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Investing in Félix
For the roughly 68 million Latinos living in the United States, sending money to family and friends across Latin America can be a hassle. It can mean standing in line at a storefront and handing cash to an agent who charges a fee up front and then takes another cut through the exchange rate.
Vores børn skal ikke opdrages af en algoritme
- Det er nemt at fortælle en 13-årig, at telefonen skal lægges væk. Det sværere spørgsmål er: Hvad tilbyder vi i stedet, skriver Ali Yahya (SF). Foto: Jeppe Sahlholdt Christensen Noget af det mest afhængighedsskabende i vores hverdag ligger ofte lige foran os – i hånden, på bordet eller i lommen. Mobiltelefonen er blevet en naturlig del af vores hverdag, og for børn og unge er sociale medier, YouTube og andre digitale platforme en selvfølgelig del af livet. Flere lokale nyheder Loading...
Numerical modeling of the hydrodynamic behavior of MgO–water nanofluid in plate-fin heat exchangers under varying operating conditions
Abstract This research examined the ability of an artificial neural network to predict flow behavior, defined by Reynolds number and pressure drop as functions of volume fraction and temperature, at fixed flow rates of 5, 8, and 11 LPM. The proposed framework was developed to address the nonlinear, interrelated thermo-compositional effects that influence flow inertia and pressure losses, without relying on predefined empirical relationships.
Investing in Ornn: A Market for Compute
We are in the middle of what may be the largest capital formation event of our lifetime. The buildout of GPUs, data centers, and power will soon likely rank among the largest industrial mobilizations ever undertaken, with trillions of dollars expected to pour into AI infrastructure over the coming decade. At the center is compute, which has quickly become one of the most important commodities in the world. Yet the market around it remains shockingly immature.
SF-politiker om følsom debat: - Skolerne er selve hjerterne i vores lokalsamfund
- Så bør vi sige direkte til børnefamilierne, at man skal være varsom med at købe hus i en radius af 10 kilometer fra Køge midtby, fordi man aldrig ved, om ens lokale skole står for skud næste gang, skriver Ali Yahya (SF). Foto: Anders Holt Det er godt, at vi tager debatten om vores folkeskoler alvorligt.
Ali Yahya: Crypto infrastructure supports billions of users, regulatory clarity fuels innovation, and privacy emerges as a competitive advantage | Unchained
Key Takeaways The infrastructure for crypto has matured significantly, enabling support for hundreds of millions of users. Regulatory clarity is improving, creating a more favorable environment for crypto growth. Crypto is transitioning from niche origins to mainstream technology. New fintech is increasingly powered by crypto on the back end. Privacy is predicted to be the most important competitive advantage in crypto this year.
a16z Crypto Raises Another $2.2 Billion, Betting on “Real-World Use” of Crypto Amid Market Downturn
Authors: Chris Dixon & Ali Yahya Translated and edited by TechFlow TechFlow Intro: a16z has announced the raising of a $2.2 billion crypto fund—but this time, it’s not betting on market cycles. Instead, it’s betting on “the things people will still use once the noise fades.” Stablecoins continue growing through bear markets; onchain finance is beginning to handle real-world assets; and the regulatory environment is warming.
SF'er om folkeskoleudspil: - Det er et skridt i den rigtige retning
Opret brugerprofil Adgangskode (min. 8 tegn) Markedsføring og kommunikation Jeg accepterer at modtage tilbud og information om Sjællandske Medier A/S' produkter via e-mail. Samtykket kan altid trækkes tilbage via selvbetjeningen, direkte i fremsendte e-mails eller ved at kontakte kundeservice.
17 things we're excited about for crypto in 2026
Editor’s note: a16z released its annual “big ideas” from our partners across the Apps, American Dynamism, Bio, Crypto, Growth, Infra, and Speedrun teams this week. So below are 17 things that various a16z crypto partners (plus a few guest contributors) observe about what’s ahead — on topics ranging from agents and AI; stablecoins, tokenization, and finance; privacy and security; to prediction markets, SNARKs, and other applications… to how we’ll build.
Udvalgsformand: - Lad os trække vejret og passe på vores skoler
Opret brugerprofil Adgangskode (min. 8 tegn) Markedsføring og kommunikation Jeg accepterer at modtage tilbud og information om Sjællandske Medier A/S' produkter via e-mail. Samtykket kan altid trækkes tilbage via selvbetjeningen, direkte i fremsendte e-mails eller ved at kontakte kundeservice.
Inside the Solana story: Near-death brushes and a need for speed (with Solana)
Solana cofounder Anatoly Yakovenko shares the origin and evolution of Solana; what sets the chain’s culture, values, and tech apart; how it has gotten to where it is today (despite several near-death brushes); and much else in conversation with a16z General Partner Ali Yahya.
Justin Kurzel Series ‘The Narrow Road To The Deep North’ Starring Jacob Elordi Among Titles Added To Berlinale Lineup
Aussie filmmaker Justin Kurzel’s series adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, starring Jacob Elordi, will screen at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. The Narrow Road to the Deep North was among several titles added to Berlin’s lineup this morning. The festival describes the series as a “riveting new Australian drama” about a WWII hero haunted by his past. The show will screen as a Berlinale Special Gala.
Bridges: Out of the mess, into the meshnet (with LayerZero)
Blockchain bridges are essential tools for moving cross-chain, but they have a history of succumbing to big hacks. Why? One of the builders who knows this world best helps disentangle the mess. LayerZero Labs CEO and Cofounder Bryan Pellegrino joins a16z crypto General Partner Ali Yahya and show cohost Robert Hackett for a tour of what goes on between chains. Welcome to web3 with a16z. Today we explore the messy secrets of blockchain bridges.
Investing in Tennr
An enduring promise of new technologies is to find ways to increase human productivity. Software and robotics, for example, have always presented immense potential to automate repetitive mundane tasks that humans perform, freeing them up to do more valuable work. In the last few decades, we’ve made meaningful progress toward this goal, and the first generation of robotic process automation created some massive companies, such as UiPath. Yet, we never made it past the most simple tasks.
Investing in Espresso
Ethereum’s scalability end-game is all about rollups—potentially thousands or even millions of rollups, each one a mini-ecosystem or an application that is built on top of Ethereum’s bedrock of security. The ideas behind how this can work were first laid out by Vitalik a few years back in his now-famous rollup-centric roadmap post. Since then, other ecosystem players like zkSync, Optimism, and Polygon have extended that vision with roadmaps for Hyperchains, the Superchain, and Polygon’s AggLayer.
Neutrosophic Sub-Group over t-Norm and t-Co-Norm
1. Introduction In the late 20th century, the concept of neutrosophic sets (NSs) [1] emerged as an extension of classical set theory, fuzzy sets [2], and intuitionistic fuzzy sets [3], offering a means to represent and analyze uncertainties and imprecisions. The pioneering work of Florentin Smarandache laid the groundwork for this theory, fostering a new perspective on mathematical modeling in the presence of indeterminacy.
Numerical Analysis of Gas Hold-Up of Two-Phase Ebullated Bed Reactor
1. Introduction Industries have shown considerable interest in ebullated bed reactors (EBRs), a kind of multi-stage catalytic reactor often used in hydrocracking and hydro-desulfurization of petroleum waste [].
AI x Crypto on Apple Podcasts
with @alive_eth @danboneh @smc90 The convergence of two important, very top-of-mind trends: artificial intelligence & blockchains/ crypto. The conversation covers everything from deep fakes and bots and proof-of-humanity in a world of AI, to big data, LLMs like ChatGPT, user control, governance, privacy and security, zero-knowledge machine learning, MEV, media and generative art, and and much, much more.
AI x crypto - a16z crypto
FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW with @alive_eth @danboneh @smc90 This week’s all-new episode covers the convergence of two important, very top-of-mind trends: AI (artificial intelligence) & blockchains/ crypto. These domains together have major implications for how we all live our lives everyday; so this episode is for anyone just curious about, or already building in the space.
Investing in Sound.xyz
Investing in Sound.xyz Ali YahyaJane Lippencott When social and music platforms started taking off in the 2000s, many musicians saw the huge potential of global distribution networks to showcase their artistic talent and connect with fans. Unfortunately, as they consolidated more power and leverage, the platforms acted more as gatekeepers – ceding little control and extracting large take rates from artists’ revenue.
Investing in Gensyn
Investing in Gensyn Ali YahyaGuy Wuollet The recent advancements in AI are incredible and have the power to save the world. But building AI systems requires ever-larger deployments of computational power for the training and inference of today’s largest and most powerful models. This means big technology companies have an advantage over startups in the race to capture value from AI, thanks to privileged access to computing power and the economies of scale of large data centers.
Investing in Gensyn
The recent advancements in AI are incredible and have the power to save the world. But building AI systems requires ever-larger deployments of computational power for the training and inference of today’s largest and most powerful models. This means big technology companies have an advantage over startups in the race to capture value from AI, thanks to privileged access to computing power and the economies of scale of large data centers.
A Novel Image Classification Method Based on Residual Network, Inception, and Proposed Activation Function
1. Introduction The recent trend to improve the classification accuracy of the neural network is to increase the number and size of layers [1]. Stacking further layers for learning better neural networks and getting higher classification accuracy is a way that always leads to exploding or vanishing gradients. This issue has been extensively addressed in the literature [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17]. In [18], Peng et al.
get used to failure đ©
I have made many mistakes in my career over the past 8 years, most of which were small, some of them were tolerable, and perhaps one was unacceptable, which I still canât seem to clarify. By attempting so many failures in a short period of time, I have become accustomed to them, which has taught me many things. One of the things that consistently emerges is, that you only take a closer look at what you did wrong, and thatâs where you learn.
Investing in Aztec
We believe blockchains are a new computational platform with a breakthrough capability: trustlessness. In the ‘90s, the earliest days of the consumer internet adoption, encryption represented a significant challenge. Many things we take for granted today – like e-commerce, secure accounts, and access control – might not have been adopted if all internet communication was in plaintext. Blockchains are at a similar crossroads. Almost all blockchains today are fully transparent.
What The Merge Means
The Merge – the major Ethereum upgrade that happened early Thursday morning – will go down as one of the most important moments in the history of open source. It’s hard to think of a cooler example of a community of hundreds of developers across many organizations driving years of open-ended research and hard technical development.
Top Tech Topics, Explained on Apple Podcasts
@tim_roughgarden @josephbonneau @skominers with @alive_eth @cdixon A tour though top-of-mind blockchain & crypto tech topics, explained by several a16z crypto researchers, including VDFs (verifiable delay functions); zk-rollups, SNARKs, and zero knowledge in general; and others. We quickly zip up and down the stack, and across themes -- such as scalability; data availability; reputation and the creator economy, also discussing applications for NFTs and more.
Announcing a16z crypto research
The best industrial research labs throughout history have played a critical role in pioneering much of modern technology. Two modern examples of successful research labs — both founded in the wake of radical advances in the field of artificial intelligence — include DeepMind and OpenAI. Both of them have since pushed the field to new heights.
Investing in LayerZero
The past few years have seen a surge in the number of sidechains, rollups, and Layer-1 blockchains which support and scale applications handling billions of dollars worth of value. The multichain future is here, but there are currently limitations. Bridging between chains can be an expensive, uncertain, and unsecure process requiring users to pay for gas on both the original and destination chain.
Andreessen Horowitz
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Investing in Iron Fish
A common complaint about the internet – in both web2 and web3 – is that privacy is an elusive privilege and not viewed as a priority in many cases. In web2, data breaches and outright hacks have plagued social networks and financial services, and users must take proactive measures to avoid tracing and surveillance.
Investing in Nym
Privacy-preserving technologies are essential for the modern world. Much of human information is now stored and exchanged online, and vast swathes of that information are meant to be private. Encryption allows users to keep their data private from applications. Messaging apps like Signal encrypt messages so only the sender and receiver are able to read them. A third party like a company, ISP, or malicious actor can’t decrypt the encrypted content.
Investing in Matter Labs
A persistent problem in web3 today is the issue of scalability: as blockchains like Ethereum add users and experience unpredictable surges in network demand, they increasingly run into the same hitches of slow transaction times, high gas fees, and reverted transactions.
Investing in Alchemy
Because of the success of Bitcoin, most people still believe that blockchains will only ever be useful to build new kinds of currency. The truth, however, is that their usefulness is actually much broader. They’re part of a larger technological trend that we all now call web3. Modern blockchains are fully programmable—like a PC , a smartphone, or a computer in the cloud.
web3 Policy | Andreessen Horowitz
Prioritize the Development of World-class, Decentralized Digital Infrastructure We need an overarching strategy for the development of world-class, decentralized infrastructure solutions, including digital identity, digital property rights, secure financial systems, accessible financial services, individual data sovereignty, privacy architecture, and better cybersecurity.
Investing in Angle
Crypto assets like ETH and BTC have been challenging to use for payments, lending, and a variety of other financial applications in large part because of their price instability. Take lending as an example. Making a loan in ETH carries an additional risk: besides the fact that the loan may not be repaid, the price of ETH could change as the loan becomes due. Stability unlocks many use cases.
Investing in Syndicate
Conceptually, DAOs are simple, but their implications are profound. The team at Syndicate is building the protocols and tools that will enable DAOs to reach their full potential. That’s why today we’re announcing that we’re leading Syndicate’s Series A.
Investing in Helium
From the start, our core thesis has been that blockchains are a new class of computers. The three fundamental components of any computer are computation (your CPU), storage (your hard drive), and networking (your network interface card). Existing smart contract platforms like Ethereum are optimized for computation. There are also blockchains optimized for storing data like Filecoin and Arweave.
Crypto Fund III - Andreessen Horowitz
We believe that the next wave of computing innovation will be driven by crypto. We are radically optimistic about crypto’s potential to restore trust and enable new kinds of governance where communities collectively make important decisions about how networks evolve, what behaviors are permitted, and how economic benefits are distributed. That’s why today we’re pleased to announce a new $2.2 billion fund to continue investing in crypto networks and the founders and teams building in this space.
Andreessen Horowitz Launches $2.2B Crypto Fund
Silicon Valley-based company’s first two funds had raised about $800 million combined Size of fund a ‘harbinger of much larger financing rounds to come,’ CoinShares chief strategy officer says Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has announced a new $2.2 billion fund that will invest in crypto networks and the founders and teams currently building within the digital assets space. The investment offering will be the third of its kind for the Silicon Valley-based firm, also known as a16z.
Investing in Aleo
From the beginning, has been that the best way to think of a blockchain is as a new class of computer that has the ability to run a special kind of program. These programs are called smart contracts, and they’re different from ordinary programs in that they have a life of their own. They are independent, and once written, they obediently execute themselves subject to nobody’s authority. Because of this property, smart contracts are uniquely capable of earning trust.
Crypto, an Oral Essay
This is a special episode of the a16z podcast — it’s an audio history, told through the voices of the a16z crypto team, about what crypto is, how it really works, and why it matters. This “innovation overview” is meant as a resource, and it features hallway-style conversations with the a16z team as well as outside experts. In brief segments, we’ll take you from the ground up — from the basics, to the most current developments, and beyond that to a look at what we might see in the future.
Ali Yahya | Andreessen Horowitz
Today we are excited to announce that we are promoting Ali Yahya to General Partner, focusing with me and Katie on crypto. Ali studied computer science at Stanford with our friends and research partners Dan Boneh and Tim Roughgarden. After Stanford he joined GoogleX, where he worked on cutting-edge robotics. He then moved to Google Brain, Google’s AI Lab, where he was a core developer on TensorFlow, Google’s primary library for machine learning.
16 Minutes on the News #49: U.S. Government Hacked; Scaling Ethereum
We’re back to covering multiple items on our show 16 Minutes — which covers the news, occasional explainers, and teases apart what’s hype/ what’s real — as well as where we are on the long arc of innovation: #1 Hackers spied on U.S. Treasury emails and other federal agencies through malware installed (indirectly via a third-party provider) over a year ago, but the hack was just revealed this weekend and confirmed in a statement from the National Security Council yesterday.
linking academia, business and industry through research
Home Full-text access for editors The role of innovation on Indian retail industry by Amgad S. Khaled; Salma Ahmed; Ali T. Yahya; Najib H.S. Farhan International Journal of Business Innovation and Research (IJBIR), Vol. 23, No. 4, 2020 Abstract: The main objective of this study is to find the impact of technological innovation and marketing innovation on satisfaction, store image and customer loyalty.
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linking academia, business and industry through research
Home Full-text access for editors The relationship between capital structure and firm performance: empirical evidence from Indian service sector by Najib H.S. Farhan; Mosab I. Tabash; Mohammed H. Alsamhi; Ali Thabit Yahya International Journal of Sustainable Economy (IJSE), Vol. 12, No. 2, 2020 Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to empirically investigate the effect of capital structure on firms' performance in Indian service sector.
a16z Podcast: Designing a Culture of Reinvention
Since Netflix started in the late 90s as a DVD-by-mail rental service competing with Blockbuster, it has completely reinvented itself… twice – first, when it went from DVD rental to video streaming platform, and then again when it went from licensing to producing original content. But what does it take to create an organization capable of reinventing itself?
Fintech Scales Vertical SaaS
Today, about 90% of public SaaS companies and the 2019 Forbes Cloud 100 have subscription-based revenue models. Now new fintech infrastructure companies have made it possible for SaaS businesses to add financial services alongside their core software product. By adding fintech, SaaS businesses can increase revenue per customer by 2-5x* and open up new SaaS markets that previously may not have been accessible due to a smaller software market or inefficient customer acquisition.
The Long-Tail Problem in AI, and How Autonomous Markets Can Solve It
In the past decade, our progress in Artificial Intelligence has been staggering. We’ve gone from barely detecting cats in YouTube videos to building cars that can drive themselves. And yet, as our aspirations for AI have become grander, it has slowly become a game that only tech giants can play. The knowledge and resources that are necessary to innovate in the space are now simply out of reach for most individuals and startups. How can we change that?
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