lokimedes

It requires ones own mind to fell “taken advantage of” - if one is smart enough to be kind, one most remember to be kind to oneself as well, and not care about what the sad critters gets from the leftovers.

Stoicism promote exactly this virtue of understanding that you are in control of interpreting your own feelings.

I run Gitea on my old Synology NAS, fast as a devil, especially when compared to Gitlab.

You bet. (Let’s just say the funding for these devices have a bearing on submarines)

Those with the spirit to strike, will always dominate those with a mind to moderate.

Well, Intelligence is arguably represented in a “prior” that skews the result to an optimum faster, with fewer iterations. What the article is describing as intelligence is exactly the opposite, it’s just brute force.

I love this guy. Totally living out my physicist-tinker dreams.

This one was my go-to for HPC, but it may be a bit dated by now: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Performance-Computing-Sc...

There’s a couple of “concerns” you may separate to make this a bit more tractable:

1. Learning CUDA - the framework, libraries and high-layer wrappers. This is something that changes with times and trends.

2. Learning high-performance computing approaches. While a GPU and the Nvlink interfaces are Nvidia specific, working in a massively-parallel distributed computing environment is a general branch of knowledge that is translatable across HPC architectures.

3. Application specifics. If your thing is Transformers, you may just as well start from Torch, Tensorflow, etc. and rely on the current high-level abstractions, to inspire your learning down to the fundamentals.

I’m no longer active in any of the above, so I can’t be more specific, but if you want to master CUDA, I would say learning how massive-parallel programming works, is the foundation that may translate into transferable skills.

It was just called software. People ran it on their own servers. It worked just fine.

Most of that software could run on prem. The problem is that bundling hosting with the actual software in many cases translates into a way to confuse the expense of one for the other. Things that don’t incur operating expenses shouldn’t be charged as a monthly fee, that is rent seeking. Forcing someone to pay for “services” like hosting, “upgrades”, etc. to gain access to the software is what I find problematic. Now that the business model has become dominant, it is hard to find any software not on a SaaS-like payment plan. Adobe, Autodesk, Microsoft, etc. all sold software and now all sell subscriptions with little added value to the customer. But the cashflow of a rent model, as forewarned in “Wealth of nations” is so ensnaring it can only be avoided by law. Yet here we are.

It is Adam Smith’s “rent seeking” in a modern hyper-scalable form. It should be shunned and criminalized on a basis of anti-social economics. Now the other extreme of free software is, arguably, also (economically) bad, as it fails to reward the effort of the creators proportionally to the value gained by the user.

Let us buy our software, and separately, offer us a service agreement that actually has to provide value in its own right. The bundling of these in SaaS is what makes this obscene.

The phrase “considered harmful” should be “considered harmful”. It’s basically an argumentation trick, raising a subjective conclusion to a neutral and objective conclusion without any qualification.

There’s an epic battle raging between Gibson’s Cyberpunks and Clarke’s Spacefarers.

The former seems to be winning.

Feature request for Mk V: An onboard committee of three atomic clocks to ensure proper uncertainty estimation when GPS is lost.

Personally, the freedom to pursue my scientific curiosity is the only motivation to seek wealth. If I by virtue of satisfying wealthy people’s interests in fundamental physics could sustain my life and research, I wouldn’t care about accumulating wealth for myself.

I was part of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN. We had an annual collaboration meeting in Copenhagen, perhaps in 2012 or so. Poul Allen’s yacht was moored in the harbor, across from the venue. It as the high point of CERN hype, and we knew that he was a patron of the sciences. So a delegation (our spokesperson etc.) was sent with some ATLAS merchandise to greet him, and perhaps suggest a sponsorship of some student activities. Allen was a uniquely generous person when it came to science, but historically, science is a gentleman activity for men og free time, so it surely happens.

SAR satellites have also prove useful: https://medium.com/@HarelDan/x-marks-the-spot-579cdb1f534b

Sentinel 1, if I recall, is C band. But the technique would work for X-band as well, like TerraSAR-X and other commercial satellites.

Just finding it mildly amusing to consider that in the messed up economics we are entering with Trump, there may be a shift to value investing, something I have always associated with Buffett.

And now after decades of stock buybacks, quantitative easing and other mad financial manipulation, comes again the time for value investors, and he leaves?! :)

I wish Europe (EU) could be selected as a common entity. The continents as well.

My childhood was spent reading Clarke, Asimov and the likes. Not for the gloom of runaway AIs or societal collapse, but from the glimmers of technology and advancement that was hidden in their stories.

The purpose of the (pre-print) arChive is to allow for a wider circulation during review. That many today simply leave their stuff on Arxiv without publishing is arguably a bit of “cargoculting”, as it signals legitimacy without any quality control.

For a continent with two world wars within a span of 30 years, Europe was ready for US hegemony in 1944. The Trump narrative is not really based on neither US nor European logic, but his own particular kind of gaslighting.

The LHC is a discovery machine, so a large number of searches for new physics as well as measurements of known physics can take place at the same time.

The idea that it is a single-trick experiment is a misconception. Its a quantum statistical experiment where proton collisions at high energy yields random particles based on the probability of specific interactions taking place.

Nice to see this posted here.

With the changing world order, I have been studying what happened in and after WWII to learn how science helped shift the center of power from Europe to the US. We Europeans have very little knowledge of exactly how to take the big bets that has served the US militarily and economically since then.

Here’s some of my (slightly rambling) notes from reading the Endless Frontier with this aim:

https://skaersoe.com/2025/03/19/lessons-from-vannevar-bush-o...

Currently I’m looking for like minded people to communicate the gap: https://frontier.ngo/

Look for books like “The Asperkid’s (secret) book of social rules”.

So far we are buying electricity based on the supply-demand price. When will availability be factored into the price? It find it untenable to have that floating, just for the sake of allowing volatile solar and wind on the grid at the cost of baseload providers.

Good riddance. I for one look forward to real technology becoming valued again, not digital rent seeking.

Let’s build something useful and amazing that elevates the human experience, rather than sucking the last drop of dopamine out of consumers.

Government infrastructure under attack, Musk is demanding nuclear retaliation as we speak.

(Misinformation disclaimer :: Joke)

RISC is good.