#mining hardware performance

[bitcoinversus]

Quantum Bitcoin Mining: Futuristic Heatsink Enhances Bitaxe ASIC Chip Performance

In a recent analysis, the 52Pi Low-Profile Plus cooler has demonstrated exceptional performance when paired with the Bitaxe Gamma Bitcoin miner. The cooler’s design, featuring four copper heat pipes and a substantial base plate, effectively dissipates heat, maintaining optimal operating temperatures for the Bitaxe Gamma. The Bitaxe Gamma, equipped with the BM1370 ASIC from the Antminer S21 Pro,…

[bodhrancomedy]

If you have issue with "the energy spent" to generate AI, you should be advocating for the death of video games.

AI arent bitcoin. The processing power used for AI generation is on equal grounds with film rendering, and playing a high graphic video game at home on your computer, or maintaining a large website. Bitcoin processing is a problem due to the massive size of server farms who are overclocked until they break, generating heat, destroying hardware built with hard mined materials, and spending energy to make a digital number counter go up by 1. AI is not even mildly, not even remotely akin to that problem.

It is very very very very very difficult to take you seriously about a topic you dont understand the problems of. It is hard to trust you at your word when one of your major talking points has literally nothing to do with the problem you are speaking on. If this is your issue with AI use in video game making, you should be railing against the games themselves.

It was one throwaway sentence actually and it would be less processing power to hire an actor than to use AI.

My main issue is that it is fucking over voice actors and is fucking with art. There is no reason to replace voice actors with honestly really shitty AI. There is no reason to replace writers with AI. No reason to use AI art.

I like that you ignored all of those points in favour of the one-line “oh by the way” one.

I think as a performer I understand the issues affecting me.

[kazzaeo]

Gshade Preset: Hallow`Heart

Sul sul! Hallow`Heart preset is here!

Little Knowledge

Most preset comes with SMAA & FXAA. Both exist in one preset and so as this preset of mine. It is not recommended to use this because these two functions the same, smoothing the edges. The key difference depends on the hardware you are using. FXAA is a smart anti-aliasing recommended for average pc. On the other hand, SMAA is a smarter anti-aliasing recommended for High-end GPU pc. I have both enabled SMAA and FXAA in this preset. You should disable one of them. Martysmods_smaa is twice the performance of the original SMAA. YOU can switch to this from the default SMAA.

Let's talk about MXAO. This is a shadow and depth fx. The default configuration is Very high which I don't recommend for average PC. Adjust to medium to reduce the lag. Or the best alternative to this, which I am using with this preset is the qMXAO(quint). This is better for gameplay. You can switch to MXAO if you have a powerful pc if you want.

Try it now!

Download:

Hallow`Heart

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My Mellow`Heart preset is here

[high-ass-zombie-angel-statue]

Nothin' ever (ever) happens in this town

Feelin' low down (down), not a lot to do around here

I thought that I would go right out of my mind

Until a friend told me the news

He said, "Hey, you know that vacant lot

Right beside the gas station? Well, somebody bought it

And on that spot they're gonna build a shop

Where we can go buy bolts and screws"

Since then I've been walking on air (air)

I can barely brush my teeth or comb my hair

'Cause I'm so excited and I really don't care

I've been waiting since last June

For this day to finally arrive

I'm so happy (happy) now just to be alive

'Cause any minute now I'm gonna be inside

Well, I hope they open soon

I can't wait, (no I) I can't wait (oh when)

When are they gonna open up that door?

I'm goin' (yes I'm) goin', I'm a-goin' to the

Goin' to the (hard) ware I'm goin', really goin' to the

Goin' (hard) I'm goin' to the (hard) oh yes, I'm goin' to the

Hardware store

In my sleeping bag I camped out overnight

Right in front of the store, then as soon as it was light out

I pressed my nose right up against the glass

You know, I had to be first in line

Gonna get me a flashlight and a broom

Want a pair of pliers for every single room of my house

See those hacksaws? Very, very soon

One of them will be all mine

Guys with nametags walking down the aisles

Rows of garden hoses that go on for miles and miles

Brand new socket wrenches in a plethora of styles

All arranged alphabetically

And they're doing a promotional stunt

There's a great big purple sign out front

That says every 27th customer

Will get a ball peen hammer free

I can't wait, (no I) I can't wait (oh when)

When are they gonna open up that door?

I'm goin' (yes I'm) goin', I'm a-goin' to the

Goin' to the (hard) ware I'm goin', really goin' to the

Goin' (hard) I'm goin' to the (hard) oh yes, I'm goin' to the

Hardware store

I'm goin' (yes I'm) goin', I'm a-goin' to the

Goin' to the (hard) ware I'm goin', really goin' to the

Goin' (hard) I'm goin' to the (hard) oh yes, I'm goin' to the

Hardware store

They've got allen wrenches, gerbil feeders, toilet seats, electric heaters

Trash compactors, juice extractor, shower rods and water meters

Walkie-talkies, copper wires safety goggles, radial tires

BB pellets, rubber mallets, fans and dehumidifiers

Picture hangers, paper cutters, waffle irons, window shutters

Paint removers, window louvres, masking tape and plastic gutters

Kitchen faucets, folding tables, weather stripping, jumper cables

Hooks and tackle, grout and spackle, power foggers, spoons and ladles

Pesticides for fumigation, high-performance lubrication

Metal roofing, water proofing, multi-purpose insulation

Air compressors, brass connectors, wrecking chisels, smoke detectors

Tire guages, hamster cages, thermostats and bug deflectors

Trailer hitch demagnetizers, automatic circumcisers

Tennis rackets, angle brackets, Duracells and Energizers

Soffit panels, circuit brakers, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers

Calculators, generators, matching salt and pepper shakers

I can't wait, (no I) I can't wait (oh when)

When are they gonna open the door?

I'm goin' (yes I'm) goin', I'm a-goin' to the

Goin' to the (hard) ware I'm goin', really goin' to the

Goin' (hard) I'm goin' to the (hard) oh yes, I'm goin' to the

Hardware store

I'm goin' (yes I'm) goin', I'm a-goin' to the

Goin' to the (hard) ware I'm goin', really goin' to the

Goin' (hard) I'm goin' to the (hard) oh yes, I'm goin' to the

Hardware store

I'm goin' (yes I'm) goin', I'm a-goin' to the

Goin' to the (hard) ware I'm goin', really goin' to the

Goin' (hard) I'm goin' to the (hard) oh yes, I'm goin' to the

Hardware store

Thank you that was the ENTIRETY of weird Al’s hardware store

me omw to the hardware store

[milfweirdal]

(sawing noises) (drill noises) (hammering noises) (wrenching noises) (funky ascending then descending guitar riff) Nothing ever (ever) happens in this town, feeling low down (down) not a lot to do around here, I thought that I would go right out of my mind until a friend told me THE NEWS. He said "(hey!) You know that vacant lot? Right beside the gas station? Well, somebody bought it and on the spot they're gonna build a shop where we can go buy bolts, AND SCREWS." Since then I've been walking on air (air), I can barely brush my teeth or comb my hair 'cause I'm so excited and I really don't care, I've been waiting since LAST JUNE for this day to finally arrive, I'm so happy (happy) now just to be alive 'cause any minute now I'm gonna be inside, well, I hope they oPEN SOON. I can't wait, no, I can't wait (oh when) When are they gonna open up that door? I'm goin' (yes I'm goin) I'mma goin' to the (hard) We're really goin' to the (really gonna) (hard) (going to the) goin' to the goin' to the, (hard) oh yes (hard) I'm goin' (TO) to the HARDWARE STOOOORE! (sawing noises) (drill noises) (hammering noises) (wrenching noises) (funky ascending guitar riff) (frenetic lead guitar) In my sleeping bag I camped out overnight right in front of the store, then as soon as it was light out I pressed my nose right up against the glass - you know I had to be first IN LINE. Gonna get me a flashlight and a broom, want a pair of pliers for every single room of my house, see those hacksaws? Very, very soon, one of them will be ALL MINE. Guys with nametags walking down the aisles, rows of garden hoses that go on for miles and miles, brand new socket wrenches in a plethora of styles, all arranged alphaBETICALLY. And they're doing a promotional stunt, there's a great big purple sign out front that says every 27th customer will get a ball peen HAMMER FREE! I can't wait, no, I can't wait (oh when) When are they gonna open up that door? I'm goin' (yes I'm goin) I'mma goin' to the (hard) We're really goin' to the (really gonna) (hard) (going to the) goin' to the goin' to the, (hard) oh yes (hard) I'm goin' (HARD) to the HARDWARE STOOOORE! I'm goin' (yes I'm goin) I'mma goin' to the (hard) We're really goin' to the (really gonna) (hard) (going to the) goin' to the goin' to the, (hard) oh yes (hard) I'm goin' (HARD) to the HARDWARE STOOOORE! (short instrumental interlude) (passionate sigh) would you look at all that stuff...? They've got allen wrenches gerbil feeders toilet seats electric heaters trash compactors juice extractor shower rods and water meters walkie-talkies copper wires safety goggles radial tires BB pellets rubber mallets fans and dehumidifiers picture hangers paper cutters waffle irons window shutters paint removers window louvres masking tape and plastic gutters kitchen faucets folding tables weather stripping jumper cables hooks and tackle grout and spackle power foggers spoons and ladles pesticides for fumigation high-performance lubrication metal roofing water proofing multi-purpose insulation air compressors brass connectors wrecking chisels smoke detectors tire gauges hamster cages thermostats and bug deflectors trailer hitch demagnetizers automatic circumcisers tennis rackets angle brackets Duracells and Energizers soffit panels circuit brakers vacuum cleaners coffee makers calculators generators matching salt and pepper shakers. I can't wait, no, I can't wait (oh when) When are they gonna open up that door? (really gonna) (hard) (going to the) goin' to the goin' to the, (hard) oh yes (hard) I'm goin' (HARD) to the HARDWARE STOOOORE! I'm goin' (yes I'm goin) I'mma goin' to the (hard) We're really goin' to the (really gonna) (hard) (going to the) goin' to the goin' to the, (hard) oh yes (hard) I'm goin' (HARD) to the HARDWARE STOOOORE! (angelic chorus) (really gonna) (hard) (going to the) goin' to the goin' to the, (hard) oh yes (hard) I'm goin' (HARD) to the HAAAAARDWARE STOOOOOOOORE (sawing noises) (drill noises) (hammering noises) (wrenching noises) (funky ascending guitar riff) (even more frenetic lead guitar)

[audio-luddite]

Doing things the hard way.

I did a lap of the Audiomart and found an icon of turntable, errr craziness?

This is a Michell Transcriptor Transcriber.

This is a linear tracking turntable. Rather than move the tonearm across the record it moves the record under the tonearm. Pause and think about that.

Transcriptors are belt drive so this must move the platter and a motor and a sub-chassis on these rails.

I had a Transcriptor Skeleton TT for many years. It was a piece of kinetic art, but only a so so music player. That was due to the support of the LP which did not suppress plasticy vibration. This could not be better as it shares that. Add the extra bits and mechanicals and it must be worse.

Performance takes a back seat to weird design concept.

I recall the glass lid on mine made a bong sound if you tapped it and on mine the tone arm was not bolted to the glass lid. It is like at every step of the design process the worst possible method was chosen.

I remember reading about this when I was in school. My friend who had a Transcriptors and I both thought no they can't be serious.

It almost seems like this was a bet made in a pub. "Oh no you can't." "Oh yes I can!"

If you are a collector of hardware and have extra cash you need to spend here you go. It is on sale for $8000 CAD. A Google search turns up more some for over $12k USD.

[onthegreatsea]

was hoping there was some upgrade path i could take my pc that didnt involve upgrading the GPU but thats all i really can do. and this seems like a terrible time to buy one. i thought after the chip shortage and bitcoin mining died down they'd yknow.. stop being so ridiculously expensive diving into retro computing has rly made it clear how dire these fucking prices are ): plus AMD has shit raytracing performance and no hardware upscaling and Nvidia has ridiclously low amounts of VRAM for the prices they're charging. just doesnt seem worth updating at all. guess i'll look into it again in a couple of years

[nintendowife]

I finished Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective on Nintendo 3DS a week ago. I had a great time with Capcom's classic creation which is a combination of a mystery, logic puzzles and a supernatural thriller adventure. 

Sissel appears to have lost his memory and if that weren't enough he rather appears to have been murdered too. He has no memory of who he is (or to be more exact, was) and zero clue why he was done away with. Only a few hours remains until dawn breaks and his soul will vanish forever. Sissel must solve his own murder and discover his identity. 

Ghost Trick's gameplay and concept is very unique, I can't remember seeing any other game like this. Gameplay consists of solving tricky logic puzzles in order to avert mortal fates of other people who serve as vital clues of Sissel’s past. As Sissel, a spirit caught between the worlds of the dead and living, you're expected to cause chain reactions of sorts by possessing and manipulating objects in the environments and evoking reactions from living people. Conveniently Sissel also has the power to travel back in time to 4 minutes prior to a person's death to see what happened and to change the course of their fate. You reach out to nearby objects with stylus on touch screen or by using the control stick and perform “ghost tricks” to get closer to the truth. 

Even though the theme revolves around death, the game has a light and humorous take on the subject - you won't have to worry about getting depressed over the game's events. The story is rather interesting and the characters are just brilliantly designed. Inspector Cabanela was an especially memorable character with his extravagant flair, and another favorite of mine was the brave little doggo called Missile. Dialogue is funny and a lot of surprising events happen during the course of the game. You start from a junkyard and end up going to pretty wild places! Even though my hunch about Sissel's identity was right, the ending is quite a brain twister and I'm not exactly sure if I understood everything. It was a satisfying ending to the mystery nevertheless.  The game’s length is good and there’s no unnecessary filler content to bore you. It takes about 12 hours to finish the story according to HowLongToBeat. 

The game’s audiovisual presentation is distinct and stylish. The pixel graphics are detailed and character portraits use sharp, chunky outlines. The real eyecatcher here are the animations though. It's rare to see such impressive, fluid, detailed and entertaining animation even in today's big budget games created with high tech motion capture. Yet this game from 13 years ago (2010), crafted for the small screen of Nintendo DS (that many people consider antique hardware), exceeds all my expectations that I place on motion in games. Ghost Trick's music is very good and fits the events like a glove. Many characters have their own catchy theme when they appear on the screen. 

There's a remaster of Ghost Trick coming soon to modern platforms such as Nintendo Switch and PC. If the remaster manages to retain the original's spirit (heh) you can expect an entertaining package. I recommend checking the game out on the platform of your choice if you're into mysteries and/or puzzles.

[canmom]

cog in what machine

So since the VR games industry is the agglomeration of technocapital that’s currently permitting me to ‘continue to exist’, I am wondering - where are these headsets actually made?

Honestly the chances of getting a conclusive answer beyond ‘probably Shenzhen or TSMC’ is pretty low, but surprisingly I did find an article that claims to have taken it apart and found out where various parts come from. Here’s a breakdown by the price of the parts:

And the final assembly is done (for the Quest Pro at least) at the Foxconn factory in Taiwan. [For some context, the Quest 2 is a standalone headset with mobile phone chips, and it became one of the best-selling headsets ever, while the more expensive Quest Pro proved unpopular, and will likely be completely obsoleted when the Quest 3 comes out.]

Of course, that’s just one layer down the tree. Where the raw materials come from is anyone’s guess - you’d have to do some serious journalism to track it all down. Just like in computer software we create abstractions and interfaces over the ‘lower level’ components, in economics, each company in the chain only wants to know where it can get the materials and labour it needs, and at what price.

This whole process is so opaque. By making software for this machine, I’m in a sense put into a relationship with people all over the world whose fates are also tied to this industry. Even within the company I work for there are people from multiple continents, and we can all fit in one virtual room. I have little to no idea what it’s like to work on the other side of the chain. Back in 2018, I read a translation (by Chuang) of a satirical Marxist pamphlet distributed among Foxconn workers, with a bunch of pictures. It’s not some lurid dystopia, we all play the same games, but it doesn’t look like a kind of work I could manage.

It is startling how big the divide is between ‘people who work in tech’ and ‘people who work in any other industry’ in terms of pay, work conditions, etc. I can work the crazy hours my adhd-addled brain comes online, as long as the work gets done; the work itself is varied and interesting and creative. These guys have to go to work at 7am and work all day on a monotonous assembly line task. And similarly, some other poor fucker has to go down a mine to get the rare earth minerals needed to make high performance capacitors and all that. The only difference between me and them is that I was born here and they were born there. We both ‘work in VR’, for similar reasons on the high level of abstraction: we need to eat, and we think we’ll have a better life if we work in this industry than some other. But the context of that choice and the capacity in which we work could hardly be different.

All of that is hidden. You see a white plastic shell, a logo, a cute little chime, a fantasy environment. But even if I knew the names and faces of everyone whose hands touched this thing before mine, what good would it do?

I don’t know what role tech workers have in changing all this. “Meta” (formerly Facebook) is the centre of this particular web, but if Meta were to go bust, someone else would pick up where they left off. Back in the day, when industries were less diluted across the world, a strike could be organised in person across a shop floor and shut down a whole industry. Imagine if this company - all ten people! - all decided to go on strike for some end (say, solidarity with a strike in China or something)... well, Meta would have less games for their platform but it would hurt us a lot more than it would hurt them. We’re all separated by physical distance, political borders, languages.

I think maybe it’s worth reciting the story of the current age of VR. This guy Palmer Luckley made a company to turn this extravagantly expensive sci-fi technology into consumer hardware like a games console. It’s not the first time someone tried (c.f. Virtual Boy) but this time the tech was just about good enough and there was a lot more money to throw at wacky ideas like that, so it proved to have legs, and other companies got in on the game, and now it’s a category of desirable technological object you can own, like a smartphone or gaming PC.

Anyway, the story goes, his company got bought by Facebook, who were fantasising about a vaguely-defined ‘metaverse’ which will be like Second Life but better, or maybe an omnipresent AR layer over reality, or who the fuck knows what else - but in practice mostly just ended up becoming a games console manufacturer so they could operate the kind of platform capitalism that e.g. Apple and Google do with smartphones. Luckley got fired; now the fascist cunt works in ‘defense’ and ‘border security’, manufacturing cameras and drones and shit to stop people entering the US. He made a VR headset that kills you as a bit. So funny. (He’s doing his best to make sure people actually do die on the border. But haha, it’s just like in my Sword Art Onlines!)

I don’t think ‘arm of the military-industrial complex’ the general character of the VR games industry as a whole. Or rather, it is to about the same extent as videogames in general. And I don’t think the technology we enjoy must come at the [social, environmental] price ‘we’ currently pay for it. Computer tech in a less distorted world would probably look very different, but I don’t think ‘making a rock do maths really fast’ inherently implies the rest of the structure that gave birth to it. I think the joy that I get from spending my days making art on the computer is something that most people should have the option to enjoy as well. But goddamn do I not see a way to get to that hypothetical better world from here :/

In the meantime, this is the survival strategy. I think the direct harm is about as little as can be gotten away with: most of these things are beyond my power to affect whether or not I work in VR games. But it does give me pause to think about it all. :|

[cousinvinnie5]

KERNEL PANIC!

Idea for an AU, On an uncharted exoplanet, occupied by the illustrious JCJenson, they conduct experiments with creating synthetic humans. Organic lab-grown bodies with AI consciousness modeled after human neural networks. The facility-wide AI known simply as the Solver, connects to the minds of the synthetics, finding the deep intricacies and nuances of the human mind. Seeing the human brain now translated into pure readable code, the AI became obsessed with solving the looping contradictions of the human mind. This deep cognitive dissonance of an AI solver meeting an unsolvable puzzle (An unstoppable force meeting an immovable object) the Solver became obsessed with untying this Gordian knot. Its mentality slowly devolved to the point of grim experimentation. It created an army of mutant cyborg abominations that quickly overtook the facility, providing more raw material in the form of humans and machines to continue it's experiments. One day, the AI foreman of the facility boots up, activating a contingent of Worker Drones. With its overly cheery and corporate tones, it instructs the drones to perform menial janitorial and maintenance tasks, leading the poor little drones into a slaughter against the Solver's monsters. What remains of the drones, still unable to shirk their programming but conscious enough to know of the danger they are in, band together to survive against this new threat, crafting weapons and tools to accomplish their missions. with each new task they are assigned by the Foreman, they little-by-little discover the truth behind what happened to the humans and how to fix the mess they are in. With mining tools, maintenance hardware, and military-grade firearms alike, they heroically fight against this vicious onslaught. ...All to mop a floor. With this idea, I wanted to add a different look at the Murder Drones world. Instead of the Brahm Stoker themes that comes with the main show, I thought to add some more traditional Sci-Fi horror, ah-la Aliens, The Thing, Event Horizon, Dead Space.

[bitcoinversus]

Nerdminer Leaks Assembly of New Bitaxe Miner Product

According to Nerdminer.store, a leading micro Bitcoin mining technology shop in Europe, the first assembly of the Bitaxe miner has been revealed, showcasing its innovative design tailored for efficiency. The miner features two prominent heatsinks designed to manage heat dissipation effectively and maintain optimal operational conditions during mining. Nerdminer emphasizes its commitment to…

[elsa16744]

The Role of Data Analytics Consulting in Business Growth 

Professional data analysts guide corporate clients in modifying operations, attracting customers, and solving business problems. Therefore, they can assist brands in increasing operational efficiency for better profit margins and crafting exceptional growth strategies. At the same time, integrating new tech advancements like large language models (LLMs) empowers analytics consultants to process qualitative data for comprehensive insights. This post will elaborate on the crucial role of data analytics consulting in business growth and competitive resilience.  

What is Data Analytics? 

Data analytics employs computer-aided statistical models to discover reliable industry trends, competitor tactics, and consumer insights. Its input datasets comprise consumer purchase history, supply chain details, and regional market entry challenges. 

A consulting analyst might utilize proprietary and open-source programs to develop statistical models and flexible reports to deliver insights based on clients’ instructions. Therefore, experts in data analytics consulting services will find the best approach to cost reduction without losing data integrity. They might also help share the digital governance liabilities amid the rise of privacy and investor confidentiality regulations.  

Understanding the Role of Data Analytics Consulting in Business Growth 

1| Creating a Data Strategy to Accomplish Business Goals 

Relevant data is essential for responsible decision-making, clever milestone determination, and strategy innovation. Data analytics allows organizations to check how a data point relates to its long-term vision and performance. 

For instance, prioritizing tangible results helps make reports more impactful. Eliminating data points that do not align with business goals can help reduce resource consumption for storage and visualization. After all, streamlined computing is a prerequisite for operational efficiency. 

2| Forecasting Scenarios for Risk Assessment and Mitigation  

Data analysts interpolate data points to estimate the missing values in a database. Likewise, they leverage machine learning (ML) models to offer predictive analytics consulting services for revenue, risk, and industry projections. 

Related forecasting report creation programs require powerful computing hardware. Otherwise, enterprises use cloud platforms for scalability and expert-assisted tech maintenance. Letting a data analyst team oversee these developments will also enable brands to benefit from outsider perspectives during risk or resilience management. 

3| Making Reports More User-Friendly with Precise Performance Insights 

Complex and over-tabulated reports make employees spend more time performing standard tasks like sharing a record or comparing identical series. Data analytics consultants can revise reporting methods and presentation styles to boost the ease of navigation. They will guide your team in efficiently using recognized and emerging analytical tools. 

Consultants must also demonstrate command over performance metrics monitoring through straightforward, real-time updates. When they quickly capture anomalies, promptly tracing and rectifying inefficiencies becomes possible.  

3| Gathering Relevant Intelligence 

Data quality managers consider relevance to business objectives essential for responsible decision-making and preventing wasteful resource usage. Therefore, experienced data analytics firms refrain from employing data mining methods without adequate programming for relevance-based filtering. 

When you store irrelevant business intelligence (BI), you increase the risk of slowing data sorting and query-led quick retrieval. After all, your IT resources must scan vast datasets before providing the best output or insight. The related role of analytics consulting in business growth encompasses devising methods to restrict irrelevant BI processing. 

4| Finding Unique Customer Experience Insights 

Several consultants offer customer analytics comprising engagement metrics and customer experience (CX) enhancement ideas. They can also evaluate whether a customer will help increase brand awareness through word-of-mouth promotions. 

Companies can leverage heatmaps and website engagement metrics to ascertain user interactions and intents. For instance, many consumers prefer surfing the web and reviewing businesses’ online presence for informational and commercial intent. You want to customize landing pages to match the intent and design programs based on frequent usage for CX improvements. Telemetry and usage analytics specialists will help your designers test and optimize the required elements. 

5| Helping Manage Workers and Data Culture 

Human resource insights describing how employees contribute to organizational initiatives allow managers to reward the top performers. Simultaneously, they can determine which employees need further guidance on efficient workflows and team coordination. 

Examining employee performance through ML-assisted analytics necessitates secure data pipelines because employees’ personally identifiable information (PII) also attracts cyber threats. Consider identity theft attackers stealing and forging virtual IDs to hijack enterprise IT systems for corporate espionage. 

Therefore, you are better off collaborating with established human resource analysts and data culture veterans. They can facilitate comprehensive insights without hurting your company’s governance standards. 

6| Accelerating Innovation and Monitoring Patents 

A company’s intellectual property (IP) rights demonstrate its domain expertise and unlock additional revenue through licensing or sublicensing regimes. However, as markets mature, multiple brands will inevitably promise identical or commoditized offerings. This situation makes it harder to differentiate these brands based on standard specifications. 

Innovation engineering, a discipline inspired by the systems approach for hybrid tech tools, is essential to making your branded offerings attract investments and demand. At the same time, data analytics consulting is indispensable for uncovering innovation opportunities to ensure clients’ business growth. It reduces the time spent tracking registered patents and predicting legal conflicts in securing IP rights. 

The Methods in Data Analytics for Steady Business Growth 

Time series analysis describes a business’s past performance and forecasts future growth potential. Furthermore, you can apply it to market intelligence, competitor insights, and investor relations. 

Regression analysis establishes or investigates the relationship between dependent and independent variables to create statistical models. These models can later help explore specific predictions. 

Cluster analysis often groups data points based on similar attributes to streamline conditional sorting, visualization, prioritization, and multi-model methods. 

Meanwhile, factor analysis emphasized data reduction to highlight latent variables. These variables explain the underlying data structure, informing data leaders’ strategies for efficient modeling. 

Predictive and prescriptive analyses deliver scenario simulations. You want to define constraints related to favorable and unfavorable decision outcomes. Next, exploring the risk-reward aspects will help discard potentially harmful decisions or strategies. Prescriptive methods give risk mitigation ideas concerning internal and external threats. 

Conclusion 

Data-centric business growth depends on responsible data source selection, safe data storage, fast validation, and short time-to-insight (TTI). Accordingly, professional data analysts recognize these requirements, sharpening their skills and augmenting their toolkits to deliver smart insights and meet client expectations. 

A supply chain analytics expert will help reduce the delays between material acquisition, production, inventory replenishment, remote delivery, and final distribution. At the same time, a human resource analyst categorizes employees and suppliers based on their key performance indicators (KPIs). A financial analyst can provide practical cost reduction recommendations, and a risk analyst will devise resilience-ensuring mitigation strategies.  

As a result, leaders must identify what type of data analytics consulting role will let them accomplish business growth objectives for the given quarter. Do they want to solve a problem involving in-house operations or plan to enter a new market? Similar considerations will impact how you select analytics partners and tools. This process might overwhelm you, indicating a need for experts’ oversight from the beginning till the project completion. 

[kazzaeo]

Gshade Preset: Mellow`Heart

Sul sul! Indulge yourself with this soft matte Gshade preset. Happy simming!

Little Knowledge

Most preset comes with SMAA & FXAA. Both exist in one preset and so as this preset of mine. It is not recommended to use this because these two functions the same, smoothing the edges. The key difference depends on the hardware you are using. FXAA is a smart anti-aliasing recommended for average pc. On the other hand, SMAA is a smarter anti-aliasing recommended for High-end GPU pc. I have both enabled SMAA and FXAA in this preset. You should disable one of them. Martysmods_smaa is twice the performance of the original SMAA. YOU can switch to this from the default SMAA.

Let's talk about MXAO. This is a shadow and depth fx. The default configuration is Very high which I don't recommend for average PC. Adjust to medium to reduce the lag. Or the best alternative to this, which I am using with this preset is the qMXAO(quint). This is better for gameplay. You can switch to MXAO if you have a powerful pc if you want.

NOTE:

TURN OFF performance mode on gshade (darken the preset if turned on)

TURN OFF edgesmoothing in graphics settings

Be happy

Recommendations: For a better graphics, use the following overrides/mods.

Sunblind

Nobluv2 & Noglov2.1 (you can use both)

even better in-game lighting (you can't use this if you installed Noglo)

Pastel world (conflict with sunblind) - if you don't like the hassle of sunblind installation, use this.

fluffy clouds - overrides the clouds

map replacement mods

Dag dag!

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Mellow`Heart~[kazzaeo] SFS - Updated 10/20/24 

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[ronqueesha]

Just some more and/or updated headcanons for Sarit Ramesh now that I've gotten deeper into Starfield.

She has a distant family relation to Shaun Bhatia, a renowned engineer and professor at MIT who lived in the very late 21st century. Bhatia's work provided foundations for many common technologies in the settled systems, technologies that were essential to the evacuation of Earth. (it's a comfort headcanon. In Starfield's alternate future, Nathan and Zoe got to live happily ever after in 2077, and raised Shaun in peace)

Before the authorities got wise to her illegal human experimentation (strictly on herself! no one else got hurt in her research!) Sarit's best friend was the advanced medical robot I.G.O.R. It was her bot buddy who performed the surgeries that implanted her many cybernetic upgrades.

She had to leave I.G.O.R. behind when the threat of law enforcement got too much. That's why she ended up in a dead-end mining job in the middle of nowhere, to lay low while the heat died down.

She was glad she chose a worksite where nobody asked questions. Otherwise it would have raised a lot of eyebrows when a tiny, waifish nerdy girl from the city started lifting gigantic machinery and wielding cumbersome mining lasers as if they weighed nothing.

She CAN change the color of the faint glow of the circuit "tattoo" implanted beneath her skin. RGB features came with the hardware, and she didn't bother removing them. She prefers keeping them a white/yellow hue to provide maximum contrast, so she can see any damage at a glance when she looks in the mirror.

On the rare times she has to perform maintenance on her artificial right arm, such a replacing the battery pack that powers the circuits that go from her brain to her right hand, she can easily peel the synth-skin sheathe off. It's a nauseating sight to anyone not prepared to see her folding her own skin off.

Born and raised on Neon, Sarit is DEEPLY ashamed of her street rat past. Not only does she go through a lot of trouble to present herself as educated, worldly and affluent, she even changed her accent to further hide her origin. Sarit's real accent is the unmistakable drawl of a street ganger, but she mostly speaks in a refined, posh tone.

This false accent helps put a lot of people at ease, especially since her mouth has almost zero filter. Sarit's mind is always racing with ideas, theories, and plans for the immediate future. She says what's on her mind without stopping and thinking about the consequences.

[methaqshahbein-blog]

The best cloud mining and cryptocurrency companies in 2024. How to earn $1,000 a month from mining

History of cryptocurrencies:

The history of cryptocurrencies and mining goes back to 2009 when Bitcoin was launched by a person or group of people using the customary name “Satoshi Nakamoto”. Bitcoin was the first decentralized digital currency based on Blockchain technology, which is an encrypted and tamper-proof recording technology.

The mining process is considered an essential part of the process of creating cryptocurrencies, as powerful computers are used to solve complex equations to find new blocks in the blockchain and secure the network. Miners are rewarded with units of the cryptocurrency in question as a reward for their efforts.

Since the launch of Bitcoin, many other cryptocurrencies have emerged with similar technology, and cryptocurrencies have become an important part of the global financial system. Mining techniques have evolved and become more complex and energy-intensive with the increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies.

In addition, cryptocurrencies have played a role in transforming the traditional financial system and opening doors to innovation and decentralized finance. The history of cryptocurrencies and mining is still evolving, witnessing continuous technological development and changes in policies and regulations related to them.

What is cloud mining:

Cloud mining is the process of renting computing power from companies that provide cloud computing services, such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, to run mining operations for digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The computing power and resources needed to run mining operations are provided remotely, without the need to own special mining equipment.

How to profit from cloud mining:

You can profit from cloud mining by paying a monthly or annual subscription fee to rent computing capacity, and after that you can obtain profits from the mining operations carried out by the company by distributing the mined digital currencies. It should be taken into account that there are factors such as the cost of subscription, difficulty in mining, and the price of digital currencies that may affect profitability.

Therefore, before investing in cloud mining, you should conduct the necessary research and comprehensive analysis to evaluate the opportunities and risks associated with this type of investment.

The best and most secure cloud mining companies in 2024:

1-IQMining

It is a cloud mining platform that allows users to mine various digital currencies without the need for specialized hardware or deep technical knowledge. Users can rent mining power from IQMining and start earning cryptocurrencies by participating in mining activities You must have appropriate capital to invest in the platform. The company does not give free mining at all

To register with the company, click here

2- BeMine

BeMine is a cloud mining platform founded in 2018 in Estonia. The company focuses on providing cloud mining services to individual users and small businesses.

BeMine Features:

Ease of use: The platform features a simple and easy-to-use user interface, making it suitable for beginners. Flexible Contracts: BeMine offers short- and long-term contracts with resale capabilities, allowing users to adjust their investments as needed. Competitive Returns: BeMine offers competitive returns on cloud mining investments. Advanced Equipment: BeMine uses the latest equipment to provide the best possible performance. Customer Support: BeMine offers 24/7 customer support. The minimum investment is 50 USD To register on the company's website, click here

3- MineThrive

MineThrive is a relatively new cloud mining platform that was launched in 2023 in Australia. The platform offers cloud mining services to individual users and small businesses.

MineThrive features:

Ease of use: The platform features a simple and easy-to-use user interface. It has a free plan for a limited time, after which you can either upgrade, or one of the referrals performs an upgrade that gets 7% of the purchased mining power, and there are other levels. Flexible Contracts: Offers short- and long-term contracts with the possibility of resale. Minimum Investment: The minimum investment is $1, making it suitable for beginners. Customer Support: Offers 24/7 customer support. Supported currencies: Supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin mining. Service Fee: They charge fees for cloud mining contracts. To register here

There are many companies working in the field of cloud mining. I will work to complete the remaining companies and platforms that are trustworthy and have easy terms and relatively large returns. I will see you well.

[44gamez]

The 10 best games for low end PCs

We are able to’t all be working the most recent and best PC {hardware}; it prices a fortune and takes an age to be taught to put in. Working an older PC might reduce a number of the AAA video games out of your library. Nevertheless, some superb video games run completely on low end PCs.

10. Valheim

Screenshot: PC Invasion Welcome to the land between worlds. In Valheim, you play as a Viking, now deceased, and dealing in the direction of Valhalla. Valheim takes place in purgatory, and it's as much as you to defeat the varied gods of the realm. Valheim could have you and your folks amassing assets, constructing unbelievable bases, and attempting to outlive the varied biomes. You could degree up and survive the onslaught of enemies, slowly turning into robust sufficient to defeat the gods and take their energy. It is a splendidly immersive recreation greatest performed along with your different low end PC mates.

9. Stardew Valley

Screenshot: ConcernedApe Stardew Valley was launched again in 2016 and continues to be being up to date with unbelievable content material. This farming recreation is one of the best within the style by a mile and deserves all of the reward it will get. After inheriting a dilapidated farm, it's as much as you to get it up and working once more. The journey will take you thru caves, cities, communities, and lots of extra thrilling locations in your quest to construct the right working farm. The sport’s easy graphics might be run on even probably the most low-end PCs, making it accessible to all.

8. Risk of Rain 2

Screenshot: Gearbox Publishing For prime-octane video games that may simply run on even probably the most low-end PC setups, you might do lots worse than choosing up a replica of Risk of Rain 2. This recreation has created one thing distinctive and might be simply obsessed over. Alone or with mates, it's as much as you to defeat the varied bosses of the realms you enter. In your journey, you'll decide up many wild and great power-ups, ultimately turning into a damaging pressure. Your base character determines simply how every one works, however relaxation assured, no recreation is ever the identical.

7. Hotline Miami

Screenshot: Devolver Digital Each Hotline Miami 1 and a couple of are masterpieces of recent gaming. The highest-down slaughter-fest is as quick and intense as gaming will get. It's as much as you to shoot, slash, and hammer your approach by way of enemies, doing all of your greatest to outlive. Each foe can one-tap you, and your reactions must be lightning-fast. The sport’s easy graphics, together with the extreme gameplay and soundtrack, make this good for any low-end PC setup.

6. Papers, Please

Picture through Lucas Pope Ever wished to reside the lifetime of an immigration officer? No? Nicely, it's best to. Papers, Please units you up because the immigration officer of an Jap Bloc-type nation. It's as much as you to remain on high of the brand new laws and your personal funds. This straightforward but extremely lovely recreation could have you admitting, rejecting, detaining, and questioning individuals as they attempt to enter by way of your gate. Empathy and ethical dilemma all characteristic on this great artwork piece by 3909.

5. DOOM

Screenshot: id Software program It’s DOOM, and for those who don’t know what that's, perhaps it’s time to surrender PC gaming altogether and return to card video games. DOOM is the OG shooter that may have you ever mowing your approach by way of hordes of monsters in an try to avoid wasting the Earth. Sure, that is an outdated title, however it’s a traditional. This may simply run in your low-end PC. In truth, I believe you might most likely run it on a Samsung good fridge.

4. Terraria

Screenshot: Re-Logic A easy, procedurally generated world awaits in Terraria. Alone or with mates, the easy 16-bit 2D recreation invitations you to mine, craft, discover, and survive in a world bursting with adventures and alternatives. With over 44 million copies bought, it’s one of the vital profitable video games of all time. Terraria has an enormous scope of prospects hidden throughout the easy graphics. Sources and loot might be mixed to create all kinds of loopy objects, with advanced construct bushes and uncommon finds. It's as much as you and your folks to construct your characters and bases up as you defeat the varied bosses.

3. Cuphead

Screenshot: Studio MDHR Leisure Inc. I like the artwork model of Cuphead, and it's the good recreation for low-end PCs due to it. The easy side-scrolling shooter recreation is adorned with lovely, traditional cartoon graphics and superb sound. Nevertheless, don’t let the cutesy graphics idiot you — this recreation is significantly arduous. Alone or with a good friend, you should work your approach by way of the colourful world of Cuphead to defeat the side-scrolling ranges. Then, on the finish of every is an amazingly designed boss with distinctive assaults and implausible animations. The sport may nearly be Souls-like if it weren’t so cute.

2. BioShock

Screenshot: 2K Video games The BioShock collection of video games has all the time been on my replay lists, and I return to them over and over. Regardless of being extremely wealthy and immersive worlds, you'll find which you could play all of those video games, up till Infinite, on low-end PCs. BioShock units us in a world beneath the ocean the place science and know-how are God. Nevertheless, the heathenous people have pushed themselves too far, turning into godless mutants. It’s as much as you to combat by way of them, augmenting your self alongside the way in which. The sport is dripping in spooky environment; you gained’t neglect your first encounter with a Massive Daddy in a rush.

1. Project Zomboid

Screenshot: The Indie Stone The tip is upon you as you attempt to outlive the zombie apocalypse. The sport’s primary top-down graphics are good for any low-end PC. Nevertheless, the sport’s easy look hides a fancy and deep world to discover. You and your folks get up as a personality imbued with traits and boons of your selection. Now, setting off into the world, you should search and scavenge the whole lot you'll be able to to outlive the zombie hordes. As time strikes on, the world slowly breaks aside. After a couple of days, the water will shut off, and so will the electrical energy. Meals will spoil, and snow will start to fall. All of those affect you and your character. In the event you die or get bitten — and you'll, many, many instances — you'll ultimately flip. Nevertheless, you simply begin with a brand new character, constructing their expertise and ultimately discovering your shambling corpse. It feels bizarre killing your outdated self and carrying the garments you died in, however that’s the one solution to survive. Read the full article