January 30, 2004

January 30, 2004 by yorksranter 0 comments

Taiwanese city sees whale explode…

Thar she blows! – Sydney Morning Herald A sperm whale weighing 50 metric tonnes has burst in the Taiwanese city of Tainan. It was dead at the time – but it certainly is now! The motor scooter is the feature that makes it, I think. The whole sad story remind me of the whale falling…

From inside an obliterated Gaza, gunfire not a ceasefire
“We still have a mission here,” insists Major Omer, commander of an infantry company, who accompanied The Economist on a brief visit to Jabalia. “There are still Hamas snipers hiding, carrying out ambushes. It is now the most basic and bitter guerrilla war.” The young soldiers and officers may still believe in the mission, but […]
Clio_Paper.pdf
Here we highlight three particularly interesting task categories, sharing details from the privacy-preserving cluster titles and summaries generated by Clio. • Interpret and analyze dreams, consciousness, and altered states: conversations involved topics ranging from dream analysis and symbolism to exploring philosophical ideas about consciousness. • Roleplay as Dungeon Master for tabletop RPG adventures: users prompted […]
Nvidia's surprise alliance with MediaTek shakes up supercomputer sector
The timing of the GB10 disclosure, despite Project DIGITS not targeting mass-market adoption, suggests an effort to address market speculation...Huang announced that mass production of the GB10 has begun. However, supply chain sources indicate that chips designated for the AI PC market from the MediaTek-Nvidia partnership won't reach significant production volumes for at least a […]
Biden to further limit Nvidia AI chip exports in final push
The regulations, which could be issued as soon as Friday, would create three tiers of chip trade restrictions, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. At the top level, a small number of US allies would maintain essentially unmitigated access to American chips. A group of adversaries, meanwhile, […]
Nvidia to supply Toyota with AI chips to accelerate autonomous vehicle development
Previously, Toyota had already procured Nvidia chips for autonomous driving research, but their application was limited. Toyota, along with its affiliate Denso, had also been developing in-vehicle chips // I wonder if the point is that what with the ASIC project they got a deal?
The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay | Russia | The Guardian
The full sentence in Generation P is longer: “An anti-Russian conspiracy certainly exists – the only problem is that the entire adult population of Russia participates in it.”
Lyca ditches UK under guise of strategic growth
Off Lyca rat up a drain pipe
Russian-controlled Crimea's Artek youth camp hosted Assad children - BBC News
hilarious as I remember some US granolacore type going on about how good it would be if both sides in *Ukraine* in 2014 could have gone. (Of course they could have, being a bunch of old sovoks.) And guess who did? Assad's kids.
Ed Miliband pledges ‘most ambitious reforms to UK energy system in generations’ | Renewable energy | The Guardian
Reforming the system for connecting new projects to the national grid to prioritise the most viable projects; Speeding up decisions on planning permission by empowering planners to prioritise critical energy infrastructure; Expanding the renewable auction process to allow funding to be secured before planning permission in an effort to stop delays and get more projects […]
Instigator of Southport riots jailed for seven-and-a-half years after starting... - LBC
He set up a far-right Telegram channel called "Southport Wake Up", in the immediate aftermath of the knife attack in the Merseyside town on July 29 last year, Liverpool Crown Court was told on Monday. The far-right taxi-driver was arrested with a copy of Mein Kampf