Is the money in your pension “virtual money”?

Microsoft didn’t lose 10%. Investment funds holding Microsoft lost 10%, and they invest other people’s money.

At this point, not having AI would be a selling point.

Post WW2 America has dragged us into far more conflict than we should have been part of. I think the only conflict the UK has entered of it’s own accord is the Falklands war. Other than that it’s been UN peacekeeping forces, NATO operations, or (and these are the problem ones) trying to make US operations not look unilateral (e.g. Iraq 1 & 2).

They’ve also made sure all our innovation goes to them first.

Now I’m sure there have been benefits to having the US in our corner, but I think we’ve been exploited in a lot of ways for the sake of the “special relationship”.

No. You don’t get to say this is ok because it’s Labour. This is authoritarian power grabs. Nobody voted for this because this was never shared with the public.

Labour, Tories and Reform all need to be cast into the wilderness for decades over what’s going on right now.

I like the “Simplicité, Sécurité, Souveraineté” theme. Echos of “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”

There’s so many more ways than that. Every country has alternate versions. For example German with Hans and Czech with Honza. UK has Ian, Ewan , and more.

I work in the semiconductor industry, but have little to do with physical aspects.

Ok. I’m not familiar with them. I was just relaying my impression from the start of the article.

Article is about research by IMEC (a chip packaging company) into dealing with the heat problems encountered with stacked dies such as HBM memories with a GPU.

You have to get a third of the way in before they really get to the topic.

Me with company emails on outlook: “It’s down? Didn’t notice.”

…paid to browse the web.

Shame the web doesn’t really exist anymore.

Well I don’t think they’re growing. Depending on the sector all the AI data scanning is a concern for a number of companies. I’ve seen a lot of European discussions about getting away from US cloud services too.

If they lose all the money they have pumped into AI, then they will be relying on Windows and Office.

Good for them that both of those are currently doing fine.

It’s a big matrix multiplier that is tailored for machine learning model evaluation (not training). Often they are low precision as that’s all you need for model evaluation (or “inference”).

Think of it as a much less useful GPU because it won’t do graphics.

Is that down to anti-cheat software?

Need to solve the discover-ability of it though. Peertube is only useful if you know what you’re going there for.

Zero sounds a bit high.

Indeed. COVID showed that the populace would defer to the government and do as they were told. Before lockdown there was a general feeling that only a country like China could lockdown it’s population. In the west, freedom and liberty were too precious.

And then they went and locked us down showing the government had far more power than it realised.

Is normally unknown due to not knowing the person though. Using “they” with someone known to you feels rude. As if you’re saying “I don’t include Grace in my circle, so I use “they” to keep them distant”.

It really sticks in the throat.

“you” isn’t a pronoun at all.