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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 18, 2024?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, HTML 4.0 is Published in 1997, Avatar is Released in 2009, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Ella Isn’t Real, But She Feels Real: The Empathic AI Leasing Agent in Our Looming Bot First Economy to El Salvadors President Teases “Rent Your Own Volcano” Bitcoin Mining Plan, let’s dive right in.


The Market Today

#01 Instagram (Meta)
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#02 Facebook (Meta)
619.44 -1.09%
#03 Microsoft
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#04 ThoughtWorks
4.47
#05 Meta
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#01 Bitcoin
$103699.62 -3.86%

web3

El Salvadors President Teases “Rent Your Own Volcano” Bitcoin Mining Plan

TL;DR El Salvador’s geothermal Bitcoin mining, including a “rent your own volcano” plan, sparks debate on sustainability, costs, and potential economic growth.

By @thesociable [ 5 Min read ]

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has hinted at a “rent your own volcano” program as a way of harnessing geothermal energy to power Bitcoin mining.

While some view geothermal energy as a sustainable option for Bitcoin mining, others are more skeptical.

Elizabeth Bratton, Reporter, Latin America Reports..

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Exit Liquidity

The debate over whether the USD can be replaced as the global reserve currency is a heated one

By @cryptohayes [ 27 Min read ]

#MAXBIDDING

Nothing lasts forever, but the current crop of economic “isms” all believe that national economies must and can grow ad infinitum.

By @cryptohayes [ 38 Min read ]

Bullieverse: Building a Metaverse Beyond Gaming

During the Non-fungible Conference, Hackernoon got an exclusive interview with Arunkumar Krishnakumar, who shared insights on his new project, Bullieverse.

By @monicafreitas [ 2 Min read ]



machine-learning

Russian Scientists Develop First Text-to-Image Architecture Using Image Prior, Latent Diffusion

TL;DR Researchers have developed a text-to-image generation model called Kandinsky that uses a novel latent diffusion model to produce images that appear natural.

By @autoencoder [ 3 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Anton Razzhigaev, AIRI and Skoltech;

(2) Arseniy Shakhmatov, Sber AI;

(3) Anastasia Maltseva, Sber AI;

(4) Vladimir Arkhipkin, Sber AI;

(5) Igor Pavlov, Sber AI;

(6) Ilya Ryabov, Sber AI;

(7) Angelina Kuts, Sber AI;

(8) Alexander Panchenko, AIRI and Skoltech;

Our contributions are as follows:..

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machine-learning

Ella Isn’t Real, But She Feels Real: The Empathic AI Leasing Agent in Our Looming Bot First Economy

TL;DR Discover how AI assistants like Ella are transforming customer interactions with human-like precision, the tech behind them, and what we may lose in this shift.

By @pawarashishanil [ 7 Min read ]

It started with an email.

Then I read the signature: AI Leasing Assistant (Automated Response).

Hold on. What do you mean, “AI”?

Ella isn’t some generic AI spitting out pre-made responses. No. At some point in her development, Ella was fine-tuned to specialize in leasing...

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machine-learning

This Deep-learning Approach Can Help Double Your Gains in Crypto Investments

TL;DR This report presents a novel approach to cryptocurrency trading using a Transformer-based Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agent.

By @pmatheus [ 8 Min read ]

Why Transformers, Why DRL, and Why You Should Care

Transformers: Born in the NLP world, they excel at deciphering sequences. Markets are simply time-series puzzles. Transformers read them like stories, anticipating plot twists (price moves) well before your average quant would blink.

What’s the Outcome?

Next-Level Potential..

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On This Day

HTML 4.0 is Published

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published the HTML 4.0 specification, which introduced a range of new features including style sheets and improved support for scripts and forms. HTML 4.0 represented a major step forward for the web and paved the way for the development of modern web applications.

Poll Of the Week

Should OpenAI Be Allowed to Become a For-Profit Company?

OpenAI's transition from nonprofit to for-profit status has ignited intense debate in Silicon Valley. Critics, including Meta and Elon Musk, warn that this shift could set a troubling precedent. Musk argues it prioritizes profits over the public good and risks monopolizing the AI market, while Meta contends it could allow nonprofits to exploit tax benefits and investor goodwill before becoming profit-driven, eroding public trust. OpenAI defends the move, stating it will preserve the nonprofit’s value while helping it advance its AI mission more effectively.

Yes, it’s for the greater good.
No, it sets a bad precedent.
Only if strict safeguards are enforced.
I have no dog in this race.

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