Month: May 2025

Strategy Chair Michael Saylor Shares ‘21 Ways to Wealth’ in Vegas Keynote

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LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Strategy (MSTR) Chair Michael Saylor waxed poetic about bitcoin in a keynote speech at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas on Thursday, laying out his guiding principles — his so-called “21 ways to wealth” — for a jam-packed audience of fans and conference-goers. “Satoshi started a fire in cyberspace, and while the fearful run from … Read more

Acknowledgments: Funding and Support for Explanatory Feedback Research

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Background 2.1 Effective Tutoring Practice 2.2 Feedback for Tutor Training 2.3 Sequence Labeling for Feedback Generation 2.4 Large Language Models in Education 3. Method 3.1 Dataset and 3.2 Sequence Labeling 3.3 GPT Facilitated Sequence Labeling 3.4 Metrics 4. Results 4.1 Results on RQ1 4.2 Results on RQ2 … Read more

Godot Engine: Introducing the Meta Toolkit Extension

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Announcing the Meta Toolkit extension We are pleased to announce the release of the Godot Meta Toolkit, a GDExtension plugin that exposes Meta’s Platform SDK and provides other tools to simplify and accelerate XR development on Meta’s platform. The project is Open Source (MIT license) and maintained by W4 Games with sponsorship from Meta. Contributions … Read more

Go Execution Traces Have Become More Powerful

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The runtime/trace package contains a powerful tool for understanding and troubleshooting Go programs. The functionality within allows one to produce a trace of each goroutine’s execution over some time period. With the go tool trace command (or the excellent open source gotraceui tool), one may then visualize and explore the data within these traces. The … Read more

Grammarly secures $1B in non-dilutive funding from General Catalyst

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Grammarly has secured a $1 billion commitment from General Catalyst. The 14-year-old writing assistant startup will use the new funds for its sales and marketing efforts, freeing up existing capital to make strategic acquisitions. Unlike a traditional venture round, General Catalyst will not receive an equity stake in the company in return for the investment. … Read more

Inside the New Space Race: Firefly, ispace, Axiom, and the Orbital Future

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The commercial space sector is hurtling toward a new era—one marked by lunar returns, private space stations, and orbital data centers. Here’s a breakdown of the latest moves by Firefly Aerospace, ispace, Axiom Space, and other space startups reshaping the future beyond Earth. Firefly Aerospace: From Moon Landings to Medium-Lift Mission Firefly Aerospace is no … Read more

How Bias Amplifies Across AI Generations

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Table of Links Abstract and Introduction Background and Related Work Theoretical Framework Experiment Design Results Discussion Limitations Ethical Considerations and References A. Mathematical Formulation of WMLE B Fine-tuning Setup C Qualitative Bias Analysis Framework and Example of Bias Amplification Across Generations D Distribution of Text Quality Index Across Generations E Average Perplexity Across Generations F … Read more