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user-inactivated · 2197 days ago · link · · parent · post: Barclay's is now modeling Bitcoin like a disease.
The easiest ways to do machine translation are based on the noisy channel model, assuming the text you want translate was written the language you want to translate it to and was garbled into the language you want to translate from. Sometimes modeling with analogies works.
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user-inactivated · 2197 days ago · link ·
It's an algorithm for correcting errors introduced by transmitting data through a noisy medium to translate from one language to another. The analogy is straightforward, but it's still an analogy. I have no idea whether bitcoin adoption is enough like the spread of disease to make modeling it that way useful, but the meme of memes refusing to die makes it look at least a little plausible, or at least not #nottheonion-ridiculous.