September 2010

September 3, 2010 by yorksranter 1 comment

dsr

Creepy google searches of the week: “who writes the blog for yorkshire ranter” and “identity of yorkshire ranter”. Someone in a BT dynamic-IP pool.

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.
BYD-designed, TSMC-made automotive chip rumored to involve MediaTek collaboration
oooh
SK Hynix accelerates US expansion with new packaging facility, strengthens ties with TSMC, Nvidia
The expansion plans highlight the potential formation of a comprehensive AI chip ecosystem in the US, as both TSMC and SK Hynix establish new facilities while strengthening their partnership with Nvidia. SK Hynix, currently Nvidia's largest HBM supplier, integrates its HBM with Nvidia's GPUs through TSMC's 2.5D packaging, particularly utilizing the CoWoS-L technology for 12-layer […]
Employment growth in Europe. Stark differences. | Real-World Economics Review Blog
these factors caused a HUGE increase in the labour force after around 1995. When 2009 the Great Financial Crisis struck, EU economists did not grasp the chance to re-employ these people but stated that anything below 20% unemployment would increase inflation in, for instance, Spain. Morons. This means that, fifteen years after the crisis and […]
A Nudge From JPMorgan Spurred UK to Probe Staley’s Epstein Links - Bloomberg
One such detail emerged Monday when it was revealed in a London court filing that Staley’s adult daughter, Alexa Staley, acted as a go-between for him and Epstein, despite Jes Staley’s claim that he cut ties with the sex offender after becoming Barclays CEO.
Bromley man jailed for hiring sex worker for 13-year-old son | News Shopper
The dad arranged for two sex workers to attend a hotel in Bromley then told his son “don’t be a pussy” when he said he didn’t want to have sex with a 26-year-old. He also offered his son a line of cocaine, but his son replied “I’m f**ing 13, that’s ridiculous”. At his sentencing hearing […]