A Guide To Earning Passive Income With Free NFT Investing

In today’s digital world, the temptation to make money has always been challenging. From e-commerce to freelancing, the opportunities are endless, but the competition is also more intense. Have you ever felt the need for something that will bring you passive income, has less competition, and will definitely reward you? If yes, then NFTCOLO is … Read more

Navigating the Complexities of an AI Startup Acquisition

Artificial intelligence (AI) changes the playing field for many industries. Companies may be well-advised to purchase an AI startup to expand their capabilities or increase revenue by serving others in their industry. If you’re acquiring a brand already in place, you must consider a few factors to create a successful transition when merging the AI … Read more

Microsoft’s Forced Updates: A Critique of the Global IT Outage

In the wake of the global IT outage, today’s events have suddenly brought into sharp focus the latent vulnerabilities within our interdependent digital infrastructure. Chaos has gripped airlines, healthcare, and financial institutions—critical services. Right at the centre of this crisis lies a flawed software update by security firm CrowdStrike that aimed to protect Microsoft Windows … Read more

Mastering JavaScript Objects: A Comprehensive Guide

JavaScript objects are fundamental to the language, serving as versatile containers for data and functionality. In this article, we’ll explore the various aspects of objects, from their creation using object literals to more advanced topics like methods and destructuring. Object Literals: Creating Objects Simply Object literals are the most straightforward way to create objects in JavaScript. … Read more

Bifurcation Analysis of the Keynesian Cross Model: Conclusion and References

:::info Xinyu Li, University of Washington. ::: Table of Links Abstract and Introduction 2. Method and 2.1. G is constant 2.2. Linear Relation between G and I 2.3. Nonlinear Quadratic Relation between G and I 3. Results 4. Conclusion and References 4. Conclusion Future researchers can investigate other nonlinear relationships between government spending and national … Read more

Securing the Paris Olympics: Balancing AI Innovations & Heightened Cyber Threats

By Tyler Young, CISO at BigID The countdown to the Paris 2024 Olympics is on, and it’s crucial to defend the Olympic stage against cyber threats. Cyberattacks targeting the Olympics are not new, but their frequency and sophistication have increased over the years. For example, the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, experienced a … Read more

AI Safety and Alignment: Could LLMs Be Penalized for Deepfakes and Misinformation?

Across habitats, organisms of several species types come to understand that there are consequences to actions. They do, not just by examples, but by self-experience. These consequences, in part, add to factors that result in balance for habitats. Consequences generally tame intelligence. Intelligence can be described as excitatory, while consequences as inhibitory. Intelligence without consequences … Read more

Real or not real? Social Media, Parasocial Relationships, and Internet Influencers

Fangirls of the 2010s My parasocial relationships (definition upcoming) with internet influencers started, like a lot of millennials my age, circa the 2010s when normal everyday people started using platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram to post about their day to day while also experimenting with making money online by sharing their niche knowledge … Read more

NeRF Editing and Inpainting Techniques: Experiments and Qualitative results

:::info Authors: (1) Han Jiang, HKUST and Equal contribution (hjiangav@connect.ust.hk); (2) Haosen Sun, HKUST and Equal contribution (hsunas@connect.ust.hk); (3) Ruoxuan Li, HKUST and Equal contribution (rliba@connect.ust.hk); (4) Chi-Keung Tang, HKUST (cktang@cs.ust.hk); (5) Yu-Wing Tai, Dartmouth College, (yu-wing.tai@dartmouth.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 2.1. NeRF Editing and 2.2. Inpainting Techniques … Read more

NeRF Editing and Inpainting Techniques: Abstract and Introduction

:::info Authors: (1) Han Jiang, HKUST and Equal contribution (hjiangav@connect.ust.hk); (2) Haosen Sun, HKUST and Equal contribution (hsunas@connect.ust.hk); (3) Ruoxuan Li, HKUST and Equal contribution (rliba@connect.ust.hk); (4) Chi-Keung Tang, HKUST (cktang@cs.ust.hk); (5) Yu-Wing Tai, Dartmouth College, (yu-wing.tai@dartmouth.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 2.1. NeRF Editing and 2.2. Inpainting Techniques … Read more

NeRF Editing and Inpainting Techniques: Progressive Training

:::info Authors: (1) Han Jiang, HKUST and Equal contribution (hjiangav@connect.ust.hk); (2) Haosen Sun, HKUST and Equal contribution (hsunas@connect.ust.hk); (3) Ruoxuan Li, HKUST and Equal contribution (rliba@connect.ust.hk); (4) Chi-Keung Tang, HKUST (cktang@cs.ust.hk); (5) Yu-Wing Tai, Dartmouth College, (yu-wing.tai@dartmouth.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 2.1. NeRF Editing and 2.2. Inpainting Techniques … Read more

NeRF Editing and Inpainting Techniques: Training View Pre-processing

:::info Authors: (1) Han Jiang, HKUST and Equal contribution (hjiangav@connect.ust.hk); (2) Haosen Sun, HKUST and Equal contribution (hsunas@connect.ust.hk); (3) Ruoxuan Li, HKUST and Equal contribution (rliba@connect.ust.hk); (4) Chi-Keung Tang, HKUST (cktang@cs.ust.hk); (5) Yu-Wing Tai, Dartmouth College, (yu-wing.tai@dartmouth.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 2.1. NeRF Editing and 2.2. Inpainting Techniques … Read more

NeRF Editing and Inpainting Techniques: Conclusion and References

:::info Authors: (1) Han Jiang, HKUST and Equal contribution (hjiangav@connect.ust.hk); (2) Haosen Sun, HKUST and Equal contribution (hsunas@connect.ust.hk); (3) Ruoxuan Li, HKUST and Equal contribution (rliba@connect.ust.hk); (4) Chi-Keung Tang, HKUST (cktang@cs.ust.hk); (5) Yu-Wing Tai, Dartmouth College, (yu-wing.tai@dartmouth.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 2.1. NeRF Editing and 2.2. Inpainting Techniques … Read more

NeRF Editing and Inpainting Techniques: Ablation and comparison

:::info Authors: (1) Han Jiang, HKUST and Equal contribution (hjiangav@connect.ust.hk); (2) Haosen Sun, HKUST and Equal contribution (hsunas@connect.ust.hk); (3) Ruoxuan Li, HKUST and Equal contribution (rliba@connect.ust.hk); (4) Chi-Keung Tang, HKUST (cktang@cs.ust.hk); (5) Yu-Wing Tai, Dartmouth College, (yu-wing.tai@dartmouth.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 2.1. NeRF Editing and 2.2. Inpainting Techniques … Read more

NeRF Editing and Inpainting Techniques: Method

:::info Authors: (1) Han Jiang, HKUST and Equal contribution (hjiangav@connect.ust.hk); (2) Haosen Sun, HKUST and Equal contribution (hsunas@connect.ust.hk); (3) Ruoxuan Li, HKUST and Equal contribution (rliba@connect.ust.hk); (4) Chi-Keung Tang, HKUST (cktang@cs.ust.hk); (5) Yu-Wing Tai, Dartmouth College, (yu-wing.tai@dartmouth.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 2.1. NeRF Editing and 2.2. Inpainting Techniques … Read more

NeRF Editing and Inpainting Techniques: Text-Guided Visual Content Generation

:::info Authors: (1) Han Jiang, HKUST and Equal contribution (hjiangav@connect.ust.hk); (2) Haosen Sun, HKUST and Equal contribution (hsunas@connect.ust.hk); (3) Ruoxuan Li, HKUST and Equal contribution (rliba@connect.ust.hk); (4) Chi-Keung Tang, HKUST (cktang@cs.ust.hk); (5) Yu-Wing Tai, Dartmouth College, (yu-wing.tai@dartmouth.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 2.1. NeRF Editing and 2.2. Inpainting Techniques … Read more

NeRF Editing and Inpainting Techniques: NeRF Editing and Inpainting Techniques

:::info Authors: (1) Han Jiang, HKUST and Equal contribution (hjiangav@connect.ust.hk); (2) Haosen Sun, HKUST and Equal contribution (hsunas@connect.ust.hk); (3) Ruoxuan Li, HKUST and Equal contribution (rliba@connect.ust.hk); (4) Chi-Keung Tang, HKUST (cktang@cs.ust.hk); (5) Yu-Wing Tai, Dartmouth College, (yu-wing.tai@dartmouth.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 2.1. NeRF Editing and 2.2. Inpainting Techniques … Read more

NeRF Editing and Inpainting Techniques: 4D Extension

:::info Authors: (1) Han Jiang, HKUST and Equal contribution (hjiangav@connect.ust.hk); (2) Haosen Sun, HKUST and Equal contribution (hsunas@connect.ust.hk); (3) Ruoxuan Li, HKUST and Equal contribution (rliba@connect.ust.hk); (4) Chi-Keung Tang, HKUST (cktang@cs.ust.hk); (5) Yu-Wing Tai, Dartmouth College, (yu-wing.tai@dartmouth.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 2.1. NeRF Editing and 2.2. Inpainting Techniques … Read more

Code Smell 259 – Control Your Environment to Avoid Test Failures

Don’t rely on things that can change without you noticing them TL;DR: Tests must be in full control. Problems Unreliable tests Difficult debugging Unexpected changes Coupling to External dependencies Mistery Guests Flaky tests Slowness Solutions Generate the file in the test Mock it Use hardcoded streams instead Context Using an existing file for testing breaks … Read more

Runes: The Next Big Step in Bitcoin’s Evolution?

When Casey Rodamor introduced the Ordinal Theory in early 2023, we, like many other Bitcoin enthusiasts, perceived a before and after in the original blockchain. While there are detractors of amplifying Bitcoin’s utility beyond a secure, decentralised and fully functional network as a payment method, a store of value, in other words as the Internet … Read more

Can We Survive Without Internet?

What would happen if, in the course of some war or conflict, China or Russia or some other rogue actor decide to disrupt the internet? The entire world relies on technology and inter-connectivity. If this global system collapses, would it be catastrophic or manageable? Disrupting the internet on a global scale would involve targeting critical … Read more

Using AI to Capture Thoughts and Ideas

The process of documenting human thought isn’t one most people think about often. Most people have a thought, write it down, and hope they do something with it later. However, the differences in how one engages in this process can lead to big differences in the output. Documenting thought and note taking are essential tools … Read more