On December 6th, AMD launched our AMD Instinct MI300X and MI300A accelerators and introduced ROCm 6 software stack at the Advancing AI event. Since then, Nvidia published a set of benchmarks comparing the performance of H100 compared to the AMD Instinct MI300X…

This page describes the phenomenon where a team of highly capable people can perform very badly.

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What options are there other than GitHub?

A common situation I find myself in looks like this: I am working with a client to plan a project at a strategic level. These are large, cumbersome, multi-ph...

A panel of judges has said that big power companies cannot be held liable for failure to provide electricity during the 2021 blackout. The reason is Texas’ deregulated energy market.

David Hilderman, who ran for the PPC in the Saanich—Gulf Islands riding in 2021, has a university degree in engineering but is not licensed as a professional engineer, according to a recent B.C. Supreme Court judgment.

This link captures the confusion about how to pronounce "fsck":

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Here's the truth. Ted Kowalski, username frodo, may he rest in peace, was the original author, just down the hall from my office in Murray Hill, and his name…

Try running a query anywhere from PostgreSQL to DuckDB in your browser.

After alleged thefts from the British Museum, a curator explains the challenges of keeping collections—and U.K. laws preventing repatriations.

Global shipping firms are suspending voyages in the Red Sea

(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users' individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ask for data on everyone who was in the vicinity…

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible...

It offers new hope to people unable to communicate in other ways.

Nature - Researchers at the National Ignition Facility are consistently creating reactions that make more energy than they consume.