The HackerNoon Newsletter: El Salvadors President Teases “Rent Your Own Volcano” Bitcoin Mining Plan (12/18/2024)

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El Salvadors President Teases “Rent Your Own Volcano” Bitcoin Mining Plan

By @thesociable [ 5 Min read ] El Salvador’s geothermal Bitcoin mining, including a “rent your own volcano” plan, sparks debate on sustainability, costs, and potential economic growth. Read More.

Russian Scientists Develop First Text-to-Image Architecture Using Image Prior, Latent Diffusion

By @autoencoder [ 3 Min read ] Researchers have developed a text-to-image generation model called Kandinsky that uses a novel latent diffusion model to produce images that appear natural. Read More.

Ella Isn’t Real, But She Feels Real: The Empathic AI Leasing Agent in Our Looming Bot First Economy

By @pawarashishanil [ 7 Min read ] Discover how AI assistants like Ella are transforming customer interactions with human-like precision, the tech behind them, and what we may lose in this shift. Read More.

This Deep-learning Approach Can Help Double Your Gains in Crypto Investments

By @pmatheus [ 8 Min read ] This report presents a novel approach to cryptocurrency trading using a Transformer-based Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agent. Read More.

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