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TOKYO, JAPAN - HackerNoon, the technology publishing company, is pleased to announce the nominees for its annual “Startups of the Year” award.

Startups of The Year 2023: 38+ Startups Nominated in Tokyo

This study introduces a training-free high quality neural matte extraction approach that specifically targets the assumptions of visual effects production.


Training-Free Neural Matte Extraction for Visual Effects: Abstract and Introduction

Seems I haven’t posted anything for a while, <a href="http://shamansir.github.io/blog/" target="_blank">since Sep 2014</a> to be precise—even though I had nice <a href="http://shamansir.github.io/rpd/" target="_blank">topics</a> to discuss. So here’s a new try to get back to you with writing nerdy texts. Especially, considering the fact it gets more popular and fancy every day.

Modern Binary Reverse-Engineering with node.js, for Elm

This study introduces a training-free high quality neural matte extraction approach that specifically targets the assumptions of visual effects production.

Training-Free Neural Matte Extraction for Visual Effects: Limitations and Conclusion

Training-Free Neural Matte Extraction for Visual Effects: Method

Training-Free Neural Matte Extraction for Visual Effects: Results and Failure Cases

Training-Free Neural Matte Extraction for Visual Effects: Background and Related Work

Radix, the smart contract platform for asset-oriented DeFi, has released alpha images of its Web3 wallet, which aims to provide a wonderful user experience.

Radix Releases UX and UI Alpha Sneak Peek of its Web3 Wallet

A Day in Alexandria makes one thing clear. If major franchises want to make a leap into the metaverse, they have to push themselves harder.

Reviewing The Walking Dead on The Sandbox Alpha Season 3

In this part of the ‘Alpha Capture in Digital Commerce series’,we will explore the challenges of data acquisition in retail and discuss data science application

Solving Challenges of Data Acquisition in Retail: Alpha Capture in Digital Commerce

Discover AI-powered solutions that empower social challenges and disabled persons. This includes text-to-speech for the blind-deaf and virtual mentors.

iHack Alpha Inspires AI-Powered Solutions to Address Social Challenges

A week ago I was invited to participate in a brand new social media app called October. Since the UI looked nice and the design philosophy seemed thoughtful, I decided to give it a try. After a few days of interacting with the community, I realized that this October thing actually had a lot of potential. It feels like a long lost sibling of Reddit and Twitter that’s had enough time to mature! In this article, I will explain what (I think) makes October unique and worth paying attention to.

October — visual and pseudonymous social network

<em>Сentralised social networks were a common sense until recently.</em>

The Future of Visual-based Social Networks on a Blockchain

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

Damian Griggs, Adaptive Systems Architect, Centaur Model, Christmas

'Twas the Night Before Deploy: A Blind Architect’s Chess Engine Journey

Controlled experiment compares perceived vs actual defect-detection effectiveness across testing and code reading, measuring mismatch cost and project loss.

Why We Misjudge Our Own Effectiveness at Finding Software Bugs

Discover how LLMs may impact memory, motivation, and critical thinking. MIT and Harvard studies reveal surprising cognitive effects.

How AI Affects Our Minds: Early Evidence From Harvard and MIT

There are some excellent free translation tools that support collaboration and improve quality. If you want to give back, you can support them via Kivach.
 

5 Open-Source Tools for Translation You can Use for Free—and Support via Kivach

Python tutorial describing process to design a custom bird vocalization classifier using audio-to-mel-spectrogram conversion and Google's EfficientNet B0 model.

Machine Learning for the Birds: Building Your Own Bird Vocalization Classifier

Explore UTF-8 character encoding, its history, and why it's essential for representing diverse languages and symbols in computer systems efficiently

Why Every Emoji, Letter, and Symbol You Type Is Basically Just Math

JavaScript in 2025 is more powerful, expressive, and efficient than ever.

JavaScript Becomes More Powerful Than Ever

Genspark AI has emerged as a formidable new player in the AI agent space, positioning itself as a comprehensive super agent.

INSANE One-click MCP AI Agent Hits the Market 

Science fiction (Sci-Fi) has inspired, shaped, and continues to influence real-world space exploration and technological advancements.

Turns Out, Star Trek Was Basically a Tech Roadmap

Lucid Dreaming is my coolest lifehack. 
It takes what is usually unproductive, forgetful time and turns it into world-class, entertaining adventures 

Live Out Any Fantasy - No VR Needed: 24 Lucid Dreaming Lifehacks

We provide innovative Cloud based investment reporting service to asset owners in order to replace current Excel and PDF reports received from asset managers

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Startups of The Year 2023: 38+ Startups Nominated in Tokyo

Training-Free Neural Matte Extraction for Visual Effects: Abstract and Introduction

Modern Binary Reverse-Engineering with node.js, for Elm

Training-Free Neural Matte Extraction for Visual Effects: Limitations and Conclusion

Training-Free Neural Matte Extraction for Visual Effects: Method

Training-Free Neural Matte Extraction for Visual Effects: Results and Failure Cases

Training-Free Neural Matte Extraction for Visual Effects: Background and Related Work

Radix Releases UX and UI Alpha Sneak Peek of its Web3 Wallet

Reviewing The Walking Dead on The Sandbox Alpha Season 3

Solving Challenges of Data Acquisition in Retail: Alpha Capture in Digital Commerce

iHack Alpha Inspires AI-Powered Solutions to Address Social Challenges

October — visual and pseudonymous social network

The Future of Visual-based Social Networks on a Blockchain

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

'Twas the Night Before Deploy: A Blind Architect’s Chess Engine Journey

Why We Misjudge Our Own Effectiveness at Finding Software Bugs

How AI Affects Our Minds: Early Evidence From Harvard and MIT

5 Open-Source Tools for Translation You can Use for Free—and Support via Kivach

Machine Learning for the Birds: Building Your Own Bird Vocalization Classifier

Why Every Emoji, Letter, and Symbol You Type Is Basically Just Math

JavaScript Becomes More Powerful Than Ever

INSANE One-click MCP AI Agent Hits the Market

Turns Out, Star Trek Was Basically a Tech Roadmap

Live Out Any Fantasy - No VR Needed: 24 Lucid Dreaming Lifehacks

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