2006

March 5, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

Firedump: A6-ZYD

From the Sharjah Airport online arrivals boards: 05-Mar 10:24 Kabul Flying Dolphin Airlines FDN 612 Estimated : 10:24 Flying Dolphin Airlines is an original-gangster Viktor Bout operation that officially doesn’t exist any more, having been reorganised into the supposedly legit “Dolphin Air”. FDN is on the UNSCR 1532 blacklist, unlike Dolphin Air, and here it…

March 5, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

DSR: Best Ever!

TYR is the top result on MSNSearch for “leone the penis sucker”. Search request received at 0644Z, 05/03/06, from someone in Aussie ISP BigPond’s Victoria state ADSL pool.

March 4, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

Though you may wish it were otherwise..

..all events reported on this blog actually happened in reality. Not so on belarustoday.blogspot.com, which bears the enigmatic warning: This website is part of a foreign policy simulation. The events depicted are not actually taking place. It’s all the work of some bunch of political science wonks doing a scenario planning exercise. Apparently they wanted…

March 4, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

AC-130s Off to Iraq

Enter the backup. The USAF is quietly deploying AC-130U gunships to Al-Udeid AFB in Iraq. Apparently it was a secret until an AP reporter spotted one of them on the ground and noticed it was no ordinary C130. This is a clear sign that someone’s expecting big trouble. Edit: Looking at the story again, I…

March 4, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

700 Km on a Tank of Diesel

This is a motorbike a long way from home. It’s built by Royal Enfield in India and is based on a British design from the 1930s. Here’s the interesting bit – back in the 1950s, farmers who bought them began to do interesting things with the bikes. For example, they removed the original petrol engine…

March 4, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

Pirates of the Day

This looks interesting. Via.

March 4, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

Across the Spectrum: GSM in Iraq

Not just GSM, but perhaps even fixed-mode WiMAX (802.16-2004) too. IEEE Spectrum has a fantastic feature on the success of mobile telecoms in Iraq, contrasting with the far worse progress of the copperwire system and (as reported in last month’s issue) the disastrous failure of electricity restoration. Before going on further, can I just point…

March 4, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

Mills vs. Mills

So long, darling, and don’t let the hedge fund hit you on the way out. The ruthlessness of these people is still somehow surprising, but it makes sense. Berlusconi left him to twist in the wind, so did his alibi the shipowner, now Tessa. The Blairite tradition of disgrace being a passing phase (see Blunkett)…

March 4, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

Mice, Pigs, Chickens

The Kenya Standard is open for business once more. On that theme, a comment.. Kenyananalyst to me More options 2:45 pm (2 hours ago)I find it inconceivable and foolhardy that: 1. The President hasn’t still found it fit to commenton something supposedly touching on our national, andby extension, his own security. 2. That Hon. Michuki…

March 4, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

Op. Firedump: 3C-QRF May Escape

Worrying news has reached me from various sources that the San Air General Trading BAC-111 s/n 61, 3C-QRF, formerly used to bring arms into the DRC, host secret meetings with Libyan spooks and ferry around the girls of Hustler magazine, may yet escape from Bucharest before being condemned under the UN freeze list. The story…

HBM memory supply to scale in 2025
each HBM3E chip has a capacity of 24Gb, which is a 50% increase over the 16Gb of HBM3. With greater single-chip capacity of HBM and increasing GPU integration of HBM, large-scale mass production of HBM3E will require more overall DRAM capacity. According to industry analysts, HBM3E employs approximately two to three times the wafer volume […]
Towards Cross-Cultural Machine Translation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Multilingual Knowledge Graphs
Finally, we feed the hidden states 𝐡+kg+e to the decoder of the MT model, which is now able to also attend to the entity embeddings from the retriever and fuse them with its hidden states. Our intuition is that the embeddings 𝐞i from the knowledge retriever can contain useful fine-grained, latent information about the retrieved […]
Divide-or-Conquer? Which Part Should You Distill Your LLM? - Apple Machine Learning Research
These results indicate that by using smaller, distilled problem decomposition models in combination with problem solving LLMs we can achieve reasoning with cost-efficient inference and local adaptation // Apple is doing a lot of these! this one has a model that makes a plan, and then the plan is executed by other task specific models
4M-21: An Any-to-Any Vision Model for Tens of Tasks and Modalities
We are able to train a single unified model on diverse modalities by encoding them with modality-specific discrete tokenizers (see fig. 3). For image-like modalities, e.g. RGB or edges, we train ViT-based [24] VQ-VAE [63] tokenizers to map the inputs into a small grid of discrete tokens. For modalities like 3D human poses or image […]
The Fraudulent Science of Success - The Atlantic
Among the four research papers in which Gino was accused of cheating is one about the human tendency to misreport facts and figures for personal gain. Which is to say: She was accused of faking data for a study of when and how people might fake data. Amazingly, a different set of data from the […]
Generalizable Autoregressive Modeling of Time Series Through Functional Narratives - Apple Machine Learning Research
Analogous to the next word prediction task in languages that learns narratives by connecting different words, our autoregressive transformer aims to learn the Narratives of Time Series (NoTS) by connecting different functions in time // transformers are good at predicting the next word, if we look at a time series as a sentence of functions, […]
2410.09407v1.pdf
great paper! doing complicated agent stuff on a phone without RAGging. also MS Phi shines again. why why would Apple do that...
A Hackney Story - The Fence
Another drug dealer who sold crack and heroin as a young man in Hackney over the 1990s and 2000s, and who does not want to be identified because he still sells cocaine [well, that's a good reason!], remembers that LOM was a bigger threat than the police. // also contains the controversial assertion that Hackney […]
Nvidia outpaces revenue estimates with strong data center growth amid mixed analyst reactions
q-o-q now 17%
Japan expected to announce additional US$1.3 billion investment in Rapidus
The government's increased stake in Rapidus through direct investment allows it greater control and governance over the company, marking the first time it will hold equity in Rapidus. By October 2027, when Rapidus is set to begin mass production of 2nm chips, the government plans to exchange factory assets for shares in the company.