October 8, 2024

Guild of Guardians Web3 game will get Frostmire expansion

Guild of Guardians maker Immutable unveiled today the upcoming launch of Frostmire, a new expansion that will bring players into a snowy environment and introduce two Legendary Guardians. Immutable said the expansion will go live on October 16. Frostmire is the largest GOG update since its launch, and will introduce brand new gameplay elements and leveling expansions, raising the Commander level maximum to 120 and unlocking new high tier equipment that will provide key benefits

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How to Build a URL Shortener in Go: A Short Guide | HackerNoon

In this article, I will be going through how to make a URL shortener in Go. The final result will look something like this shortr, source code. This is a great weekend project; especially if you’re new to go. What Is a URL Shortener? A URL shortener is a tool that takes a long URL and shrinks it down into something much shorter and easier to share. Instead of copying and pasting a long string

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Decentralized Governance: The Death of Hierarchy Through Reputation-Based Governance | HackerNoon

📥Introduction In today’s world, centralized institutions dominate nearly every aspect of governance. You can see it is from the corporate sectors to the government organizations. As we believe in true decentralization, “hierarchical systems” can be the best suit term to denote a centralized system with significant human intervention. These systems rely on top-down decision-making, where authority is concentrated in the hands of a few. On the other hand, decentralized technologies like blockchain and decentralized autonomous

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AI

A Deeper Dive into Odds Ratios Using Logistic Regression

PART 2 OF THE DEEP DIVE INTO ODDS RATIOS SERIES A comprehensive guide on how to extract and explore odds ratios from a Logistic Regression model using Python and Statsmodels, with examples. Iqbal Rahmadhan · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 18 min read · 7 hours ago — Photo by NEOM on Unsplash When we build a statistical model, we often focus more on its predictive value. However, we can also leverage it

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Evaluating Edge Detection? Don’t Use RMSE, PSNR or SSIM

Empirical and theoretical evidence for why Figure of Merit (FOM) is the best edge-detection evaluation metric Conor O’Sullivan · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · 6 hours ago — Image segmentation and edge detection are closely related tasks. Take this output from a coastal segmentation model for example: Figure 1: going from segmention mask to edge map (source: author) (dataset: LICS) (CC BY 4.0) The model will classify every pixel

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From Set Transformer to Perceiver Sampler

On multi-modal LLM Flamingo’s vision encoder Mengliu Zhao · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 5 min read · 7 hours ago — Designing Multi-modal LLM is hard. The state-of-the-art multi-modal LLMs are primarily based on existing LLM architectures, with modifications specifically addressing different sources of input, and that’s where the difficulty comes from. The latest Nvidia paper divides the commonly used multi-modal architectures into two categories: decoder-based; cross-attention-based. One of my previous medium

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