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Stability AI just released , the most advanced AI tool that offers the unique capability of converting textual descriptions into music. This system is an extension of the concepts found in and effectively leverages the power of diffusion networks. One of the primary mechanisms at play is the transformation of auditory signals into a visual format called a magnitude spectrogram. This visual representation provides a comprehensive view of the sound's frequency content over time. Stable Audio Stable Diffusion Within the framework of Stable Audio, several networks play pivotal roles in achieving its objectives. These include the encoder, DMAE, and the CLAP Text encoder. Each has a specific function, working together to decode and meticulously construct the inherent sound representations from the textual input, and we will dive into each of those and why they are used. A significant aspect of ensuring the final output's quality is the VAE Decoder. It functions similarly to techniques used in image upscaling, aiming to refine and enhance the clarity of the generated audio. A noteworthy characteristic of Stable Audio is its adeptness at accommodating varied song lengths. Instead of generating a one-size-fits-all output, the system considers specifics such as the start time and total length of potential audio during its training phase. By doing so, it ensures that the resulting music aligns more accurately with the nuances and intent of the initial text. This approach speaks volumes about the system's adaptability and precision. To offer a tangible demonstration of Stable Audio's capabilities, the full video features melodies that have been exclusively generated by this . Let’s hear what Stable Audio can achieve! For those curious about the intersection of AI and music, and who are keen on exploring new technological advancements in this domain, Stable Audio offers an amazing platform. Its potential to revolutionize text-to-music makes it a valuable asset in the evolving landscape of AI-driven content creation. AI tool Learn more about Stable Audio and hear the results in the video: https://youtu.be/dJz7EnYNJrw?embedable=true&transcript=true References: ►Read the full article: https://www.louisbouchard.ai/stableaudio/ ►Stableaudio: https://stableaudio.com/ ►Research blog post: ►Twitter: https://stability.ai/research/stable-audio-efficient-timing-latent-diffusion https://twitter.com/Whats_AI ►My Newsletter (A new AI application explained weekly to your emails!): https://www.louisbouchard.ai/newsletter/ ►Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/whatsai ►Join Our AI Discord: https://discord.gg/learnaitogether

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Onboarding the next wave of users to Web3 is a massive undertaking that many projects in the ecosystem are building for. One project with a unique approach to this is Celo, a layer-one blockchain network. Celo gives a superior new-user experience by being a mobile-first layer-1 blockchain that is easy to use with just a mobile phone. Your phone number acts as your address rather than a complex string, and the network allows users the option to pay gas fees with other tokens than the native currency. However, the user experience is just one side of the onboarding coin. Developer experience is the other. After all, a new network is just as good as the RPCs that let you use it. Only some developers have the resources to run a node. Infura, one of the most popular Web3 node providers, now offers Celo Network RPC nodes to all users. So if you want to start building on this mobile-first network, there’s never been a better time. Before you start building, let’s learn more about Celo. This article will provide a high-level overview of the Celo Blockchain Network and how you can start building on it using Infura. What is Celo? Celo is that focuses on mobile users. a high-throughput layer-1 network Mapping Phone Numbers to Public Keys Celo is easier for mobile phone users than other networks. Celo maps phone numbers to public keys, allowing users to send tokens to people who don’t have wallets. does the mapping and links an account to a phone number. This service never receives the phone number in clear text to . A decentralized attestation protocol maintain privacy As a result, user experience is better than most blockchains, as all interactions are done through phone numbers, rather than 30+ character-long strings that are easy to make mistakes with and impossible to memorize. Paying Gas Fees with ERC-20 Tokens Another usability hurdle is that most networks require users to pay gas fees with a native token. This results in users exchanging other tokens for native ones just to be able to send transactions. This is a problem for two reasons. First, it adds a non-trivial step to every transaction if the user doesn’t have enough native tokens. Second, exchanging tokens is taxable in some countries, so they need to keep track of each time they exchange to a native token just to cover gas fees. With Celo, you can pay with any approved ERC-20 token currently available, even stablecoins, lowering yet another barrier to entry and making costs more predictable. However, there is one caveat: transactions paid with non-CELO gas currencies will cost roughly . It’s also important to note that there is a . 50k additional gas governable list of accepted currencies When developing, Celo comes with a dapp SDK called . This SDK is a suite of packages that make building on Celo more straightforward. Connect, one of ContractKit’s main packages, acts as a wrapper around web3.js that handles the different currencies to pay the fees. ContractKit You can set your preferred currency as default for all transactions, like in this example: import { CeloContract } from "@celo/contractkit"

const accounts = await kit.web3.eth.getAccounts()
kit.defaultAccount = accounts[0]
await kit.setFeeCurrency(CeloContract.StableToken) With this in your code, you are setting the default currency if the field is left blank when sending a transaction. The user can still select another currency to use. feeCurrency ContractKit comes with a list of contract addresses that include all core Celo currencies. In the example refers to cUSD. CeloContract.StableToken It’s also possible to set your preferred currency per transaction. In this example, we send cUSD and also pay with cUSD. const contract = await kit.contracts.getStableToken()
await contract.transfer(recipientAddress, amount)
  .send({ feeCurrency: contract.address }) Celo’s virtual machine is also EVM compatible since it originated as a fork of . This compatibility enables you to reuse most of your Solidity skills when deploying your smart contracts on Celo. However, there are some notable differences. Geth The first difference is that transaction objects have additional fields like , , and . They provide full-node incentives and allow users to pay their gas fees with different tokens. This doesn’t affect you when porting smart contracts from Ethereum to Celo, but it could be an issue when porting from Celo to Ethereum. feeCurrency gatewayFee gatewayFeeRecipient The second difference could have implications for your Ethereum-based smart contracts. The and opcodes aren’t supported, and the fields are also missing from block headers. DIFFICULTY GASLIMIT A third difference is that the key derivation path is and not like in Ethereum. Essentially, this derivation path allows wallets to generate different keys from one seed phrase. m/44'/52752'/0'/0 m/44'/60'/0'/0 The Network is Carbon Negative CO2 production by blockchain networks has been a huge talking point in the last few years. Coming from Bitcoin, many of the early networks used the Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm to eliminate Sybil attacks. The Celo protocol uses , which minimizes energy usage of the network by over 90%. Plus, it can create a new block in five seconds, less than half the time Ethereum needs. BFT Proof-of-Stake Furthermore, all blocks are finalized immediately, so you and your users don’t have to wait for their actions to be written on-chain. All this optimization still produces CO2, so , a carbon offset subscription service that offsets 65.7 tons of CO2 monthly to get carbon negative. With tech-funded rainforest protection, Celo has already saved over 30,000 tons of CO2. Celo uses projects like Wren Why Use Celo with Infura? Infura offers free RPCs for prominent wallets, and use them as their RPC provider, including Brave, Uniswap, Compound, Gnosis, and Maker, just to name a few. Additionally, Infura has achieved 99.99% uptime and about 10 times faster response times than other service providers like Alchemy or Quicknode. many big Web3 projects ConsenSys, the company behind Infura also created and maintains crucial Web3 projects such as and the . So the shared know-how of creating wallets, dev tools, and RPCs creates synergies you won’t get from any other RPC provider. This also means you get trusted and complementary end-to-end tooling from the ConsenSys suite of products that flawlessly integrate with Infura RPCs. MetaMask Truffle Suite With the release of , Infura now , so you can build on multiple chains at once. Best of all, it’s free to access these networks and their archived data! Celo RPCs supports 10 different networks Summary Celo is an exciting chain that tackles Web3 user and developer experience pain-points with innovative solutions. With its mobile-first approach, users can interact with the network and receive tokens with their phone number rather than a crypto wallet, making onboarding to the network easier for Web3 newcomers. With the option to pay gas fees with other tokens rather than the native currency, Celo also removed a massive hurdle in the daily use of a blockchain network. Other networks require fees paid with a native and potentially volatile token. Now that Infura offers RPC nodes for the Celo network, it’s the perfect time to start building on this mobile-first blockchain network. For more information, . check out Infura’s docs Also Published Here

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What is the best collective savings mechanism in 2021? At 37 weeks pregnant, I’m putting the final touches on our daughters nursery. Shopping online, I discovered adorable pink piggy banks and thought “How cute!” Remember the joy and responsibility you felt when you were granted a ‘piggy bank’? We “piggy parents'' were prepped with the important mission of finding nourishment for empty pig bellies. What do piggy banks consume? Delicious fiat. Determined piggy parents stash spare change and allowance into their beloved glass pigs with such pride that they were making financially sustainable life choices. Saving money in a jar shaped like a silly piglet is many people’s first lesson in personal finance. Growing and protecting a nest egg is a lifelong pursuit that few seem to master. I want my children to have a decent savings and be financially literate when they go out into “the real world.” So, is a simple piggy bank a valuable nursery investment? I didn’t have the privilege of growing up in a financially savvy home. I went to a lower income public school in Kansas. Public schools in the United States rarely offer any kind of financial education. If they do, the curriculum is typically lacking on many levels. I got my nursing license and degree, so I skated by always having a little money in a home-emergency piggy bank and traditional savings account…. Until the day I didn’t. I was stopped at a red light and was hit by a commercial semi truck. Nursing became difficult with multiple spinal injuries and my savings withered. I ended up losing my home. As I ponder this tragic event in my life, I look at my pregnant belly and scan the adorable little piggy banks online, I stop and ask myself, “Is a piggy bank or a savings account going to be enough? I had these things, I was educated. and I still lost everything.” “The world is in a scarier state than it was back then,  maybe I need a better ‘Nest Egg’ for my little unborn baby bird….” I don’t want my children to have to endure what I did. I want to provide them with security, but what’s the best way to do this? (Source: ) Link Let’s Review: Traditional Banking and Savings To understand a path to a great savings plan, one must know a few things. First, what options are there beyond sticking change in a glass shaped piglet? Most are accustomed to traditional banks. Traditional banking supports fungible fiat transactional accounts and savings accounts. Fiat transactional accounts are typically referred to as “checking accounts.” Their contaminants are liquid, can be transferred, and are interchangeable with other globally traded currencies. Savings accounts share most of these characteristics, except a savings account is a “hodl method” for fiat fans. By storing fiat in a centralized bank’s savings account, one may generate a small amount of interest on the stored ledger value. In the United States, “The average interest rate on savings accounts currently stands at 0.05%, according to the FDIC. However, that rate can fluctuate significantly based on factors like the type of financial institution you’re banking with and your account balance-” says a popular online magazine. Value Penguin, The added interest in your savings account assets is a great reason to ‘hodl’ fiat in a centralized bank.. Below are the current APYs for the standard at the biggest banks in the U.S. savings account offerings Interest Rates for Savings Accounts at the Biggest U.S. Banks Those are nice little bonuses for storing money. Let’s see the calculations on the short and long term savings benefits. Traditional Savings Now, we’d all like to say we are putting away more than 1k a year towards our children’s future, but according to CNBC we aren’t. “Whether it’s a standard savings account or college fund, most Americans aren’t stowing away any money for their children. Fifty-three percent of those polled in a recent CNBC + Acorns Invest in You survey said they haven’t opened any accounts for their kids. Thirty-two percent said they set up a regular savings account, 13% have a 529 college fund, 8% have savings bonds, cash or certificates of deposit (CDs) and 7% have an individual retirement account or Roth IRA set up for their children. Of those surveyed, only 19% said they had an automatic savings feature set up.” Source. With the economy suffering massively from the pandemic, savings and the value of fiat has plummeted. There’s even national coin shortages and cries for debt bailouts - so, what’s that mean for our children? Our children’s children? If our national (and global) economy is such a mess, how will our kids obtain wealth and security? Photo Source Thinking back to my book research, I remember a special stablecoin category we termed Digital Algorithmic Stable Assets. It was around that time, my friend, ran a magical idea by me. Jean-Philippe Beaudet He said he wanted to develop the , “HODLC.” This would be a vision of a global cryptocurrency with intentions of bringing little, to no risk to its users. HODLCommunity HOLDCommunity, The Digital Savings Account On Steroids Fast forward a couple of years and the HODLC token has become a uniquely designed digital currency, as it fits the characteristics of a “savings account.” Whereas Ether or other cryptocurrencies are transactional accounts, HODL is not technically a currency and cannot be transferred. It cannot be used to pay for a good or service, nor can it be given as a gift or used as a reward. $HODLC is a financial vehicle suited for savings. A vehicle for savings seems safe and nice… but what’s the return look like? Anddddd, I’m “Mz. Stability”, what’s the investment risk… these are my children we are talking about, here. Photo Source. "MzStability" from Blockchain Heroes by Travis Wright and Joel Comm, Bad Crypto Podcast. “The growth rate of your HODLC is tied directly to transactions in the community. Each transaction increases the value of HODLC by 1/100th of a cent. The value of HODLC is also impacted by the passage of time, starting at a 100% increase over the first year, then reducing by 2.9% a year to an increase of 5% per year in 30 years.”“Value, growth, speed, volume, and liquidity are the key factors that will come from the adoption of HODLC. Once the HODLCommunity achieves critical mass, access to liquidity will enable the network to operate without the need for constant additional new users transacting on the decentralized exchange. Also at this point, retail-oriented business cases will create residual usage for HODLC.” Source HODLC Savings Earnings *We are calculating the increase in transaction gains by the market at its lowest transaction days, February 2021. References on HODL Dex Website:'' there are about 5.29 transactions per day in the last 7 days.” This rate has increased from 2 transactions a day since this article was in copy. Go to the HODL Dex Calculator to chart your investments and get updated transaction increases. You plan your wealth . Note, Transaction Assumptions: here *The annual 1k a year investment into HODLC savings has been calculated by submitting $84/usd monthly into the HODLC account. Holy Cow! HODLCommodity Is A Super Crypto Savings Lambo! lol Seriously, though... If HODLCommodity is a savings vehicle, where do the savings go? What are the dynamics that let the user withdraw their savings? To explain this, we need to understand the concept of how a financial institution generally achieves fiat currency liquidity. First, liquidity is assured by a reserve (10% of current deposit in good governance) with the rest being guaranteed using collateral assets from which the institution will capitalize upon and dole out a small portion to the depositors corresponding to their respective amount in capital. $HODLC is a digital stablecoin. Stablecoins, by definition, retain a collateral backing or pegging within the digital asset, guaranteeing each asset retains the ability to become liquid. To understand this concept, there are several notable projects that are backing minted tokens with fiat and precious metals. One can easily envision a gold backed stablecoin. Typically, 1:1 gold backed stabletokens are 1 gram of gold to 1 digital stablecoin. Crypto collateralized stablecoins are still inherently risky, whereas underlying asset value will fluctuate often and sometimes dramatically. In the case of the HODLCommodity, an algorithmic stablecoin, there is no real world collateralization; tokens are free trading, and the seller-buyer market brings liquidity. The reserve ensures a certain amount of token availability for the market; however, once depleted, only the seller’s market will be available. This means that any time a participant makes a savings deposit, it enables another to withdraw from theirs, ensuring there is no central point of deposit and failure.... creating a pool of wealth in your savings. Interesting.... So, Where's HODLCommodity Liquidity Overflow? Typically, in the banking infrastructure, liquidity overflow can be affected by an extensive network of lender markets and banks that will make liquidity available now and require reconciliation later. In the case of collapse, the lenders' market will dry up and the bank will need to lower withdrawal limits to not default on payments. In HODLCommodity’s ecosystem, there is no lenders market of financial institutions bringing liquidity. Critical overflows will result in a slow down of the liquidation process and possibly a drop in the trading volume, but it will not impact the capital value. This is the reason a savings use case is so important and powerful for enabling a market of the largest number of small, daily transactions and bringing the volume necessary for short- and mid-term savings plans to liquidate fast. This type of behavior is healthy for such a network, compared to a speculative market where large dumps are made as part of an exit strategy. The HODLCommodity is not invulnerable to this dynamic. Still, it is strongly mitigated by the 100,000 transaction threshold, which limits the number of Ether circulating to incentivize a more extensive network of participants and favor an asynchronous buying and selling dynamic. Photo Source: HODLCommunity Social Media Amazingly, a rapidly growing dynamic savings is only one of the use cases for the HODLCommunity asset. It has a grounded approach to savings that cannot be controlled, censored or seized and behaves like a stablecoin with interest on steroids. HODLCommunity also creates a barrier between the transactional and savings environment, which plays a psychological role in incentivizing and rewarding financial discipline. In conclusion, for these reasons and many more, to prepare for our little "baby bird's" nest egg, we have wisely chosen HODLCommunity as our daughters 'piggy bank'. I invite you all to track "HODL Baby" Sam and her investments with us! Our delivery date is March 23rd and we will be putting a few investments in HODLCommunity for our children's future. I'd love to talk about other investment opportunities that exist for our children. It's our job to bring financial education and a giving heart to the next generation- How are you doing so? How can we work together to bring wealth to our families? Let's connect on social and chat in Telegram! Thank you for reading! Alyze Sam is a refreshing blockchain strategist, a novel educator, award winning author and a vehemently driven advocate. First, dedicating her life to her patients in hospice nursing, Sam passionately embraced the world of financial technology after nearly losing her own life in 2014. Sam wrote the first book on Stablecoins in 2017. The unbiased text takes complex practices and simplifies concepts for most audiences. In February 2020 Sam and her partners book, ‘ ’ sat as the  #1 New Release in Business and Money on Amazon Books. Complete 2020 Guide to Stablecoins Sam’s second book, ‘ ,’ a university text, released May 14th, 2020. Sam’s Stablecoin research was published by Don Tapscott at in January 2021. The honored this work by developing a inspired by her work: Stablecoin Economy The Blockchain Research Institute Bad Crypto Podcast Blockchain Hero NFT Mz. Stability Visit Sam in the following places: LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Medium Twitter Co-founder & CEO of , & Telegram: Mass Media Division GIVENation Crypto Couch https://t.me/HODLCommunityPublic

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In this tutorial I will be guiding you with steps to install stable, HHVM 3.9 and 5 FPM. NGINX PHP is a great webserver or reverse proxy that comes with a default configuration much faster than Apache 2.4 with its default MPM (Prefork). Nginx is a virtual machine that uses JIT (Just in time) compilation aproach. HHVM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. PHP-FPM A little setup background: Clean KVM Machine with Ubuntu 16/14 LTS with 1GB RAM and 1 CPU Core from (Less than 1GB RAM will cause you trouble if you bundle MySQL) Vultr Root access (Else you must do sudo [command]) First, Nginx: add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stableapt-get update && apt-get upgradeapt-get install nginx Second, HHVM: apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 0x5a16e7281be7a449add-apt-repository "deb http://dl.hhvm.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main"apt-get updateapt-get install hhvmupdate-rc.d hhvm defaults/usr/bin/update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/php php /usr/bin/hhvm 60/usr/share/hhvm/install_fastcgi.sh We want to run HHVM on a Unix Socket, so let’s edit it’s configuration: nano /etc/hhvm/server.ini Comment “hhvm.server.port = 9000” with ; and add “hhvm.server.file_socket = /var/run/hhvm/hhvm.sock” It should look like this: ; php optionspid = /var/run/hhvm/pid ; hhvm specific;hhvm.server.port = 9000hhvm.server.file_socket = /var/run/hhvm/hhvm.sockhhvm.server.type = fastcgihhvm.server.default_document = index.phphhvm.log.use_log_file = truehhvm.log.file = /var/log/hhvm/error.loghhvm.repo.central.path = /var/run/hhvm/hhvm.hhbc Save with Ctrl + X and then ‘Y’ Now PHP-FPM: apt-get install php5-fpm This should install FPM and listen on /var/run/php5-fpm.sock by default We are done installing! Let’s configure things now. Let’s start by creating a upstream conf file for nginx: nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/upstream.conf Add the following and save: upstream php {server unix:/var/run/hhvm/hhvm.sock;server unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock backup;} As you can see, PHP-FPM will be a backup in case HHVM fails. Now let’s edit Nginx’s HHVM conf file: nano /etc/nginx/hhvm.confg Replace “fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;” with “fastcgi_pass php;” . It should look like this: location ~ \.(hh|php)$ {fastcgi_keep_conn on;fastcgi_pass   php;fastcgi_index  index.php;fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;include        fastcgi_params;} Restart the services with: service hhvm restart && service php5-fpm restart && service nginx restart Test with: curl -I localhost/test.php Should be a 404 (As the actual test.php doesn’t exist) with these headers: Server: nginx/1.8.0X-Powered-By: HHVM/3.9.0 And that’s all! We have latest stable Nginx with latest HHVM in fastcgi with php-fpm fallback! is how hackers start their afternoons. We’re a part of the family. We are now and happy to opportunities. Hacker Noon @AMI accepting submissions discuss advertising &sponsorship To learn more, , , or simply, read our about page like/message us on Facebook tweet/DM @HackerNoon. If you enjoyed this story, we recommend reading our and . Until next time, don’t take the realities of the world for granted! latest tech stories trending tech stories

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