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Roman Semenov, Alexey Pertsev, and Roman Storm decided to launch a cryptocurrency mixer on Ethereum in 2019. The system achieves privacy by severing the on-chain connection between deposit and withdrawal. It enables withdrawals to different addresses from those used for deposits. Users deposit their funds, wait for a while for the mixing, and then withdraw using a new address.

The rapid advancement of AI demands a shift towards ethical development practices. Concerns around privacy, bias, and fair access to AI technologies have transformed the notion of ethical AI development from a trend into an urgent imperative. A global governing body for AI ethics does not yet exist.

Fordefi brings institutional-grade security to the Sui Network. Sui is the Layer 1 blockchain offering industry-leading performance and infinite horizontal scaling. Fordefi’s integration with Sui enables institutional users to securely self-custody their private keys and connect to thousands of dApps.

BNB Chain Bridge is live, enhancing cross-chain interoperability on BNB Chain. Celer, deBridge, and Stargate are the official bridge partners. The new bridge aims to enhance cross- Chain interoperability, liquidity, and user experience. BNB chain is establishing a liquidity pool to streamline transfers from other chains.

The entire blockchain industry currently finds itself in a state of emptiness. Few projects have offered real innovation or value to the general public. Most are simply chasing short-term gains and speculative opportunities. The original ideal of blockchain changing the world has been replaced by the game of pumping and dumping.

Manoj Pasupuleti leads groundbreaking initiatives that deliver significant business value and enrich user experiences. At ServiceNow, he spearheaded the democratization of app development with the Mobile Studio application. At Hyatt, he led the creation of the Freebird Wi-Fi application, contributing the most new enrollments.

We use the Afrispeech-200 dataset with over 200 hours of audio recording, 120 accents, 2463 unique speakers, 57% female, from 13 countries for clinical and general domain ASR. The entire dataset can be split, in terms of accents, into 71 accents in the train set, 45 accents in. the dev set and 108 accents in a test set, of which 41 accents are only...

Financial markets at the heart of the global economy are most commonly associated with speculation. Entrepreneurs and investors use capital markets to finance their firms. Efficient markets lead to very real outcomes such as jobs being created, unicorns being built, and GPs earning carry. Self custodial, peer-to-peer paradigms of crypto-networks fundamentally disintermediates most rent seeking middlemen institutions.

Since its creation, people have searched for a “use case” for Bitcoin. Nuclear war can’t destroy it. Once people recover the capacity to use computers, mint coins, and print paper, they might find it easier to adopt Bitcoin rather than rebuild their old financial systems. With Bitcoin, you just need to plug in a device.

We combine mC4 (Xue et al., 2021) and OSCAR (Ortiz Suárez et. al., 2019) to create a multilingual public dataset for LLMs. We then process the data with an extensive pipeline, involving two major steps of cleaning and deduplication, to produce an enormous and high-quality dataset. We argue that web-scraped datasets can be a more suitable approach, as curated datasets of superior quality might...

Using existing state-of-art pre-trained models to probe for linguistic information and using that to improve models’ performance has gained interest in the community recently. We take a different approach and use the extracted accent embeddings from a pre- trained model to decide what subset of data to use to build an ASR. We do this at a much larger scale of 41 African English...

CulturaX is a substantial multilingual dataset with 6.3 trillion tokens in 167 languages, tailored for LLM development. Our dataset undergoes meticulous cleaning and deduplication through a rigorous pipeline of multiple stages to accomplish the best quality for model training. CulturaX has been released to the public in HuggingFace to facilitate research and advancements in multilingual LLMs.

Dependency Injection (DI) is a design pattern used to implement Inversion of Control (IoC) It is a technique where the responsibility of creating objects is transferred to other parts of the code. This promotes loose coupling, making the code more modular and easier to manage.

AccentFold is a method that exploits spatial relationships between learned accent embeddings to improve downstream Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) We found that, for out-ofdistribution (OOD) accents, sampling accent subsets for training based on AccENTFold information outperforms strong baselines with a relative WER improvement of 4.6%. AccentFfold presents a promising approach for improving ASR performance on accented speech.

The number of known exploits has grown exponentially. The challenge posed by bounties and threat hunting has been met with increasingly sophisticated tools. Malicious actors' use of AI or Machine Learning Models (MLLs) is a growing concern. A comprehensive approach to edge cybersecurity should begin with network awareness.

The purpose of this tutorial is to create an application to control the user's pronunciation. The goal is to implement a simple App that allows you to enter a word, record your voice, send the audio recording to the API and display your score. To follow it, you must have knowledge of javascript and more ideally Vue.js 3.

Did you find yourself cursing at your terminal because you forgot that one Git command? Yeah, me too. So, I decided to put down these Git commands I always forget. Maybe this note-to-self will save…

Learn how to supercharge your Django app with full-text search using Django-Watson. Dive deep into Postgres magic and boost search functionality.

I want to share my thoughts, tips, and advice based on what I've learned from my own experiences, as well as those of my colleagues and the many people I've interacted with over the years. Always try to deliver high quality work regardless of your title or whatever role you are in.

This supplementary material includes detailed experiment settings for regularization and replay methods in continual learning, with a focus on ResNet-18 and the Adam optimizer. We present additional results for different replay strategies, including a modified approach and comparisons to our method, revealing key insights into performance and hyperparameter effects.

This article provides a concise guide to the most important API endpoints for Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Bitcoin, Polygon, and Solana. It’s tailored for dApp developers looking to streamline their blockchain integration, offering key tools for smart contract interaction, transaction management, and blockchain data retrieval.

OpenShift Virtualization is a feature built into OpenShift that seamlessly integrates virtual machine management with containerized workloads. Built upon KubeVirt, it extends the container orchestration capabilities of Kubernetes to manage the lifecycles of virtual machines. It allows for the unified management of both virtual machines (VMs) and containers within the same environment.

Vectors are mathematical constructs that represent data points like user behavior, location data, or app usage patterns. Each vector's position in space is defined by its dimensions, which can vary based on the specific application and the complexity of the data. Dimensionality reduction techniques can reduce the number of dimensions while preserving the most relevant information.

The Herculean Doughnut is a practical activity to teach about Scrum. It shows the three key accountabilities: Product Owner, Developers, and Scrum Master. After explaining how the activity functions, it is crucial to consider important factors, including potential downsides. Finally, we will talk about a strategy to implement beyond the activity.