How the FSM Experience Taught Me That True Alpha Engineers Serve Humanity First, Contracts Second A continuation of the Alpha Engineer’s journey. Sometimes the most powerful building happens not because you’re contractually obligated, but because your soul won’t let you walk away from people who need help. Three months ago, I wrote about building through … Read more
Look, I get it. Artificial intelligence is impressive. It can write poetry, generate art, and apparently convince venture capitalists to throw money at anything with “neural network” in the pitch deck. But here’s what’s driving me absolutely insane: we’ve become so obsessed with teaching machines to think that we’ve seemingly forgotten humans are capable of … Read more
Content Overview Setup The Layer class: the combination of state (weights) and some computation Layers can have non-trainable weights Best practice: deferring weight creation until the shape of the inputs is known Layers are recursively composable The add_loss() method You can optionally enable serialization on your layers Privileged training argument in the call() method Privileged … Read more
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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, September 28, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Falcon 1 is launched in 2008, Dissolution of the United Arab Republic in 1961, California Discovered in 1542, and we present you with these top quality stories. From … Read more
We are excited to announce Go’s new support for vulnerability management, our first step towards helping Go developers learn about known vulnerabilities that may affect them. This post provides an overview of what’s available today and next steps for this project. Overview Go provides tooling to analyze your codebase and surface known vulnerabilities. This tooling … Read more
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.80.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.80.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don’t have it already, you can get … Read more
The Gentle January series shares one practical privacy tip a day from a Markup staffer who actually uses the advice in their own life. What’s your mother’s maiden name? What was the name of your first childhood pet? Occasionally you’ll have to answer questions like this to create a login with certain companies—in my experience … Read more
This blog post was originally posted on GH-100000. It’s been over 10 years now that Godot has been developed in the open, with code contributions from 2,800 users. The total count of people who helped build Godot is actually far greater, as it should include documentation writers, testers, bug reporters, translators, moderators, content creators, users … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## How Solar Sails, Aerogel Tiles and Engineered Microbes Could Transform the Red Planet By @ezikielemmanuel [ 6 Min read ] Discover … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Stablecoins and Lending Markets Fixed-Rate Lending Protocols and Derivatives Staking Derivatives Staking Fees as Stable Interest Stabilization Mechanisms Some Caveats Diversification, Interest Rates Swaps, and Tranching Towards Universal Basic Income Closing Remarks Acknowledgements and References 10 Closing Remarks We have reviewed the logic of how the generation of … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Stablecoins and Lending Markets Fixed-Rate Lending Protocols and Derivatives Staking Derivatives Staking Fees as Stable Interest Stabilization Mechanisms Some Caveats Diversification, Interest Rates Swaps, and Tranching Towards Universal Basic Income Closing Remarks Acknowledgements and References 9 Towards Universal Basic Income We started by considering the high stable interests … Read more
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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work 2.1 Vision-LLMs 2.2 Transferable Adversarial Attacks Preliminaries 3.1 Revisiting Auto-Regressive Vision-LLMs 3.2 Typographic Attacks in Vision-LLMs-based AD Systems Methodology 4.1 Auto-Generation of Typographic Attack 4.2 Augmentations of Typographic Attack 4.3 Realizations of Typographic Attacks Experiments Conclusion and References 2 Related Work 2.1 Vision-LLMs Having demonstrated the … Read more
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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, September 27, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The First Ford Model T Car Assembled in 1908, Locomotion No. 1 in 1825, One-Day Capital in 1777, and we present you with these top quality stories. From … Read more
If thinking about protecting your privacy online makes you feel anxious, overwhelmed, or resigned, you aren’t alone. Nearly 70 percent of Americans felt overwhelmed solely by the number of passwords they have to track, according to a 2023 Pew Research Center survey. Just over 60 percent aren’t sure that any steps they take when managing … Read more
The future is an abstract, out-of-reach concept. We will never get to live in or truly know it. But it is not so elusive that we cannot impress upon it, shape it. On the contrary, we do so with or without intention. Our actions today, if coordinated and purposeful, will give us a tomorrow that … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Sia Redefines Cloud Reliability with Continuous Performance by Design By @siafoundation [ 7 Min read ] Sia delivers true cloud reliability … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Stablecoins and Lending Markets Fixed-Rate Lending Protocols and Derivatives Staking Derivatives Staking Fees as Stable Interest Stabilization Mechanisms Some Caveats Diversification, Interest Rates Swaps, and Tranching Towards Universal Basic Income Closing Remarks Acknowledgements and References 8 Diversification, Interest Rates Swaps, and Tranching As reviewed so far, the key … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work 2.1 Vision-LLMs 2.2 Transferable Adversarial Attacks Preliminaries 3.1 Revisiting Auto-Regressive Vision-LLMs 3.2 Typographic Attacks in Vision-LLMs-based AD Systems Methodology 4.1 Auto-Generation of Typographic Attack 4.2 Augmentations of Typographic Attack 4.3 Realizations of Typographic Attacks Experiments Conclusion and References Abstract Vision-Large-Language-Models (Vision-LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background & Related Work Method 3.1 Sampling Small Mutations 3.2 Policy 3.3 Value Network & Search 3.4 Architecture Experiments 4.1 Environments 4.2 Baselines 4.3 Ablations Conclusion, Acknowledgments and Disclosure of Funding, and References Appendix A. Mutation Algorithm B. Context-Free Grammars C. Sketch Simulation D. Complexity Filtering E. Tree … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background & Related Work Method 3.1 Sampling Small Mutations 3.2 Policy 3.3 Value Network & Search 3.4 Architecture Experiments 4.1 Environments 4.2 Baselines 4.3 Ablations Conclusion, Acknowledgments and Disclosure of Funding, and References Appendix A. Mutation Algorithm B. Context-Free Grammars C. Sketch Simulation D. Complexity Filtering E. Tree … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Stablecoins and Lending Markets Fixed-Rate Lending Protocols and Derivatives Staking Derivatives Staking Fees as Stable Interest Stabilization Mechanisms Some Caveats Diversification, Interest Rates Swaps, and Tranching Towards Universal Basic Income Closing Remarks Acknowledgements and References 6 Stabilization Mechanisms But the scenario of always being able to offer savings … Read more
AI can summarize, interpret, and enhance – but when it comes to delivering reliable, real-time weather data, your radar-based weather app is still irreplaceable. Here’s why. The Illusion of AI Forecasting Supremacy In an age where AI writes articles, diagnoses illness, and composes music, it’s tempting to believe it can also predict the weather better … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Stablecoins and Lending Markets Fixed-Rate Lending Protocols and Derivatives Staking Derivatives Staking Fees as Stable Interest Stabilization Mechanisms Some Caveats Diversification, Interest Rates Swaps, and Tranching Towards Universal Basic Income Closing Remarks Acknowledgements and References 5 Staking Fees as Stable Interest Because staking is essential for a PoS … Read more
Dubai, UAE, September 26th, 2025, Chainwire From Ethereum Correction to Presale Diversification: Spotlight on Pepeto Pepeto (PEPETO), a meme coin presale built on Ethereum, has raised more than $6.8 million as of September 25, 2025. The project combines elements of meme culture with infrastructure-backed utility. According to the team, Ethereum’s recent pullback has underscored the … Read more
New York, United States of America, September 26th, 2025/Chainwire/– Dexari, the mobile first self-custodial trading platform powered by Hyperliquid, announces the Gladiator Arena: ROI Trading Competition, a month-long trading competition that begins October 1st. Rankings are determined only by the return on investment, so performance takes center stage. The structure is designed to be simple … Read more
The Gentle January series shares one practical privacy tip a day from a Markup staffer who actually uses the advice in their own life. Getting presents on your birthday can be really fun. So I can understand if, when companies have asked you for your date of birth (so they can send you something special … Read more
Bucharest, Romania, September 26th, 2025/Chainwire//–LYS Labs, the Web3 data infrastructure company building the intelligence layer for machine finance on Solana, today announced a series of significant milestones that underscore its rapid growth and adoption. The company is expanding its data capabilities and gearing up to introduce a new trading product on Solana, LYS Flash, aiming … Read more