[ad_1] A few weeks ago in October, much of the Ethereum community came together in South America as we reunited for Devcon VI in Bogotá, Colombia! Today we want to say Thank You(!) to every attendee, volunteer, and contributor that made Devcon VI a success. In this blog post, we […]
Monthly Archives: February 2024
[ad_1] The evolution of language models is nothing less than a super-charged industrial revolution. Google lit the spark in 2017 with the development of transformer models, which enable language models to focus on, or attend to, key elements in a passage of text. The next breakthrough — language model pre-training, […]
[ad_1] As previously announced, the Ropsten network has been deprecated and will be shut down in the coming weeks. Over the past few months, infrastructure providers have gradually stopped supporting the network and validator participation rates have been steadily declining. The vast majority of remaining validator nodes will be shut […]
[ad_1] Thomas M. Idzorek, CFA, is the author of “Personalized Multiple Account Portfolio Optimization,” for the Financial Analysts Journal, and co-author of Popularity: A Bridge Between Classical and Behavioral Finance, from the CFA Institute Research Foundation. Like many topics that inspire passion and thoughtful debate, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) […]
[ad_1] The Ethereum Foundation is excited to announce the winners of the Merge Data Challenge 🐼. The challenge ran for ~9 weeks surrounding the Merge, allowing for data analysts to gather and review information both before and after the big event. Participants submitted a treasure trove of data and analysis […]
[ad_1] How many attractive stock ideas does Naomi, an institutional active equity fund manager, have at any one time? “Oh, I think between 10 and 20,” she told me. So, why did her fund hold so many more times that number of stocks? “To round out the portfolio,” she said. […]
[ad_1] Community & education Crowdsourcing Technical Ethereum Content in Taipei Nic Lin Open call for technical papers from Taipei’s Ethereum community. Community & education Crypto Economics Security Conference Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence The Crypto Economics Security Conference (CESC) bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss the most recent […]
[ad_1] Two institutional managers I know — one at a Fortune 500 defined benefit pension fund and another at a municipal pension fund and later an endowment — believe in going all-in on active management. To them, a 100% active allocation is not only okay but desirable. Of course, anyone […]