Ledger Architecture and Graph Representation
Explore how ledger architecture dictates valid graph models, warning against naive projection and detailing system-specific analytic limits.
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Research review notes
Reviews of the credibility, utility, and implications of research papers. Each current (2026) AI-assisted review uses a two-stage prompt. First, an editorial sweep examines what the paper actually says and extracts core claims. Second, a research review pass creates the raw material for each note. Besides the claims, I also include a bit about how this paper fits into the broader literature, remaining information gaps, and the paper's broader implications.
Quantum Threats to Bitcoin: Signatures vs Proof-of-Work
Explore how quantum computing threatens Bitcoin signatures more than proof-of-work, and what protocol designers must do to prepare.
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Measurement validity across qualitative and quantitative research
Explore how Adcock and Collier unify concepts, indicators, scores, context, and validation across qualitative and quantitative research.
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Social-ecological resilience and coastal disaster risk
Explore how social-ecological resilience, ecological memory, and multilevel governance shape coastal disaster risk and recovery.
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When society defines the limits to climate adaptation
Explore how values, uncertainty, risk perception, and cultural loss shape socially constructed limits to climate adaptation.
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How institutions connect social and ecological resilience
Explore how Neil Adger links social and ecological resilience through institutions, resource dependence, property rights, and collective action.
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Vulnerability as a social-ecological systems problem
Explore how Neil Adger links vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience through exposure, adaptive capacity, institutions, and risk distribution.
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Why large AI task gains may yield modest macro gains
Explore how task exposure, adoption, cost savings, and capital adjustment shape AI productivity, GDP, wage, and welfare estimates.
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Automation, new tasks, and labor demand
Explore how automation displaces labor, new tasks reinstate it, and U.S. labor-demand growth shifted after 1987.
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Bitcoin mining emissions in China: what the model shows
Explore how hardware, geography, and grid assumptions shape modeled Bitcoin mining emissions in China and limit policy claims.
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Transaction cost economics as a theory of governance
Explore how transaction cost economics links asset specificity, adaptation, and governance while exposing its empirical and policy limits.
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How transaction costs shape governance
Explore how transaction-specific investment, frequency, and uncertainty shape the choice among markets, contracts, and hierarchy.
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