Our indie game: - Fast-paced retro-inspired FPS w/ SNES-like... visuals - 2 modes available: Story Mode & Horde Mode - 8bit SFX & BGM by Indonesian Chiptune veterans - Various weapons to use & each of them has an alternate fire - Only 200+ MB of free space is needed to run thisshow more

Played Kingdoms of the Dump for 30 hours, here... is my review: -The game is a loving homage to classic SNES RPGs like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy, perfectly capturing their atmosphere -A tactical turn-based combat system with active elements, reminiscent of Super Mario RPG or more recently Expedition 33 -One of the most unique settings ever in an RPG -Incredible variety of enemies, all beautifully rendered in pixel art (boss design by Look Outside pixel artist) -The game is divided into multiple acts, taking you through a wide variety of regions and kingdoms -It’s full of charm and incredible attention to detail. Heal with rotting items, fight flying jellyshorts, and save using toilet paper rolls on toilets. Just lovely. -Fun fact: Game is made by 2 real janitors -The original soundtrack is an absolute banger, instantly transporting you back to the SNES era -There’s a Mode 7-style overworld that you can explore on foot, on a mount, or by airship -The overworld invites exploration and is packed with secrets and hidden areas -What brings the game into the modern era is a dedicated jump button. You can jump pretty much anywhere and explore the world on entirely new levels -There are also various characters, each with unique abilities outside of combat, and you can switch between them at any time -Characters are just lovely -The game is wonderfully written and well paced, full of great story moments and twists, but it’s only available in English at the moment -I would compare the difficulty to Chrono Trigger. It’s challenging but never unfair, and grinding is never necessary -If you die in a battle, you can retry it immediately -Enemies are visible before battle and can be avoided -Fast battles, quick in and out -Various battle themes -Fallen characters and those outside your active party still gain experience -The game is pure indie at heart, over eight years in the making and packed with content -Lots of side quests -Dedicated character quests that explore each character’s backstory -Secret weapons and bosses -Dungeons with puzzle elements -25 hours of story content (more with side stuff) -Only 20 bucks (discount right now) -Great on Steam Deck -Full controller support -Sometimes the jumping sections demand too much precision -I ran into a few bugs during my playtime. The game froze, I got stuck in walls, the music sometimes cut out, and I wasn’t able to use an item at one point -I reached out to the developers, and they have already responded with multiple updates Kingdoms of the Dump is a love letter to an era that produced some of the greatest RPGs of all time. It’s a modern classic, only held back by some technical issues. For me, it’s the best SNES game that was never actually released on a Super Nintendo. Verdict: 9/10 #KingdomsoftheDump 👑 Kingdoms of the Dump - OUT NOWshow more

Gather 'round! The second theme for #AnichessDivinities Challenge has... arrived. 📌 This Week's Theme: This playlist is Fire 🔥 📝 Challenge: Create a playlist (on Spotify, Youtube, etc), that describes how Ignis created Knight of Fire. Story available on Anichess website. Example of playlist: 🏆 Prizes: 🥇 1st: 100 USDT + 3 Knight of Fire Orbs 🥈 2nd: 60 USDT + 2 Knight of Fire Orbs 🥉 3rd: 40 USDT + 1 Knight of Fire Orb 🏅 4th-10th: 1 Knight of Fire Orb each 📥 Submission: QT with the screenshot & link to your playlist Tag Anichess in your tweet Use #AnichessDivinities hashtag in your tweet BONUS: Use Knights of Fire/Ignis visuals to decorate your playlist screenshot Deadline: Sept 15th at 04:00 EDT/09:00 BST/16:00 HKT. Results on Sept 19. Dive deeper into the challenge on our blog: Play your best and have a blast, mates! ♟️show more

Building The On-Chain Cooperative 🟡 Welcome to the dawn... of a new era in the crypto space, where the buzzword "community" is not just a hollow echo but a vibrant force that propels us towards a brighter future. Let's delve into the heart of MODE, the Onchain Cooperative that seeks to redefine the landscape of web3. What does MODE stand for? MODE stands for building an on-chain cooperative focused on sustainable growth and collective prosperity. At its core, MODE is guided by the principles of cooperation, shared incentives, and community-driven development. The goal is to shift from the "fat protocol" mentality where most value accrues to the blockchain/protocol itself, towards an ecosystem where builders, users, and applications can thrive together. What’s MODE's vision and mission in the web3 space? MODE's vision is to return to web3's founding promise - a future that is better for all, not just the individual. A world with aligned incentives that drive growth for everyone involved. A place with opportunities for all, not just the few. The mission is to pioneer the on-chain cooperative - where contributors are rewarded fairly based on the value they provide. Features like Sequencer Fee Sharing distribute a portion of fees to smart contract developers, incentivizing participation. The aim is to encourage collaboration instead of confrontation. Together, the MODE community can deliver new models for cooperation and shared prosperity in web3. Mode Network will solve many problems today in Web3: • Lack of incentives for developers: Developers creating decentralized apps (dApps) currently have few direct economic incentives to create and maintain their projects. Mode provides them with a steady source of income through fee-sharing. • Lack of collaboration: There are few incentives for blockchain projects to compete less and collaborate more for the benefit of the entire ecosystem. Mode's model encourages collaboration by aligning participants economically. • Excessive value accrual at the protocol layer: Mode aims for a more balanced model where the protocol's success is fueled by the success of application developers/builders and the wider community. Growth is a two-way street – "as we grow, you grow". The MODE Pledge 💛 The promise of crypto and blockchain is a brighter future. One that is better for all not just the individual. Where nothing is more important than community. We've strayed from this path. Entering a world of player vs player. Where value is extracted rather than shared. The game is zero sum rather than positive sum. And incentives are aligned with domination, rather than cooperation. Mode is the dawn of a new age. and a return to the promise of what can be. A world with aligned incentives that drive growth for builders, users and projects. A place with opportunities for all, rather than the few. Where we say goodbye to the 'fat protocol', and hello to the onchain cooperative. Join us on our mission to grow together. If this vision for a community-powered web3 ecosystem resonates - where creators are rewarded for their contributions - you can join the MODE on-chain cooperative! Visit Join the discord community Follow Mode 🟡 Together, we can transform web3 into a positive-sum game that unlocks new possibilities for all. Where your growth fuels the growth of others. Let's build the on-chain cooperative!show more

DarkCoinDAO DarkCoinDAO 🤝 #rxelms We’re building a basic first... person shooter to keep the #community entertained while we build the rxelms. People will only be able to select NFT based characters if they own the corresponding NFT. The rxelms FPS mini game will allow for community made, NFT based weapons, weapon skins and poses/emotes. We’ll provide documentation and guides on how the community can take part in the creation of these items. People who don’t own an NFT from a rxelms partner project will be able to select a humanoid character. We plan on working with NFT project leads/managers and the community in general to develop unique characteristics for the in-game play style of each character, things like special weapons, speed, agility, strength, etc. Over-time we hope this will create a fun, fair and competitive #game. Maybe those #MNGO/Vlad, limited edition sneakers make you run a little faster in the FPS. The FPS will also have a play to earn aspect. Project managers will be given the option to allow their #rxelm to be used as a map for the FPS, we may look at ways to add another revenue stream for partner projects by giving them a cut of any token exchanges that occur through the #FPS mini-game. Future Mini-Games​ We're also looking into developing two other mini-games, a Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat style game and a Twisted Metal style game. Check out the Dark Coin Champions getting in some practice before they have to compete with every other #NFT partner project. Made by Diego Nossa #crosschain #metaverse #algorand $algo #cryptoshow more

🧱 Building the Game: Nigeria 22% of our X... community is Nigerian 🇳🇬. That’s not just a stat, that’s leadership. That’s people showing up early, staying consistent, and carrying the mission across borders. In 2024, 188 onchain products launched in Nigeria, built on Base. Not by chance, by choice. Base became the home for serious builders in Africa’s most vibrant tech ecosystem. And we’re proud to say: T-RIZE is right there with them. In a country where over 35% of adults now use or own crypto, and where blockchain adoption is solving real economic challenges, Nigeria isn’t just participating, it’s shaping the next chapter. Our Nigerian community has pushed the RWA conversation forward, helped onboard the unbanked, and inspired a generation of builders to turn possibility into progress. ⚡️When momentum looks like this, you don’t wait, you build. But let’s be clear, this movement is global. 🌍 From Vietnam to the U.S., from Dubai to Hong Kong, from Singapore to Australia — our community is strong, present, and growing fast. We are one network, many voices — all building toward the same future. We’ll be spotlighting each region that’s helping write this story. Today, we celebrate Nigeria. Tomorrow, we celebrate you. 🎥 Watch how this movement came to life 👇show more

🚨🚨SILVER GIVEAWAY TIME🚨🚨 It is time to do another... silver giveaway! Woohoo!! This is your chance to win another piece of silver jewlery made from the one and only JesterJum so here we go with giveaway #2 😃 Huge congrats to our last winner Supersonic Redhead🛫! She can attest to the quality of the pieces I make! This is a solid 925 silver, one of a kind wolf ring inspired by House Stark from Game of Thrones. This giveaway will last for 5 days, so the winner will be randomly chosen and announced next week on 4/16 @ 9pm CST To enter for a chance to win, you must: 1) Follow Jum 2) Like this post 3) Repost this post 4) Leave a comment (any comment you like) Each individual is only allowed 1 entry so multiple comments will not give you multiple entries. Multiple accounts per person will be disqualified — play fair! Entries from duplicate or spam accounts won't count. At the end of the week, all eligible individuals will be put into Grok and Grok will choose a random winner! This is a chance to get a 100% FREE silver ring, and with silver at an all time high, you don't want to miss this chance! **This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by Xshow more

INTRODUCING OCBTW: THE FIRST PANDA-BACKED ASSET A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND 2-WAY... NFT NFT SWAP We just deployed a smart contract on Bitcoin that allows you to mint "OCBTW", a limited edition generative art collection by tclow.sats, solely by swapping an Alkane Pandas ⬢ OCBTW has a supply of 200 unique pieces and is inspired by Oyl | Building Alkanes's signature hexagon logo that defines all native Alkane assets (e.g., $DIESEL). It is 100% on-chain generative art using three.js code via HTML ⬢ OCBTW can only be minted by swapping a Panda using the 2:70104 smart contract. After 200 swaps have been completed, on a first-come-first-served basis, the mint will conclude. However, OCBTW can be swapped back to a Panda at any time, freeing up supply for another Panda holder to collect a OCBTW piece from the contract. ⬢ OCBTW is thus backed entirely by Pandas, meaning each piece will never be worth less than a Panda. This is the first time on Bitcoin that an NFT is minted with another NFT. This may be the first time this has ever been done on any chain. ⬢ OCBTW also effectively locks up up to 200 Pandas for perpetuity. Just like AP-69, this swap contract has no withdrawal function. The only way to get Pandas out of the contract is to swap your OCBTW back to a Panda. This operates on a last-in, first-out (LIFO) basis. ⬢ OCBTW can be minted by calling the 2:70104 contract using opcode 42 and including a Panda in the transaction, either by using or You can only mint 1 OCBTW per transaction. Rarity of Pandas has no effect on what OCBTW mint you will receive. ⬢ OCBTW can be viewed natively in browser on iDclub 💥 Building Alkanes at the following link: Please be patient after minting for their indexer to update after blocks clear. Please also note that the Ordiscan Alkanes indexer is currently down. ⬢ OCBTW is purely art. Art on Bitcoin. Forever.show more

Emerging from Silence: A New Dawn After a two-year... period of silence, the team behind Anthrometa emerges to announce significant advancements. Our focus has been on refining our vision, and now, we're prepared to unveil our strategic direction. 🕹️We're giving away 0.5 $ETH and 100 $ICP RT, like, and tag a friend for your chance to win ! Community Governance with DAO Central to our transformation is the establishment of a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (#DAO). This structure ensures that each member of our community has a say in Anthrometa's governance, embodying our commitment to collective wisdom and shared governance. Multichain Integration with $ICP and $ETH Our project has expanded to become multichain, integrating with the Internet Computer Protocol ($ICP) and Ethereum ($ETH). This choice was made due to #ICP's exceptional infrastructure, allowing for smart contracts to operate at web speed with heightened security. Gameplay 3.0 with Unreal Engine 5.5 and AI At the heart of our gameplay lies the utilization of #UE5, the most advanced technology for creating immersive universes. This engine powers our environment with unparalleled visual fidelity and dynamic interaction capabilities. Anthrometa : The Advanced Agent Furthermore, we are pioneering the integration of artificial intelligence to form an advanced Agent named Anthrometa. This #AI-driven entity will adapt and learn from player interactions, providing personalized experiences and evolving the game world in real-time, thus blurring the lines between player and game narrative. We aim to tap into the gaming market, which is expected to reach a valuation of over $300 billion by 2027, positioning Anthrometa alongside giants like Axie Infinity and Decentraland. Introducing THE METATRIBES: REBORN REBORN's battle royale mode departs from the conventional, eschewing modern firearms like those found in #Fortnite or #CallofDuty. Instead, players will engage in combat using ancestral weapons, focusing on authentic, melee-based encounters. The gameplay emphasizes strategic positioning, tactical thinking, and mastery of ancient combat techniques, making every battle a test of wits and skill rather than just firepower. This approach invites players into a realm where strategy reigns supreme, and every fight is a dance of survival and cunning. If you read this, you are early Join us in shaping a future where technology and community converge. Your support has been invaluable during our silence, and now, with renewed purpose, #Anthrometa returns. Don't miss our update on December 4th; follow, turn on notifications, and engage to be part of it.show more

Talking with someone the other day that estimated they... had about 25,000 idle connections to Postgres. My actual response to them: "holy shit". They double checked, it was only about 12,000 Same day had a conversation with someone saying they didn't need pgbouncer because of activerecord's connection pooling. Let's dig into connection pooling in Postgres. Prior to Postgres 14 every connection to the database consumed memory, roughly 10MB, it may be slightly less but it still wasn't free. Even beyond Postgres 14 there is still various contention that happens when Postgres starts to use a connection. An application pooler maintains a set of connections and hands them out when needed on the application side. These are idle and real connections against the database that indeed do impact performance negatively. In contrast pgbouncer speaks the wire protocol, waits for the begin part of the transaction and then uses a connection. It more strictly manages how many idle ones it's having instead of per web server you're running. pgbouncer up until recently really needed to be run in transaction mode (which meant disabling prepared statements in your application framework). prepared_statement support in pgbouncer was added recently, and now you don't have to disable. Even when running with an older version of pgbouncer with prepared_statements disabled you'd still see a big performance gain. A quick check to know if you'd benefit from pgbouncer, run this query: SELECT count(*), state FROM pg_stat_activity GROUP BY 2; If you're idle account is high (yes this is dependent on your view, but to me if it's above 25-30 range, and especially if active is until half that) then you'd already start to benefit from pgbouncer. If it's at 10,000 then post haste get pgbouncer in place. Finally, you don't have to not use a framework pooler, they're fine, but don't think it replaces a native Postgres connection pooler.show more

The Sabotaging Practice of Over Supply and Sameness in... the NFT Space. The current zeitgeist of the NFT space is that the same artists are doing the same kind of work five times a year, with project after project leaving a trail of disappointment and discontent among collectors and all of us watching in disbelief as huge resources are extracted from the space over work that feels like it could be left as an "artist study." I understand that you can do what you want with your money as collectors, but we are killing the whole space with this incestuous practice. No artist is that prolific to be able to do 5 collections of 100+ pieces each every year and actually deliver innovation and some kind of creative evolution. Of course, they can pretend play that the work has something new, but there is no precedent nor proof that that has ever happened in the speed that it happens in the NFT space. Again, people are free to through away their resources on whatever they want but with this way of doing things, we more and more are going to start seeing the consequences. Oh! There are consequences? Yes. Maybe unintended, but there are. Let's see. Let's start with the loss of belief in the NFT space as somewhere where emerging artists can come and find support for their experiments. Why even bother to bring experiments, innovation, and new ways to think of art on the blockchain if the same people have all the collectors hypnotized with their magical flutes? Why even try to come to a space where taking risks and challenging the status quo (the mission of art!!!) is overlooked? This makes the NFT space a social club and not a space for art. I guess it is fine, but IMO it is a recipe for disaster. New collectors stay away because the art will slowly but surely become stale and un-challenging. Why even bother to come and see what is happening here if you can't, as a collector, see new weird and up-and-coming artists? The amount of noise emitted by the same artists doing the same art over and over, drowns out any new voices. Again. A recipe for disaster. The NFT space is becoming a space of disappointment and doubt. We think that collections going to zero one after the other, over and over, is not damaging? I feel we are kidding ourselves. Disappointment piles up, and again, the people who will hurt are the emerging artists, the new blood, the ones who are willing to risk the most and, in return, put fire in this cold space of sameness. I love this space—don't get me wrong—it has changed my life, and I believe it has a ton of potential, but things need to change for it to become a beacon of light in art. But we need to support new voices. We need to support new ideas. The challenge is huge. I hope to contribute all I can to this change. I hope more and more see how exciting it is to go out and try to discover what else is out there and move this space forward. But again, I understand the leaps of faith needed, but if there is a space that is based on that, it's the NFT space...so there is hope. We will see. 📺by Boldtronshow more

🚨 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻'𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀 - 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 Assassin's Creed Shadows... is the beginning of the third phase of the series. After more than 80 hours of playtime, I can say that it's superior to the second phase in almost every way. However, fans of the modern story and the mythological elements in previous games might be disappointed. 𝐌𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 : Platform : PS5 (Base) Mode : Balanced/Canon/immersive Version : 01.001.019/01.002.103 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 : 𝟐𝟓-𝟑𝟓𝐡 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐦 : 𝟒𝟎-𝟓𝟎𝐡 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐦 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐲 : 𝟑/𝟏𝟎 %𝟏𝟎𝟎 : 𝟗𝟎-𝟏𝟎𝟎𝐡 🟢 Best story in the series in recent years 🟢 An incredibly beautiful world 🟢 An amazing soundtrack album 🟢 Excellent combat system 🟢 Best stealth in recent years 🟢 Great character development for both main characters 🟢 A great skill tree 🟢 High gameplay variety thanks to completely different weapons 🟢 One of the best weather systems in gaming history 🟢 Excellent performance in Balanced Mode 🟢 Good side activities (although they become repetitive after a while) 🟢 Great season system that adds a lot of variety to the game environment 🟢 Notable improvements in the Hideout compared to Ravensthorpe 🟢 Allies' return is great and practical 🟢 Very good level of destructibility 🟢 Canon mode 🟢 Good DualSense support 🟡 Although several incredible side missions are included in the game, their overall quality isn't top-notch. 🟡 A.I. has improved slightly (especially in Expert mode), but enemies still behave strangely in some scenes. 🟡 Reverting to the "Odyssey" loot system was a bad decision. 🟡 Forced ray tracing in the Hideout results in a very weak frame rate in that area (on PS5 Base). 🟡 The game needs several QoL updates (like adding an option for changing the time of day and seasons). 🟡 The modern story could have been much better. 🔴 Low-quality cutscenes after the prologue 🔴 Bugs Although Assassin's Creed Shadows isn't a problem-free game, as a fan, it has met all the expectations I had for it. Most of the issues I have with it can be fixed through future updates. If you were a fan of the second phase games, you will undoubtedly enjoy it. If you didn't have any interest in them, Shadows might change your mind. SCORE: 9/10show more

Hills I will die on as an elementary school... teacher, who just wrapped up my 32nd year teaching! 1. If you are not PASSIONATE about blessing, serving, and empowering those you are blessed to teach, this profession is not for you. 2. Our students are not “ours”. They are their families, and we need to understand the magnitude of the calling, and responsibility we have to meet them where they are, and to help them to get to a place that they never thought possible. 3. As important as the curriculum is (and it IS important), the children in our classroom are what matter most. It’s our JOB to teach the curriculum to SERVE our students, NOT to use our students to push any sort of agenda. 4. Just as we teach our students to “leave things better than they found them”, we need to leave our students better than they were when they first entered into our classroom. Never let a day pass without pouring into each and every child. 5. We should not teach our children WHAT to think, but HOW to think, and how to use that knowledge to bless and serve not only themselves, but the world around them. 6. Our words carry little (or NO value), if we do not practice what we preach. 7. If we don’t make learning fun, children will view learning as a chore, and we we will be creating a generation of children who grow up to be young adults who don’t see the joy in learning new things. 8. The child that may be “difficult to reach/teach” (the one who may get on your last nerve more than you could ever imagine), is someone’s EVERYTHING. Get to know them as human beings, find out what motivates them, and do everything you can to help them to thrive. 9. Never tell a child they “can’t” do something. God has blessed each of them with far more strengths and talents than we may know, and it’s not our job to tell them what they can’t do, but to help them to realize all the things they CAN do. 10. The legacy you leave as a teacher will never be determined by your student’s test scores, but by the human beings you helped them become throughout their lives.show more

How long should my baby use a pacifier? I... get this question a lot and it’s a tough one - both because there isn’t a single correct answer and because (like feeding and sleep) the topic brings out lots of strong opinions. But if you ask me, the family in this video has the right idea. Infants are born with a strong sucking reflex and pacifiers can help them to soothe and sleep. There’s even some evidence to suggest that sleeping with pacifiers might reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). In short: for babies (up to a year), I’m a big fan. But it’s not uncommon to see children with pacifiers well into toddlerhood, and in some cases, even beyond. And here I’d raise some important cautions. Children who rely heavily on pacifiers may be more prone to middle ear infections. And dentists note that prolonged pacifier use can affect your child’s teeth and create bite issues. Perhaps most importantly is their potential to impact expressive language development. Your child’s ability to speak is an important one. After a point, language shapes not only the content of our thinking, but the very structure of our cognition. By otherwise occupying the mouth over long periods of time, pacifiers may slow language development by limiting opportunities for expression. Speaking with a pacifier in the mouth can also lead to distortion of speech sounds (even when they aren’t in the mouth). All told, I’m an advocate for beginning to wean off of pacifiers at around a year of age - which is why this video spoke to me. We see an infant appropriately using one and big sister demonstrating her expressive language, her mouth unencumbered and free to chatter away happily. The transition can be difficult - but not nearly as challenging as for a child who has become dependent over a period of years. Do/did you use pacifiers with your child? Why or why not? How did you help transition away from their use? This sweet siblings were shared to IG by _lullabye_luxuries_.show more

[Discrete Fourier Transform] by Hand ✍️ In signal processing,... the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is no doubt the most important method. But the math involved is extremely complex, literally, involving a summation over a complex number term e^(-iwt). I developed this exercise to demonstrate that underneath such complexity, DFT is just a series of matrix multiplications you can calculate by hand. ✍️ Once you see that, it should not surprise you that a deep neural network, which is also a series of matrix multiplications, with activation functions in-between, can learn to perform DFT to process and analyze signals so effectively. How does DFT work? [1] Given ↳ Signals A, B, and C in the 🟧 frequency domain: ◦ A = cos(w) + 2cos(2w) ◦ B = cos(w) + cos(3w) + cos(4w) ◦ C = -cos(2w) + cos(3w) ◦ Each signal is a weighed sum of four cosine waves at frequencies 1w, 2w, 3w, and 4w. ◦ We will apply Inverse DFT to convert the signals to time domain representations, and then demonstrate DFT can convert back to their original frequency domain representations. ↳ Signal X in the 🟩 time domain. X is sampled at 10 time points 1t, 2t, …, 10t: ◦ X = [-2.5, -1.8, 3, -0.7, -1.0, -0.7, 3, -1.8, -2.5, 5] ◦ Suppose X is also a weighted sum of the same four cosine waves, but we don’t already know their weights. We will apply DFT to discover them. [2] 🟧 Frequency Matrix (F) ↳ Write the coefficients of A, B, C as a matrix F. Each signal is a row. Each frequency is a column. ↳ A → [1, 2, 0, 0] ↳ B → [1, 0, 1, 1] ↳ C → [0, 1-, 1, 0] [3] Cosine → Discrete ↳ Sample from the continuous cosine waves at discrete time points 1t, 2t, 3t, to 10t. [4] Cosine Matrix (W) ↳ Write the samples as a matrix, Each frequency is a row. Each time point is a column. [5] Inverse DFT: 🟧 Frequency → 🟩 Time ↳ Multiply the frequency matrix F and the cosine matrix W. ↳ The meaning of this multiplication is to linearly combine the four cosine waves (rows in W) into time-domain signals (rows in T) using the weights specified in F. ↳ The result is matrix T, which are signals A, B, C converted to the time domain. Each signal is a row. Each time point is a column. [6] Transpose ↳ Transpose T, converting each signal’s time domain representation from a row to a column. [7] DFT: 🟩 Time → 🟧 Frequency ↳ Multiply the cosine matrix W with the transpose of matrix T. ↳ The purpose of this multiplication is to take a dot-product between each time-domain signal (columns in the transpose of T) and each cosine wave (rows in W), which has the effect of projecting the signal onto a cosine wave to determine how much they are correlated. Zero means not correlated at all. ↳ The result is an intermediate version of the “recovered” frequency matrix where each column corresponds to a signal and each row corresponds to a frequency. ↳ Compared to the original frequency matrix F, this intermediate matrix has non-zero weights in the correct places, but scaled up by a factor of 5 (n/2, n=10). For example, signal A, originally [1,2,0,0], is recovered at [5,10,0,0]. [8] Scale ↳ Multiply each value by 2/n = 1/5 to scale down the intermediate matrix to match the magnitude of the original frequency matrix F. [9] Transpose ↳ Transpose the recovered frequency matrix back to the same orientation of the original frequency matrix F. ↳ Like magic 🪄, the result is identical to the original F, which means DFT successfully recovered the frequency components of signals A, B, C. [10] Apply DFT to X: 🟩 Time → 🟧 Frequency ↳ Now that we have some confidence in DFT’s ability to recover frequency components, we apply DFT to X’s time-domain representation by multiplying W with X. ↳ The result is the an intermediate matrix. [11] Scale ↳ Similarly, we scale down by a factor of 5 to obtain the recovered frequency components of X (a column). [12] Transpose ↳ Similarly, we transpose the recovered column to row to match the orientation of the frequency matrix. ↳ Using the coefficients [0,0,3,2], we can write the equation of X as 3cos(3w) + 2cos(4w). Notes: I hope this by hand exercise helps you understand the essence of DFT. But there is more technical details, such as: • Sine: The complete DFT math also includes sine waves that follow a similar calculation process. • Phase: Here, we assume all the cosine waves are aligned at the origin, namely, phase is 0. If a phase p is added, for example, cos(w+p), we will need to calculate the sine component and use their ratio to figure out what p is. • Magnitude: If phase is not zero, the magnitude will need to be calculated by combining both cosine and sine terms.show more

$KDR token is a pivotal moment in the history... of the Kaidro universe. Finally a piece of the world that can be accessible to millions of future audiences to come. Kaidro’s $KDR will lead the forefront of what a token supported intellectual property can do. Kaidro sets the stage for what true franchise intellectual properties are capable of with dedicated fans and cross multimedia approach. We will lead the charge to be the example of a story and world can be if others like Star Wars, Harry Potter, League of Legends, and others could involve their community in this way. Kaidro has always been about the steady growth and long term play in the development of the intellectual property. Before launching the web 3 elements through out 2024 with 4 successful NFT launches, Kaidro had another lifetime in web 2 with the growth of the story and audience through the online manga on Webtoons exactly 4 years ago in 2020. We as the creators spent a good decade developing the world, storylines, art, and design as well as sharing the world alongside our audience of over 1+ million followers on TikTok. Since then, Kaidro has grown beyond a manga series to NFTs, an ARPG game, web game, audiobooks, merch, future animation and now the upcoming $KDR token. All of which onboard more and more champions in the Kaidro world. Along the way, we have been able to invite our audience into the universe by getting involved in it, whether it be voice acting, drawn into the mangas, voting on designs or making up their own designs. It’s web 2 and web 3 working together to bring the universe to the masses. This is just the beginning of the journey of Kaidro. There are those who discover the manga on Webtoons, there are those who found Kaidro on the Steam games page, and many of those who joined us through the Kaidro NFT collections. That is the beauty of the Kaidro community, people can come together and relate to one another on the various forms of the story and world. Token Generation Event for $KDR is coming fast and we want talk about what there is to know. The total number of tokens is 100,000,000, FDV of 55M with an initial circulating supply at TGE of ~17M tokens. We will be listing on the Katana DEX and Bitmart as our first CEX. The future is bright and we have been in talks with multiple CEXs to list $KDR. $KDR will have many utilities, from eligibility to become a producer in the Kaidro animation series get Kaidro NFTs, obtain battle passes on the Kaidro game and to receive exclusive in-game items, and more to come. Starting with the planned FDV continues our belief of accessibility to the largest audience possible to grow along with. Much like our approach with the free Journal NFT mint which minted 350,000+ journals to the free mangas that have garnered over 2 million readers, to the free ARPG game that have tens of thousands of Steam Wishlists. We must continue to be accessible to those who show interest in Kaidro. Historically from wide exposure there are a good percentage of those who want to dive deeper into Kaidro. Those who obtain the NFTs, the physical mangas, listen to the audiobook, the merch, and now the upcoming $KDR tokens. Our goal has and always will be to onboard more people to Kaidro and the next biggest expansion which will be the animation series that we are working with Tim Hedrick (Writer and Executive Producer known for Avatar: Last Airbender & Korra) and the full Kaidro: Clan Battles game launch. The unlimited ability to reach many more people through a streaming series and a fully published game. We continue steady on our journey to the building and the spread of the Kaidro universe. This is just the beginning. Kaidro is undeniable 🐉 Peggy & Robert Creators of Kaidro Find all things Kaidro here:show more

🚨 THE BIGGEST BOTTLENECK IN AI ISN'T COMPUTING POWER... ANYMORE IT'S MOVING DATA. Instead of laying new cables, Chinese researchers have upgraded existing fiber infrastructure by doing two things at once: Using three wavelength bands (C + L + S) instead of the usual two. Using four cores inside each fiber instead of one. Each core acts like an independent highway, and each band acts like an extra lane on that highway. Together, they’ve reportedly increased transmission capacity per core by nearly 50% and overall data throughput by up to 5×. This matters enormously for AI. Modern AI clusters move terabits of data per second between thousands of GPUs. The biggest bottleneck is often not the chips themselves, but moving data fast enough between them. If you can push 5× more data through the same physical cables, you can train bigger models faster and reduce network congestion. Why this is significant: • It shows multi-core + extended spectrum technology moving from labs into real-world commercial use • The system has already run over 35 km of existing telecom network • It could be especially useful for submarine cables and large-scale data center interconnects • China is also eyeing it for its “Eastern Data, Western Computing” project The deeper implication: We’re reaching the physical limits of how much data we can push through single-core fibers using traditional methods. By combining spatial multiplexing (multiple cores) with spectral multiplexing (more wavelength bands), engineers are finding new ways to keep scaling bandwidth without having to dig up the planet to lay new cables. This kind of breakthrough is quiet but foundational it’s the kind of infrastructure upgrade that will determine how fast AI and cloud computing can actually grow in the coming years. The future of data movement might not require more cables. It might just require smarter ones. How important do you think multi-core and multi-band fiber will be for keeping up with AI’s exploding data demands? Follow for more frontier networking, photonics, and infrastructure technology.show more

Sipher Odyssey and SipherAGI Update Dear Sipher community, 🔴... Sipher Odyssey is in its final stretch before Global Launch. • We’ve built over a year of live content, ensuring players will always have fresh challenges and events to return to. • Based on community feedback and play data, we’re refining FTUE and monetization systems so the game launches stronger, with better retention and long-term growth. • Sipher Adventure (World Exploration / Story Mode) is coming very soon to make onboarding easier for new players. The core roguelite ARPG depth remains intact for our midcore to hardcore community. While we won’t rush at the expense of quality, the launch timeline remains in our control. We’re focused on getting it right. We will deliver a launch that’s impactful from day one and sustainable over the long term. 🔴 Beyond Sipher Odyssey: The SipherAGI Vision While Sipher Odyssey is our flagship, it’s only the first chapter. Our roadmap has always been about Sipher AGI, building not just one game, but an ecosystem of impactful and lasting products across three pillars: • AI ( GAIA, KAIO) → AI and tools that enhance gameplay today, while also evolving into a platform that empowers creators and game developers in the future. • Gaming (multiple titles) → Sipher Odyssey, Sipher Strife, and a new soulslike is in development, with more ambitious titles planned to follow. • Infrastructure ( Funki✌🏻 ) → Our own Ethereum Layer-2 built on the Optimism Stack. Running our own chain gives us control over fees and incentives, cycling value back into the ecosystem. Superchain connectivity ensures a seamless experience for players. Each of these pillars connects through $SIPHER, our ecosystem token. Value accrues back to token holders across all our products and future titles. 🔴 Why This Matters Even in a challenging Web3 gaming market where many studios have closed, Ather Labs has a secured multi-year runway. This stability allows us to focus on delivering great games and ecosystem products without rushing into unfavorable deals. 🔴 What’s ahead: • Launch Sipher Odyssey strong • Expand with impactful titles and experiences • Advance GAIA and Funki Chain to make SipherAGI more than just a game studio, an AI × Gaming × Infrastructure ecosystem Thank you for being with us on this journey. advance, AtherLabs Teamshow more

GKOI New Year’s X Giveaway! ✨You're invited to the... pre-launch of GKOI: New Worlds, New Powers. We’re on a mission to transform Web3 by blending art, storytelling, and community-driven experiences. Read the rules below and follow The Art of KOI for a chance to win an Azuki Beanz NFT. ⛩️GKOI is creating an open, decentralized universe filled with magical, immersive experiences designed to expand both your mind and senses and our NFTs will serve as your gateway to this extraordinary world. Inspired by the Japanese Legend of the Koi, each of our NFTs carry special powers crafted to inspire you in the real world and energize you in the digital realms. Set to launch in February 2025, our first release is a timeless collection of 10,000 Golden Koi, each created in the digital Japanese woodblock styleand minted on the Ethereum blockchain as ERC721a tokens. 🔥The Giveaway🔥 In the lead-up to our launch, as a tribute to Azuki, who has inspired us on our journey, we’re giving away Beanz #8008 (The Red Bean) to one lucky traveler who joins our community before the end of the year. Additionally, two runner-ups will receive ETH prizes, and five more winners will secure a spot on our GKOI whitelist. How to Enter To qualify for the giveaway, you must: 1️⃣ Follow The Art of KOI on X 2️⃣ Like and repost this pinned post 3️⃣ Comment on this post and tag 2 friends Prizes 🏆 Grand Prize: Azuki Beanz NFT #8008 🥇 1st Runner-Up 0.2 ETH 🥈 2nd Runner-Up 0.1 ETH 🥉 5 spots on our whitelist Giveaway Timeline ⏰ Starts: Today Dec 21st ⏰ Ends: Dec 31st 2024 📢 Winners will be announced on January 1st 2025 right here on X! Winners will be chosen at random using The X Picker to ensure transparency. Important Rules 1️⃣Only entries from accounts with a profile picture, a bio, and at least 100 posts and followers will be considered valid. 2️⃣Bots and spam accounts will not be eligible to participate. 3️⃣Winners will have 5 days to DM us their wallet address to claim their prizes after which we will run the draw again. 🔥More Chances to Win Don’t worry if you don’t win this time—the Legend is just beginning! Over the next two months, leading up to our mint, we’ll have even more giveaways and prizes. Follow The Art of KOI and join the GKOI community—your gateway to a world of powers, prizes, and adventure! #gkoi #nft #giveaway #digitalart #metaverseshow more

🍿Ready for #SonicMovie3? We are! HTC VIVE is celebrating... the blue blur's return to movie theatres with a special prize giveaway on Instagram: 🔹1 grand prize winner will get a VIVE Focus Vision AND a VIVE Ultimate Tracker 3+1 Kit and two Fandango Movie Tickets* to see Sonic 3🕶️ 🔹 24 lucky winners will each receive a pair of Fandango Movie Tickets* for Sonic 3. 🎟️ (up to $15 each) To enter for a chance to win: 1️⃣ Go to Instagram 2️⃣ Follow HTC VIVE 3️⃣ Like one of our giveaway posts on Instagram 4⃣ Tag a friend in the comments of the giveaway post. But you gotta go fast. Our giveaway will close on December 30, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Winners will be announced on December 31, 2024. And don’t forget to see the new Sonic the Hedgehog only in theatres December 20! #vivexsonic This giveaway's prizes are only available to participants located in the U.S., must be 18 years or older. No purchase necessary. Multiples entries are prohibited. See link in HTC VIVE Instagram bio for full details. Terms apply. Terms & Conditions apply: *Each Fandango Promotional Code (“Code”) is good towards the purchase of one movie ticket (up to $15 total ticket price and associated fees and charges) to see Sonic the Hedgehog 3 at Fandango partner theaters in the US. Valid only for purchases at or via the Fandango app. Code is void if not redeemed by 1/31/2025 or when Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is no longer in theaters, whichever comes first. Not for resale; void if sold or exchanged. Offer valid for one-time use only. Limit 2 Codes per person. The redemption of the Code is subject to Fandango’s Terms and Policies at All rights reserved. FANDANGO and the Fandango Logo are registered trademarks of Fandango Media, LLC. HTC, VIVE, VIVERSE, VIVEPORT and all other HTC product and service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of HTC Corporation. ©2024 Paramount Pictures and Sega of America, Inc.show more

We’re excited to introduce ShinkaEvolve: An open-source framework that... evolves programs for scientific discovery with unprecedented sample-efficiency. Blog: Code: Like AlphaEvolve and its variants, our framework leverages LLMs to find state-of-the-art solutions to complex problems, but using orders of magnitude fewer resources! Many evolutionary AI systems are powerful but act like brute-force engines, burning thousands of samples to find good solutions. This makes discovery slow and expensive. We took inspiration from the efficiency of nature. ‘Shinka’ (進化) is Japanese for evolution, and we designed our system to be just as resourceful. On the classic circle packing optimization problem, ShinkaEvolve discovered a new state-of-the-art solution using only 150 samples. This is a big leap in efficiency compared to previous methods that required thousands of evaluations. We applied ShinkaEvolve to a diverse set of hard problems with real-world applications: 1/ AIME Math Reasoning: It evolved sophisticated agentic scaffolds that significantly outperform strong baselines, discovering an entire Pareto frontier of solutions trading performance for efficiency. 2/ Competitive Programming: On ALE-Bench (a benchmark for NP-Hard optimization problems), ShinkaEvolve took the best existing agent's solutions and improved them, turning a 5th place solution on one task into a 2nd place leaderboard rank in a competitive programming competition. 3/ LLM Training: We even turned ShinkaEvolve inward to improve LLMs themselves. It tackled the open challenge of designing load balancing losses for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. It discovered a novel loss function that leads to better expert specialization and consistently improves model performance and perplexity. ShinkaEvolve achieves its remarkable sample-efficiency through three key innovations that work together: (1) an adaptive parent sampling strategy to balance exploration and exploitation, (2) novelty-based rejection filtering to avoid redundant work, and (3) a bandit-based LLM ensemble that dynamically picks the best model for the job. By making ShinkaEvolve open-source and highly sample-efficient, our goal is to democratize access to advanced, open-ended discovery tools. Our vision for ShinkaEvolve is to be an easy-to-use companion tool to help scientists and engineers with their daily work. We believe that building more efficient, nature-inspired systems is key to unlocking the future of AI-driven scientific research. We are excited to see what the community builds with it! Learn more in our technical report:show more