December 2017

December 17, 2017 by yorksranter 6 comments

Cat blindfolds, salted caramel, and algorithmic kitsch

This story is fascinating. So there’s this e-commerce company that basically asks second- or third-tier Chinese manufacturers to do their worst, and advertises it to you. If you’re willing to wait 14 days for delivery, it’s dead cheap. This suggests they may even be manufacturing on demand and air freighting, eliminating inventory as far as…

December 11, 2017 by yorksranter 27 comments

The Two Cultures 2017: Merit versus Brilliance

David Davis’ sensational confession that he hadn’t done the Brexit impact assessments and in fact hadn’t bothered to read the halfbaked document pulled together after it became clear he couldn’t get away without releasing something gave me an insight. There is a huge cultural divide in the country between two forces we could call the…

December 4, 2017 by yorksranter 4 comments

Cyberfolk But Shit: Trump and the Stinking Pond

I was reading this post about White House CoS John Kelly trying to control Trump’s consumption of #snackable #edgy #content and failing when it reminded me of something. Trump Twitter is like Cyberfolk but shit. To unpack a bit, while cybernetics pioneer and blog icon Stafford Beer was working on Cybersyn, Chile’s experimental real-time planned…

December 4, 2017 by yorksranter 1 comment

Excuse for a cool map post

This Adam Tooze post about Egyptian surrealists mentions the curious way the era of the World Wars put British-occupied Egypt, a peripheral, semicolonial territory, into the middle of the world. The logistical circuits of the First Globalization had been cut across and reconfigured. Although Suez had been important for decades, now there was also a…

High-NA EUV: Intel zu Chancen und Risiken der neuen Technik - Hardwareluxx
Die ersten Meteor-Lake-Prozessoren wurden noch in Oregon per Foveros auf ein entsprechendes Packaging gebracht, die Chips selbst kamen ebenfalls aus Oregon und Irland sowie Taiwan. Inzwischen dürften die Chips in der neuen Fab in New Mexico als Foveros-Package verarbeitet werden. Das finale Packaging findet dann in Malaysia statt...Das Rectile-Limit, also die maximale Größe der Chips, […]
From low-level drug dealer to human trafficker: are modern slavery laws catching the wrong people? | UK criminal justice | The Guardian
When it went to court in 2018, the trial collapsed after the defence claimed the prosecution had failed to prove that the alleged victims had in fact been recruited. The judge dismissed the trafficking charge, in part because she was not convinced the teenagers had been coerced. This was successfully challenged at the court of […]
NRL news 2024 | Sad decline of ex Balmain, South Sydney, Western Suburbs star John Bilbija | The Mole exclusive
He grew up in Sydney's west and ironically, his parents banned him from league, believing the game to be too rough.
Agent Truss
Truss can’t not say this stuff, because she believes it and she means it. She wants to continue to play a role in public life and get her ideas across. She thinks they’re good ideas, she thinks she was right and she thinks her downfall was mostly not her fault. A more astute politician might […]
Rishi Sunak Hit by Fresh Poll Blows as Working Age Voters Desert Tories - Bloomberg
JL Partners found that over-70s are now the only age group more likely to vote Tory than Labour — leaving the government ever more reliant on pensioners for support. Labour leads the Tories by 29 points among all voters under 65-years-old, the poll found. Among voters between the ages of 50 and 65, who the […]
Forbes 2024 AI 50 List - Top Artificial Intelligence Startups
Notion is a stretch and even HuggingFace and OpenAI have been around for a while. Good list though
First batch of system manufacturers for Nvidia's next-gen AI GPU emerges
Foxconn and Wiwynn, which did not manufacture H100-based systems, now join the ranks of Supermicro, Quanta, Wistron, and ZT Systems in assembling the next generation of Nvidia's AI servers.
US border states grow enticing as EV cluster forms in Southwest
telling how these things slam right into the purple.
Despite terrible initial reviews for Ai Pin, IC design sector still optimistic about prospects of HMI innovation
there isn't significant room for innovation in smartphone controls at the moment. Gesture controls on smartphones won't be more intuitive or convenient than touch controls. In contrast, with PCs currently still relying on keyboards, mice, and touchpads as the primary control methods, it leaves more room for imagination in new HMI controls.
China's two ways of building AI GPU ecosystems to compete with Nvidia
Even if "partially compatible" with CUDA, there will be a greater "performance loss," resulting in the product price/performance ratio lagging behind Nvidia, and at the same time, because CUDA contains many of the proprietary features of Nvidia's high-end AI GPU hardware, which is difficult to be reflected in the other Chinese AI chips.