Saturday, December 21
Daily News Stuff 21 December 2021
Heat Displacement Edition
Heat Displacement Edition
Top Story
- Here's a list of the 49 American AI startups that have raised $100 million or more in 2024. (Tech Crunch)
Top among them is OpenAI, which raised $6.6 billion this year, but close behind is Elon Musk's xAI, which raised $6 billion.
Interestingly Europe didn't miss the boat with Mistral leading the table there with $1.2 billion raised.
What all that money will achieve I don't know.
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- For consumer hardware, it's not achieving much. (Tom's Hardware)
AI PCs just aren't selling. That is, people are buying PCs, and some of them are labeled "AI", but nobody is buying a PC because it is labeled "AI".
Notable Qualcomm's sales of its new Arm-based Windows laptops can be best described as meh.
- Meanwhile here's an M.2 card that contains a 24 TOPS AI accelerator. (Tom's Hardware)
More precisely, four 6 TOPS accelerators.
Why? I don't know. But it costs $149, which is reasonable if you need one.
- How types make hard problems easy. (Mayhul)
Yes, thank you. We figured this out sixty years ago. Then JavaScript happened.
Disclaimer: There may be pizza.
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The set of claims about types actually helped me.
I think it is because I read about programming in a fairly scattered way, and am also fairly weak as a hands on programmer.
Much of what I read about programming has some concepts that I don't really understand in terms of what the code does, or how I should think about the code.
Typing has to do with why certain programming languages throw errors when a multiplication with certain variables is not set up correctly. Other languages would allow me to define that stuff for my own variables, and it would then be a good habit to think aobut that stuff in a deliberate and systemic way.
I think it is because I read about programming in a fairly scattered way, and am also fairly weak as a hands on programmer.
Much of what I read about programming has some concepts that I don't really understand in terms of what the code does, or how I should think about the code.
Typing has to do with why certain programming languages throw errors when a multiplication with certain variables is not set up correctly. Other languages would allow me to define that stuff for my own variables, and it would then be a good habit to think aobut that stuff in a deliberate and systemic way.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Sunday, December 22 2024 12:43 AM (rcPLc)
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There "may" be pizza? It must be a Schrodinger pizza - you have to open the box to find out if it's there. If it is there I'd like a slice without so much rat on it, please.
Posted by: Joe Redfield at Sunday, December 22 2024 04:31 AM (KOtXO)
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You'll have to take the cat's word for it that all the rats have been driven away.
Posted by: normal at Sunday, December 22 2024 01:16 PM (bg2DR)
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