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When your target market is crowded with established players and new entrants, the challenge becomes exponentially tougher.

While Starlink has demonstrated the immediate practical benefits of satellite-based internet, emerging technology like Spacecoin is taking this concept even further.

The study involved a focus group with VazaZika developers, exploring insights on gamified software that promotes mosquito-borne disease prevention using GDEs.

Participants found GDEs’ negative effects useful for adoption, noting context sensitivity and value for developers new to gamified systems.

Participants felt confident and comfortable discussing GDEs' negative effects, agreeing they could freely share opinions during the focus group.

The focus group explored developers' views on GDEs, identifying pros like motivation and engagement, and cons like cheating, demotivation, and design complexity.

At the beginning of 2024, I started to work on a social media scheduling tool called Postiz. Little did I know it would end up making thousands every month.

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Decentralized Internet envisions a more autonomous, citizen-driven Internet. It redistributes data across numerous nodes, where each node enforces rules through consensus. But the road to a utopian Internet has its stumbling blocks.

Project DIGITS democratizes AI computing by giving developers a powerful desktop untethered from the cloud. DIGITS is a precursor for how personal computing could fuel the uptake of AI into consumers' everyday lives.

Gameboi.AI is an AI-powered agent transforming Web3 airdrops with interactive, bot-resistant campaigns on X. Earn rewards like $OPEN points and $GMB tokens, making token distribution fun and fair.

Data analysis is among the top jobs to be replaced by AI agents. Change is happening in stealth, but fast. The time to start building one's synthetic replacement is now.

ERC-7683 introduces a standard for enabling cross-chain intents on Ethereum, allowing seamless communication between different blockchains. By improving interoperability, it enhances the functionality and usability of decentralized applications across multiple networks. This article discusses ERC-7683 in detail, covering its technical specifications, benefits, potential limitations, and associated considerations.

Choosing the right release cycle is key. This article recommends a four-week cycle for complex On-Premise B2B products. Requirements are finalised before the iteration starts, followed by grooming and planning. The iteration begins after planning and includes a 10-day Implementation stage, a 5-day Stabilisation stage, and a 5-day Regress and Delivery stage. The article outlines tasks for each subteam and provides links to prioritisation...

ZK Proofs lets you prove something is true without showing why it's true. It's used to prove that a credit score is above 700 without revealing the actual score. It can also be used to verify a transaction without sharing customer data.

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The research analyzes T2V, T2I, and SSL tasks (FP, Painting, AVCont) using 50M video/text-image subsets, with audio tasks sampled from videos with sound.

The research examines 2T tokens, fine-tunes for text-to-video tasks, and evaluates zero-shot benchmarks including MSR-VTT, UCF-101, and Kinetics 600.

VideoPoet uses task-specific prefixes with text, visual, and audio tokens, training only on outputs like visual and audio tokens with special task prompts.

This research paper proposes using Alternating Gradient Descent for efficient multi-task training, minimizing padding by grouping tasks by sequence length.

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Manipulators are hard to spot because with the intention to cheat and deceive, they use tricks that are meant to influence, exploit, and control you. You are inherently programmed to respond to reciprocation, you may not even realize when this tendency is exploited by manipulators to accomplish a hidden agenda.

Discover BlueSky, the federated alternative to Twitter, powered by the innovative AT Protocol. Learn about its decentralized structure, repository system, DID integration, and unique features that prioritize user freedom and authenticity. Explore how BlueSky could shape the future of social media.

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence tool that can be used to search for answers to queries. The tool can provide answers to specific queries, but can't provide reliable citations. The author of this article shares his experiences with ChatGPT to help others better understand its limitations.