March 16, 2025

The “Internet” is one of the biggest milestones in the modern era. Can you imagine a single day without internet connectivity? Extremely difficult right? Just like saltless curry! The Internet has made our daily lives easier, as it makes it easier to be up-to-date with news, pay bills, do online work, communicate with your dearest ones, and many more. The modern Internet is highly centralized, and major corporations and governments control vast portions of the

Back to basics. “Jews in Space” is one of the most influential articles about science fiction that I’ve ever come across. Now, here’s the thing. Good luck with finding the “patient zero.” I mean, the very first article published. If you’re DYOR, then you’re going to stumble upon some version of it. Just like I did with this one. As you can see, every SFan paid homage to a bunch of iconic authors. Talking about

“Escrow” has been a security measure in traditional finances for a while, long before the appearance of cryptocurrencies and decentralized systems. The point was opposite to decentralization, indeed: escrow implies middlemen. A trusted third party, often a company, mediates between two strangers and keeps the funds involved in their trade safe until it’s complete. That same third party could solve disputes about the trade if they arise. On the other hand, a decentralized escrow involves

Authors: (1) Soyeong Jeong, School of Computing; (2) Jinheon Baek, Graduate School of AI; (3) Sukmin Cho, School of Computing; (4) Sung Ju Hwang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; (5) Jong C. Park, School of Computing. Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Method and 3.1 Preliminaries 3.2 Adaptive-RAG: Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation 4 Experimental Setups and 4.1 Datasets 4.2 Models and 4.3 Evaluation Metrics 4.4 Implementation Details 5 Experimental