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With the 30th of June distant in the rearview mirror, this week I thought I’d share a few ideas that you might be able to jump on in the new financial year. Let’s start with salary sacrificing to superannuation. If you are in the camp who is already salary sacrificing to super, then you now […]
What’s better than FIRE-ing once? FIRE-ing twice, baby! This time last year I was effectively working full-time again, after opt-in house renovation costs evaporated The Accumulators’ coffers like a reservoir in a heatwave. The best remedy I could think of was to put my FIRE dream on hold, replenish our reserves, and then resign my […]
This is a simplified guide to an AI model called Minicpm-V-26 maintained by Pipi32167. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow us on Twitter. Model overview minicpm-v-26 is a powerful multimodal AI model developed by pipi32167 that enables chat interactions with both images and videos. This model stands out […]
Key Takeaways The SEC approved in-kind creation and redemption for Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, replacing the cash-only model. Analysts expect altcoin ETF approvals to follow with in-kind mechanisms from the outset. Share this article The SEC has approved in-kind creation and redemption mechanisms for spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded products, aligning them with traditional commodity […]
A new report by Standard Chartered identifies publicly traded Ethereum (ETH) treasury companies as a distinct and rapidly evolving asset class, separate from exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and traditional crypto investment vehicles. According to the report, these firms are not holding ETH for speculative purposes. Instead, they are positioning their balance sheets around staking yields, DeFi […]
What makes open source work, and why do so many of us keep showing up to build together? On the GitHub Podcast, we dive into the stories behind the code: the projects, the people, and the ideas shaping the open source ecosystem. At GitHub, we know open source has always been the launchpad for what’s […]
July 29, 2025 Ryan welcomes Mahir Yavuz, Senior Director of Engineering at Etsy, to the show to explore the unique challenges that Etsy’s marketplace faces and how Etsy’s teams leverage machine learning and AI to manage product SKUs, enrich inventory metadata, and improve both buyer and seller experiences. Source link
These two real estate investment trusts will let you sleep well at night. Over time, dividends have become a smaller and smaller part of the stock market’s total return, with the S&P 500 boasting an average yield of just 1.22% today, compared to 7.44% in 1950. That said, some companies still offer fat, consistently growing […]
By some metrics, research on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has progressed substantially in the past 2 years. Practical improvements to image synthesis models are being made almost too quickly to keep up with: Odena et al., 2016 Miyato et al., 2017 Zhang et al., 2018 Brock et al., 2018 However, by other metrics, less has […]
A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of […]
