Category Archives: links

Assorted Links (EconFin)

1. Innovation Without Patents — Evidence from the World Fairs: how the propensity to patent changes over time
2. Software Patents and the Return of Functional Claiming: Lemley call for the return of the 1952 Patent Act
3. Buffett’s Alpha: betting against beta with ingenious sources of leverage
4. R&D and the Incentives from Merger and Acquisition Activity: empirical evidence for the “small businesses are more innovative than large firms” mantra
5. Regulation and Investment in Network Industries: Evidence from European Telecoms. Access regulation considered harmful to network investment.

Assorted Links (Software Innovations)

1. Z3 open-sourced: better integration with Isabelle will surely follow after this!
2. Spanner, a globally distributed database aware of time-inconsistencies
3. Keccak, the new secure hash algorithm (SHA‑3)
4. TypeScript, an ingenious way to solve the chicken-and-egg problem of language adoption via language supersets
5. LTE Base station software: I hope this will be released really soon

Assorted Links (Computer Security)

1. On the provable security of TLS (Part 1 and Part 2)
2. US: laws of war apply to cyber attacks
3. Calculating the cost of full disk encryption
4. On the true economic cost of key retrieval by using the cloud
5. Microsoft Attack Surface Analyzer and replacing ASP.NET Forms Authentication

Assorted Links (Economics)

1. On Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary component: a hidden gem on one of the most celebrated results of the twentieth century.
2. Why Central Planning?: some very interesting historical examples, but tyrants only caring about control? Really? Nah.
3. US Monetary Policy since the Financial Crisis: the 2008 crisis was a liquidity crisis. And the Fed profited from the rescue.
4. How Large is the Magnitude of Fixed-Mobile Substitution?
5. Unveiling the Power Relationships within VC Firms

Assorted Links (Governments&Security)

1. Epic Catch-22, brought to you by the NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You
2. Ground Mobile Radio, the Software-Defined Radio that will never see the light of day
3. Flame and Stuxnet, the confessed work of the United States of America
4. Advanced crypto-research just in gov-malware
5. Solomon’s Knot: Law, Freedom and Development

Assorted Links (Comp. Security)

1. German Federal Government intelligence agencies can decrypt PGP (German)
2. Breakthrough silicon scanning discovers backdoor in military chip and Rutkowska’s essay on Trusting Hardware
3. A closer look into the RSA SecureID software token
4. Off-Path TCP Sequence Number Inference Attack
5. Fixing SSL: the Trustworthy Internet Movement
6. Alan Turing’s Wartime Research Papers: Statistics of Repetitions and On the Applications of Probability to Cryptography

Assorted Links (Prog. Languages)

1. A verified LLVM to provide full memory safety for C vs C11
2. MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms and Use Cases
3. Numba: LLVM-based NumPy aware optimizing compiler for Python
4. Patterns4Net and WCF Security Guidance
5. Ground Breaking Computer Languages
6. ECOJ v. Northern District of California: Oracle v. Google in the face of No Copyright on Computer Functionality or Computer Languages

Assorted Links (Economics)

1. Cartels are also an emergent phenomenon
2. Excellent dashboards: What kind of revenue does it take to go public? and Do Tech IPOs Always Fall?
3. Lack of profitability limited the early distribution of the barcode scanner
4. Customer Lifetime Value techniques: ARPU-based, cohort-based, and Bayesian-based methodologies
5. Institutions and Technology: Law, as Much as Tech, Made Silicon Valley
6. When Theory Matches Reality: AMD goes fabless as they don’t spur Intel to innovate more

Assorted Links (Theory)

1. John Nash’s Letter to the NSA (in the same premonitory spirit of Gödel’s letter)
2. Computing 10,000x more efficiently
3. Superexponential long-term trends in technological progress
4. Superb discussions on the practical feasibility of quantum computing while IBM deeps into the future: Perpetual motion of the 21^st century?, Flying machine of the 21^st century?, Nature does not conspire and The Quantum Super-PAC
5. Consensus Routing: the Internet as a Distributed System
6. 30 years since the BBBW protocol, the first quantum cryptographic protocol, and 4093 patents later.

Assorted Links (Crypto)

Assorted Links (Cloud Computing)

1. The Magellan Report, or how the cloud is not yet ready for HPC
2. The Jungle of Hardware Heterogeneity, the cloud as a consequence of hitting the limits of Moore’s Law
3. Unconditionally secure cloud computing: an experimental demonstration of Blind Quantum Computing
4. Vanishing margins in cloud computing: the case of Netflix