Hellow ML/Al folks,
I’m working on an upcoming Machine Learning in Quantitative Finance conference, my role is to outreach and engage relevant professionals.
While I’ve handled other events before, this field is new to me. I’d appreciate any quick tips, resources, or key concepts to get up to speed.
Also, if you have advice on how to approach senior roles (MDs, Heads of Departments, Chiefs, Presidents) effectively in this space.
Thanks
I’m doing some local SEO for a firm and came across a business with two sites, two GBPs (!), using what looks like a massive doorway page setup across several sites.
They’ve got thousands of pages like:
/repair-and-service-centre-stockport.php
/repair-and-service-centre-cheadle.php
/repair-and-service-centre-manchester.php
Same content every time. Just the town name swapped. No real local relevance. Thin copy, no useful information. Textbook doorway spam.
But here’s what stands out. You can type anything you like in the URL and it still works. For example, you can insert…
/repair-and-service-centre-big-boobs.php
/repair-and-service-centre-wife-from-thailand.php
…or anything you want in the URL. The site just dynamically inserts whatever you put in the URL. It’s all templated. Anyone with a script could generate thousands of these in a few minutes.
This stuff is ranking well in local results. I’ve reported it through the Google report page a few times, but nothing ever seems to happen. I don’t even know if they read them?
How is this still working in 2025? Has Google just given up on this type of spam?
If anyone’s curious, I put together a short list of example URLs here: [https://pastebin.com/Wd4Bq6Yt](https://pastebin.com/Wd4Bq6Yt) \- It includes working manipulated URLs and examples of their broader spam setup. They lead you to manipulated versions too, lists of their pages doing it – all of it. How to get this network of spam actually noticed by Google?
I’d be interested to know if anyone’s actually managed to get something like this taken down, or if we’re all just wasting our time with the report form. And more to the point, wasting our time trying to do local SEO properly? If rubbish like this still works, we may as well all just put up sites with a few thousand spammy doorway pages full of AI slop for every customer.
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Hey r/Bitcoin, about a month ago I posted about trying to live off Bitcoin. Most comments called it dumb or said it wouldn’t work due to taxes and fees. I actually agreed, but I’ve found a simple solution that works for me. It’s not perfect, but here’s my plan to start. I will learn as I go and get better I am sure.
The Plan:
I’m using Strike’s Direct Deposit, Pay Rent, and Pay Bills features. 100% of my paychecks will be converted to Bitcoin on Strike. For expenses, I’ll use credit cards with solid rewards (for example Gemini’s 4% Bitcoin cashback or Prime/Chase for Amazon purchases). So in short I am spending USD that are not mine, and instead of paying off my cards every paycheck like I have been doing my whole life, I’ll simply do one payment monthly via Strike’s Pay Bills feature to minimize Bitcoin transfer fees. It won’t eliminate fees entirely but lower them quit a bit, and I’m fine with that. Once I hit a certain amount of Bitcoin on Strike I’ll move my Bitcoin to a cold wallet.
Having 12 payments a year(one a month) via Strike paying off cards, I can use their tax forms to easily fill out taxes. As for income/capital tax, it shouldn’t be much but even so it just means Bitcoin went up and I am beating inflation.
Savings:
I’m converting half my savings to Bitcoin now and the other half over the next 3 months. If this doesn’t work out, I can easily switch my direct deposit back to my bank and convert savings back to USD.
Why I’m Doing This:
With Bitcoin hovering around $117-120k, I don’t see it disappearing, and frankly it’s got too much momentum. I’m fed up with my hard earned money losing value and my investments barely outpacing inflation. I’m going 100% into Bitcoin over the next few months. I’ll either sink with the ship or sail to the new world! (lol that was so cheesy).
I wouldn’t normally share this info but I have been seeing more interest in doing this exact thing from a lot of people online, some friends, and some family. I hope my journey can help others who are interested and seeing what works and doesn’t.
As always I love the discussion and feedback. What do you think? Any tips or flaws I’m missing?
TLDR Using Strike and a cold wallet lol
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We built NeuralOS, probably the world’s most expensive operating system, running at a blazing 1.8fps on an NVIDIA H100 GPU. 😅
**What exactly is NeuralOS?**
It’s an experimental generative OS that predicts every screen frame entirely from your mouse and keyboard inputs. No internet, no traditional software stack, purely hallucinated pixels.
**How does it work?**
* An RNN tracks the computer state (kind of like a traditional OS kernel, but all neural and continuous).
* A diffusion model generates the actual screen images (imagine a desktop environment, but fully neural-rendered).
The GIF shows a funny demo: NeuralOS running NeuralOS inside itself. Every single pixel you’re seeing is model-generated, no network involved at all!
Long-term, our goal is to remove boundaries between software entirely and make OS fully customizable beyond fixed menus and options. Imagine asking your OS something like:
* “Merge all my messaging apps into one interface.”
* “Make Signal look like Messenger.”
* “Turn the movie I’m watching into a playable video game.”
**I’m curious about your thoughts:**
* Could future OS interfaces just become human-like avatars (think Grok’s Ani)? Are menus and app-specific UIs going away?
* What about fully generative games: could diffusion-based games eventually replace traditional ones?
Try the live demo here: [neural-os.com](http://neural-os.com) (you might need patience…)
More details about the project: [x.com/yuntiandeng/status/1944802154314916331](http://x.com/yuntiandeng/status/1944802154314916331)
