June 26, 2005

June 26, 2005 by yorksranter 0 comments

Identity, and a good idea

John B. has an interesting post up about British and English identity. His premise is that, in effect, England doesn’t exist. Or at least, there are parts of the geographical entity of that name that do represent the stereotype “England”, but they should not obscure the parts of England that don’t. Now, I’ve been known…

Robert Farle – Wikipedia
Exquisite artisanal boomertrash. Tankie poseur who was either a champagne communist with a nice job or else on the DDR payroll and whose politics were about being a Stalinist after 1968. Then he became a tax adviser and wessi carpetbagger for his old apparatchik mates. Now he's a neo-nazi. But he was thrown out of […]
Day 1,509 in the Big Brother House - The Fence
‘Hey,’ she replied. ‘I would be down for this but you’ll have to go through my agent.’ I wasn’t yet familiar with the channels of communication for a disgraced reality TV contestant, so you can imagine my shock when Emily promptly blocked me after I responded in earnest: ‘I can’t go through your agent – […]
I tested DeepSeek's R1 and V3 coding skills - and we're not all doomed (yet) | ZDNET
DeepSeek V3 created both the user interface and program logic exactly as specified. As for DeepSeek R1, well that's an interesting case. The "reasoning" aspect of R1 caused the AI to spit out 4502 words of analysis before sharing the code.
I Saw What New, Young Post-MAGA Trump Supporters Look Like
“What does a conservative even look like anymore?” well, indeed.
Ant Breach on X: "Has anybody actually read the bill? It doesn't seem very good. It mandates a presumption in favour of all community energy projects of <100MW and a presumption against all energy projects >100MW It also proposes a Citizen Assembly
It mandates a presumption in favour of all community energy projects of 100MW It also proposes a Citizen Assembly that can just write new laws by itself // first, why? second, why are they so convinced a randomly selected panel agrees with them on all things?
Chinese AI company says breakthroughs enabled creating a leading-edge AI model with 11X less compute — DeepSeek's optimizations could highlight limits of US sanctions | Tom's Hardware
DeepSeek used the DualPipe algorithm to overlap computation and communication phases within and across forward and backward micro-batches and, therefore, reduced pipeline inefficiencies. In particular, dispatch (routing tokens to experts) and combine (aggregating results) operations were handled in parallel with computation using customized PTX (Parallel Thread Execution) instructions, which means writing low-level, specialized code that […]
DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA, uses Nvidia's assembly-like PTX programming instead | Tom's Hardware
For example, when training its V3 model, DeepSeek reconfigured Nvidia's H800 GPUs: out of 132 streaming multiprocessors, it allocated 20 for server-to-server communication, possibly for compressing and decompressing data to overcome connectivity limitations of the processor and speed up transactions. To maximize performance, DeepSeek also implemented advanced pipeline algorithms, possibly by making extra fine thread/warp-level […]
DJI Flip Review: A Fabulous Follow Me Folding Drone | WIRED
I’ll start by heaping praise on the first-of-its-kind folding design, which I adore. All four of the Flip’s propeller motors fold down below its body, stacking on top of each other; the result is a slim pod that's straight from the Star Wars universe. It’s not that much smaller than a folded Mini 4 Pro, […]
Alex Dimakis on X: "DeepSeek-R1 is amazing but they did not release their reasoning dataset. We release a high-quality open reasoning dataset building on the Berkeley NovaSky Sky-T1 pipeline and R1. Using this, we post-train a 32B model Bespoke-Stratos-32
We release a high-quality open reasoning dataset building on the Berkeley NovaSky Sky-T1 pipeline and R1. Using this, we post-train a 32B model Bespoke-Stratos-32B that shows o1-Preview reasoning performance. Surprisingly, we get good performance with only 17k questions-answers while DeepSeek distillation used 800k, i.e. 47x more data // while the bleating and takes continue the […]
‘It was triggered by a Fellini-esque woman who pulled a knife on someone’: how the Only Ones made Another Girl, Another Planet | Music | The Guardian
This song was triggered by meeting someone who had started hanging around our rehearsal rooms in King’s Cross, London. She was very Felliniesque and looked as if she had stepped out of 8 ½. She was an extremely eccentric character and one day she pulled a knife on another girl who was there...The label thought […]