February 25, 2007

February 25, 2007 by yorksranter 0 comments

A close shave

Apparently, the Red Army in Afghanistan called the kind of raid it calls a “zachistka” in Chechnya a “prichyoska” or haircut. “An unnecessarily brutal cordon-and-search operation, sir, and something for the weekend?”

February 25, 2007 by yorksranter 0 comments

YouTube and the “series of tubes”

Looking at this inspiring achievement, I fell to wondering exactly how YouTube is serving up its videos. Now, so far I can remember seeing YouTube content from hostnames with the form lax-vXX.lax.youtube.com or ash-vXX.ash.youtube.com, where the x stands for an arbitrary number. Clearly those are either LA or Ashburn, Virginia, where the big Equinix East…

Currently Reading: https://a.co/d/5YBqAZN on X: "if it gets its core subject and his motivations so utterly and totally wrong, why trust anything else about it?" / Twitter
yeah, the real zucc is married to a woman he’s been with since sophomore year of college..if it gets its core subject and his motivations so utterly and totally wrong, why trust anything else about it?
(1) Amanda Askell on X: "Here is Claude 3's system prompt! Let me break it down 🧵 https://t.co/gvdd7hSHUQ" / Twitter
Microsoft's China AI teams face relocation amid US tightened restrictions
WSJ cited a source estimating that 700 to 800 employees received the relocation request. Many of which are involved in machine learning and cloud computing-related work. Rumors suggest that the Microsoft China C+AI team may relocate to Seattle, while the Azure ML team is expected to move to Australia. Additionally, some teams may be relocated […]
Could Taiwan realize EDA autonomy amid low-profile deployment by TSMC?
Chen Tung-chieh pointed out that despite Maxeda's acquisition by Synopsys, Taiwanese companies have been actively engaged in EDA development for heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging. Industry sources revealed that TSMC, in particular, has made significant strides toward EDA autonomy and does not solely rely on foreign vendors. However, TSMC has not publicly disclosed these efforts
alan rusbridger on X: "Police found an underfloor safe in News Int’s CEO Rebekah Brooks’ private dressing room which was “filled with hard drives and computers” with thousands of emails from key executives, editors and journalists 8" / Twitter
Police found an underfloor safe in News Int’s CEO Rebekah Brooks’ private dressing room which was “filled with hard drives and computers”
Slouching Towards Gehenna - by James - War By Other Means
What the U.S. President does or does not say is relatively immaterial when Ben-Gvir is the Minister of National Security and Bezalel Smotrich is the Minister of Finance. It goes without saying, but neither man cares particularly greatly if America takes a tough public stance on the conduct of the IDF in Gaza.
Big AI chip startup Cerebras plans 2.5MW deployment on Nautilus' floating data center - DCD
yikes, a Cerebras rig on a floating data center. super, super valley.
Cerebras CS-3 vs. Nvidia B200: 2024 AI Accelerators Compared - Cerebras
wildly tendentious, but does make a bit more sense when we're talking about a fridgeputer.
Yakov Feygin on X: "@bucephalus424 Or even then cause of the Yugoslav wars." / Twitter
I think going forward we have to view the Nakba as a concluding ethnic cleansing in a massive cycle of post-Ottoman ethnonationalist state creation, from the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, the Balkan Wars, the Armenian Genocide, and the 1923 Greece/Turkey population transfer // the Balkanpilled view here is interesting.
Llama 3 with Intel AI Solutions
The number of tokens tokenized by Llama 3 is 18% less than Llama 2 with the same input prompt. Therefore, even though Llama 3 8B is larger than Llama 2 7B, the inference latency by running BF16 inference on AWS m7i.metal-48xl for the whole prompt is almost the same (Llama 3 is 1.04x faster than […]