Nvidia GTC 2025 Updates, Ernie 4.5: 100x cheaper than GPT 4.5, Google AI meets robots, and more

Hello AI Enthusiasts! Welcome to the eleventh edition of “This Week in AI Engineering”! NVIDIA unveiled its Blackwell platform delivering 40x Hopper performance, Baidu’s ERNIE 4.5 outperforms GPT-4o at 1% of the cost, Mistral Small 3.1 achieves leading benchmark scores with just 24B parameters, and Google’s Gemini Robotics brings advanced AI to physical systems. Plus, … Read more

The Renewables Energy Market Can Still Thrive in 2025

2025 appears to be a challenging year for renewable energy stocks and ESG initiatives as a whole. As geopolitical policy shifts and suspicions of greenwashing impact environmental, social, and governance investing, some of the industry’s brightest stocks are showing remarkable signs of resilience. Even before the famously climate-sceptical Donald Trump returned for his second term … Read more

Bitunix Becomes the Center of Attention at Web3 Amsterdam, Dominating as Title Sponsor

Singapore, March 21st, 2025 – In an extraordinary atmosphere at the unique Circa Amsterdam venue, the Web3 Amsterdam Conference took place on March 13th and 14th in the Dutch capital, where Bitunix exchange captured the spotlight as the Title Sponsor of the event. The booth of the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency exchange attracted significant attention, with … Read more

Educational Byte: Banned, Partially Banned, or Legal—How Crypto Laws Differ Worldwide

In the early days of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin was often viewed as an obscure coin designed for criminals. The darknet marketplace Silk Road brought it a lot of popularity, but also a lot of bad rep. Its decentralized nature (not issued or controlled by any government or company) was constantly misunderstood, but that wouldn’t last for … Read more

Building a Robust JS/TS Monorepo: Best Practices with Yarn, NX and Changesets

Introduction Why Monorepo? Nowadays, the rapid evolution of software development cannot be denied. The teams are growing, projects tend to be more complex. Companies spend significant resources to maintain a distributed codebase consisting of many fragments. Enter the monorepo – a single, unified repository that brings together all of your code. Far from being a … Read more

C++ Metaprogramming: Compilation of Calculations, from Basic Techniques to Advanced Methods

This is the second article in series C++ Metaprogramming series, you can find the first article here C++ Metaprogramming: Variadic Templates & Fold Expressions. This article will unveil the practical usage of templates and constexpr for compile-time code execution. Introduction Compile-time calculations in C++ allow some operations to be performed during compilation instead of at … Read more

Achieving Fair AI Without Sacrificing Accuracy

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Works 3 Preliminaries 3.1 Fair Supervised Learning and 3.2 Fairness Criteria 3.3 Dependence Measures for Fair Supervised Learning 4 Inductive Biases of DP-based Fair Supervised Learning 4.1 Extending the Theoretical Results to Randomized Prediction Rule 5 A Distributionally Robust Optimization Approach to DP-based Fair Learning 6 … Read more

How to Test for AI Fairness

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Works 3 Preliminaries 3.1 Fair Supervised Learning and 3.2 Fairness Criteria 3.3 Dependence Measures for Fair Supervised Learning 4 Inductive Biases of DP-based Fair Supervised Learning 4.1 Extending the Theoretical Results to Randomized Prediction Rule 5 A Distributionally Robust Optimization Approach to DP-based Fair Learning 6 … Read more

The Limits of Demographic Parity in AI Models

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Works 3 Preliminaries 3.1 Fair Supervised Learning and 3.2 Fairness Criteria 3.3 Dependence Measures for Fair Supervised Learning 4 Inductive Biases of DP-based Fair Supervised Learning 4.1 Extending the Theoretical Results to Randomized Prediction Rule 5 A Distributionally Robust Optimization Approach to DP-based Fair Learning 6 … Read more

How to Measure Fairness in AI Models

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Works 3 Preliminaries 3.1 Fair Supervised Learning and 3.2 Fairness Criteria 3.3 Dependence Measures for Fair Supervised Learning 4 Inductive Biases of DP-based Fair Supervised Learning 4.1 Extending the Theoretical Results to Randomized Prediction Rule 5 A Distributionally Robust Optimization Approach to DP-based Fair Learning 6 … Read more

What to Do When ‘Fair’ AI Delivers Unfair Results

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Works 3 Preliminaries 3.1 Fair Supervised Learning and 3.2 Fairness Criteria 3.3 Dependence Measures for Fair Supervised Learning 4 Inductive Biases of DP-based Fair Supervised Learning 4.1 Extending the Theoretical Results to Randomized Prediction Rule 5 A Distributionally Robust Optimization Approach to DP-based Fair Learning 6 … Read more

Bybit Named Exclusive Payment Partner For Tomorrowland Brasil 2025-26, Launches Cardholder Presale

DUBAI, UAE, March 22nd, 2025/Chainwire/–Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has partnered with Tomorrowland Brasil as its exclusive payment provider for 2025 and 2026. This landmark collaboration grants Bybit Card holders privileged early access to tickets before they become available to the general public – a first in Tomorrowland’s history. A Historic … Read more

Solidity Is to Ethereum What Tact Is to TON — How to Build a Voting Smart Contract on TON Using Tact

Most times, when people start learning how to write smart contracts, the first thing they hear about is Solidity and Ethereum. That was the first thing I heard about too. It’s what most tutorials focus on, and for good reason. Solidity made it possible to write programs that live on a blockchain, and Ethereum became … Read more

The Role of Curl Terms in Micromorphic Models

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 A Polyethylene-based metamaterial for acoustic control 2 Relaxed micromorphic modelling of finite-size metamaterials 2.1 Tetragonal Symmetry / Shape of elastic tensors (in Voigt notation) 3 Dispersion curves 4 New considerations on the relaxed micromorphic parameters 4.1 Consistency of the relaxed micromorphic model with respect to a change … Read more

How Symmetric and Skew-Symmetric Tensors Interact

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 A Polyethylene-based metamaterial for acoustic control 2 Relaxed micromorphic modelling of finite-size metamaterials 2.1 Tetragonal Symmetry / Shape of elastic tensors (in Voigt notation) 3 Dispersion curves 4 New considerations on the relaxed micromorphic parameters 4.1 Consistency of the relaxed micromorphic model with respect to a change … Read more

Semi-Analytical Algorithm for Metamaterial Parameter Fitting

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 A Polyethylene-based metamaterial for acoustic control 2 Relaxed micromorphic modelling of finite-size metamaterials 2.1 Tetragonal Symmetry / Shape of elastic tensors (in Voigt notation) 3 Dispersion curves 4 New considerations on the relaxed micromorphic parameters 4.1 Consistency of the relaxed micromorphic model with respect to a change … Read more

The Science Behind Stronger, Smarter Materials

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 A Polyethylene-based metamaterial for acoustic control 2 Relaxed micromorphic modelling of finite-size metamaterials 2.1 Tetragonal Symmetry / Shape of elastic tensors (in Voigt notation) 3 Dispersion curves 4 New considerations on the relaxed micromorphic parameters 4.1 Consistency of the relaxed micromorphic model with respect to a change … Read more

A New Method for Predicting How Waves Move Through Materials

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 A Polyethylene-based metamaterial for acoustic control 2 Relaxed micromorphic modelling of finite-size metamaterials 2.1 Tetragonal Symmetry / Shape of elastic tensors (in Voigt notation) 3 Dispersion curves 4 New considerations on the relaxed micromorphic parameters 4.1 Consistency of the relaxed micromorphic model with respect to a change … Read more

Fine-Tuning Acoustic and Optical Waves in Metamaterials

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 A Polyethylene-based metamaterial for acoustic control 2 Relaxed micromorphic modelling of finite-size metamaterials 2.1 Tetragonal Symmetry / Shape of elastic tensors (in Voigt notation) 3 Dispersion curves 4 New considerations on the relaxed micromorphic parameters 4.1 Consistency of the relaxed micromorphic model with respect to a change … Read more

How Unit Cell Size Affects Dispersion in Metamaterials

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 A Polyethylene-based metamaterial for acoustic control 2 Relaxed micromorphic modelling of finite-size metamaterials 2.1 Tetragonal Symmetry / Shape of elastic tensors (in Voigt notation) 3 Dispersion curves 4 New considerations on the relaxed micromorphic parameters 4.1 Consistency of the relaxed micromorphic model with respect to a change … Read more

Modeling Finite-Size Metamaterials with Relaxed Micromorphic Theory

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 A Polyethylene-based metamaterial for acoustic control 2 Relaxed micromorphic modelling of finite-size metamaterials 2.1 Tetragonal Symmetry / Shape of elastic tensors (in Voigt notation) 3 Dispersion curves 4 New considerations on the relaxed micromorphic parameters 4.1 Consistency of the relaxed micromorphic model with respect to a change … Read more

New Material Design Approach Could Change How Sound Travels Through Space

:::info Authors: (1) Jendrik Voss, Institute for Structural Mechanics and Dynamics, Technical University Dortmund and a Corresponding Author (jendrik.voss@tu-dortmund.de); (2) Gianluca Rizzi, Institute for Structural Mechanics and Dynamics, Technical University Dortmund; (3) Patrizio Neff, Chair for Nonlinear Analysis and Modeling, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Duisburg-Essen; (4) Angela Madeo, Institute for Structural Mechanics and Dynamics, … Read more

Ripple in Time: Is XRP About to Go Parabolic in 2025?

While the wider cryptocurrency market is having to contend with high volatility and widespread uncertainty, XRP appears to be thriving. With the SEC dropping its long-standing appeal against Ripple, could it finally live up to its potential? The Securities and Exchange Commission first opened its lawsuit against Ripple in December 2020 before XRP reached a … Read more