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In this episode we sit down with <a href="https://medium.com/@garrytan" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="f455e8ea861d" data-action-value="f455e8ea861d" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank">Garry Tan</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/@brettdg" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="c4de6f938a18" data-action-value="c4de6f938a18" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank">Brett Gibson</a> of <a href="https://initialized.com" target="_blank">Initialized Capital</a> and discuss emerging technologies such as cryptocurrency, blockchain, and what sets them apart from other venture capital firms.

Ending The Crypto Winter with Garry Tan and Brett Gibson of Initialized Capital

A roundup of 10 standout C and C++ bugs found in open-source projects in 2025.

10 Noteworthy C and C++ Bugs Found in Open-Source Projects in 2025

We audit Erlang/OTP’s decades-old C and NIF code with PVS-Studio, surfacing logic bugs, buffer risks, undefined behavior, and leaks in battle-tested systems.

The 1980s Code Powering Modern Reliability—and the Mistakes It Still Makes

PVS-Studio’s year-end roundup of the top 10 strangest Java errors found in open-source projects in 2025.

Java’s Greatest Hits (of Failure): Top 10 Open-Source Errors of 2025

How Witness uses device, operator, and server-backed cryptographic signatures to authenticate photos and videos at capture.

Why I Built Witness and How it Works Under the Hood

Ethereum’s Fusaka hard fork adds PeerDAS, new gas and block limits, and cryptography upgrades to make rollups cheaper and nodes more efficient.

Ethereum Fusaka Hard Fork: What’s Changing?

Masked attention and contrastive loss improve caption accuracy and reduce overlapping predictions.

When AI Learns to See the Unknown: Wrapping Up the OW‑VISCap Study

The symfony/object-mapper is not just a simple hydrator; it’s a powerful, configurable facade built on top of the robust Serializer component. 

How I Turned a ‘Simple Hydrator’ into a Full Data Mapping Framework in Symfony

Build a Steam game retriever with Superlinked and LlamaIndex. Use the official SuperlinkedRetriever to add fast, accurate RAG search to your app.

Speedrun Your RAG: Build an AI Recommender for your Steam Library

In this article, we will explore how to make your fetch requests production-ready using a library called ffetch. 

How to Make Your Fetch Requests Production-Ready

This article is about collaboration between OpenAI and Retro Biosciences to accelerate life sciences research through AI. 

AI Unleashes a 50x Leap in Stem Cell Reprogramming: OpenAI's GPT-4b Micro Changes the Game for Life 

Multimodal hyper-embeddings enable strong cross-task transfer; tiny tuned modules match or beat full fine-tunes on unseen domains.

Cut 90% of Fine-Tuning Cost—Still Beat Baselines on Text and Vision Benchmarks

Build a scalable, concurrent leaderboard in Go using sharding, heaps, and RWMutex to handle live updates and efficient Top-N queries.


How to Build a High-Performance Concurrent Leaderboard in Go

In this post, I've described two usages of the GoF's creational patterns, improving maintainability and ensuring objects are fully initialized

Object Creation: The Issues I Faced and the Patterns That Helped Me

ForgeMT is a secure, scalable GitHub Actions runner platform on AWS, automating CI/CD, cutting costs, and enforcing strict multi-tenant isolation.

Scaling GitHub Actions on AWS with ForgeMT’s Security and Multi-Tenancy

Train ML models faster with Google Cloud TPUs using TensorFlow, Keras, and custom loops—step-by-step from setup to performance tuning.

Boost TensorFlow Training Speed by 50% with These TPU Tricks

Local-first apps process data locally, sync it when you can. This means users stay happy, and you don’t get midnight “the app’s broken” calls.

How I Built Local-First Apps with React Native + RxDB (and Why Your App Probably Needs This Too)

Build real-time AI noise suppression for Android with ONNX Runtime. Complete tutorial with working code, performance tips, and 70% APK size reduction.

Mobile AI with ONNX Runtime: How to Build Real-Time Noise Suppression That Works

Master TensorFlow GPU usage with this hands-on guide to configuring, logging, and scaling across single, multi, and virtual GPUs.

How to Use Multiple GPUs with TensorFlow (No Code Changes Required)

Convert and train JAX models in TensorFlow with JAX2TF. Build with Flax and Optax, then export to TensorFlow for production, fine-tuning, or inference.

Fine-Tune JAX Models in TensorFlow with JAX2TF and Flax

Learn how to use Ragged Tensors in TensorFlow to handle variable-length data in machine learning workflows with real-world code examples.

For Data of All Shapes and Sizes, Ragged Tensors Offer a Home

Learn how EIP-7702 enables smart wallet features for existing Ethereum accounts. Complete developer guide with code examples.

Turn a Regular Wallet into a Smart Account with EIP 7702 

n8n is a powerful, extendable workflow automation tool that allows you to connect different applications and services.

How to Set Up n8n on Your Computer – No Cloud Needed

Learn how to slice, extract, and insert data in tensors using TensorFlow APIs—essential skills for efficient ML and NLP model development.

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