Bitcoin SOPR shows consistent profit realization despite price pullback

Bitcoin is trading just above $113,000, with realized cap rising steadily and spending activity led overwhelmingly by coins younger than three months. Profit realization remains positive, short-term holders hover around breakeven, and older supply shows little sign of distribution. Bitcoin closed Aug. 20 at $113,599, marking a 7.9% drop in the past week, a 3.3% […]

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Feature-wise transformations

Many real-world problems require integrating multiple sources of information. Sometimes these problems involve multiple, distinct modalities of information — vision, language, audio, etc. — as is required to understand a scene in a movie or answer a question about an image. Other times, these problems involve multiple sources of the same kind of input, i.e. when summarizing several documents […]

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Circle’s Arc blockchain network to launch with day one access for institutions via Fireblocks

Circle’s upcoming Arc blockchain will debut with direct institutional access through Fireblocks, positioning the stablecoin issuer for a stronger foothold as competition in the sector accelerates. New York–based Fireblocks, which provides custody and tokenization infrastructure to more than 2,400 banks, asset managers, and fintech firms, confirmed it will support Arc from launch. The early integration […]

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Differentiable Image Parameterizations

Neural networks trained to classify images have a remarkable — and surprising! — capacity to generate images. Techniques such as DeepDream , style transfer, and feature visualization leverage this capacity as a powerful tool for exploring the inner workings of neural networks, and to fuel a small artistic movement based on neural art. All these techniques work in roughly […]

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Trump mulls a 300% tariff on chips — levies coming within two weeks as Section 232 investigation nears completion

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to introduce steep new trade duties on steel, semiconductors, and possibly pharmaceuticals within the next two weeks. What could bewilder the high-tech industry is that Trump is mulling up to 300% tariffs on semiconductors, according to Bloomberg.  “I am going to have a rate that is going to be 200%, […]

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FrontView REIT FVR Q2 2025 Earnings Transcript

Image source: The Motley Fool. Date Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 11 a.m. ET Call participants Chief Executive Officer — Stephen Preston Chief Financial Officer — Pierre Revolt Need a quote from a Motley Fool analyst? Email [email protected] Takeaways Portfolio occupancy— 97.8%, up from approximately 96% in fiscal Q1 2025 (ended March 31, 2025), reflecting […]

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Distill Update 2018

A little over a year ago, we formally launched Distill as an open-access scientific journal.Distill operated informally for several months before launching itself as a journal. It’s been an exciting ride since then! To give some very concrete metrics, Distill has had over a million unique readers, and more than 2.9 million views. Distill papers […]

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