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Senators ask regulators to investigate bank and crypto ties, citing Washington state bank

GeekWire

Warren and Smith reference a Nov. By acquiring Farmington, Moonstone received a banking charter , a business license required for U.S. Its net worth was $5.7 23 report in the New York Times that revealed how Moonstone received $11.5 Moonstone Bank, formerly known as Farmington State Bank, was acquired in 2020 by FBH.

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Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area

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.” Here’s more about how the fund picks communities to open up its schools: In selecting communities for our preschools, we consider a wide range of data, including income levels, participation in free and reduced-cost meal programs, and gaps in access to licensed childcare providers. With Amazon’s market value soaring past $1.5

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Getting Started with Go

SPF13

pointers •Function calls copy arguments into the function •Pointers reference a location in memory where a value is stored rather than the value itself •In Go a pointer is represented using the * •The & operator gives us the address of a variable •Go automatically dereferences pointers when using “.” io, fmt, errors. go get -u ?

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Getting Started with Go

SPF13

pointers •Function calls copy arguments into the function •Pointers reference a location in memory where a value is stored rather than the value itself •In Go a pointer is represented using the * •The & operator gives us the address of a variable •Go automatically dereferences pointers when using “.” io, fmt, errors. go get -u ?

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Microsoft research head Peter Lee on the implications of GPT-4 for medicine

GeekWire

medical licensing exam more than 90% of the time. Bing hallucinates fewer unrelated scientific references than the standalone chatbot, which is cut off from the internet, said Lee. The tool answers test questions correctly from the U.S. But it also has limitations. GPT-4 often “hallucinates” false responses to queries.

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Bank downplays ties to FTX sister company in latest fallout from crypto exchange failure

GeekWire

. “In January this year, as a result of a capital raise effort to support our further development, we received an investment from a company that at the time had a pristine reputation and was a darling of the financial markets,” Moonstone said in a statement Tuesday, referring to Alameda Research. Its net worth was $5.7

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NJVC® Introduces Cloudcuity? AppDeployer to Create and Sell

Cloud Musings

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. AppDeployer also is available as a licensed product for deployment in customers’ own clouds. AppDeployer leverages a platform engine licensed from Virtual Global. NJVC Cloud Computing.

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