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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, October 16, 2024?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The Long March Commenced in 1934, Walt Disney Was Founded in 1923, China Conducted Its First Successful Nuclear Test in 1964, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Dear Startup Founders: Beware of Your Minions! to Benchmarking Large Audio-Language Models via Generative Comprehension, let’s dive right in.

The #blockchain-api Writing Contest by dRPC HackerNoon: Results Announcement🎉

TL;DR Meet the finalists and winners in the #blockchain-api writing contest presented by dRPC and HackerNoon.

By @hackernooncontests [ 3 Min read ]

Greetings, Hackers!

Welcome to the #blockchain-api Writing Contest results announcement presented by dRPC and HackerNoon.

After a 15-day extension, the contest’s submissions window officially closed on September 27, 2024, at 11:59 PM. Entries submitted before the deadline were reviewed, and we’ve narrowed them down to our top 10 finalists...

Meet ICON Foundation: HackerNoon Company of the Week

TL;DR This week, HackerNoon features the ICON Foundation - a non-profit organization supporting the open development of bridging infrastructure to connect blockchains

By @companyoftheweek [ 2 Min read ]

Hey Hackers,

Want to be featured on HackerNoon’s Company of the Week? Request Your Tech Company Page on HackerNoon!

Established in 2017, the ICON Foundation supports the ICON ecosystem's long-term growth and mission, which is to connect all blockchains.

Min Kim, Council Member.

That's all this week, folks!..

Benchmarking Large Audio-Language Models via Generative Comprehension

TL;DR AIR-Bench introduces the first benchmark for evaluating Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) on comprehending audio signals and generating interactive responses.

By @benchmarking [ 5 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Qian Yang, Zhejiang University, Equal contribution. This work was conducted during Qian Yang’s internship at Alibaba Group;

(2) Jin Xu, Alibaba Group, Equal contribution;

(3) Wenrui Liu, Zhejiang University;

(4) Yunfei Chu, Alibaba Group;

(5) Xiaohuan Zhou, Alibaba Group;

(6) Yichong Leng, Alibaba Group;

4 Experiments..

Dear Startup Founders: Beware of Your Minions!

TL;DR So, my dear startup founders, do you know what your minions are doing while you arent looking?

By @nebojsaneshatodorovic [ 4 Min read ]

In the beginning, there was and would always be a startup founder — the Creator of the new business universe.

Think of a startup as a tree that's growing and branching. New branches mean new people on board.

When it comes to startups, it's the exact opposite:..

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