Month: April 2024

Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now

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The second-gen AirPods Pro with USB-C start at $199 at Amazon. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you know where to look, you can often score discounts on Apple’s ever-popular AirPods. Since Apple launched the third-gen AirPods at the end of 2021, we’ve seen the starting price of the second-gen, entry-level model … Read more

How to cross-post your Threads posts to the fediverse

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The Verge It looks like the fediverse is opening up. In late March, Meta’s Threads introduced a beta feature that allows users from the US, Canada, or Japan to cross-post and view likes from Mastodon and, presumably, other federated social networks. If you’re a Threads user from one of these three countries and want to … Read more

Women in AI: Urvashi Aneja is researching the social impact of AI in India

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To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. … Read more

The “New Bitcoin on Telegram” GRAM Surges 28,000 Times in Price In Just 3 Months After Launch

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GRAM – a new token on the TON blockchain, created by TON developers and enthusiasts, was launched on January 30th. Since its launch, the price of GRAM skyrocketed 28,000 times – from $0.00000107 to $0.03, peaking at $0.044. Pretty impressive for a simple token that can easily be mined using GPUs. A “Fun Experiment” That … Read more

NobleBlocks: A New Approach to Scientific Publishing through Decentralized Science (DeSci)

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NobleBlocks introduces a fresh perspective to scientific publishing with its blockchain-based platform, emphasizing Decentralized Science (DeSci). Striving for gradual and meaningful change, NobleBlocks offers an innovative solution to several longstanding challenges in scientific publishing, including inefficiencies, biases, and limited access to scientific research. Addressing Scientific Publishing Challenges with Modesty and Innovation Recognizing the intricate dynamics … Read more

Cut the Crap! 100 Complex Terminology Explained in One Single & One Simple Sentence, LLM Edition

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Language Model: A statistical model that learns patterns and relationships in text data to generate human-like text. Transformer: A neural network architecture that uses self-attention mechanisms to process sequential data. GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer): A type of language model that generates text based on patterns learned from pre-training on large text datasets. Fine-tuning: The process … Read more

A Brief Introduction of WorldCoin: Proof of Unique Humanness on Blockchain

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Based on Wikipedia, WorldCoin is an iris biometric cryptocurrency project developed by San Francisco- and Berlin-based Tools for Humanity. Founded in 2019 by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Max Novendstern, and Alex Blania. But if I try to define it with one sentence: WorldCoin is what Bitcoin should have been. Bitcoin was fundamentally conceived as … Read more