Sure there are still differences between countries, but using population density for comparison is almost always misleading. Most people in low population density advanced economies do not live out i… (View Post)

What the hell are the idiots who dreamt that up thinking? Even if you think it makes some economic sense, and I'm skeptical it does, on a political basis it is bonkers. All the talk the last wee… (View Post)

I listened to yesterday's briefing on the vaccine approval, and the funny thing is that Boris didn't take any personal credit for it. Nor did Boris link the approval to Brexit, in fact he s… (View Post)

Slow is not really correct, even emulating x86 the M1 is quite fast. Amongst serious computer geeks the performance of Rosetta 2 is a more surprising outcome than the performance of the M1 itself. Ap… (View Post)

Is this what you are thinking of? £218,111.12 for a pair of 64 core EPYC processors, 1 TB RAM, and 8 A100 GPUs. https://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/configurator/nvidia-dgx-a100-ai-supercomputer-appliance That… (View Post)