On Mar 16, 2021, at 3:24 PM, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote:
> But "smart contracts" is a use case, a broad problem domain. What kind > of smart contracts are you wanting to write? I do need to research the topic a bit to make sure that what I want to do is possible but, according to what I understand so far, it's actually a clearer use case for smart contracts than most. I want to use them to promote reproducibility of scientific data analysis. The idea would be that you put your data analysis together as a smart contract and then others can run it again and be much better assured of getting the same result than they would be without the smart contract. As I understand it, one of the big issues with smart contracts for work transactions is that there could be a bug which causes your contract to enforce something a bit differently than you intended. This is quite different from traditional business contracts where, if it comes to a lawsuit, the courts will look for the intent of the contract. My use case is only asking for reproducibility. The big difficulty for my use case is that you have to be able to tie into various different bits of code previously published by others. For example, a DNA sequencing analysis pipeline which I worked with, had various parts of the process written in Perl, Python, C, R, JAVA, javascript, UNIX shell script, and AppleScript, much of it published by people outside my lab. So a lot of that would probably have to be outside the contract. However, you need a "glue language" to put it all together. We were using shell script for that because most of it needs to run on a supercomputing cluster. We looked for something that could make the code more understandable. Python was a possibility but we were leaning towards Big Data Script (BDS) which is a DSL specifically for this purpose. In any case, if something like BDS (as a glue language) were implemented as a smart contract language, that would at least take care of the top level. Later on, it would be great to be able to buy and sell resources on our P2P network with a cryptocurrency. This would include storage, bandwidth, and processing time for intensive computations. You would be able to buy and sell smart contracts using these things. I understand that Etherium can do things like this but there are quite a few technologies to read up on, starting with Subutai, https://subutai.io. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/19277102-150B-4C78-85B2-8A568271F40D%40biomantica.com.
