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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Volunteer Computing PNPCoin 3.1 Blockchain Integration and 3.2 Bounded Complexity 3.3 Runtime Authority and 3.4 Back-compatibility Use case – Cellular Docking Conclusion and References 4 Use case – Cellular Docking Next, they define a binary output of size m, in this case m=2, with outcomes 01, 00 and … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Volunteer Computing PNPCoin 3.1 Blockchain Integration and 3.2 Bounded Complexity 3.3 Runtime Authority and 3.4 Back-compatibility Use case – Cellular Docking Conclusion and References 3.1 Blockchain Integration The PNPCoin proposal aims to replace the SHA256 hashing function at the core of Blockchain technology with useful computations. Instead of … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Volunteer Computing PNPCoin 3.1 Blockchain Integration and 3.2 Bounded Complexity 3.3 Runtime Authority and 3.4 Back-compatibility Use case – Cellular Docking Conclusion and References 2 Volunteer Computing Citizen science of the digital era gave rise to volunteer computing, the sharing of computational resources for research. The earliest projects, … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Syllogisms composition 1.2 Hardness of long compositions 1.3 Hardness of global reasoning 1.4 Our contributions Results on the local reasoning barrier 2.1 Defining locality and auto-regressive locality 2.2 Transformers require low locality: formal results 2.3 Agnostic scratchpads cannot break the locality Scratchpads to break the locality 3.1 … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Syllogisms composition 1.2 Hardness of long compositions 1.3 Hardness of global reasoning 1.4 Our contributions Results on the local reasoning barrier 2.1 Defining locality and auto-regressive locality 2.2 Transformers require low locality: formal results 2.3 Agnostic scratchpads cannot break the locality Scratchpads to break the locality 3.1 … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Syllogisms composition 1.2 Hardness of long compositions 1.3 Hardness of global reasoning 1.4 Our contributions Results on the local reasoning barrier 2.1 Defining locality and auto-regressive locality 2.2 Transformers require low locality: formal results 2.3 Agnostic scratchpads cannot break the locality Scratchpads to break the locality 3.1 … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Syllogisms composition 1.2 Hardness of long compositions 1.3 Hardness of global reasoning 1.4 Our contributions Results on the local reasoning barrier 2.1 Defining locality and auto-regressive locality 2.2 Transformers require low locality: formal results 2.3 Agnostic scratchpads cannot break the locality Scratchpads to break the locality 3.1 … Read more

:::info Authors: (1) Emmanuel Abbe, Apple and EPFL; (2) Samy Bengio, Apple; (3) Aryo Lotf, EPFL; (4) Colin Sandon, EPFL; (5) Omid Saremi, Apple. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Syllogisms composition 1.2 Hardness of long compositions 1.3 Hardness of global reasoning 1.4 Our contributions Results on the local reasoning barrier 2.1 … Read more

:::info Author: (1) Martin Kolar, Brno University of Technology (kolarmartin@fit.vutbr.cz). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Volunteer Computing PNPCoin 3.1 Blockchain Integration and 3.2 Bounded Complexity 3.3 Runtime Authority and 3.4 Back-compatibility Use case – Cellular Docking Conclusion and References Abstract Research and applications in Machine Learning are limited by computational resources, while … Read more

In the video that explores the height of his rock stardom, 19-year-old Jason Becker notices something strange—his left leg keeps dragging during guitar practice. One day, after struggling to walk, he locks himself in the bathroom. Panic surges through him as he realizes his hands have lost strength. Doctors later confirm he has ALS, the … 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. ## The Silent Revolution: AI-Driven Network Decisions in Real-Time By @darshanbmehta [ 5 Min read ] The telecommunications industry is experiencing an … Read more

The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that delivers our stories and tools directly to your inbox. In 2021, a company specializing in collecting and selling location data called Near bragged that it … Read more

Streaming giant Netflix, Inc. has engaged investment bank Moelis & Co. to explore a potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.’s studio and streaming operations, and has been granted access to a data room containing financial details. Reuters Control of Warner Bros.’ film and TV studios would give Netflix access to major franchises such as Harry … Read more

Getty Images and AI search startup Perplexity signed a global multi‑year licensing agreement that grants Perplexity the rights to display Getty’s editorial and creative image library across its search and discovery tools. Reuters n The deal includes API access to Getty’s visuals, enabling Perplexity to pull licensed images directly and display them with proper attribution … Read more

Nvidia will supply more than 260,000 of its most advanced “Blackwell” AI chips to South Korea’s government and major firms, including Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Reuters The deal positions South Korea to become a regional AI hub, aligning with President Lee Jae‑myung’s recent push for increased AI investment amid global economic and trade pressures. Under … Read more

Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony.ai has received the first city‑wide permit for fully driverless commercial robotaxi operations in the city of Shenzhen, in southern China. Reuters The permit, jointly issued with the city’s leading taxi operator Xihu Group, will enable the rollout of fare‑paying, driverless ride‑hailing across districts including Nanshan, Qianhai, and Baoan, before expanding … Read more

Uber Technologies Inc. will invest US$200 million over five years to establish a software and technology development centre in Istanbul, Turkey’s Industry and Technology Ministry said. Reuters The planned centre will become Uber’s fourth global tech hub outside the United States, joining similar facilities in Brazil, India, and the Netherlands. The move underscores Uber’s strategic push to … Read more

The Centralization Problem As of 2025, AI development has become increasingly centralized: The Big Players: OpenAI (backed by Microsoft): GPT-4, GPT-5 in development Google DeepMind: Gemini Ultra, AlphaFold, AlphaCode Anthropic: Claude 3 Opus, Constitutional AI research Meta: LLaMA series, open-weights but trained on massive clusters xAI, Mistral, Cohere: All well-funded, cluster-dependent The Resource Barrier: Pretraining … Read more

Four engines, one prompt, slightly suspiciously honest commentary Welcome to the colosseum. Today I’m pitting four image-generation heavyweights against one another: Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, BNX AI, and Google’s Nano Banana (the flashy image/editing arm of Gemini). I wrote this as a first-person lab notebook – a little messy, a little snarky, and committed to testing one single prompt across services so you can see … Read more

By Guru Hegde When we first deployed CockroachDB across three regions within the US, our metrics looked great until latency shot up in unpredictable ways. That’s when I learned geography isn’t just a deployment detail; it’s the real control plane of distributed databases. The Dream Database (and Its Hidden Catch): Every developer and system architect … Read more