5 tips for using GitHub Copilot with issues to boost your productivity

Managing issues in software development can be tedious and time-consuming. But what if your AI peer programmer could streamline this process for you? GitHub Copilot‘s latest issue management features can help developers create, organize, and even solve issues. Below, we’ll dig into these features and how they can save time, reduce friction, and maintain consistency […]

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Solana network extensions will redefine blockchain scaling

The following is a guest post and opinion from Aryan Sheikhalian, Head of Research at CMT Digital. Ethereum is betting big on a future filled with rollups. But in typical Solana fashion, the network is taking a different route—one that doesn’t just scale more blockspace, but bespoke execution environments with first-class developer control. Enter Network […]

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20 Things You May Not Know About Markets (or That Might Surprise You). #1 – Normal Stock Market Returns are Extreme – Meb Faber Research

We’re starting a new series here that will eventually be a short paper, but thought we’d drip these articles out every week over the course of the summer….enjoy! #1 – Normal stock market returns are extreme Most investors understand that stocks return about 10% per year over time. However, many investors may not appreciate the […]

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Visualizing the Impact of Feature Attribution Baselines

Path attribution methods are a gradient-based way of explaining deep models. These methods require choosing a hyperparameter known as the baseline input. What does this hyperparameter mean, and how important is it? In this article, we investigate these questions using image classification networks as a case study. We discuss several different ways to choose a […]

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Greek man gets 5 years in prison for running a now-defunct torrenting site 10 years ago — Greece goes tough on torrenting

A Greek man recently received a hefty prison sentence and fine for running a long-defunct torrenting site. The 59-year-old ran a website, P2Planet, that contained over 14,000 torrent file links from 2011 to 2014, and was thus sentenced to five years in prison and a €10,000 fine, plus €1,800 in court fines. The Single-Member Criminal […]

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