Joe Petviashvili

“Skip graphs are a novel distributed data structure, based on skip lists, that provide the full functionality of a balanced tree in a distributed system where resources are stored in separate nodes that may fail at any time.”

Essentially, from the lender's point of view, there are three types of people - people where you can get a much higher ROI than from a savings account (credit grades AA, A, and B), people who will give you about more...

Hate is the main feature that people are fascinated with in Utu since it’s the method that a Hub uses to throttle misbehaving peers.

These charts show statistics for the performance of all prosper.com loans. Each curve represents the set of loans that were created in one calendar month. The vertical axis is the fraction of those loans that have “gone bad”, in other more...

The GitTorrent Protocol (GTP) is a protocol for collaborative git repository distribution across the Internet. It is best classified as a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol, although it also contains centralized elements.