April 8, 2004

April 8, 2004 by yorksranter 0 comments

More horrors, Ranter proved right. Sometimes I really don’t like me

In a long post on the Shia uprising in Iraq on Tuesday, I argued that the Mahdi Army was following a strategy seen in numerous civil wars – seizing the locations of legitimate power and co-opting the police and administration. According to this story in the Indy, I was right.. “”The Americans are just as…

TSMC mass produces Tesla's Dojo AI training tiles, eying 40x power boost by 2027
so a tile is 5x5 grid of ASICs stacked over the fanout over a substrate wafer.
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Family of Ilham Aliyev’s Security Chief Owns Vast Property Holdings in the United Kingdom - OCCRP
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Trump Defends Noem, Suggests She Maybe Didn’t Read Her Book ‘Carefully.’ She Did. - TPM – Talking Points Memo
The problem with Trump’s logic — the ghostwriter made up some stuff — is Noem had to have read the book carefully. Out loud, even. Both the Hatchette Book Group and Amazon list the governor as the narrator of the audiobook version of her book
Supreme Court Justice Alito’s House Displayed a ‘Stop the Steal’ Flag After Jan. 6 - The New York Times
“I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” Justice Alito said in an emailed statement to The Times. “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.” // classy!
Peer faces year’s ban from Lords bars for bullying two people while drunk | House of Lords | The Guardian
the peer’s insistence that he was not “very drunk” despite not being able to “recall any of his interaction with the complainants
Ampere 2024 Update: One More Step Forward
it looks like one of Supermicro's offerings in the AI LLM space will be a combination Altra Max/AmpereOne and Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra server. The goal here is to provide substantial CPU compute paired with a number (8, perhaps more?) high-performance language inference cards. Qualcomm doesn't speak about the AI 100 Ultra much, but […]