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AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI system to rival Nvidia, later in 2026 to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others; Helios costs an estimated $5M (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/amd-helios-microsoft-ai-nvidia.html

AMD launches Helios, its first rack AI system to rival Nvidia, adding Microsoft as newest buyer
AMD is taking aim at Nvidia with Helios, its first AI rack system, and has landed Microsoft as a new customer, joining Meta, OpenAI and Oracle.

Let’s hope he’s in the bin soon… https://open.substack.com/pub/adambienkov/p/how-nigel-farage-gets-put-in-the?r=jiw37&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

How Nigel Farage Gets Put In the Bin
The Clacton by-election result showed exactly how it's all going to end for the Reform UK leader

@… "Can emojis be removed from Unicode? Or are they there forever once they are in?" - As of now, once they're in, they're in. The code point in Unicode is then reserved for this symbol. This can be a problem because emojis are kind of open-ended (other than alphabets and many other symbol lists). And it's possible that some emojis turn out to be rarely used. I could imagine that eventually some platforms just stop supporting a certain emoji - but it's really useful to have an international encoding standard which is fully supported by most technology (as anyone who has programmed or written online text in the early 2000s can attest). That's why getting a new emoji approved has become so hard - we're basically creating a kind of tech debt for a potentially long time.
Funny story - you could try creating a post now with a Unicode character from an "empty" code point in the emoji range, in the hope that it will get assigned in a later round. I've seen such a post on the old Twitter, which later was filled with all kinds of random emojis, when you look at it in a few years. #linguistics #emojis #WorldEmojiDay

A group of Jewish voters in Michigan
is urging support for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the state’s Democratic nominee for Senate,
in an open letter that acknowledges concerns among some Jewish voters about his candidacy and his criticism of Israel.
The letter, signed by more than 500 people who identify as Jewish leaders or voters in the state,
says that the election of Dr. El-Sayed, a staunch critic of Israel,
is “clearly the better choice for Jews” compared with his R…

Jewish Leaders in Michigan Urge Support for El-Sayed’s Senate Bid
The public petition comes after other Michigan Jews registered their discontent with Abdul El-Sayed, the state’s Democratic Senate nominee.

On #learning #programming in an age of #LLMs

A Measure-Theoretic Approach to Spontaneous Stochasticity
Wandrille Ruffenach, Eric Simonnet, Nicolas Valade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16328 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.16328 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.16328
arXiv:2607.16328v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Spontaneous stochasticity (SpSt), originating in Richardson's picture of turbulent dispersion and Lorenz's Eulerian view of finite-time loss of predictability, was later formulated under this name by Gaw\k{e}dzki and collaborators and developed in shell models by Mailybaev and collaborators. Whether it occurs in fully developed turbulence remains a major open question.
Beyond a few specific classes of systems, however, SpSt has lacked a general mathematical definition. We introduce a measure-theoretic formalism in which it is understood as a measure-selection principle. Given an inviscid problem, a well-posed regularization, and an ambient measure, we study the pushforward of that measure by the regularized flow. Strong SpSt occurs when these pushforward measures converge to a non-Dirac probability law, replacing classical deterministic selection by statistical selection.
For finite-dimensional systems, we establish several structural results. Our central attainability theorem shows that, whenever the inviscid problem is nonunique, any probability measure supported on the set of inviscid states can be selected as the limiting law of a suitable regularization. We also identify singular sets in the inviscid dynamics, detected through Dini-type directional growth, as necessary obstructions underlying nonuniqueness. We analyze the relation between SpSt and sensitivity to initial data, clarifying the scope and limitations of turbulence-inspired finite-time separation criteria. Finally, we develop a renormalization-(semi)group viewpoint in which limiting statistics arise as statistical attractors. Explicit examples illustrate how ambient measures, inviscid singularities, regularization scales, and initial-data sensitivity interact in the emergence of SpSt.
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Had to update yesterday's Substack after news broke later that day of Trump's teleprompter making $100k on Kalshi.
This administration has certainly set a new low bar for self-dealing, but prediction markets are supercharging anonymous corruption at the highest levels of government. https://

An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
1) A gesture but important given the Nazi campaign against these brave people
2) I don't much like 38 degrees with its nagging, or clicktivism petitions, but make an exception as this is important.
https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-

An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name?

Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Sen. Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it "reckless" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/10/openai-hugging-face-senate-investigation-hawley…

Scoop: OpenAI faces Senate probe into Hugging Face breach
"The American people deserve to know the details of what went on," wrote Sen. Josh Hawley.

Investor letter: Thrive's 2022 early-stage $516M fund that invested in OpenAI and SpaceX was worth $3.7B as of the end of June, net of fees and other charges (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20