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A trading AI can be accurate and still be economically useless. It can also produce an excellent backtest and still fail to provide convincing evidence that it has learned anything durable. These are not separate problems. They are different stages of the same validation problem. The first asks whether a
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Building a programming language with both a bytecode VM and a native compiler creates an uncomfortable requirement: the same program has to mean the same thing in both places. Chuks has been working toward that guarantee release by release, first across the language itself and now across the standard library.
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We can measure AI usage and software delivery. The hard part is understanding what happens between the two. AI coding measurement has become surprisingly sophisticated in a very short time. We can measure active AI users. We can see which tools developers use. We can count prompts, accepted suggestions, tokens,
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Most conversations about decentralized AI stall on the adjective. "Decentralized" sounds like a value, and values are hard to audit. Bittensor is more interesting when you drop the adjective and look at what the network actually does all day: it grades work and pays for it. The mechanism
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Every product manager I know is under the same pressure right now: add AI. A chatbot, auto-replies, smart recommendations, auto-approvals, something. The roadmap review has a new standing question, and it is some version of "where's the AI?" Meanwhile, the writing about AI in products has
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WebRTC developers do not normally bother about an SDP blob. It just works in the initial negotiation, media streams are exchanged, and the details of the format are irrelevant. But once renegotiation happens — adding a track, starting a screen share, performing ICE restart — things break, and you get an error
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We trained AI agents to remember information, but not to know when the information is out-of-date, superseded, or too sensitive to remember. Now imagine an AI agent confidently telling a customer that your refund policy is "14 days, no questions asked.Now imagine an AI agent confidently telling a
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Most AI agents today are stateless, even when they sound conversational. You explain your background, clarify what you’re trying to accomplish, and correct the agent two or three times. Then the session ends, and all of that context disappears. The next conversation starts from scratch, as if the previous
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There aren't many episodes left of Ted Lasso season 4. In fact, only two more, including this week's chapter, remain, so there's not much time left for it to find a match-winning goal. AFC Richmond Women will have to do so without their star
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Technology continues to open new possibilities for ocean research, underwater infrastructure inspection, and search-and-rescue efforts. As underwater missions become more complex, researchers are developing robots that can adapt to changing conditions and mission needs. As one example, researchers at Purdue University have developed a patent-pending underwater robot that can change
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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It’s a sampler and groovebox that
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Campaigners who helped stop the UK from letting AI companies train on copyrighted work without permission have warned Australia not to try the same thing. They spoke to Dan Milmo for the Guardian. Australia’s government is weighing an opt-out model, under which AI firms could train on creators’ work
