December 23, 2012

December 23, 2012 by yorksranter 5 comments

two madmen fighting over which one’s voices are right

This Peter Oborne piece is being read as an insight into a power-struggle between George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith. I think it is more interesting to note that whatever the politics between them, both of them believe things that are completely impossible. This isn’t a fight between two men or two factions, it’s a…

Collective sensing in electric fish | Nature
that's really interesting, if only there was some way of reading it, especially as even if you circumvent the national firewall we pretend doesn't exist to reach the very bad website it's not there
Brood Parasite-Host Coevolution in America Versus Europe: Egg Rejection in Large-Sized Host Species
Thus, I suggest that the higher discrimination capacity shown by large potential North America host species, especially corvids, despite absence of selective pressures by brood parasites in recent history, strongly implies that rejection in these species evolved in response to selection pressures provoked by at least one extinct brood parasite in the New World, either […]
Asda’s owners piled on £1.5bn of liabilities to fund petrol station deal
So ...it owns the freehold but it's agreed to pay ground rent to the vampire 'roo in exchange for cash down?
Top secret Taurus missile meetings leaked online in security lapse
The URL links to conferences included a simple series of consecutive numbers, which would have been easily guessable by hackers, said the team from Netzbegruendung, a group of IT experts affiliated with the Greens Party.
AI Chip Startups Like MatX Storm Silicon Valley - Bloomberg
I really wouldn't bet on transformer LLMs being always and forever the best option!
Cloud giants' data center boom driven by AI innovation
By the close of 2023, the count of hyperscale data centers stood at a formidable 992, swiftly breaching the 1,000 mark in early 2024. Forecasts indicate a doubling of hyperscale data center capacity in the coming years, with a staggering 440 new centers in the pipeline. This expansion is chiefly propelled by the surging computational […]
Nvidia GPU shortage relief: AI server supply chain see shipments accelerate
While cooling components are particularly crucial for AI servers, the supply crunch of Nvidia's H100 GPUs, resulting from insufficient Chip-on-Wafer-on Substrate (CoWoS) capacity, did affect the demand and shipment of cooling solutions for AI servers in 2023, the sources said. However, they stressed the situation has been improving since 2024, with server shipment growth expected […]
Keyboards and screens could see major design shifts as part of changes brought upon by AI PC
no, no, no, not on your nelly no
AMD optimistic about AI-related performance; gaming business unlikely to improve in short term
Fueled by sales growth in products such as Instinct GPU and the fourth-generation Epyc CPU, data center revenue increased by 80%, reaching US$2.3 billion, setting a new record....AMD estimates that the Instinct MI300 series alone generated over US$1 billion in revenue in less than two quarters since its launch in the fourth quarter of 2023...the […]
TSMC sees AI contributing to more than 20% of 2028 revenue
TSMC predicts that server AI processors' revenue contribution will more than double in 2024, accounting for around 11% to 13% of TSMC's total revenue. Over the next five years, server AI processor revenue is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 50%, reaching over 20% of TSMC's revenue by 2028.