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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, October 8, 2025?
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Why ML Can Predict the Weather, but Not Financial Markets
By @grigorychikishev [ 11 Min read ] Why machine learning models fail in finance: noisy data, scarce samples, and chaotic markets make prediction nearly impossible. Read More.
No Pool, No Problem: How One Solo Miner Won Big in a Network Built for Giants
By @MichaelJerlis [ 3 Min read ] A solo Bitcoin miner beat 1-in-a-million odds to win block 899826 in 2025. What this rare event reveals about mining, decentralization, and luck. Read More.
Using Browser Network Calls for Data Processing: The Search for a Dubai Chocolate Pistachio Shake
By @vrjdev [ 6 Min read ] This article will cover how I got the viral Dubai Chocolate Pistachio Shake using basic network calls and built a scalable cloud infrastructure for ML services. Read More.
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