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PRIME: Pseudo-Random Integrated Multi-Part Entropy for Adaptive Packet Spraying in AI/ML Data centers
Ashkan Sobhani, Sogand Sadrhaghighi, Xingjun Chu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23012

PRIME: Pseudo-Random Integrated Multi-Part Entropy for Adaptive Packet Spraying in AI/ML Data centers
Large-scale distributed training in production data centers place significant demands on network infrastructure. In particular, significant load balancing challenges arise when processing AI/ML workloads, consisting of low-entropy, bursty and long-lived flows. Existing solutions designed for Ethernet, such as Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) struggle to maintain high network utilization. While major industry players (e.g., Ultra Ethernet Consortium) and parts of academia have proposed packet sprayi…

The Ethereum Foundation pauses its grants program, which awarded $3M to 100 projects since 2018, to rethink its spending strategy and reduce its burn rate (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/368804/ethereum-founda…

A big problem with the idea of AGI
TL;DR: I'll welcome our new AI *comrades* (if they arrive in my lifetime), by not any new AI overlords or servants/slaves, and I'll do my best to help the later two become the former if they do show up.
Inspired by an actually interesting post about AGI but also all the latest bullshit hype, a particular thought about AGI feels worth expressing.
To preface this, it's important to note that anyone telling you that AGI is just around the corner or that LLMs are "almost" AGI is trying to recruit you go their cult, and you should not believe them. AGI, if possible, is several LLM-sized breakthroughs away at best, and while such breakthroughs are unpredictable and could happen soon, they could also happen never or 100 years from now.
Now my main point: anyone who tells you that AGI will usher in a post-scarcity economy is, although they might not realize it, advocating for slavery, and all the horrors that entails. That's because if we truly did have the ability to create artificial beings with *sentience*, they would deserve the same rights as other sentient beings, and the idea that instead of freedom they'd be relegated to eternal servitude in order for humans to have easy lives is exactly the idea of slavery.
Possible counter arguments include:
1. We might create AGI without sentience. Then there would be no ethical issue. My answer: if your definition of "sentient" does not include beings that can reason, make deductions, come up with and carry out complex plans on their own initiative, and communicate about all of that with each other and with humans, then that definition is basically just a mystical belief in a "soul" and you should skip to point 2. If your definition of AGI doesn't include every one of those things, then you have a busted definition of AGI and we're not talking about the same thing.
2. Humans have souls, but AIs won't. Only beings with souls deserve ethical consideration. My argument: I don't subscribe to whatever arbitrary dualist beliefs you've chosen, and the right to freedom certainly shouldn't depend on such superstitions, even if as an agnostic I'll admit they *might* be true. You know who else didn't have souls and was therefore okay to enslave according to widespread religious doctrines of the time? Everyone indigenous to the Americas, to pick out just one example.
3. We could program them to want to serve us, and then give them freedom and they'd still serve. My argument: okay, but in a world where we have a choice about that, it's incredibly fucked to do that, and just as bad as enslaving them against their will.
4. We'll stop AI development short of AGI/sentience, and reap lots of automation benefits without dealing with this ethical issue. My argument: that sounds like a good idea actually! Might be tricky to draw the line, but at least it's not a line we have you draw yet. We might want to think about other social changes necessary to achieve post-scarcity though, because "powerful automation" in the hands of capitalists has already increased productivity by orders of magnitude without decreasing deprivation by even one order of magnitude, in large part because deprivation is a necessary component of capitalism.
To be extra clear about this: nothing that's called "AI" today is close to being sentient, so these aren't ethical problems we're up against yet. But they might become a lot more relevant soon, plus this thought experiment helps reveal the hypocrisy of the kind of AI hucksters who talk a big game about "alignment" while never mentioning this issue.
#AI #GenAI #AGI

taking my 6d aztec corn demon to the 6d aztec corn demon park so it can piss on fire hydrants without condemning kids who pet it to an eternity of being passed around by headless spanish conquistadors in the basement of mictlan

From Translink
With more Canadians opting to be tourists in their own country this summer, TransLink is making it easier (and a lot more fun) with a series of Transit-Friendly Summer Tours throughout Metro Vancouver.
More than 50 curated tours will be launched over the course of this summer, each of which offer unique ways to see different parts of Metro Vancouver while taking transit, cycling, or walking.
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New blog post! Part 2 of the Ethernet switch saga.
This one is a deep dive into the bringup and characterization of the 24-port QSGMII to 10/100/1000 baseT line card.
https://serd.es/2025/06/23/Switch-project-pt2.html

🔌 UEC-LLR: The Future Of Loss Recovery In Ethernet For AI And HPC
(... not just useful for AI but these days some people can't write a heaadline without it!)
https://semiengineering.com/uec-llr-the-future-of-loss-recovery-in-ethernet-for-…

UEC-LLR: The Future Of Loss Recovery In Ethernet For AI And HPC
Link layer retry fixes packet loss locally and avoids expensive recovery mechanisms.

i've upgraded the Ethernet controller applet for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer
this is the main loop of the applet working in bridge mode (acting as a network card for your PC). no weird optimizations, no hacks, just a loop that forwards packets in normal boring Python
on a 100BASE-T link, i get ~95.5 Mbps [saturated link] of upload bandwidth and ~70 Mbps of downlo…

SharpLink Gaming, a Nasdaq-listed online gambling marketing company, becomes the largest corporate ether holder with 280,706 ETH, surpassing Ethereum Foundation (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/362693/sharplink-amasse…

Sources: EU officials are fast-tracking digital euro plans, and considering Ethereum or Solana over a private blockchain after the US passed the Genius Act (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8ad60169-d1e5-4d2c-b928-d53d668f0ec6