Erland Cooper interview: The composer who melts hearts with icy music
Erland Cooper next to his ice sculpture, Glacier Alex Kozobolis I FIRST met musician, composer and artist Erland Cooper outside London’s Barbican Centre in late spring. He had been standing for 12 hours next to his 2.4-metre-high ice sculpture, Glacier. This thawing, crystalline monolith reflected the climate change themes and fragile beauty of his fourth-and-latest album, Folded Landscapes….
Bitcoin, Ether Options’ Value on Deribit Reaches Record High of $23B
At press time, most open interest in bitcoin and ether options was concentrated in call options. In bitcoin’s case, a large concentration of open interest is seen in calls at $50,000, $40,000, and $45,000 strikes. In ether’s case, calls at $2,300, $2,400, $2,500 and $3,000 are the most popular. Source link
Technique enables AI on edge devices to keep learning over time | MIT News
Personalized deep-learning models can enable artificial intelligence chatbots that adapt to understand a user’s accent or smart keyboards that continuously update to better predict the next word based on someone’s typing history. This customization requires constant fine-tuning of a machine-learning model with new data. Because smartphones and other edge devices lack the memory and computational…
Capcom announces Monster Hunter Wilds for 2025
Things are about to get a little bit wild in the world of Monster Hunter. At The Game Awards this evening, Capcom revealed the latest entry in the franchise: Monster Hunter Wilds. There aren’t a lot of details yet about what makes this one different from past MonHun titles, and the game isn’t expected to…
Pretend engine noises make electric cars more fun
Gearing up for happiness Transitions sometimes start with a period of frustration. People can adapt to new ways – but the old ways are familiar, which make them feel comfortable in comparison with the new. Transmissions, too, sometimes start with a period of frustration. Tim Stevens reports in Ars Technica about how one automobile manufacturer…
Jito’s Token Rallies Following JTO Airdrop on Solana (SOL)
Only 10% of JTO’s total supply is being distributed to airdroppers, who, notably, have an 18 month window to claim their treasure. Any unallocated tokens will go into a treasury controlled by Jito’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), which is managed by JTO holders. Source link
Synthetic imagery sets new bar in AI training efficiency | MIT News
Data is the new soil, and in this fertile new ground, MIT researchers are planting more than just pixels. By using synthetic images to train machine learning models, a team of scientists recently surpassed results obtained from traditional “real-image” training methods. At the core of the approach is a system called StableRep, which doesn’t just…
Final Fantasy XVI stealth launches one DLC with another on the way
The first DLC, Echoes of the Fallen, is a new story chapter that takes place before the final battle. It features the whole gang working together (honesty, I choked up to see it) to investigate — what else — more messed up crystals. In the DLC, Clive will also be able to wield the iconic…
Why I’ve been somewhat obsessed with space-time this year
I HAVE been pretty obsessed with space-time this year. Thankfully, I am a theoretical physicist and, in principle, this is my day job. But the more time I have spent returning to my roots with it, the stranger the whole thing has started to seem to me. As I wrote in an earlier column, it…
Matrixport Had Predicted Bitcoin (BTC) Prices Could Hit $45K By 2023-End, The Prediction May Soon Come True
“The 2023 bitcoin rally unfolded in five phases: starting with a reaction to inflation trends, followed by a banking crisis response, a surge due to BlackRock’s ETF filing, a boost from Federal Reserve policy shifts, and finally, developments in SEC regulations regarding bitcoin ETFs, “Markus Thielen, Matrixport’s head of research, wrote in a new report….