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I recently came across platforms like Lingo (on Base and Solana) and PoolTogether (on Ethereum) that offer stake-to-win models, where you get raffle tickets or entries for real-world prizes or prize pools by locking tokens. The concept is interesting, but I’m curious about the mechanics behind these raffles.

Since they’re blockchain-based, I assume the draws are on-chain and verifiable, but how can users be sure the systems are truly fair and not manipulated? Are there audits or cryptographic proofs of fairness? How do these platforms prevent foul play or cheating?

Has anyone here dug into how these prize raffles actually work under the hood or tried these platforms? Would love to hear your thoughts and experiences!

As a math major, I was interested in seeing what different fields of mathematical research looks like. I decided to just browse the Arxiv, but I can’t help to notice the difference between Stat.ML and CS.LG sections.

From my understanding, they are both suppose to be about Machine Learning research, but what I found was that many of the CS.LG articles applied ML to novel scenarios instead of actually researching new mathematical/statistical models. Why are these considered ML research, if they are not researching ML but using it?

Does this reflect a bigger divide within the machine learning research field? Is there some fields in ML that are more suited for people interested in math research? if so, are those generally hosted in the math/stats department, or still under the CS department?

I’m interested to hear from people who have been on solo roadtrips in Europe. I’m planning on visiting France, Spain and Portugal in September. I’d like to visit some cities (alongside some car camping and outdoors activities) but I’m concerned about parking somewhere safe in big cities.

I don’t want to avoid the big cities for obvious reasons, I want to explore and meet new people. But as freeing as having a car will be, in this regard it feels quite limiting – as I’m always going to be concerned about the safety of my car!

The advice online suggests that you should make sure that there are no valuables in your car at all, but that’s just not possible for me. Of course I will carry with me whatever I can in my day bag but I am also bringing a surfboard, a tent, and other large expensive items that might attract attention. I’ve got covers for all my windows (I’m driving an SUV btw), but someone suggested to me that it might attract even more attention that way lol.

My current thoughts are that I’ll rely heavily on park4night for stealth car-camping spots, with public transport connections to the city centre. I’d like to meet people at hostels but it seems that hostels are not geared for people on a roadtrip and usually don’t have parking. I’d be hesitant to park somewhere and then spend the night in a hostel somewhere different, I don’t think I’d sleep very well, if I have the option to spend the night stealth camping in my car that is probably the smarter decision. Some friends have said I can still meet people at hostels as the bars are open to the public – I’ll give this a try.

Probably just going to have to be brave and figure it out as I go along, but if anyone reading this has any similar experiences I’d be really interested to hear your thoughts! Or if you have any recommendations for a more appropriate subreddit for this post, I’m also all ears.

They memorize. Repeat. Hallucinate.

Qubic is building something different:
A decentralized AGI that evolves, thinks, and discovers.

Here’s what makes AIGarth the most radical AI project alive:

Today’s AI systems—ChatGPT, Gemini, Tesla Vision—are narrow tools.
They do one thing well.
But they can’t learn from the real world, grow on their own, or truly understand anything.

AIGarth is built to change that.

Instead of memorizing datasets, AIGarth discovers patterns through interaction.
It decodes the world, rather than consuming prepackaged data.

The goal isn’t the right answer.
It’s the next better one.

Powering this evolution is Qubic’s decentralized compute layer.
Thousands of miners provide real compute power.

The reward? Qubic.
The result? A global, unstoppable AI engine ranked among the world’s top five supercomputers by capacity.

Inspired by neuroscience, AIGarth learns like a brain.
It doesn’t just predict text—it simulates cognition:
Memory. Sensory feedback. Prediction loops.

The aim: AGI with awareness, not autocomplete.

Qubic isn’t owned by Big Tech.
No shareholders. No gatekeepers.

It’s governed by the people who run it and powered by Qubic.
AIGarth is open by default—designed for everyone.

LLMs hallucinate.
AIGarth learns.

Its researchers are even working on new ways to measure machine consciousness, inspired by how we detect awareness in animals.

Qubic isn’t riding the AI wave.
It’s building the ocean.

AIGarth is more than a model.
It’s a movement toward AGI that’s open, ethical, and truly intelligent.

I’ve been sourcing overstock pallets of name-brand products, including Star Wars toys, Nespresso machines, Hart tools, and other well-known brands. However, I’ve run into challenges when advertising them—Google and Facebook restrict these listings to authorized dealers only.

Since I recently launched a website to sell these products, I’d love to hear suggestions on the most effective ways to market them without violating platform policies. What strategies have worked for others in similar situations?

Any advice on alternative advertising channels, SEO tactics, or workarounds would be greatly appreciated!

Also, if there are any suggestions on how to better optimize my website or any appearance issues I should fix feel free to let me know, thanks!

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# SARS-CoV-2 induces Alzheimer’s disease–related amyloid-β pathology in ex vivo human retinal explants and retinal organoids. This suggests that infection with SARS-CoV-2 can induce amyloid-β aggregation, which may be associated with neurological symptoms experienced in COVID-19.

Hey folks,

I have been trying to implement a research paper that utilized differential transformer block  attention [https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13189](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13189) as a means to denoise background noise from  biological sounds, While training the model I am constantly running into numeric instability (nan loss), specifically this step : —

lambda\_val = torch.exp(lambda\_q1\_dot\_k1) – torch.exp(lambda\_q2\_dot\_k2) + self.lambda\_init

Most probably due to exponential terms assuming large values. I did try clamping the lambda values to avoid this but doing this is resulting in diverging loss values after few epochs.  Anybody how might  have tried this block can suggest any fixes or whether the clamping approach is the right way in terms of loss optimization (I know  clamping is not the best thing for loss optimization ) ?

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For the last decade or so, all of my websites were ranking pretty well on Google, but not ranking at all on Bing. However since 2023-24, my Google rankings started to decline, while all of my websites started to rank really well on Bing (1st – 3rd position).

It seems that most of the ranking factors are pretty much inverted on Bing compared to Google, at least in my case.

Has anyone experienced this phenomenon?