It is ironic that most digital money is delivered through very analog agent networks. These networks are defined by large field teams, stacks of paperwork and layers of cash management logistics. The problems the first generation of agent networks faced ten years ago are still issues today, and...

Collecting and processing large amounts of data is becoming increasingly crucial in our society. We model this task as evaluating a function f over a large vector x=(x1,…,xn), which is unknown, but drawn from a publicly known distribution X. In our model, learning each component of the input x...