Blockchain ecosystem

Level of blockchain governance : Platform level Application level (distributed apps ) Ecosystem level Centralized paradigms are not as effective in the digital age. Blockchain stakeholders : Industry pioneers First mantra was : “We reject kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code” Vanguards in the Read more…

Blockchain Design Principles

Based on the course Introduction to blockchain Technologies by Insead and Don Tapscott / Alex Tapscott on Coursera Principle 1 : Networked integrity Honesty, consideration, accountability, transparency are coded into the blockchain. Integrity is distributed among nodes, not vested in a single member. Double-spend problem. cannot send the same dollar Read more…

Case study

We will use the data from the world bank. It contains data on world economies for over half a century. The indicators are : Population Electricity consumption CO2 emissions Literacy rates Unemployment Mortality rates Dictionaries for data science+ Writing a function to help you Using a list comprehension Turning this Read more…

List comprehensions

Populate a list with a for loop : We can do that in only one line with a list comprehension ! Now a list comprehension with range() : List comprehensions : Collapse for loops for building lists into a single line Components : iterable iterator variable (represent members of iterable) Read more…

Lambda functions

There is a quicker way to write functions: lambdas ! So basically you specify the variables in input, and then the operation which is performed et.. voila ! You can also write anonymous functions : Function map takes two arguments: map(func, seq) map() applies the function to ALL elements in Read more…