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BookStream: Voice AI for Literary Discovery

Bookstream, the TLDRBookStream is a voice-driven application that provides personalized book recommendations. This solution offers a unique, hands-free way to discover new books tailored to users' preferences. Users call in, mention their favorite book, and get similar book suggestions through a seamless integration of Weaviate's vector search, Pulze.ai's model selection (optimizing for speed), Twilio's Voice API for phone calls, and Eleven Labs' TTS API, all hosted o...

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Sr. Bizops; GTM B2B Team @ Replit Formerly founder Europa Labs, B2B Storj.io, Microsoft

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Oct 10
Writing a Python App with no formal experience
Using Replit AI and Twilio to Drive Attendance at my 10-year High School ReunionTLDR: Utilizing Replit's newly launched "AI for All" feature and Twilio's SMS services, I successfully drove up the registration rate for a 10-year high school reunion in Bethesda, Maryland, from 15% to 38%. Through Replit AI, the organizer was able to and a Twilio SMS template, the organizer was able to send personalized, timed SMS invitations to alumni. I accomplished this with no formal coding experie...
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Jan 11
Launching a Mint and Membership Loyalty Application with Nocturnal ID
What is Nocturnal ID? Nocturnal has a collective of creative talent who produce digital and physical works across a variety of different art and entertainment verticals—all being connected by the pursuit of important emotional impact and storytelling. The company was founded by Matt Morgan and Toby Lasso, both of whom are experienced in global talent management and have experience launching successful art-based NFT projects. This paved the way for the Nocturnal team to create Nocturnal ID. No...
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Dec 30
Dream Booth fine-tuning utilizing a Decentralized Object Store
Submission for the 2023 Hugging Face Dream Booth Hackathon by Kevin Leffew To follow along step by step in a notebook, check out: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1EnqpDiKOVYhR0c6f4CgmDg2zqcbYZJpB?usp=sharing The dataset and card for this model (bethecloud/golf-courses) is located here: https://huggingface.co/datasets/bethecloud/golf-courseA Quick OverviewFine-Tuning Stable Diffusion for mythological Golf Course Images with Storj DCS Stable diffusion is an extremely revolutionary and p...
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Dec 23
Building a dedicated token redemption application and flow
Bridging the gap between designer fashion and tokenization with Gianpiero and the inBetweenersinBetweeners is a global crowdsourced community focused on spreading love and positivity across the metaverse. Access to the community is limited to 10,777 bear holders, each special in its own way. The inBetweener’s art is hand drawn by Gianpiero, a world-renowned artist whose work has been sought after by Snoop Dog, Netflix, Levis, Bel Aire Rose, and more. For inBetweeners, Gianpiero has joined up ...
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Nov 22
Announcing Version 1.3 of the Europa Web3 Loyalty Engine
Executive summary: Today, we are excited to announce the latest release of our product engine, V1.3, – which adds several new enhancements, features, and design updates, driven from input by our community. The Europa Core 1.3 update includes new features and enhancements including:Faster Pass Generation with improved UXMobile Native (SMS) Pass Generation and OnboardingTies users’ On-Chain, NFT art to their Mobile PassNew token-gated experiences and featuresNative social support for Instagram,...
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Aug 26
Stable Diffusion and Web3
Stable Diffusion and Web3: Transforming image2image data with the decentralized cloudArtificial intelligence text-to-image tools like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and Dalle2 are rapidly unlocking new possibilities for memes, marketing, and predictive learning for advertising. Stable Diffusion was officially released into beta on August 22 as an open-source alternative to Dalle-2. Because it’s training parameters are open-source, anyone can access and play around with the weights used to trai...
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Aug 24
Ethereum's Portal Network Client – Availability Sharding through Light State Validators
Relevant Repository: https://github.com/ethereum/portal-network-specs Proposal Website: https://www.ethportal.net/ Ethereum Cat Herders’ (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzL2GmxA6WkOverviewThere is a proposed upgrade to the post-merge Ethereum Protocol Client called “Portal Network”. The goal of the Portal Network is to provide lightweight protocol access by resource constrained devices. Today, the ethereum network consists of full, or “archival” nodes – which hold a complete copy of ...
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Jul 27
Announcing new Utility and Features for the E11EVEN Captains’ Club
Today, Europa Labs is excited to announce the launch of new core utility features for the captains-area dashboard for E11EVEN Captains’ Club NFT Holders Through Europa, E11EVEN Captains’ Club members have access to new utility! We are excited to announce the following new features for the Captain’s Quarters (https://members.11captainsclub.io/my-tokens)1. An Airdropped Token for a Redeemable E11EVEN HoodieAs of 11:11pm last night, all Captain’s Club Token Holders have been airdropped a token, ...
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Jul 18
A dedicated subgraph for Europa Applications
Europa is excited to announce a performance upgrade for our core service – driven by native integration with a dedicated subgraph. The Graph is the indexing and query layer of web3. Anyone can build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, making data easily accessible. The integration of a dedicated subgraph into our service enables the Europa Web3 App Engine to index smart contract data for faster queries for our customer applications. For Europa applications, like 11 Captains’ Club, this m...
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Jun 8
Europa & Captains' Club – IRL Token Gated Access
E11EVEN Miami Selects EUROPA as its Web3 Technology Provider for Customer Loyalty, Token-Gated IRL Access, Tickets and Merchandise Europa Labs, an emerging leader in Web3 physical redeemable technology for NFTs, has been selected by E11EVEN Crypto, a new division of the rapidly growing E11EVEN empire, as the official partner for its Web3 infrastructure and tokenized redeemables. As early adopters of Web3 technology, E11EVEN is the zeitgeist for consumer-facing companies interested in leveragi...
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May 25
EIP-4844: The setup for a rollup-centric Ethereum
Author: Kevin LeffewKey MaterialsEIP-4844: Shared Blob TransactionsEIP-4844 WebsiteEthereum Magicians Forum DiscussionBankless Podcast | Dive into DankshardingGithub Repositories to follow:GETH Extension to Support EIP4844Prysm Modifications to Support EIP4844EIP-4844 – A Brief OverviewEIP-4844, referred to as “proto-dank sharding” is a proposed update to the ethereum blockchain that creates a new data type, called “blobs”, which are enclaved from the EVM execution environment, and facilitate...
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May 12
Designer Jewelry, On-chain
Bringing tokenized jewelry redeemables to the world of NFTs:Digital Twin is hosting the first of its kind Trunk Show in Miami, FL featuring some of the most notable jewelry designers around the world - from Miami to Hong Kong, and Ukraine. Each designer—Sazingg, L’Dezen and POCHE—will showcase their asset-backed NFT collections and bring their fine-jewelry designs on-chain to ethereum. The goal of this Trunk Show is to blend the digital and physical experience of purchasing fine jewelry. The ...