Build an enterprise synthetic data strategy using Amazon Bedrock

The AI landscape is rapidly evolving, and more organizations are recognizing the power of synthetic data to drive innovation. However, enterprises looking to use AI face a major roadblock: how to safely use sensitive data. Stringent privacy regulations make it risky to use such data, even with robust anonymization. Advanced analytics can potentially uncover hidden … Read more

What If Every Alien Civilization Invented AI, and Died Because of It?

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction The threat posed by AI to all technical civilisations Multiplanetary mitigating strategies and technology progression Timescales and confrontation with the data AI regulation Conclusions, Declaration of competing interest, Acknowledgements, and References 2. The threat posed by AI to all technical civilisations AI has made extraordinary strides over the … Read more

What If AI Is Why We’ve Never Heard from Aliens?

:::info Author: (1) Michael A. Garrett (Corresponding Author), Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Alan Turing Building, Oxford Road, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. (michael.garrett@manchester.ac.uk). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction The threat posed by AI to all technical civilisations Multiplanetary mitigating strategies and technology progression Timescales and … Read more

YouTube says Nope! to age-gating Balatro videos

On Friday, the YouTube channel Balatro University posted a video highlighting how some of their videos had recently been age-restricted after the company tightened its policies about gambling content. But in a post Monday night, YouTube said the restrictions shouldn’t have been applied. “Videos featuring Balatro gameplay should not be age-restricted,” YouTube says in a … Read more

Experiments

Table of Links Introduction Related Work Methodology Experiments Conclusion and References 4. Experiments 4.1. Experimental Setup To investigate the early-bird ticket hypothesis in Transformer models, we conducted experiments on four different architectures: ViT, Swin-T, GPT-2, and RoBERTa. The experiments were performed using the following setup: Hardware The experiments were conducted on the Georgia Tech PACE … Read more

DeFi Game Aavegotchi to Abandon Polygon, Migrate to Coinbase’s Base

The DAO running Aavegotchi, a niche non-fungible token (NFT) game, voted overwhelmingly to migrate the entire ecosystem to Base from Polygon, a move reflecting shifting developer and user sentiment in the broader Ethereum layer-2 landscape. With 93.25% of the vote in favor, the proposal — titled “Make Aavegotchi Based Again” — lays out plans for … Read more

How We Found Early-Bird Subnetworks in Transformers Without Retraining Everything

Table of Links Introduction Related Work Methodology Experiments Conclusion and References 3. Methodology In this study, we investigate the early-bird ticket hypothesis in Transformer models using the masked distance metric. Our approach involves exploring the early-bird phenomenon during full training for vision transformers and limiting it to the fine-tuning stage for language models. The methodology … Read more

Binance to purge 14 tokens following ‘vote to delist’ process

Binance is planning to delist 14 tokens from its platform on April 16 in a move designed to purge low-quality projects that do not adhere to the crypto exchange’s tighter listing requirements.  The tokens are being delisted following a “comprehensive evaluation of multiple factors,” including the exchange’s first “vote to delist” results, where community members … Read more

Transformer Training Optimization via Early-Bird Ticket Analysis

:::info Author: (1) Shravan Cheekati, Georgia Institute of Technology (shravan.cheekati@gatech.edu). ::: Table of Links Introduction Related Work Methodology Experiments Conclusion and References 1. Introduction Transformer models have revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) in recent years. Since the introduction of the Transformer architecture by Vaswani et al. [11], these … Read more

We Tried Fire Opal on a Quantum GAN: Here’s What Happened

Table of Links Abstract and I. Introduction II. Overview of error Mitigation Methods III. Methodology IV. Results and Discussions, and References III. METHODOLOGY To understand how a blackbox model of error suppression and circuit optimization can be used to enhance the data loading process on NISQ hardware, we performed the inference based on our pretrained … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Testing LLMs on Solving Leetcode Problems in 2025 (4/8/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 8, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Bahrain’s WTC construction is completed in 2008, Windows XP End of Life in 2014, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Escape Prompt Hell With … Read more

Which Quantum Noise Mitigation Technique Is Right for Your Circuit?

Table of Links Abstract and I. Introduction II. Overview of error Mitigation Methods III. Methodology IV. Results and Discussions, and References II. OVERVIEW OF ERROR MITIGATION METHODS For completeness, we list and describe different class of error mitigation. Currently, the established methods for error mitigation lie in one of the five classes: Zero Noise Extrapolation … Read more

Rootstock Prepares to Release SDKs for Bitcoin Layer 2s Using BitVMX

One of the oldest Bitcoin ecosystem projects is moving to the next stage of enabling developers to build layer-2 networks using its computational layer. Rootstock is one of many projects currently advancing the goal of bringing greater utility and interoperability to Bitcoin, which it is doing using “BitVMX”, a modified version of the BitVM programming … Read more

How Fire Opal Makes Quantum Data Loading Smarter and More Accurate

:::info Authors: (1) Anh Pham, Deloitte Consulting LLP; (2) Andrew Vlasic, Deloitte Consulting LLP. ::: Table of Links Abstract and I. Introduction II. Overview of error Mitigation Methods III. Methodology IV. Results and Discussions, and References The study examines the efficacy of the Fire Opal error suppression and AI circuit optimization system integrated with IBM’s … Read more

The Platform Built for MENA: Why amana Isn’t Just Another Trading and Investing App

In a space where trading and investing platforms often blend into one another—riding the same waves of hype, offering the same features with a different color palette—it’s easy to overlook the story behind the code. But for amana, a homegrown neobroker operating out of the MENA region, the story behind the screen is anything but … Read more

Bitcoin rebounds as traders spot China ‘weaker yuan’ chart, but US trade war caps $80K BTC rally

Bitcoin (BTC) danced around $80,000 at the April 8 Wall Street open as US stock markets staged a fresh recovery, but unresolved tensions between China and the US continue to put a damper on BTC’s upside. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Hayes: Bitcoin can repeat historic China inflows Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView … Read more