Infrastructure set-up & open-source scripts to train a 70B model from bare metal
We would like to thank Voltage Park, Dell, H5, and NVIDIA for their invaluable partnership and help with setting up our cluster. A special thanks to Ozan, Melissa, Drew, Michael, and David at Voltage Park for their dedicated support throughout the project. Setting up a cluster of this size is an enormous challenge and we […]
200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 200 people have been charged in a sweeping nationwide crackdown on health care fraud schemes with false claims topping $2.7 billion, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the charges against doctors, nurse practitioners and others across the U.S. accused of a variety of scams, including a […]
Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals Hidden Connections () Distant Civilizations
By Jo Marchant Photographs by Roger Anis On a sunny morning this past January, Ingo Strauch, an expert in ancient Indian history, crouches in the courtyard of what was once an Egyptian temple. The floor is littered with fallen stones and columns. Nearby, carved hieroglyphs are visible on the salt-corroded walls, which in some places […]
A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves
The Valve.Computer Project My stepdaughter is a senior Product Manager and my stepson is a Chartered Engineer and he frequently works as a Project Manager. They would know how to manage this project. Luckily they are too successful and busy to ever read this, thank goodness! I tried doing the project management on a PC […]
Slack to destroy >90d history of free communities
Slack today sent an announcement email indicating they will delete free workspace content older than a year, and that “Free workspaces will continue to have full access to the past 90 days of message history and file storage.” Just another reason to always be a step ahead and anticipate startups and companies like Slack, GitHub, […]
SCOTUS rejects Sacklers’ immunity, blowing up opioid settlement
Enlarge / Grace Bisch holds a picture of stepson Eddie Bisch who died as a result of an overdose on outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on December 4, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court heard arguments regarding a nationwide settlement with Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin. Getty | Michael A. McCoy In […]
Misconceptions About Loops in C
When performing program analysis, loops are one of the most important aspects that needs to be taken into account. In the past, many approaches have been proposed to analyze loops to perform different tasks, ranging from compiler optimizations to Worst-…
The Bleak Genius of Michel Foucault
Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault. Four decades since complications from AIDS brought his career to a premature end, the French philosopher—a role he both embraced and pushed away—continues to top rankings of the most-cited scholars in the humanities. This is to the chagrin of conservative critics of higher education, […]
The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player
I was 10 when I first told my folks that I wanted to give up playing tennis. They didn’t yield then, and they never did. Tennis was our family business. I first picked up a racket at the age of three, and spent 15 years of my life travelling the world in pursuit of entry […]
Entrust Certificate Distrust
Posted by Chrome Root Program, Chrome Security Team The Chrome Security Team prioritizes the security and privacy of Chrome’s users, and we are unwilling to compromise on these values. The Chrome Root Program Policy states that CA certificates included in the Chrome Root Store must provide value to Chrome end users that exceeds the risk […]