April 2007

April 1, 2007 by yorksranter 1 comment

Political GOTO considered harmful

Well, the decisions are in on the plan to break up the Home Office into the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry for Counter-Terrorism, National Security, Border Control, and Unauthorised Ball Games. And the snark in that link remains applicable. The only interesting news is that it’s even worse than I thought. Not only does…

April 1, 2007 by yorksranter 1 comment

Bloggin’ Rugby League: Warrington for the Cup?

I’ve been a little surprised Warrington haven’t been better this year – they were good last year, and they signed very well in the close season. Adrian Morley hasn’t so far paid off, getting injured twice in a row, but Vinnie Anderson and Stuart Reardon are two cracking signings. I’m astonished Bradford let Reardon get…

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 […]
JCB built and supplied equipment to Russia months after saying exports had stopped | JCB | The Guardian
Russian customs records show that JCB, whose owners are major donors to the Conservative party, continued to make new products available for Russian dealers well after 2 March 2022, when the company publicly stated that it had “voluntarily paused exports” to Russia // everyone loves a JCB, which makes the company's other role as a […]
LLaMA and other on iOS and MacOS
Turbocharging Meta Llama 3 Performance with NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server | NVIDIA Technical Blog
Chibok girls feel let down 10 years after Nigeria kidnapping - BBC News
"They yell at us all the time, I am deeply unhappy," she says. "I had more freedom at the Boko Haram camp than I do here." This is a characterisation that the Borno state government said it did not recognise // I still don't really understand how they physically, logistically did this without waaay more […]