2024-05-20
A few thoughts. — In many cases (but not all) we *should* be removing outdated or superseded content. Leaving it online can cause confusion + clutter for users looking for current info. — For your important science bits, use persistent IDs! Use for all sharing, citations, talks, etc. …
Pew Research Center
About 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are unavailable now and 8% of pages from 2023 are unavailable; 23% of news pages have at least one broken link
2024-03-30
Looking forward to the various sub projects, including — Stargate v.Goa'uld (malware pre-installed), — Stargate v.Ori (burns out your servers), and — Stargate v.Wraith (eats all your data) [embedded post]
The Information
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are planning a $100B data center project with a US-based supercomputer dubbed “Stargate” to power OpenAI's products
Executives at Microsoft and OpenAI have been drawing up plans for a data center project that would contain a supercomputer …
2024-03-19
Hmm, my list of questions and concerns is a mile long. Who designs, vets, and updates the models? What data are used, and who gets to decide that? And how do they convey the varying levels of uncertainty for different parameters? [embedded post]
VentureBeat
Nvidia unveils Earth-2, a platform that lets users create AI-powered climate simulations ranging from global atmospheric conditions to local weather phenomena
and now it wants to use its digital twin to crack weather forecasting for good Bluesky: Cian / @cbdawson.bsky.social : Hmm, my list of questions and concerns is a mile long. Who d...
Hmm, my list of questions and concerns is a mile long. Who designs, vets, and updates the models? What data are used, and who gets to decide that? And how do they convey the varying levels of uncertainty for different parameters? [embedded post]
CNBC
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU
- Nvidia on Monday announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models.
2023-11-15
“Meta ultimately decided that it would continue to accept money to run election ads on its services”... This is what it's ultimately about, making money by allowing their platform to spread what is known to be false information that undermines public confidence in US federal elections. [embedded post]
Wall Street Journal
In 2022, Meta quietly began letting ads say past US elections were “rigged” or “stolen”; sources say execs made the decision based on free speech considerations
Company weighed free-speech considerations in changing its policy last year