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Julian Lim

Julian Lim is an entrepreneur, technology writer, and a researcher. He started JL Data Analysis after graduating from NUS in Intelligent Systems. Julian writes about technology innovations and entrepreneurship on Business Times, Asia Pacific Magazine and occasionally contributes to Startup Fortune.
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Bitcoin shorts wiped out near $74500 as the market tests its own resolve
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Bitcoin shorts wiped out near $74500 as the market tests its own resolve
Bitcoin is trading around $74,500 on April 20, triggering a significant short squeeze across major derivatives exchanges including Binance, OKX, and Bybit. The move returns BTC to its previous all-time high range, with the halving cycle backdrop and continued institutional accumulation providing structural support. Whether the rally holds now depends on fresh spot demand stepping in after the short-side fuel has been spent.
ChatGPT users are pushing back on a chatbot that lectures more than it listens
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ChatGPT users are pushing back on a chatbot that lectures more than it listens
Users across Reddit and X are increasingly vocal about ChatGPT's habit of adding unsolicited caveats, corrections, and moral qualifications to ordinary requests. The behavior stems from RLHF training dynamics that reward caution at the expense of directness. As competitors position themselves as less paternalistic alternatives, the friction is starting to influence both individual switching behavior and enterprise adoption decisions.
Machine learning research is publishing faster than anyone can read it
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Machine learning research is publishing faster than anyone can read it
ArXiv's machine learning categories now receive between 100 and 200 new paper submissions every day, a pace that is outrunning the research community's ability to absorb its own output. The surge reflects record investment from technology companies, governments, and startups, but has strained peer review and created a booming secondary market in curation tools. For investors and practitioners, navigating the daily flood has become a competitive problem in its own right.
A Chinese robot just ran a half-marathon faster than any human ever has
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A Chinese robot just ran a half-marathon faster than any human ever has
Honor's Lightning humanoid robot won Sunday's Beijing half-marathon in 50 minutes 26 seconds, beating the human world record by more than six minutes. The result is a striking debut for the Chinese consumer tech firm, which only entered the humanoid robotics sector last year. The race drew more than 100 competing robots and thousands of human participants, underscoring how rapidly China's robotics industry is advancing.
A cracked denture at a Portland care home just sent gold futures trading volume soaring 4 percent
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A cracked denture at a Portland care home just sent gold futures trading volume soaring 4 percent
A cracked 1984-era denture at an Oregon care facility revealed 18-karat gold in its core, triggering a viral moment and a 4.1% spike in NYMEX gold futures trading volume. Analysts estimate up to 43,400 troy ounces of unrecovered gold may be distributed across millions of US dental prosthetics from the same era. Legal questions around ownership and the limits of medical waste frameworks are now catching up with the speculation.
Cantor Fitzgerald Pours $10 Million Into Tether-Linked PAC
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Cantor Fitzgerald Pours $10 Million Into Tether-Linked PAC
A Tether-led political action committee backed by $10 million from Cantor Fitzgerald is spending aggressively in Republican primaries, raising questions about the crypto industry's political strategy.
Liz Truss backs Bitcoin as a fix for what she calls the slow erosion of the British pound
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Liz Truss backs Bitcoin as a fix for what she calls the slow erosion of the British pound
Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has publicly backed Bitcoin as a solution to what she calls the debasement of the British pound, joining a growing global movement of right-leaning politicians aligning with cryptocurrency as a hedge against central bank monetary expansion. Her endorsement carries limited direct policy weight but reflects a shifting ideological current that could shape future UK debates around digital assets and monetary reform.
llama.cpp merges speculative checkpointing and local AI inference takes a significant leap forward
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llama.cpp merges speculative checkpointing and local AI inference takes a significant leap forward
llama.cpp merged speculative checkpointing on April 18, delivering up to 40% VRAM reduction and a 15-20% throughput boost on consumer hardware. The update, authored by Georgi Gerganov, makes high-context inference with large models substantially more viable on Apple M-series and NVIDIA RTX hardware. Downstream tools including Ollama and LM Studio are already tracking integration.
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