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Palo Alto Networks Simplifies Cybersecurity With Cortex Cloud

Platformization is not a dirty word for Palo Alto Networks. With Cortex Cloud, it unites the capabilities of Prism Cloud with CDR and CNAPP.

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Signal filtering is the bread and butter of digital signal processing, and ARM Cortex-M cores provide a very efficient way to implement IIR filters, especially for cores that come with an FPU. ARM maintains the library as a collection of useful DSP functionality, including IIR filters implemented using a Direct Form II transposed structure. Big words, right? CMSIS-DSP In fact, the maths needed to go from filter specification to running code are not necessarily straightforward to do on paper. The process is complex and error prone, plus there is not a lot of value in doing it yourself for every minimal parameter variation. That's why at we created a collection of scripts to harness the power of to design IIR filters and automatically get "ready-to-run" C code for our applications. Elimo Engineering GNU Octave Being very creative people, we called it and, in the spirit of open source, we made it available with examples on GitHub. iir-designer-cmsis-dsp The repo includes a file with example inputs like the following for a DC blocking filter: / % Example % nd order DC blocker, Hz, sampling frequency = kHz
% Plots the filter response sample signals / pkg load signal
order= f1= fs= plot_results= %// // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // 1 2 20 44.1 and %// // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // // 2 20 44100 true design ; _iir_highpass_cmsis_butter( , , , ) order f1 fs plot_results which will give you the following output: coeffs = 0.99799 -1.99597 0.99799 1.99597 - . 0 99598 That array of coefficients can be directly used in ARM code like the following: #define IIR_ORDER #define IIR_NUMSTAGES (IIR_ORDER/ )

static 32_t m_biquad_state[IIR_ORDER];
static 32_t m_biquad_coeffs[ *IIR_NUMSTAGES] =
{ , , , , };

arm_biquad_cascade_df2T_instance_f32 iir_inst = 
{
  IIR_ORDER/ ,
  m_biquad_state,
  m_biquad_coeffs
};

extern 32_t* pSrc;
extern 32_t* pDst;
extern 16_t blockSize;

arm_biquad_cascade_df2T_f32(&amp;iir_inst, pSrc, pDst, blockSize); 2 2 float float 5 0.99799 -1.99597 0.99799 1.99597 -0.99598 const 2 float float uint Note that this code is mostly boilerplate, and you just need to provide an input array of floats (pSrc in our example), a buffer for the filtered signal (pDst) and their length (blockSize) Let us know if you find it useful, we would love to know what people are using it for!

Fast IIR filtering on ARM Cortex-M with CMSIS-DSP and GNU Octave

In 2017, the cryptocurrency rage reached to the highest point when Bitcoin surged to USD19,783, many speculators and miners started to invest an enormous amount of money into mining hardware and chips hoping to get on the craze. Cryptocurrency mining was originally designed to be doable with general-purpose computers. Yet with the increase in competition to the limited resources, miners have been seeking an effective way to improve their chances. A , known as ASIC, has taken over the mining market since. ASIC are chips that are designed with a singular purpose. For cryptocurrency mining, these chips are built into specifically designed motherboards and power supplies to efficiently . Each cryptocurrency has its own cryptographic hash algorithm and ASIC hardware are designed to excel at calculating that algorithm, in the case of Bitcoin, ASIC hardware is designed to calculate the SHA-256 hash algorithm. pplication-specific integrated circuit chips solve a specific algorithm However, in 2018, the bearish performance in the cryptocurrency market has put them in a difficult situation. Though with better performance comparing the general-purpose computer using GPU or CPU cards, there is a limited room of adjustment for the ASIC hardware. ASIC miners were seeking ways to deal with their machines and spaces they rent for running the mining machines. In contrast, GPU miners can easily adapt to new PoW algorithms and tokens due to better compatibility with different hash algorithms (in the cost of performance). Furthermore, the emerging of Cuckoo Cycle algorithm sheds light on the GPU mining to compete against the ASIC miners. What is Cuckoo Cycle PoW algorithm? is one of the most promising PoW algorithm created by Dutch computer scientist, John Tromp. Cuckoo cycle was originally applied as a measure to prevent email spams. Cuckoo cycle ASIC-resistant The email sender has to perform a certain amount of work that consumes computational power to prove that he does have the need to send out the email to the recipient. Yet, with its unique design, it sees fit for GPU mining. It focuses more on memory use, meaning the solution time is bound to memory bandwidth rather than the raw processor or GPU speed. Unlike other PoW algorithms that requires maxing out the capacity of your hardware that drains a lot of power which produces heat (which is why most mining factories are located in colder locations/or locations with cheap electricity that can turn A/C on 24/7), a memory-bound algorithm like Cuckoo cycle require far less energy than most other GPU, CPU or ASIC-bound PoW algorithms. The most up-to-date implementations and findings can be found on his . GitHub Difference between the Cuckoo Cycle PoW algorithm and the SHA256 used by Bitcoin? The SHA256 used by Bitcoin is a simple and pure hash function. The computational process of the solution is easily migratable from the CPU to GPU, FPGA, and ASIC. The above picture is an 8-node, 4-sided Cuckoo Cycle bipartite graph Cuckoo Cycle is a graph theory-based algorithm. It tries to find a fixed length L ring in the Cuckoo Cycle bipartite graph randomly generated by Siphash. As the scale of the graph increases, the L value increases and becomes more difficult to find a ring that fits the length of L. Solving the solution (i.e., the process of finding a loop) itself requires a relatively large amount of memory to store the sorting of data. The Cuckoo Cycle algorithm is to ASIC chips. The difficulty and cost to make Cuckoo Cycle compatible on ASIC are much higher than the SHA256 of Bitcoin. It is possible to reduce the anti-ASIC capability by deformation and become an ASIC-friendly algorithm, but it is also possible to further improve its ASIC resistance through deformation as well. resisted For example, simplifies and discards the binary end of nodes in the bipartite graph which greatly reduce the difficulty of the solution. However, if all the nodes in the bipartite graph are grouped where all the nodes in the group have mutually dependent relationships, it is necessary to calculate the hash of all the nodes in the group. The difficulty of the solution and the requirements for data cache are then greatly increased. This transformation of Cuckoo Cycle is called . CuckAToo algorithm CuckARoo algorithm Projects using the Cuckoo Cycle algorithm On the official Cuckoo Cycle page, a list of projects using this algorithm was announced including AE, Grin, and Cortex. GitHub The list of projects using Cuckoo Cycle on GitHub , also known as , is a new blockchain technology, designed to deliver unmatched efficiency, transparent governance, and global scalability. (2.0.0) was released a couple weeks ago. AE has a total of 254,396,431 AE and aims to boost 1,000 TPS. AE æternity Minerva Mainnet upgrade is currently live with its Grin uses the Mimblewimble protocol to improve scalability and privacy. It empowers anyone to transact or save modern money without the fear of external control or oppression. Grin is designed for the decades to come, not just tomorrow. Grin wants to be usable by everyone, regardless of borders, culture, skills or access. Grin does not have circulating limit, which means that there is no limit on the total amount, and 60 Grins are mined per minute. Grin mainnet . is building something unique and original. Cortex aims to create a decentralized AI autonomous system that continues to expand the performance boundaries of smart contracts, allowing smart contracts to be actually smart with AI algorithms. In Cortex’s AI on Blockchain ecosystem, AI model developers, AI DApp developers, miners, and users can be linked together through public blockchain to create more AI DApps with real-world use cases. It also help stimulating more high-quality AI models to open source through the tokenomic model and incentive mechanism, which helps to democratize AI research which often led to concentrations of power and money. This is a new AI on Blockchain ecosystem that is independently governed by AI smart contracts. Cortex follows the four-year halving mechanism of Bitcoin. The total amount of CTXC mined through PoW is 150 million, and the first four years yields 75 million, which is halved every four years. Currently, the is live and the are live. Cortex TestNet first AI DApp Grin and Cortex's take on ASIC Grin uses CuckARoo (anti-ASIC) and CuckAToo (ASIC-friendly) algorithms in parallel where 90% of Grin is mined by ASIC-resistant CuckARoo and 10% of Grin is mined by ASIC-friendly CuckAToo. This ratio will be adjusted every six months to the point that will fully adopt ASIC-friendly CuckAToo. Grin Cortex In contrast, goal is to try to establish an environment where any AI equipment or conventional hardware already owned by everyone to be able to mine. Based on this goal, anti-ASIC is a firm belief in Cortex. The reason for this is that Cortex hopes to allow the mining machine investors in the Cortex ecosystem to have better general-purpose computing capabilities and lay the foundation for the future large-scale AI computing demand market. Cortex’s Cortex has released a full version of the which is already using a version of Cuckoo Cycle for consensus mechanism. The AI smart contract feature has also been deployed. The first fully available has been created on the TestNet. The development progress of the MainNet is working in progress according to the roadmap, which will be launched in Q2 of 2019. The launched of Cortex MainNet will bring a new wave of not just to AI developers and DApp developers but also to GPU miners. TestNet AI DApp The first AI DApp on the Cortex TestNet Conclusion Cuckoo Cycle is the newly emerging Proof-of-Work algorithm adopt by many projects to establish a friendly mining environment. It generates random bipartite graphs from a provided message and tries to find whether a subgraph with required property exists or not. Different projects have their objectives using Cuckoo Cycle. The algorithm itself has a relatively high anti-ASIC capability and can be modified into other algorithms to adjust the anti-ASIC capability. For Grin, Cuckoo Cycle was used to the Bitcoin-style “hardware arms-race” by making it ASIC resistant. For Cortex, it is to the mining requirements to lay the foundation for future scalability in AI computing demand market. Cukoo Cycle and GPU mining will lead us to a better mining environment where anyone can be a part of. mitigate against lower

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Your brain is a magical thing. It is the computer that you, that defines your world, and creates the interface for which you interpret “reality.” Technology and culture are starting to make us aware of just machine-like we are. In the movie “ ,” Nathan, shows Caleb the artificial wetware brain he crafted out of an exotic gel, essentially distilling our consciousness down to just a very expensive piece of tech. ( ) Treating your mind like a machine is an approach that is logical and highly beneficial. is how Ex Machina Apparently you can build one if you are so inclined. My Mom’s Desktop on her is a mess. I just counted and there are over 8,000 files sitting there just on the Desktop. But, she gets a lot done. She runs a youth theatre, is CFO and COO for my Dad’s business, and despite my bias, is genuinely one of the most productive people I know. But, back to the subject, her Desktop on that MacBook gives me instant anxiety. It’s a clusterfuck. So, every 2 or 3 years she gets a new laptop and I end up cloning her old computer onto her new one, except I always put her Desktop folder into a sub folder. At some point, I delete the old ones. She never notices. MacBook Many times, when working on a collaborative project, I hear someone say “I just didn’t have time to get to it,” or “I was distracted.” 9 times out of 10, their life is just too busy, their office too messy, and they watch The News every night before bed. Our minds (most of them) can’t deal with a Desktop like my mom’s. Our minds need clean input to obtain clean output. Our brains take in everything, and we are very much at the peril of the world. But, we have mechanisms to clean our mind’s Desktop. Reduce Distraction There are lots of things I do to reduce distraction: I don’t have sounds on my phone. If you call me, my phone doesn’t ring. If you message me, my phone doesn’t even vibrate. In fact, there is only 1 person that my phone makes sound for. This reduces distraction. But the most important piece of the input puzzle is not the amount of input, but the quality of the input. Even just a little positive input in a crowded life can completely change everything. We have deliberate input sources, like TV, books, and other media. I stopped watching TV for years. I don’t read Facebook, and my Twitter usage is limited. I read books with purpose and intent, and try to only interact with positive people. But there is so much input you receive without consent. Reprogram To combat the input you receive without your consent, you need to employ some reprogramming techniques. Can you remember the last time you had such an amazing day, that you went to bed, slept like a baby, and woke up the next morning feeling deep love in your heart? It would be amazing if we could operate this way, almost irregardless, every single day. We can’t always feel good, but we can rewire our brain to function more positively. The 2 biggest ideas for reprogramming your mind are: Mind follows body. If you start moving your body, your mind will follow suit. Subconscious programming through self hypnosis is real, it works, and you can change your life with it. The aim is to reprogram our brain more positively. Think of someone that makes you extremely happy and picture the essence and joy they conjure in your mind. They aren’t around right now, but you can still feel that happiness. All of that wonderfulness was fed straight to your brain, and you can recall it. People subtly feed you information about who they are and their intentions. How people sit in our minds has a lot to do with the subconscious information we’ve gathered on them, and how our brain processes it. People are hypnotizing. They work their way into our minds through very hypnotic, subconscious methods. We can also program our own vision of ourselves, the outlook we have on the day, and the perspective we take on life in a similar fashion through self hypnosis. The Hypnosis Experience I was laying in a chair, feeling my body floating perhaps 4 feet in the air. Colors of yellow were washing over my eyes and words being echoed through the air were entering and exiting my mind simultaneously. I saw a version of myself that I had not seen in a long time. Waves of energy pulsed through my body. And, then a finger snapped… I was awake and I felt “good.” What I experienced was similar to meditation experiences I had in the past, so I didn’t think it was absolutely crazy, but I was bewildered. I didn’t think I would see a dramatic change in my life by listening to this hypnosis session every day, but I continued to every day since that day. In 3 years, there is not a single thing I can contribute to my health, happiness, and success more than self hypnosis. I was told many years ago by my father that self hypnosis is something you are doing whether you think you are or not. You can be in control of the content your brain receives, or let the world decide for you. Hypnosis is real and it works. What does it mean? Mental health is something we don’t talk about enough. It’s not just about beating depression, but about finding ways to optimally live in the moment. There are wonderful things out there, like hypnosis, meditation and exercise. Take control of your brain’s input and output, and do everything and anything you need to attain the optimal life you desire. Originally published at https://noeljackson.com/io-cerebral-cortex/ Noël Jackson is an engineer, designer, and hacker working on the web since 1998, with a focus on optimization through thoughtfulness and logic. He currently works at studio.zeldman as director of development.

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 MindEye2 and 2.1 Shared-Subject Functional Alignment 2 MindEye2 and 2.1 Shared-Subject Functional Alignment 2.2 Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules 2.2 Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules 2.3 Image Captioning and 2.4 Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP 2.3 Image Captioning and 2.4 Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP 2.5 Model Inference 2.5 Model Inference 3 Results and 3.1 fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction 3 Results and 3.1 fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction 3.2 Image Captioning 3.2 Image Captioning 3.3 Image/Brain Retrieval and 3.4 Brain Correlation 3.3 Image/Brain Retrieval and 3.4 Brain Correlation 3.5 Ablations 3.5 Ablations 4 Related Work 4 Related Work 5 Conclusion 5 Conclusion 6 Acknowledgements and References 6 Acknowledgements and References A Appendix A Appendix A.1 Author Contributions A.1 Author Contributions A.2 Additional Dataset Information A.2 Additional Dataset Information A.3 MindEye2 (not pretrained) vs. MindEye1 A.3 MindEye2 (not pretrained) vs. MindEye1 A.4 Reconstruction Evaluations Across Varying Amounts of Training Data A.4 Reconstruction Evaluations Across Varying Amounts of Training Data A.5 Single-Subject Evaluations A.5 Single-Subject Evaluations A.6 UnCLIP Evaluation A.6 UnCLIP Evaluation A.7 OpenCLIP BigG to CLIP L Conversion A.7 OpenCLIP BigG to CLIP L Conversion A.8 COCO Retrieval A.8 COCO Retrieval A.9 Reconstruction Evaluations: Additional Information A.9 Reconstruction Evaluations: Additional Information A.10 Pretraining with Less Subjects A.10 Pretraining with Less Subjects A.11 UMAP Dimensionality Reduction A.11 UMAP Dimensionality Reduction A.12 ROI-Optimized Stimuli A.12 ROI-Optimized Stimuli A.13 Human Preference Experiments A.13 Human Preference Experiments A.2 Additional Dataset Information fMRI responses correspond to normalized single-trial betas output from GLMSingle (Prince et al., 2022). We use preprocessed flattened fMRI voxels in 1.8-mm native volume space corresponding to the “nsdgeneral” brain region, defined by the NSD authors as the subset of voxels in posterior cortex most responsive to the visual stimuli presented (between 13,000 to 16,000 voxels per participant). MindEye2 was developed using a training and test set of subject 1’s data, with other subjects’ data untouched until final training of models. The fMRI data from both the training and test set was normalized using a voxel-wise Z-scoring procedure using the mean and standard deviation calculated using only the training set. Despite the shared1000 test trials being distributed across the scanning sessions for each subject, we chose to keep the test set consistent no matter the number of sessions being used for training. We also adjusted the number of training sessions after the normalization step, allowing us to keep the statistical properties of the shared1000 test set consistent between experiments with varying amounts of training data. This may inadvertently give a small normalization advantage to models trained with fewer training sessions, as the models are normalized with additional data not made available for training. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. available on arxiv Authors:
(1) Paul S. Scotti, Stability AI and Medical AI Research Center (MedARC);
(2) Mihir Tripathy, Medical AI Research Center (MedARC) and a Core contribution;
(3) Cesar Kadir Torrico Villanueva, Medical AI Research Center (MedARC) and a Core contribution;
(4) Reese Kneeland, University of Minnesota and a Core contribution;
(5) Tong Chen, The University of Sydney and Medical AI Research Center (MedARC);
(6) Ashutosh Narang, Medical AI Research Center (MedARC);
(7) Charan Santhirasegaran, Medical AI Research Center (MedARC);
(8) Jonathan Xu, University of Waterloo and Medical AI Research Center (MedARC);
(9) Thomas Naselaris, University of Minnesota;
(10) Kenneth A. Norman, Princeton Neuroscience Institute;
(11) Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Stability AI and Medical AI Research Center (MedARC). Authors: Authors: (1) Paul S. Scotti, Stability AI and Medical AI Research Center (MedARC); (2) Mihir Tripathy, Medical AI Research Center (MedARC) and a Core contribution; (3) Cesar Kadir Torrico Villanueva, Medical AI Research Center (MedARC) and a Core contribution; (4) Reese Kneeland, University of Minnesota and a Core contribution; (5) Tong Chen, The University of Sydney and Medical AI Research Center (MedARC); (6) Ashutosh Narang, Medical AI Research Center (MedARC); (7) Charan Santhirasegaran, Medical AI Research Center (MedARC); (8) Jonathan Xu, University of Waterloo and Medical AI Research Center (MedARC); (9) Thomas Naselaris, University of Minnesota; (10) Kenneth A. Norman, Princeton Neuroscience Institute; (11) Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Stability AI and Medical AI Research Center (MedARC).

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Ever wondered how hackers gain access to systems with little difficulty? They don’t break in anymore, they just log in. Nowadays, criminals don't guess passwords or force their way into systems. They’re using leaked credentials from old breaches. They'd steal your session cookies and trick you or employees into handing over access. Many businesses never see it coming. The problem isn't a lack of security tools, but an absence of the right intelligence. You get flooded with security alerts, but which ones actually matter? You patch vulnerabilities, but are they the ones these hackers exploit? That’s where cyber threat intelligence comes in. You can predict threats before they happen, understand how they work, and stop them before they do damage. Think of it like you knew exactly how and when a burglar planned to rob your house. You wouldn’t just lock the doors. You’d also reinforce weak spots, set up surveillance, and maybe call the cops before they made a move. 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