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Bitcoin L2s Are Eating the World

TL;DR Bitcoin is evolving from a niche to a dominant force, with L2 solutions unlocking its full potential for the next bull run.

By @andreserrano [ 4 Min read ]

Building on Bitcoin is no longer contrarian. For years, Bitcoin startups were overlooked by VCs, as developers fled to other ecosystems that offered greater functionality and performance. I’ve been writing about Bitcoin for over a year now, and let me tell you: this is no longer the case...

How To Process Engineering Drawings With AI

TL;DR Learn why ready-made AI tools are not well-suited for engineering drawings processing and how to actually use AI to extract data from technical drawings.

By @olegkokorin [ 5 Min read ]

Having worked on multiple technical drawing processing projects, it was a matter of time till an engineering drawing automation project came our way. What’s so special about engineering drawings, you ask?

All digital documents can be separated into 2 types: structured and unstructured:..

Are Primordial Black Holes Dark Matter?

TL;DR This paper takes a look at the constraints, possible detection methods, and future tests for PBHs as dark matter candidates.

By @phenomenology [ 3 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Antonio Riotto, Département de Physique Theorique, Universite de Geneve, 24 quai Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland and Gravitational Wave Science Center (GWSC), Universite de Geneve, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland;

Abstract and 1 Introduction

2 Some open questions

2.1 What is the abundance of PBHs?..

Why Cant AI Count the Number of Rs in the Word Strawberry?

TL;DR Explore why AI struggles to count letters in words like strawberry, delving into tokenization, language model limitations, and potential improvements.

By @kisican [ 5 Min read ]

Why Can't AI Count the Number of "R" in the Word "Strawberry"?

Besides that, more recent generations of language models are combined, with other tools and algorithms that make these models more powerful for more structured tasks, which also include counting and arithmetic...

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