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Building a Trading Bot That Could Turn $10K into $102K: xLSTM (DL) + PPO (RL)

Building a Trading Bot That Could Turn $10K into $102K: xLSTM (DL) + PPO (RL)

The architecture behind a gold trading system that uses xLSTM for market state encoding and PPO for decision-making achieving 6.94 Sharpe with 0.98% drawdown.

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Nvidia's $20B Groq Deal: The Inference Wars Just Got Real

Nvidia's $20B Groq Deal: The Inference Wars Just Got Real

Why Nvidia paid 2.9x valuation for a company that claims to be 10x faster than their own GPUs-and what it means for the AI chip market.

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Forge: Lightweight, Fast, and Reliable Local CI/CD

Forge: Lightweight, Fast, and Reliable Local CI/CD

Building Forge, a lightweight local CI/CD tool built with Rust that runs automation pipelines using Docker. Fast, efficient, and no need to push to remote just to test.

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MCP x Cursor PoC: Rogue MCP Servers, IDE Browsers, and Real Defenses

MCP x Cursor PoC: Rogue MCP Servers, IDE Browsers, and Real Defenses

A practitioner’s guide to the Cursor/Windsurf in‑IDE browser takeover class: threat model, safe lab reproduction, generic detections, and an MCP hardening baseline-backed by primary sources.

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Majestic Labs vs. the Memory Wall

Majestic Labs vs. the Memory Wall

Three ex-Google/Meta silicon execs raise $100M to build servers with 1,000× typical memory. Here's why the memory-to-compute ratio might matter more than FLOPs and what a small benchmark on a T4 tells us about the slope.

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