Spine AI (YC S23) Is Hiring a Lead ML Scientist
🚀 About Spine AI Spine AI helps companies build AI copilots for their products. Spine’s AI agents work across both documents and APIs, enabling a conversational interface to do anything the product can and more. Our mission is to democratize AI technology and enable all companies to bring home the next era of product interfaces. […]
Why I Live in IRC (2015)
Note: This post is from 2015. Since then, a few things have changed about my setup. I now connect to my Weechat instance via Glowing Bear, which has eliminated some of the problems discussed below. People often look at me funny when I say I live in IRC. After reading this post, I hope you […]
New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – Rack-mounted pre-configured Linux mainframe
– Newest IBM LinuxONE system is engineered to deliver cybersecurity, resiliency, scalability and AI inferencing for hybrid cloud environments. – Moving Linux workloads from a compared x86 system to an IBM LinuxONE 4 Express can save over 52% on the total cost of ownership over 5 years.(1) Feb 6, 2024 ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 6, 2024 […]
Demystifying GPU compute architectures
Getting ‘low level’ with Nvidia and AMD GPUs NVIDIA_GeForce_8800GTX_G80___DSC01200 via Fritzchens Fritz https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65926359 The complexity of modern GPUs needn’t obscure the essence of how these machines work. If we are to make the most of the advanced technology in these GPUs then we need a little less mystique. I think this is one of the […]
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better
The world can be much better Progress over time shows that it was possible to change the world in the past, but do we know that it’s possible to continue this progress into the future? Or were we perhaps born at that unlucky moment in history at which progress has to come to a halt? […]
“Fake Chinese Income” Mortgages Fuel Toronto Real Estate Bubble: HSBC Bank Leaks
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: THE BUREAU INVESTIGATES TORONTO METHOD MORTGAGE LEAKS. The whistleblower, a Canadian business school graduate, was staggered by the suspicious home loans he discovered in 2022 when he joined a mortgage approval team in a small HSBC branch on the outskirts of Toronto. He knew of suspicions surrounding Chinese capital in British Columbia real […]
China spied on Dutch Cyber Intelligence through FortiGate backdoors
Nieuwsbericht | 06-02-2024 | 15:33 De Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD) heeft Chinese cyberspionage in Nederland blootgelegd. De dienst ontdekte geavanceerde Chinese malware die dit mogelijk maakt. Een Chinese statelijke actor is hiervoor verantwoordelijk. Dit stelt de MIVD op basis van eigen inlichtingen vast. Vergroot afbeelding China gebruikt dit type malware voor spionage op computernetwerken. […]
BuildKit in depth: Docker’s build engine explained
This article explains how BuildKit works in depth, why it’s faster than Docker’s previous build engine, and what it looks like under the hood. BuildKit is Docker’s new default build engine as of Docker Engine v23.0. Despite BuildKit being used by millions of developers, the documentation out there is relatively sparse. This has led to […]
The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires
The Control of Nature The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires Strategies intended to safeguard forests and homes have instead increased the likelihood that they’ll burn. By Elizabeth Kolbert January 29, 2024 The planet is warming so fast that, a recent report observed, the models firefighters rely on to predict how blazes will behave have become […]
Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming
Sponges from the Caribbean retain a record of ocean temperatures stretching back hundreds of years. These newly revealed paleoclimate records suggest that sea surface temperatures (SSTs) began rising in response to industrial era fossil fuel burning around 1860. That’s 80 years earlier than SST measurements became common and predates the global warming start date used […]