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Dotcom crash took away $8tn (yearly output of Germany, France, England, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Russia) of market value.

The Sanity of Institutions Growth, Tronics and Synergy Growth companies such as IBM and Texas Instruments sold at price-earnings multiples of more than 80.

The Tulip Bulb Craze Virus causes colored stripes in tulip petals.

The Tulip Bulb Craze Virus causes colored stripes in tulip petals.

Random walk: future steps or directions cannot be predicted on the basis of past history.

The goal is to make large datasets safe, i.e. no harm to you from having your data included.

Timeline of Secure Multi-Party Communication In 1982, secure two-party computation (2PC) was introduced for problems that are boolean predicates, e.g.

Tracking on the Internet Screenshot from a [2012 study of third-party online tracking](#mayerMitchellThirdPartyWebTracking).

Incomplete List of Information Privacy Properties Control/consent, e.g.

Cross-site Request Forgery (XSRF) <img src="http://bank.com/transfer?

#1: Network Adversary Addressed by secure communication protocols (+ network security) #2: User visits adversary’s page Variants: Attacker gets the user to click a link, e.g. one that adds an item to their shopping cart.

How does a page embed content from other domains?

The Curse of Dimensionality The predictive power of an induced model is based either on: Partitioning the feature space into regions based on clusters of training instances and assigning a query located in region \(X\) the target value of the training ins…

The Curse of Dimensionality The predictive power of an induced model is based either on: Partitioning the feature space into regions based on clusters of training instances and assigning a query located in region \(X\) the target value of the training ins…

March 14, 2018: SEC charges Theranos, Homes and Balwani with conducting “an elaborate, years-long fraud”.

[3 weeks before first article] Erika Cheung’s email to Gary Yamamoto (CMS) spurred the surprise inspection on Theranos’s labs in less than 3 days.

Rupert Murdoch led the most recent $430m funding round with $125m.

La Mattanza: An ancient Silician ritual in which fisherman waded into the Mediterranean Sea up to their waist with clubs and spears and then stood still for hours on end until the [bluefin tuna] no longer noticed their presence.

Carreyrou & WSJ vs.

Charlotte: I doubt if Theranos’s ‘box’ is real.

Alan retrieved the proficiency testing email chain through a whistleblower law firm.

Alan talked Elizabeth and Sunny out of running HIV tests on diluted finger-stick samples - unreliable potassium and cholesterol results were bad enough.

Richard and Joe Fuisz were tired and battered.

The Edison’s innards were mostly a pipette fastened to a robotic arm.

Elizabeth used Shultz’s connections to get a WSJ Weekend Interview to coincide with the launch.

Theranos’s Lab was divided into two.

Chiat\Day was the agency that Apple had used.

Ian’s specialty was immunoassays.

Elizabeth sued Richard Fuisz claiming he used Joe & John Fuisz to steal confidential information at McDermott Will & Emery, in order to build the rival patent.

Elizabeth had successfully pitched to James Mattis, 4-star General, about deploying Theranos in Afghanistan.

Safeway was doing poorly.

The miniLab, 4S for short, stemmed from the need for a device that could perform more than just one class of tests.

FB’s private valuation had doubled to $50b in 6 months.

Elizabeth met Sunny in Stanford’s Mandarin program.

Money was a sore point in the Holmes household.

For some terminated employees, Holmes requested a dossier on them for leverage.

Holmes’s Grand Plans.

Holmes insisted on using just a prick of blood.

Holmes wanted to be a billionaire since childhood.

Holmes had an all-star team: Larry Ellison’s mentor as Chair, Associate Dean of Stanford’s School of Engineering, 30 years IBM experience, 25 years pharma and biotech experience, Panasonic’s chip-making subsidiary head… Fraud or not, this is a sick lineup!

Models state transitions through differential equations over continuous time \(t\).

For any node to possibly flip, there must be some nodes that have the disease at \(t = 0\).

Graphs, \(G = (V, E) \) \(N \times N \) Adjacency Matrix \(N \times L \) Incidence Matrix \(A = \begin{bmatrix}0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1\end{bmatrix} \) \(\hat{A} = \begin{bmatrix}1 & 0 & -1 & 0 \\ -1 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0