November 23, 2008

November 23, 2008 by yorksranter 1 comment

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Arms Control Wonk has been running a series on how Iranian missiles work and how well. It’s bloody brilliant; go read, and you’ll come away thinking you could maybe start your own launcher project. Elsewhere, incredible interview with Bill Janeway about the financial crisis, Ministry of Truth on Baby P, Felix Salmon spanks rightwing mythology…

November 23, 2008 by yorksranter 0 comments

conradblackalicious

Conrad Black: it has come to this. It’s been an intermittent amusement to see his rants issued from jail, what with their deluded certainty that the courts would eventually understand him. Now, however, he’s given up on vindication to beg for mercy. In a signature move, he’s also tried to bill his old newspaper for…

A simple theory of cancel culture - by Joseph Heath
As the institution of the charivari makes clear, people in medieval European societies took a keen interest in one another’s domestic affairs. Private life, as most of us understand it, is an 18th century innovation. The important point is not that society is reverting to an older set of norms, but that the scale of […]
Intel 2Q24 guidance disappoints, Gaudi 3 sales expected to reach US$500 million in 2024
Intel said that it expects a meaningful Gaudi ramp in the second half of the year and forecasts more than US$500 million in revenue from the accelerator.
As capital expenditures become focus for CSPs, Taiwan-based server suppliers eye opportunities
In terms of Nvidia's upcoming Blackwell-powered chips, CEO and founder Jensen Huang hinted at a price point of US$30,000–40,000 during the recent GTC 2024. Based upon this figure, industry analysts predict a price tag of US$300,000–400,000 for the GB200 NVL72 rack system, more than double the price of current H100-based systems.
David Keynes Hill - Wikipedia
yes, Keynes like *that* Keynes - AV Hill's son and Maynard's nephew.
GL Mk. I radar - Wikipedia
Blackett formed a study group known as the Anti-Aircraft Command Research Group, but universally referred to as "Blackett's Circus". Blackett deliberately chose members from different backgrounds, including physiologists David Keynes Hill, Andrew Huxley and L. Bayliss, mathematical physicists A. Porter and F. Nabarro, astrophysicist H. Butler, surveyor G. Raybould, physicist I. Evans and mathematicians A.J. […]
GL Mk. III radar - Wikipedia
The Mk. 2/1 version added automatic tracking that allowed the operator to lock onto to a target and then have the electronics automatically follow it with no further manual intervention
AI Mark VIII radar - Wikipedia
Although the precise origins of the concept are unknown, on 8 March 1941 Bernard Lovell recorded the concept of lock-follow in his notes for the first time...The system worked by having two dipole antennas instead of one, slightly offset on either side of the mounting mast projecting through the middle of the parabolic dish. Being […]
Radar, Anti-Aircraft No. 3 Mk. 7 - Wikipedia
In 1941, an engineer at BTH, L.C. Ludbrook, began development of a lock-follow system for the SLC. This used simple electronics that were fed the paired signals and output a current whose magnitude depended on the amount of difference between the two. This signal was then sent into amplidynes that amplified the signal and drove […]
Bird flu virus has been spreading among US cows for months, RNA reveals
Gangavarapu says that dates and geographic information for 152 of the 239 samples have been extracted from a USDA presentation posted on YouTube on 26 April.
Patriot air defenses to be mothballed after decades of mostly gathering dust | The Times of Israel
give them to Ukraine!