thing. matei_zaharia : Since we opened #DAWNBench deep learning benchmark rolling submissions, there have been some cool entires. You can now train CIFAR10 for just $0.06

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018

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Or, maybe, they can succeed as in getting comfy job at IBM, but their designs don't translate into useful products. JavaScript benchmark. Martin Sústrik : Philosophers, by and large, tend to be architecture astronauts. Programmers' insight is that architecture astronauts fail. That's not an obvious statement at all.