Readit News_yo2u commented on Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the 'most powerful chip' for AI theverge.com/2024/3/18/24... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
you mean the chip that only has 44GB of memory on one chip and doesn't mention how fast chips can talk between each other?
_yo2u commented on U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers axios.com/2023/11/06/mili... · Posted by u/23B1
I heard this on NPR and I appreciate the avenue by which the red flag is being raised, but it bothers the shit out of me, because EVERYONE'S personal data is being sold by online brokers.
The implication that their data is more important or something just seems like a ploy to get more eyeballs on the research.
Sometimes that is all that is needed to move the needle. Tik tok almost moved it but that just made certain swaths of the political spectrum ask for a direct ban (with other downsides eg. 1st amendment concerns) instead of overarching policy reform.
"Policymakers should consider the following steps:
Congress should pass a comprehensive U.S. privacy law, with strong controls on the data brokerage ecosystem. The most effective step to prevent harms from data brokerage for all Americans would be a strong, comprehensive privacy law."
_yo2u commented on Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel reuters.com/technology/nv... · Posted by u/smaili
The Tegra series is still ongoing, its just marketed at self-driving vehicles.
You can get dev boards, but they are hilariously expensive, and I'd guess the idle/low load performance pales in comparison to other vendors these days.
The tegra series also still exists in all the nintendo switches of the world ;)
Why is it that someone who is trained as an intelligence officer and almost certainly knows how information system security / audit works often seems to make obvious mistakes in their attempt to defect to a foreign adversary? It seems odd that someone with this level of expertise would make obvious incriminating google searches and similarly send incriminating emails. Then again, we may only be learning of those who are (paradoxically) lacking in basic operational security.
Was this person perhaps hoping to get caught to raise awareness for their reports of corruption?
Agreed this whole things smells like a psyop
He says “My experience includes … running sources as a spy handler, surveillance detection and other advanced psychological operation strategies.”
And he uses his regular iphone with google?
_yo2u commented on WSJ: China allegedly hacked Microsoft Azure wsj.com/articles/u-s-gove... · Posted by u/superq
Oddly enough - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/12/...
"The number of U.S. email accounts believed to be affected so far is limited, and the attack appeared targeted, though an FBI investigation is ongoing, said a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity. Pentagon, intelligence community and military email accounts did not appear to be affected, the person said."
So what did they manage to breach exactly?
I think fundamentally, if you have incomplete information and have to make some actions or judgements, either you are:
1. doing things to reason about or uncover more useful datapoints to increase certainty
2. you are accepting the probability that you are right/wrong at face value
The direction in which you decide to uncover datapoints is the "bias" that they are talking about. This process if further influenced by institutionalized assumptions or priors you are working with.
I really don't like lists like "Strategic Assumptions That Were Not Challenged" because they are factually true but also reek of survivorship bias.
_yo2u commented on Nvidia shares spike 18% on forecast beat driven by A.I. chip demand cnbc.com/2023/05/24/nvidi... · Posted by u/tim_sw
Q2 guidance of 11B is the main reason imo -> 44B/year revenue if you are comfortable extrapolating
Actually if you listen to earnings call, 2H year is expected to be significant sequential increases