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2025-02-10

A Candian Scientist Is Trying to Inject Souls in AI, and It Looks Like It Could Work

Nirvanic is developing AI that aims to achieve consciousness, leveraging quantum mechanics to create intelligence closer to human cognition. The article explores theories from Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, and Donald...

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You Could Lose Your Crypto If You Copy-Paste Your Wallet Address—Here's What You Could Do Instead

Cybercriminals create ‘vanity addresses’ that look similar to real ones. They then send meaningless amounts of funds to your wallet, effectively ‘poisoning’ your transaction history. In most chains, crypto transactions...

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Thinking of Pursuing Trading Full Time? Then You NEED to Know What Market Microstructures Are

By understanding market microstructure, you might be able to add more precision into your trading.

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How Virtual Learning Can Create Real-World Opportunities

The education metaverse prioritizes idea exchange and value transformation over technology. Blockchain enables value exchange, motivating learners, fostering collaboration, and turning virtual achievements into real-world opportunities. Integrating K-12 students into...

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Bringing Blockchain to the Classroom with Blockly

Blockchain’s role in IoT-powered education enables decentralized data storage, secure academic records, and simplified programming via tools like Blockly. By leveraging blockchain, students can explore smart contracts, decentralized applications, and...

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NFTs, Arduino, and a Plant That Knows More About Blockchain Than You

This study demonstrates how Arduino sensors, BlocklyDuino, and the Polygon SDK can be used to update NFT metadata in real time. A plant irrigation system served as the test case,...

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Teaching K-12 Students About Blockchain with Google Blockly & NFT Metadata Updates

This paper introduces a method for teaching K-12 students blockchain by using Google Blockly and BlocklyDuino to update NFT metadata. Students create custom Blockly blocks that interact with the Polygon...

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Why Kids Should Learn Blockchain Tech (And How to Make It Easy!)

Teaching blockchain to K-12 students is challenging due to its complexity. This section explores how visual programming tools like Scratch and Tinker Learning can make blockchain concepts, including NFTs and...

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The Impact of Blockchain Technology on Education

Blockchain is transforming education by enabling decentralized, verifiable learning credentials in the education metaverse. Students can earn, trade, and own digital tokens representing their achievements, fostering value exchange and self-directed...

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Why Your Kid’s First NFT Might Be More Valuable Than Their Finger Paintings

This paper introduces a method to make blockchain education accessible to K-12 students using NFTs and Google Blockly. By enabling students to update NFT metadata through a visual programming interface,...

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A Game Developer's Guide to Making Your Automated Tests Awesome in 5 Simple Steps

Useful insights on how to use automated tests in mobile games. Emphasize transparency and ask questions about what users want and what gaps exist. Set priorities for testing, and focus...

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Psychological Safety: Misunderstood, Yet Mission-Critical

TL; DR: Psychological Safety as a Competitive Edge Psychological safety isn’t about fluffy “niceness”—it is the foundation of agile teams that innovate, adapt, and deliver. When teams fearlessly debate ideas,...

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The TechBeat: Your Dream Life is a Trap (2/10/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set...

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Some Wild Ice Skating

When Fairlee, Vermont’s Lake Morey freezes over in the winter, a 4-5 mile loop is cleared by a local resort for wild ice skating. I was able to get out...

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Getting far slower at the moment but a sneak peak into what's coming. I finally managed to parse the

Getting far slower at the moment but a sneak peak into what's coming. I finally managed to parse the email newsletters, I already have bluesky profiles and lists handling (I...

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Engineers who won’t commit

Some engineers think it’s a virtue to remain non-committal in technical discussions. Should our team build a new feature in an event-driven or synchronous way? Well, it depends: there are...

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2025-02-09

The First Provable AI-Proof Game: Introducing Butterfly Wings 4

We present a deterministic game incorporating two key mechanisms: Controlled Chaos Shifts (CCS) and Accepting Loss of Control (ALC).

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Of course it’s a coup (audio)

Miss the obvious, lose your republic

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Is Ethereum in Trouble? No. So Why Does Everyone Say Otherwise?

Ethereum has many so-called "killers," though most of them look more like self-destructive projects.

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RGB Is Outdated for AI and Streaming

*YUV* can be incredibly useful for those involved in P2P video streaming or processing video streams with AI. YUV takes the lead, hiding under the hood a series of complex...

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