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Seems like VTA has so much money to play with they can't be arsed to save a few million here and there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pGUE1drr7A

Main Pixar characters are all computer animated by humans. Physics effects like water, hair, clothing, smoke and background crowds use computer physics simulation but there are handles allowing an animator to direct the motion as per the directors wishes.

Thanks! I see there is a Fabtech event in the USA too https://www.fabtechexpo.com/

Thumbs up for Fushia Dunlop - she introduced me to sichuan dan-dan noodles.

My current favorite is the 'Made with Lau' channel. A retired Cantonese chef who teaches the techniques he mastered over the years in his restaurant in the US. Start with his oldest uploaded videos for the good stuff. https://www.youtube.com/@MadeWithLau

I have yet to see an example of progressive environmentalism solving a single problem for humanity in a sustainable manner. Houses made of mud and recycled bottles and 100 watt generators running of the nearby stream are not scalable.

Most immigration to the U.S. is through "family reunification".

Discussion on ultrafast ethernet and partners at AMD's December presentation. https://youtu.be/tfSZqjxsr0M?t=5198

It was a David against two Goliaths situation until recently.

Five years ago when AMD was recovering from near bankruptcy, it was battling Intel (100K+engineers) in CPUs and Nvidia (20K+ engineers) in GPUs

It was doing that with just 10K engineers and a fraction of the R&D budget of the giants.

Things have changed now. AMD has more than doubled their headcount and R&D budgets. Within the last year the company has pivoted to AI as their main focus.

That was a year ago. AMD is changing their software ecosystem at a rapid pace with AI software as a #1 priority. Experienced engineers have been reassigned from legacy projects to focus on AI software. They've bought a number of software startups that were already developing software in this space. It also looks like they replaced the previous AMD top level management with directors from Xilinx to reenergize the team.

To get a picture of the current state which has changed a lot, this MS Ignite presentation from three weeks ago may be of interest. The slides show the drop in compatibility they have for higher levels of the stack and the tools for translation at the lower levels. Finally there's a live demo at the end.

https://youtu.be/7jqZBTduhAQ?t=61

AMD made a presentation on their AI software strategy at Microsoft Ignite two weeks ago. Worth a watch for the slides and live demo

https://youtu.be/7jqZBTduhAQ?t=61

For stability, the poles should be in the left half of the plane.

I queued for you the part where Forrest Norad explains all this in today's presentation including a discussion on ultrafast ethernet. https://youtu.be/tfSZqjxsr0M?t=5198

That was a year ago. AMD is changing their software ecosystem at a rapid pace with AI software as a #1 priority.

To get a picture of the current state which has changed a lot this MS Ignite presentation may be of interest. https://youtu.be/7jqZBTduhAQ?t=61

They've gone so far to be code drop in compatible that an <import cuda> statement is still <import cuda> when running Rocm on AMD!

AMD made a presentation on their AI software strategy at Microsoft Ignite two weeks ago. Worth a watch for the slides and live demo

https://youtu.be/7jqZBTduhAQ?t=61

At today's AMD presentation the SVP of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure reveals it. https://youtu.be/tfSZqjxsr0M?t=2006

To fix this in Firefox

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I figured out how to fix this in Firefox

Settings | Privacy & Security | DNS over HTTPS | Increased Protection | Choose Provider | NextDNS

What does sponsorblock provide that hitting the 'L' key a few times to skip ahead doesn't ?

<They still don't look like they are putting in a proper effort.>

Quite the contrary, they've turned around the company to focus on AI.

Legacy software projects are on hold and software developers moved to work on AI under a new VP (former Xilinx exec). They have purchased some startups to get experienced AI developers.

Here is Andrew Ng giving a positive evaluation of AMD's software efforts https://youtu.be/KDBq0GqKpqA?t=2359

Perfume 'The Alchemy of Scent' by Jean-Claude Ellena - the art and business of creating perfume.

That truck doesn't have une pipe

Your neighbor was likely reacting to valid EV recalls.

"Chevrolet Bolt EVs Should Be Parked Outdoors Due to Fire Risk, Government Agency Warns"

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/chevrole...

Had to look up the treatment process - it's pickeled wood! https://www.accoya.com/acetylation-what-is-it-and-what-is-ac...

I like Neil deGrasse Tyson's observation that we differ from chimpanzees by 1% of our DNA. Yet to be human is a giant leap to language, writing, mathematics, agriculture, philosophy, religion, science etc. A chimpanzee cannot imagine what it is to be human.

Now consider an AI intelligence that is 1% ahead of us. Can we know what it is like to be that intelligent being ?

Around 1863 they were debating whether the Sun was burning coal or meteorite impacts could generate enough heat for the sun to glow.

Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (1863) (scientificamerican.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23074435

high-dimensional non-linear math

<but their focus has been on other areas.>

They've shifted a large pool of experienced engineers from legacy software projects to AI and moved the team under a veteran Xilinx AI director. Fingers crossed we should see significant changes in 2024.

The difference this time is that the executive is from Xilinx. Xilinx has had an AI software development team for a while in the FPGA space.

AMD has had poor management in the GPU computing space since Raja Koduri's time (he put the best engineering resources on VR during his tenure and ignored deep learning). Subsequent directors have not had a long term vision and left within a few years.

Looks like Lisa Su has corrected this now - they seem to have moved AMD software engineers en masse to work under Xilinx management on AI. Remains to be seen if this new management hierarchy will have a better vision and customer focus.