Tootfinder

Just kinda thinking out loud here, don't have a solution or architecture in mind: I really want a better solution for high speed FPGA / ASIC protocol design and debug.
In particular:
1) Using scopehal protocol captures as stimuli for a virtual DUT (i.e. decoded 8b10b of PCIe or something into RTL simulator, pretending to be a SERDES)

Check out my latest article - "The Psychological Architecture of Hope in a Warming World"
https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-psychological-architecture-of?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social

How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

Nächster Talk beim @…: @… erzählt uns seine Ideen zu "Democratic Architecture"

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
SERVALAN: Don't concern yourself, Egrorian. I encourage ambition.
EGRORIAN: I never conspired against you, I swear it! Orac, acknowledge my instructions. [Orac buzzes, but says nothing.] I don't understand.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/363 B7B3…

Moody Urbanity - Relations VI 🧬
情绪化城市 - 关系 VI 🧬
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

There was this mention in the Budgie 10.10 release announcement of ending an era and working together in a very positive way with the KDE team.
What most people, including yours truly, missed was the mention of QT6 as the new development platform of choice for Budgie 11! Part of Frameworks is already in 10.10, and a totally new architecture will be build for Wayland, QT and Budgie. Exciting times!

Trump was sued on Friday by preservationists
asking a federal court to halt his White House ballroom project until it goes through multiple independent reviews and wins approval from Congress.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded group,
is asking the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s White House ballroom project,
which already has involved razing the East Wing,
until it goes through comprehensive design reviews, environmental asses…

Trump sued by preservationists over White House ballroom project
President Donald Trump has been sued by preservationists seeking an architecture review and congressional approval over his White House ballroom project. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is asking a federal court to stop Trump’s White House ballroom project until it goes through comprehensive design reviews, public comments and wins approval from Congress. The National Trust argues that Trump, by fast-tracking the project, has committed multiple violations of the Administrative Pr…

Kids on the bus, all playing video games walking to the back to find a seat... jeesh, teach them to read and write some Rust 🦀 or computer architecture and have them implement RISC-V cores or smth.

VL-JEPA: Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Vision-language
Delong Chen, Mustafa Shukor, Theo Moutakanni, Willy Chung, Jade Yu, Tejaswi Kasarla, Allen Bolourchi, Yann LeCun, Pascale Fung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10942

Flowing architecture by Frank Gehry #RIP #architecture

Majestic Labs, which makes patent-pending server architecture that promises more memory capacity, raised $100M, including a $71M Series A led by Bow Wave (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/majestic-labs-meta-google-ai-funding.html
…

Former Google, Meta executives raise $100 million for high-capacity AI servers startup
The three plan to sell high-memory server technology.

Gloom & Bloom ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

NeuroSketch: An Effective Framework for Neural Decoding via Systematic Architectural Optimization
Gaorui Zhang, Zhizhang Yuan, Jialan Yang, Junru Chen, Li Meng, Yang Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09524 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09524 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.09524
arXiv:2512.09524v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neural decoding, a critical component of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), has recently attracted increasing research interest. Previous research has focused on leveraging signal processing and deep learning methods to enhance neural decoding performance. However, the in-depth exploration of model architectures remains underexplored, despite its proven effectiveness in other tasks such as energy forecasting and image classification. In this study, we propose NeuroSketch, an effective framework for neural decoding via systematic architecture optimization. Starting with the basic architecture study, we find that CNN-2D outperforms other architectures in neural decoding tasks and explore its effectiveness from temporal and spatial perspectives. Building on this, we optimize the architecture from macro- to micro-level, achieving improvements in performance at each step. The exploration process and model validations take over 5,000 experiments spanning three distinct modalities (visual, auditory, and speech), three types of brain signals (EEG, SEEG, and ECoG), and eight diverse decoding tasks. Experimental results indicate that NeuroSketch achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance across all evaluated datasets, positioning it as a powerful tool for neural decoding. Our code and scripts are available at https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/NeuroSketch.
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The Architecture of the Venezuelan Crisis | by Ireneusz Tarnowski | Jan, 2026 | Medium
https://medium.com/@ireneusz.tarnowski/the-architecture-of-the-venezuelan-crisis-a9a1c3737bab

The coolest material thing I saw in 2025 (even if utterly impractical for now) was Iceland's entry in the Venice Architecture Biennale: the futuristic «lavaforming», using lava as a building material.
https://www.honnunarmidstod.is/en/feneyjatviaeringurinn/lavafor…

Feneyjatvíæringur í arkitektúr
Feneyjatvíæringur í arkitektúr

from my link log —
Software architecture is overrated, clear and simple design is underrated.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-architecture-is-overrated/
saved 2019-09-19

Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated
I had my fair share in designing and building large systems. I've taken part in rewriting Uber's distributed payment systems [https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/distributed-architecture-concepts-i-have-learned-while-building-payments-systems/] , designing and shipping Skype on Xbox One and open-sourcing RIBs [https://github.com/uber/RIBs], Uber's mobile architecture framework. All of these systems had thorough

Boring Technology, Boring Architecture
#systemarchitecture

How Qwen 3 outcompetes OpenAI and DeepSeek https://apidog.com/blog/qwen-3-outcompetes-openai-and-deepseek/ "Qwen 3 shines with its variety of model sizes", "small models for edge devices or massive ones for heavy lifting";

How Qwen 3 Outcompetes OpenAI and DeepSeek
Explore how Qwen 3’s MoE architecture and open-weight models beat OpenAI and DeepSeek in performance and versatility.

Metropolitana IV 🏯
城 IV 🏯
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

For a few years I had an office in the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center at MIT. Here are some photos I took on a sunny autumn day using a film camera in 2005. This building had a lot of problems but it definitely made a statement. #architecture #FrankGehry

I’m at a Celebration of Life in honor of the late President Emeritus James J. Duderstadt.
There’s a lot of emeritus faculty here.

In the last ~6 months someone linked to their blog about using JS-free custom elements for page structure and style in place of a methodology like BEM, e.g. using `<my-element>`/`my-element {}` instead of `<div class="my-element">`/`.my-element {}`. Might have referenced [HUG CSS](https://

The Architecture and Planning of Fascist New Towns in Sardinia
https://sah.org/2013/03/14/the-architecture-and-planning-of-fascist-new-towns-in-sardinia/

The Architecture and Planning of Fascist New Towns in Sardinia - Society of Architectural Historians
Ruth Lo documented three towns built between 1928 and 1938 on the island of Sardinia.

🎲 Randomness reveals hidden order in the plant world
#plants

Randomness reveals hidden order in the plant world
In the intricate architecture of plant tissues, beauty often emerges from chaos, according to new research from Cornell researchers. Findings from a recent study show how randomness and growth together create the striking cellular patterns that shape plant organs—and perhaps all multicellular life.

Metropolitana III🔶
城 III🔶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

The Dying Grove: A Novel Born from the Collision of Joyce and Mycorrhiza
Some books are written. Others are grown. "The Dying Grove" belongs to the second category, and that distinction is not metaphor but method. This novel, the first in a new series called Fractional Fiction, emerged from an experiment in literary hybridization: what happens when you take the formal architecture of modernist masters and seed it with contemporary scientific research? The result is…

The Dying Grove: A Novel Born from the Collision of Joyce and Mycorrhiza | David Boles, Blogs
Some books are written. Others are grown. “The Dying Grove” belongs to the second category, and that distinction is not metaphor but method. This novel, the first in a new series called…

'Dictator-for-life vibes': our architecture critic on Trump's bulletproof ballroom bling (Catherine Slessor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/23/trump-white-house-ballroom-architecture-critic-dictator-bling
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p115#a251023p115

Found a cool tutorial

Another year, another bunch of books.
I spend most of the year binging through thriller series that I had already had started in 2024.
The books I really liked were the newest book from the Slough House series, the spy novel The Persian, and Fundamentals of Software Architecture (even if I didn't finish it).
https://

2025 in books
Another year, another bunch of books.  I spend most of the year binging through thriller series that I had already had started in 2024.  The...

How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-ai…

On my way to code.talks in Hamburg to speak at about formal methods and software architecture.
https://codetalks.com/talks?talkId=rec7PaG17O5AjqYct

White House Architecture Was an Honor System. Trump Noticed. - The Atlantic
https://archive.ph/igF1T

Two favourite sessions in a row with my MSc students at the Bartlett School of Architecture discussing buildings and social relationships 🫶🏼
Short 🧵
#ArchitecturalResearch #sociology #architecture

Looking at the ARMv8-A ARM and I see implementer ID 0x44 is DEC.
I'm... very confident DEC has never built an ARMv8 CPU core.
Is this just copy-pasted from earlier docs because DEC had an ARM architecture license in years past? Or is this license still valid and held by DEC's successors (I think DEC -> Compaq -> HP -> HPE, does HPE make custom ARM cores?)

Moody Urbanity - Relations V 🪢
情绪化城市 - 关系 V 🪢
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Shanghai GP3 400 Pan
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Yeah, why not neglect all the good recommendations in the #Python ecosystem, and instead fork your own C extension package, force people to build it with #ZigLang (it's still C), add unconditional dependency on that, and on top of that, refuse to publish wheels, "allowing for optimised compilation according to your machine's specific architecture and capabilities, instead of some (low performance) common denominator."
Fortunately, looks like #Gentoo can just ignore all the fancy crap and compile it with GCC.
https://pypi.org/project/ruamel.yaml.clibz/
[UPDATE: didn't last long: https://sourceforge.net/p/ruamel-yaml/code/ci/6846cf136e775ed0052cdef6ff02330269c86011/]

PubSub-VFL: Towards Efficient Two-Party Split Learning in Heterogeneous Environments via Publisher/Subscriber Architecture
Yi Liu, Yang Liu, Leqian Zheng, Jue Hong, Junjie Shi, Qingyou Yang, Ye Wu, Cong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12494

PubSub-VFL: Towards Efficient Two-Party Split Learning in Heterogeneous Environments via Publisher/Subscriber Architecture
With the rapid advancement of the digital economy, data collaboration between organizations has become a well-established business model, driving the growth of various industries. However, privacy concerns make direct data sharing impractical. To address this, Two-Party Split Learning (a.k.a. Vertical Federated Learning (VFL)) has emerged as a promising solution for secure collaborative learning. Despite its advantages, this architecture still suffers from low computational resource utilization…

DeepSeek researchers detail a new mHC architecture they used to train 3B, 9B, and 27B models, finding it scaled without adding significant computational burden (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

DeepSeek opens 2026 with paper signalling race to train bigger models for less
DeepSeek has published a technical paper co-authored by founder Liang Wenfeng proposing a rethink of its core deep learning architecture.

More shots from today. #Chicago doesn't have a bad side ;)
#photography #Architecture

"After the 8-bit MOS Technology 6502 that powered the Apple II around 1980, Macs used the 16-bit (later 32-bit) Motorola 68000 around 1990, then 32-bit (later 64-bit) IBM PowerPC around 2000, later settling with Intel’s 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86-64 around 2010.
We are in 2020, not even around 2020 anymore, and we should be able to spend an insane amount of money to buy Macs powered by ARM architecture CPUs – “finally!”, as some of those headlines online would scream."

Eternally Finally
It is hardly possible these days to browse any blog or news website commenting the latest trends in the Apple galaxy, without reading references to the mythical, yet entirely foreseeable, ARM-based Mac. The existence of this not-yet-announced piece of otherwise overpriced hardware is entirely predicted by a closer reading of technology history in that same galaxy, an exercise usually (sadly) abhored by many.

RAID-0e: A Resilient Striping Array Architecture for Balanced Performance and Availability
Yanzhao Jia, Zhaobo Wu, Zheyi Cao, Shihao Ji, Xu Tianhao, Zihui Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12139

RAID-0e: A Resilient Striping Array Architecture for Balanced Performance and Availability
This paper introduces a novel disk array architecture, designated RAID-0e (Resilient Striping Array), designed to superimpose a low-overhead fault tolerance layer upon traditional RAID 0 (striping). By employing a logically and physically separate parity domain to protect a primary data domain, RAID-0e mitigates the risk of array-wide data loss from common, non-catastrophic media failures, such as isolated bad blocks, transient read errors, or sector-level corruption. The architecture is engine…

Countermind: A Multi-Layered Security Architecture for Large Language Models
Dominik Schwarz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11837 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11…

Countermind: A Multi-Layered Security Architecture for Large Language Models
The security of Large Language Model (LLM) applications is fundamentally challenged by "form-first" attacks like prompt injection and jailbreaking, where malicious instructions are embedded within user inputs. Conventional defenses, which rely on post hoc output filtering, are often brittle and fail to address the root cause: the model's inability to distinguish trusted instructions from untrusted data. This paper proposes Countermind, a multi-layered security architecture intended to shift def…

The most celebrated architect of his age, a wry, pugnacious, singular genius,
Frank Gehry, died Friday at 96
In Bilbao and Berlin, New York and, especially, Los Angeles
— where the Canadian-born Gehry settled and became inseparable from the city
— he left behind playful, polarizing, materially and technologically stunning buildings

Frank Gehry: 12 Essential, Stunning Projects
A singular genius, Gehry redefined architecture with joyful buildings like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

As announced, I have tagged a prerelease yesterday that oofers the basic me_cleaner capabilities.
Today, I have documented some architecture and design considerations:
https://github.com/platform-system-interface/intel_fw/pull/77
Testers welcome. If you ru…

document architecture and design considerations by orangecms · Pull Request #77 · platform-system-interface/intel_fw

:ruby: #Ruby's #Float contains interesting constants.
Like EPSILON, which is the
> difference between 1 and the smallest double-precision floating point number greater than 1.
What is it useful for, you ask?
Well, Floats are kinda difficult for computers and if you want to compare …

Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96 (Nicolai Ouroussoff/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/design/frank-gehry-dead.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p88#a251205p88

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- Microbes in the Moonlight: How the Gut Microbiota Influences Sleep
Enso Onill Torres Alegre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02766 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115496288192570702
- Structural Plasticity as Active Inference: A Biologically-Inspired Architecture for Homeostatic C...
Brennen A. Hill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02241 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_bot/115496100776467755
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The new Zygote issue 39 is featuring stunning art by Kate MccGwire[1] and articles about:
Forward Motion: Robert J. Full’s Career of Discovery
Science of Seeing: Plant It and They Will Come
Cutting Without Cutting: Lessons from the Sawfly
Interview with Arindam Phani and Seonghwan (Sam) Kim
Building with Biology
Turning Bio-Inspired Ideas Into Patents
Biomimicry in Architecture

Beyond-Diagonal RIS Architecture Design and Optimization under Physics-Consistent Models
Zheyu Wu, Matteo Nerini, Bruno Clerckx
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12366 https://

Beyond-Diagonal RIS Architecture Design and Optimization under Physics-Consistent Models
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for future wireless communication systems. Conventional RIS is constrained to a diagonal scattering matrix, which limits its flexibility. Recently, beyond-diagonal RIS (BD-RIS) has been proposed as a more general RIS architecture class that allows inter-element connections and shows great potential for performance improvement. Despite extensive progress on BD-RIS, most existing studies rely on simplified channel models that igno…

Serial-Parallel Dual-Path Architecture for Speaking Style Recognition
Guojian Li, Qijie Shao, Zhixian Zhao, Shuiyuan Wang, Zhonghua Fu, Lei Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11732 …

Serial-Parallel Dual-Path Architecture for Speaking Style Recognition
Speaking Style Recognition (SSR) identifies a speaker's speaking style characteristics from speech. Existing style recognition approaches primarily rely on linguistic information, with limited integration of acoustic information, which restricts recognition accuracy improvements. The fusion of acoustic and linguistic modalities offers significant potential to enhance recognition performance. In this paper, we propose a novel serial-parallel dual-path architecture for SSR that leverages acoustic…

no autoconf. i do not think you are truly sorry.
you will suffer for your sins

Clive Lewis MP clearly gets it. The PM should pay close attention to what he says here about the integration of corporate power into the state.
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/the-integrity-gap-how-we-built-the-authoritarian-f…

The Integrity Gap: How We Built the Authoritarian Future We Fear
Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
TARRANT: Yes, I'm afraid they will.
DAYNA: The electronic warriors strike again. That'll be four of Servalan's ore ships we've let through without a fight.
AVON: To FIGHT them we have to catch them.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/39

this year is the 80th anniversary of the von Neumann architecture https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/library/Prelim_Disc_Logical_Design.pdf

Neuroplasticity: Limits and the architecture of change https://medium.com/@krigerbruce/neuroplasticity-limits-and-the-architecture-of-change-be5346cae7f8 Case study of sensory substitution: Visual cortex activation in congenital blindne…

The #CleanArchitecture I Wish Someone Had Explained to Me
https://medium.com/@rafael-22/the-clean-architecture-i-wish-someone-had-expl…

A technical deep dive into Amazon's Trainium3 accelerator, including its server SKUs' specifications, silicon design, power budget, and bill of materials (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/aws-trainium3-deep-dive-a-potential

AWS Trainium3 Deep Dive | A Potential Challenger Approaching
NL72x2/NL32x2 Scale Up Rack Architecture, Step-Function Software & System Improvements, Optimized Perf per TCO, “Amazon Basics” GB200 NVL36x2, Astera Labs, Trainium4

We’re at the @… today with a booth of our own. Will also give a talk on Glorious Data Models later today.
https://

Concrete Sculpture Made by Art and Architecture Students Circa 1960 in the Arboretum
#photo #photography #cornell

Seeing all of the Flock posts lately got me wondering: is there a privacy-preserving way to accomplish the public benefit of traffic/speed cameras (reducing speeding and red light running) without also turning them into blanket ALPR spies tracking where everyone goes?
The best idea I came up with is a split system architecture that treats the camera as adversarial.

[Kopenhagen, 2009]

Google debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M context window (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/

Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory

The 87th edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we weigh the historical and philosophical implications of the phrase "Considered Harmful"; in our Vidéothèque section, we watch Phil Nash explain which parts of OOP can be considered harmful; and in the Library section, we read a paper by Joanna Rutkowska explaining why the Intel x86 architecture should be considered harmful.

Moody Urbanity - Old & New V 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 V 🔆
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Relief carving of a globe on the school at Newark Valley
#photo #photography #buildings #architecture

Qualcomm unveils the Dragonwing IQ10 Series, a full-stack robotics architecture integrating hardware, software, and AI for industrial and consumer humanoids (Katie Collins/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/qualcomm-announces-dragonwing-iq10-…

Qualcomm Bets Big on Robotics, Beginning With This Bendy-Backed Humanoid
A new wave of humanoids are coming. Qualcomm is ready to power them.

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
RO: [Enters] Kommissar.
KOMMISSAR: Ro. It has been too long.
RO: An unlooked for pleasure. I welcome your return to my planet.
KOMMISSAR: I would've come sooner - pressure of office.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/244 B7B2

Moody Urbanity - Relations III 🧶
情绪化城市 - 关系 III 🧶
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Shanghai GP3 400 Pan
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Hierarchical Federated Learning for Crop Yield Prediction in Smart Agricultural Production Systems
Anas Abouaomar, Mohammed El hanjri, Abdellatif Kobbane, Anis Laouiti, Khalid Nafil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12727

Hierarchical Federated Learning for Crop Yield Prediction in Smart Agricultural Production Systems
In this paper, we presents a novel hierarchical federated learning architecture specifically designed for smart agricultural production systems and crop yield prediction. Our approach introduces a seasonal subscription mechanism where farms join crop-specific clusters at the beginning of each agricultural season. The proposed three-layer architecture consists of individual smart farms at the client level, crop-specific aggregators at the middle layer, and a global model aggregator at the top le…

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon X2 Plus chips for PCs, available in 10-core and 6-core variants, manufactured on TSMC's N3P node using Qualcomm's Oryon architecture (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshar…

Qualcomm expands Snapdragon on Windows with X2 Plus – 10-core ARM CPU boasts 35% single-core jump
A 10-core replacement and a new 6-core variant, both bringing big single-threaded improvements.

Un Momento 🕰️
一瞬 🕰️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

It was shocking to see images of heavy equipment clawing chunks out of the East Wing of the White House,
reducing a historic structure built by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to a twisted mass of steel, stone and concrete.

President Donald Trump’s promise that his enormous new ballroom wouldn’t touch or interfere with the existing structure was no longer operative.
The assurances from his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, that “nothing will be torn down” do not seem …

Why the demolition of the East Wing is so shocking
By Thursday, the White House’s East Wing was gone. The speed of destruction, and the projection of power, are part of the strongman playbook.

Nvidia launches the Vera Rubin platform, saying it will offer dramatic reductions in inference and training costs compared to Blackwell, across six new chips (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/855412/nvidia-launches-ve…

Nvidia launches Vera Rubin AI computing platform at CES 2026
Nvidia launched its new Vera Rubin computing architecture today at CES 2026, claiming it delivers more computing power at a lower cost than Blackwell.

Moody Urbanity - Old & New VI 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 VI 🔆
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

View from behind Clark and Rockefeller Halls where I spent a lot of time as a grad student in physics
#photo #photography #architecture

from my link log —
Two workers are quadratically better than one: modelling a queue with PRISM.
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/queueing-prism/
saved 2020-11-02

Metropolitana 🔶
城 🔶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering benefits, challenges, architecture, key companies, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/co-packaged-optics-cpo-book-scaling…

Co Packaged Optics (CPO) – Scaling with Light for the Next Wave of Interconnect
Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) has long promised to transform datacenter connectivity, but it has taken a long time for the technology to come to market, with tangible deployment-ready products only arriving in 2025.

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
AVON: We are short of time, Orac.
VILA: I'll say we are. It's not hanging about this time. [Screen display: 2. WAIT blinks out and is replaced by:]
[Computer display: 2. ARBITERS TAKE POSITION AND INDICATE READINESS]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/544

Since the so-called ceasefire came into effect in Gaza on October 10,
Israel has been consolidating its control of over 50% of Gaza and
—according to new research by Forensic Architecture
—physically altering the geography of the land.
Through a combination of the construction of military infrastructure alongside the destruction of existing buildings,
Israel appears to be laying the groundwork to establish a permanent presence in the majority of the Gaza Strip.

I went hunting for pictures at the Arts and Architecture library last week and ran across campus in a collected trot that had me drenched in sweat when I got back to my office despite it being a freezing day
#photo #photography

Urban Texture IV 🧩
城市质地 IV 🧩
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
AVON: Not unless they can do it in their sleep.
DAYNA: You should have killed them.
AVON: Probably.
CALLY: They could sleep through a war.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/415 B7B5

It snowed the other day and looked a lot like Weill Hall did last February
#photo #photography #building #architecture

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
ORAC: We will be lovers for a little while, or maybe for a long while, who knows?
SOOLIN: I do. [Pulls key]
VILA: What a thought.
SOOLIN: Keller was right again.
AVON: Vila, try and bring Tarrant back up.

Urbanity - Urbana Composita 🌆
城市化 - 建构城市 🌆
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Moody Urbanity - Past 📴
情绪化城市 - 过去 📴
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Monumental III 🪦
纪念 III 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

A look at Google's TPU evolution, its decision to sell chips to competitors after 12 years of internal use, the TPU vs. GPU architecture showdown, and more (The Chip Letter)
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/tpu-mania

TPU Mania
Is GPU vs TPU the CISC vs RISC contest of the modern era?

Monumental 🪦
纪念 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
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Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new deal with Microsoft and Nvidia, which commit to invest up to $5B and $10B, respectively, in Anthropic (Microsoft)
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/18/microsoft-nvidia-…

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announce strategic partnerships - The Official Microsoft Blog
Anthropic to scale Claude on Azure Anthropic to adopt NVIDIA architecture NVIDIA and Microsoft to invest in Anthropic Today Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announced new strategic partnerships. Anthropic is scaling its rapidly-growing Claude AI model on Microsoft Azure, powered by NVIDIA, which will broaden access to Claude and provide Azure enterprise customers with expanded model choice and new capabilities. Anthropic...

Moody Urbanity - Urban surrealism 👒
情绪化城市 - 都市超现实主义 👒
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
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Nvidia launches Nemotron 3, a family of AI models using a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and the Mamba-Transformer design, in 30B, 100B, and ~500B sizes (Emilia David/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-debuts-nemotron-3-w…

Moody Urbanity - Urban Geometry 📐
情绪化城市 - 都市几何 📐
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
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Moody Urbanity - ONE 1️⃣
情绪化城市 - 壹 1️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
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Urban Mirage II 👁️‍🗨️
城市幻境 II 👁️‍🗨️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
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Moody Urbanity - Manmade Confinements ⛑️
情绪化城市 - 人造禁锢 ⛑️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
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Moody Urbanity - Action Required II 🧭
情绪化城市 - 行动指南 II 🧭
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
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