November 2003

November 6, 2003 by yorksranter 0 comments

It started out fun…(Washington Post)

The Washington Post has a report today concerning the survivors of the shot-down CH47 in Iraq. Story. “It started out fun,” said Sgt. Christopher Nelson, one of 12 soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment, based in Fort Sill, Okla., aboard the helicopter and in Iraq since April. “We were just ready to…

November 6, 2003 by yorksranter 0 comments

Bad news from ConfinedSpace – Referendums can seriously damage your health

Our long-standing partner blog, ConfinedSpace – about halfway down on the right, with its RSS headlines – has had a terrible experience. Jordan Barab – the gun what built it, mate – has been campaigning furiously against one of those citizen-initiated referendums I don’t like. This particular one (Washington State initiative 841) was intended to…

November 4, 2003 by yorksranter 0 comments

German general fired over antisemitic speech

Frankfurter Allgemeine story The commanding officer of the KSK, the German army’s special forces, has been relieved of his duties by the Defence Minister, Peter Struck of the Social Democrats, after he allegedly wrote a letter to the conservative deputy Martin Hofmann congratulating him on his now-infamous speech in which he described the Jews as…

Alchip Technologies Sets 2023 Financial Records - Alchip
North America accounted for 63% of all 2023 revenue, up significantly from its contribution of 39% in 2022...high-performance computing applications, including those for artificial intelligence, accounting for 84% of revenue...President and CEO Johnny Shen, in his remarks, identified strong AI chip shipments to the company’s largest North American customer as the major driver of 2023 […]
Samsung and SK Hynix reportedly have sold out 2025 HBM capacities
SK Hynix has previously announced that the company's HBM production capacity has already been sold out by 2025, and the bundled contract refers to an agreement that specifies the details of the supply quantity, payment method, and period. Samsung sources also revealed that the sales situation is similar to SK Hynix, and said there will […]
Derek Guy: What Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are getting wrong about menswear
Labour leader Keir Starmer’s tailoring is considerably better than that of most politicians, partly because his suits are cut in such classic proportions // the Guy has spoken. it's over.
Microsoft Word - WP_102 Halevi.docx - WP_102-Halevi.pdf
Indeed, whether on the ‘left’ or onthe right, these elites see sound finance as the central pillar of the stability of the social order. The difference between the two groups is a matter of degree. The ‘right’ builds its position from a financial equilibrium standpoint where savings lead the investment process and any systemic budget […]
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anything that isn't usually used is dangerous; coasian hell is hell
#MeToo : la force tranquille de l’information | Mediapart
Trois heures plus tard, la chaîne rétropédalait partiellement : « On disait [qui ? – on ne le saura pas – ndlr] que Mediapart devait la produire, Mediapart dit que pas du tout et qu’ils n’ont jamais eu vent de cette liste. Il s’agit pour le moment d’une rumeur. Il faut dire qu’aucune information n’est […]
Ex-Boeing engineer sidelined after a 787 critique defends troubled plane | The Seattle Times
Hart-Smith calculated the threshold gap size that would begin to cause damage at the fasteners at about just over 0.1 inch, significantly larger than any of the gaps Boeing measured and, he said, “way outside anything the FAA would tolerate or that Boeing aerodynamicists would tolerate.”
The Fall of Online-Education Technology Powerhouse 2U: $900M in Debt and Rigid Contracts - WSJ
presumably everyone dying because of youtube lectures has been cancelled?
(1) Benjamin F Spector on X: "(2/7) TK's core primitive is a 16x16 tile that fits into the tensor core, which makes up 94% of the compute on an H100. By focusing on these tiles, we ensure that our kernels keep the tensor cores busy and achieve high perfor
TK's core primitive is a 16x16 tile that fits into the tensor core, which makes up 94% of the compute on an H100. By focusing on these tiles, we ensure that our kernels keep the tensor cores busy and achieve high performance. 💪 Basically, we think you should be both thinking and writing in big […]
Kevin O’Buckley to Lead Foundry Services at Intel :: Intel Corporation (INTC)
Intel Corporation today announced the appointment of Kevin O’Buckley as senior vice president and general manager of Foundry Services, the customer service and ecosystem operations division of Intel Foundry // used to run Marvell ASIC