Recommendation for anyone wanting to get into the gory, shocking details of WWI:

The podcast, Dan Carlin's A blueprint for Armageddon[1].

Over 24 hours on the topic, and I was left absolutely devastated by the descriptions of the impact and events of WWI. I guess I just didn't have a great appreciation or knowledge of WWI. At least for me, my grade school education was mostly focused on WWII and other more recent conflicts.

1 - https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-55-blu...

I really appreciated G. J. Meyer’s “A World Undone”. My [lack of] understanding of the conflict before reading that did not prepare me for how farcical and devastating the war was.

https://www.alibris.com/A-World-Undone-The-Story-of-the-Grea...

It’s a long, sometimes tough read (because of the contents, not the writing, which is very well done), but worth it.

We just had ANZAC day in NZ [commemorating WWI/battle of gallipoli). A bunch of (I'm guessing younger people) are getting up in arms that it's glorification of war and whataboutism on other things going on the world "why don't we do x about y", "we shouldn't be celebrating it" etc etc.

They really missed the point that it's about not forgetting the brutality of war - to remember those who served and died under horrific circumstances. One of the key phrases is "lest we forget". However I fear we are, as each generation passes from WWI/WWII the horrors gradually get diluted.

While we don't have kids it's apparent the younger generations are not getting the stories of WWI/WWII passed down and their exposure to it is the glorification through Hollywood.

Thank you good HN'er for posting this up. It's always important to remember so we as a world don't go back there.

On the theme of Dan Carlin and generational dilution, the first episode ever was an interesting exploration of how Alexander and Hitler through that lens.

It's completely different to the current audiobook like format, but the early episodes are still well worth a look.

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-1-alexand...

I totally recommend this, especially if you haven't heard Dan's podcasts before. One of his best, next to Death Throes of The Republic (if you want a fascinating depiction of pre-Empire Roman history)

Couldn't agree more, this podcast is amazing. Worth multiple listens and definitely worth the price of admission.

As far as I can tell, its optional dependency is Open MP, not CUDA. Doesn't seem directly dependent on CUDA.

The plan is to eventually implement with CUDA:

"Currently, I am working on [...] direct CUDA implementation, which will be significantly faster and probably come close to PyTorch."

Yes, a quick skim of the code only shows openmp dependency. The C/CUDA reference might have meant to be C/OMP .

Although I wonder if it would work well with GCC PTX OMP offloading.

and cooling!

Imagine the heat sink on that thing. Would look like a cast-iron Dutch oven :)

The one of the videos posted here gets into that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39693930: https://vimeo.com/853557623

Thanks for sharing! Very interesting.

"We call it the engine block because it somewhat resembles a three cylinder motorcycle engine"

(referring to the power distribution and cooling)

24kW translates to like 32hp, so you could imagine this thing with a liquid cooling loop hooked up to something that looks like a car radiator.

24kW is on the lower end of a home heating gas boiler.

Then just connect the water loop to the house heaters...

Finally, a chip that outmatches the Noctua NH-D15!

original title is:

"4,000,000,000,000 Transistors, One Giant Chip (Cerebras WSE-3)"

So I guess they're trying to stay true to it.

There are times where diverting from normal conventions make sense. The average consumer might not know that 1Gb/s is faster than 750Mb/s. That being said, I don't think I've ever seen anything along the lines of 1G,000b/s.

very murdery! Never even seen coffee that color :)

Maybe the poor civet had bloody bowels that day :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak

I enjoyed the game! There was a whole lot of civilizational collapse due to food-borne illness. Maybe throw in a comet strike, or more varied geological changes (flipping magnetic poles, ice-ages, tsunami, sea-level rise, etc...).

It's incredible to think about how many cataclysms humanity has lived through, yet also how many we have been lucky to avoid (so far...)

Anyone know what is happening, or happened, with shakti db[1]?

It's been years since Arthur started this other k-variant.

1- https://shakti.com/

It's around, and they recently stopped providing free download links for recent versions, from which I take it that they have a reasonable enterprise sales program rolling now.

The feature split on the free / enterprise edition holds a lot back; my vibe on the free version was it was just enough to validate that shakti is performant, and then they want you to pay.

I'm thinking they automatically fed in bulk images, asking for product description/title, and put the result straight into their product descriptions/titles. Some of the images triggered the OpenAI guard rails.

I think you're missing how this technology works. The basis for these models is training data. And to train anything, you need to label the data. So prompt engineering is simply using the lexicon, terminology and language labeling choices that were in the training data labeling. I suppose the models can conflate different words and terms, but to some degree the more you do that, the less precise or specific you can be in your prompt, and the generated result.

   Looks like they are trying to drive people to their sites judging from the long list of URLs on their profile

I can't imagine that's very effective. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I rarely (i.e. < 1% of the time) look at a profile AND follow links found therein.