November 14, 2003

November 14, 2003 by yorksranter 0 comments

Iron Hammer: a chocolate fireguard?

There’s a great idea! The US Army has launched an offensive around Baghdad called Operation IRON HAMMER in an effort to nail some of those inconvenient guerrillas. Apparently, this is a “Get Tough” policy involving a “hard line on terrorism” and various other examples of the rhetoric of false strength. What this boils down to…

November 14, 2003 by yorksranter 0 comments

The Ranter welcomes About Pip and ReachM High

Two new blogs have recently started linking to us, neither of which I’d ever seen before. Those are the ReachM High Ranch at , a simpatico and well designed US political blog, and About Pip, an idiosyncratic personal blog by a British expat in Sweden: . Fortunately, it’s nothing at all to do with the…

Mass Precision Strike: Designing UAV Complexes for Land Forces - mass-precision-strike-final.pdf
If a new UAV control technique is used near to a specialised counter-UAV EW asset such as the Russian Shipovnik-Aero, then the process of enemy adaptationis significantly faster – typically around two weeks...The development of AI-enabled signals analysis and EW signal development means that these timeframes for hostile adaptation against newly deployed UAV control and […]
L&Q’s house exchange scheme turned our lives into a nightmare | Property | The Guardian
It stirred itself when I first got in touch in December, and contractors were redeployed. It wasn’t until March that a technician discovered the boiler was leaking gas and capped the supply. L&Q’s scanty terms and conditions on mutual exchange state tenants accept properties “as seen”. However, that does not absolve it of basic legal […]
Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use | Ars Technica
Apple also released the code for CoreNet, a library it used to train OpenELM—and it also included reproducible training recipes that allow the weights (neural network files) to be replicated, which is unusual for a major tech company so far.
US probe into China's RISC-V role casts shadow on Samsung's AI chip ambitions and foundry biz expansion
the DOC is conducting probes into possible national security risks associated with China's significant presence in the RISC-V domain. In addition, they are also assessing possible countermeasures while highlighting the need to avoid harming US companies engaged in RISC-V development...It is reported that Samsung is conducting trial production of server chips for Baidu, a Chinese […]
Three women contract HIV from dirty “vampire facials” at unlicensed spa | Ars Technica
The woman's case led investigators to VIP Spa, which was unlicensed, had no appointment scheduling system, and did not store client contact information. In an inspection in the fall of 2018, health investigators found shocking conditions: unwrapped syringes in drawers and counters, unlabeled tubes of blood sitting out on a kitchen counter, more unlabeled blood […]
(1) Sarastro on X: "Imagine the impact of this in places like the Caribbean where power prices are very high and there are huge problems with sourcing drinking water." / Twitter
outrageous cheap solar! really ironically the only place it *will* be kosher to have a golf course will be in the desert.
A Few Thoughts on Rachel Reeves - by Simon Nixon
Police insfrastructure, police performance, and crime: Evidence from austerity cuts - WP202416-Police-infrastructure-police-performance-and-crime-evidence-from-austerity-cuts.pdf
I estimate a positive elasticity of violence with respect to distance of approximately 0.09, so that a 10% increase in distance increases violent crimes by roughly 1%. This effect translates in 3 additional assaults and murders in each block per year, for a total of 5,500 additional violent offenses city-wise...614 more assaults and murders are […]
jetmoe/jetmoe-8b · Hugging Face
We used a 96×H100 GPU cluster for 2 weeks, which cost ~$0.08 million // cool moddle. very tiny, too, and an MOE to boot
microsoft/rho-math-7b-v0.1 · Hugging Face
Rho-1 base models employ Selective Language Modeling (SLM) for pretraining, which selectively trains on clean and useful tokens that aligned with the desired distribution.