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How can Snowdon possibly feel as the international situation changes so totally since he fled? It boggles the mind.

UUID 7 is so much easier than the ULID in the article manipulate. Pretty much every language and database has the string manipulation and from_hex functions to extract the timestamps without any special support function. Whereas a format that is too clever is way more complicated to work with.

Isn’t there a suspicion that OpenAI buying custom chips from another Sam Altman venture is just graft? Wasn’t that one of the things that came up when the board tried to out him?

Admittedly in a different league speed wise but also scope wise is my very fast timestamp library for Java https://github.com/williame/TimeMillis

This focuses on string <-> timestamp and a few other utilities that are super common in data processing and where the native Java date functions are infamously slow.

I wrote it for some hot paths in some pipelines but was super pleased my employer let me share it. Hope it helps others.

The OpenAI pitch for “publishing partnerships” (basically buying bias and placement) leaked last year.

People made the decision to have each child at least 9 months before the child was born. And in the subsequent years and 9 months anything could have happened, eg illness or losing a job. So even careful planners might be unlucky enough to need food banks?

All the EV owners in Scandinavia don’t have practical problems charging in winter at will.

Does Britain have any privatisation success stories? Or any public-private partnership (PPP) success stories?

Does any country have any success stories?

I can’t think of any.

Wasn’t there a scandal about doors falling off that came back to missing screws missed in cutback inspections that had been outsourced to a split off subsidiary or something like that?

If these were esims they would be much harder to detect or remove?

BYD electric busses have recently rolled out where I live in Sweden.

(Nokia went from king to pauper in the year when the iPhone and then Android launched. They death spiralled and Elop was brought in a few years later to transition them to using Microsoft Windows mobile. However, windows mobile was as old and uncompetitive as Symbian so couldn’t compete. Was very obvious at the time although the boards seem to have been living in their dream worlds)

Yeah different perspectives. Some people find diy easy and are quite happy to tinker with things. Where I live is currently suffering a wild boar infestation and I’m happily setting up an electric fence system for basically no money at all whilst a neighbour just paid a lot of money for someone to install it for them. I wish I had a good property for hydro or stored water batteries!

I have seen some really shockingly cheap homemade stored water systems on YouTube (I’m into that kind of thing so there’s a lot of it in my feed) so if you own a hill and have sufficient recharge even in winter then it’s super cheap install that makes even a meagre battery seem expensive. But you have to have the terrain.

Also, in the case of the kind of chips we are talking about, the cadence is probably tied to contracts and projects. If the government built supercomputers more often then the chips would get updated more quickly?

Their customers are building supercomputers?

The other company I can think of focusing on F64 is Fujitsu with its A64FX processor. This is an ARM64 with really meaty SIMD to get 3TFLOP of FP64.

I guess it it hard to compare chip for chip but the question is, if you are building a supercomputer (and we ignore pressure to buy sovereign) then which is better bang for the buck on representative workloads?

Talking of farming, are there any numbers on if AcreTrader or other similar companies has been buying up farmland, and if so how JD Vance’s investment has been performing?

Less likely to be banned outright, more likely to be upsell attempts and pay as you go micro billing

Yeah it’s just to filter out those who are hopeless, which is far too many.

But at the same time they are fielding multiple new stealth aircraft and their jets and missiles outperformed western aircraft in the recent Pakistan India flare-up.

A handful of billionaires are in direct control of the West’s training/alignment. Then there are some sheiks in the Middle East and the communist party in China…

This is a tangent but i personally dream of the EU doing a university led effort to make a benign AI. Because it is the last crumbling bastion of liberal democracy.

This story doesn’t really gel with my understanding as an EV owner in Europe.

The post says that Tesla hold their value better than Chinese newcomers but that absolutely isn’t the prices I’m seeing in Europe.

In Europe Tesla resale value has plummeted due to brand destruction. Tesla was super popular when they launched as the first realistic EV to hit the main time. But they quickly got a poor reputation for build quality and never delivering on self-driving, and that was before the political damage the owner did which seems never recoverable in at least a generation.

Meanwhile comparable Chinese entrants are so new they aren’t yet at the 3 year mark where fleets sell off to second hand market.

Another interesting thing about non-Tesla EVs is that there aren’t a lot being resold; if you got one, you likely hang onto it. Personally I’ve just not yet let go of my Kia EV6 even though it sailed past the normal trade in point recently.

Right, when the Europeans say the tax is paid as you earn and the authorities let you file differences free and easily, they mean the vast majority of tax payers. It is rare to be the exception.

Whereas I guess American Exceptionism (tm) means you all have to pay a rent seeking company to file taxes…?

Dictators discuss life-extending organ transplants https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly1w9z72r6o.amp

Perhaps the first thing the owners ask the first true AGI is “how do I dominate the world?” and the AGI outlines how to stop any competitor getting AGI..?

Unlike railroads and fibre, all the best compute in 2025 will be lacklustre in 2027. It won’t retain much value in the same way as the infrastructure of previous bubbles did?

Speculating but they pay to be integrated as the default ai integration in various places the same way google has paid to be the default search engine on things like the iPhone?

There is a YouTuber making a really remote cabin in I think northern Canada called Off Grid Engineering and he has a similar narrative style. Nice :). Recommended

There are lots of young whippersnappers and “old timers” in the “west” who could easily do the Low level make it quick on small hardware stuff, the US companies just aren’t asking us to?

A human neuron is a thousand times bigger than a transistor.

There are directions hardware and algorithms have been going in - parallel processing - that are not limited by fabrication?