Phrase of the day: Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes
Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes: We've scaled Kubernetes clusters to 7,500 nodes, producing a scalable infrastructure for large models like GPT-3, CLIP, and DALL·E, but also for rapid small-scale iterative research such as Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models. Scaling a single Kubernetes cluster...
Source: openai.com
Word of the day: deprecated
Geek talk. The tech behind this blog which takes any link that I find interesting and, instead of curating it for LinkedIn / Twitter / Facebook, curates it here on something I have control over broke. I accidentally upgraded the server to PHP8 and an old function in PHP each() no longer worked. Took...
Frontline workers left "risking lives to provide treatment and care"
"The Department for Health and Social Care's decision to prioritise hospitals at the beginning of the pandemic meant social care providers were left exposed by lack of PPE, says the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee in its first report on PPE procurement published today." "While government...
Source: parliament.uk
Day 2381 - Coffee cup sketch
The crap artist awakens for the first time in a long time. Joining Janet's Sketchaway course I thought I'd knock out a study of a typical breakfast moment - the empty coffee cup in pen. #thecrapartist
11 TOPS photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks: Convolutional neural networks, inspired by biological
11 TOPS photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks: Convolutional neural networks, inspired by biological visual cortex systems, are a powerful category of artificial neural networks that can extract the hierarchical features of raw data to provide greatly reduced parametric complexity...
Source: nature.com
Asteroid sample arrives in Japan after six-year space odyssey: Samples of an asteroid 300 million km from Earth arrived
Asteroid sample arrives in Japan after six-year space odyssey: Samples of an asteroid 300 million km from Earth arrived in Japan on Tuesday to applause and smiles, the climax of a six-year odyssey by a space probe pursuing the origins of life.
Source: reuters.com
Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders.
Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders: Researchers from the Princeton Environmental Institute find the continued spread of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is driven by only a small percentage of those who become infected.
Source: princeton.edu
MMR, smoking, and 'in-vitro' models in COVID-19
Good summary of current science news topics for coronavirus in Reuters. Strong responders to MMR II vaccine (since 1979) have less severe disease with COVID-19, cigarette smoke increases risk, and a useful 'in-vivo' model for further study of how SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses might be treated.
Source: reuters.com
Victorian hologram keeps music in touch with lockdown audience
"Victorian hologram keeps music in touch with lockdown audience: Musicians are using an interactive hologram based on Victorian technology to reach fans in the locked down world of the coronavirus pandemic." The two musicians join a pianist who is live on stage. They are made to appear on stage because...
Source: reuters.com
France and Germany thrust into lockdown as second COVID-19 wave sweeps Europe: French President Emmanuel Macron and German
France and Germany thrust into lockdown as second COVID-19 wave sweeps Europe: French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered their countries back into lockdown on Wednesday, as a massive second wave of coronavirus infections threatened to overwhelm Europe before the winter.
Source: reuters.com
Is heutagogy the future of education?
Fred Garnett, an educationalist, from the Heutagogy Stakeholder Group - a UNESCO initiative. "Humans developed the capability of 'social learning' over millennia before settlements enabled the development of 'civilisation'. We then invented education formalising what we had previously learnt informally....
Source: wordpress.com
China's Kashgar detects 137 new asymptomatic COVID cases
"China's Kashgar detects 137 new asymptomatic COVID cases: China detected 137 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases on Sunday in Kashgar in the northwestern region of Xinjiang after one person was found to have the virus the previous day - the first local new cases for 10 days in mainland China." "All 137...
Source: reuters.com
Why Use Ensemble Learning? - Machine Learning Mastery: What are the Benefits of Ensemble Methods for Machine Learning? Ensembles
Why Use Ensemble Learning? - Machine Learning Mastery: What are the Benefits of Ensemble Methods for Machine Learning?
Ensembles are predictive models that combine predictions from two or more other models.
Ensemble learning methods are popular and the go-to technique when the best performance on...
Source: machinelearningmastery.com
How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping: For Nicholas DeVito, Georgia Richards and Peter Inglesby, custom webscrapers
How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping: For Nicholas DeVito, Georgia Richards and Peter Inglesby, custom webscrapers have driven their research — and their collaborations. For Nicholas DeVito, Georgia Richards and Peter Inglesby, custom webscrapers have driven their research — and...
Source: nature.com
Photographer 'Devastated' After Her Unsplash Photo Was Used in 'Crass' UK Ad Campaign
Photographer 'Devastated' After Her Unsplash Photo Was Used in 'Crass' UK Ad Campaign: Atlanta photographer Krys Alex is speaking out after a portrait she took and posted to Unsplash was used in a controversial UK ad campaign.
Source: petapixel.com
Stripe acquires Nigeria's Paystack for over $200 million to expand its footprint in Africa
Africa is a great opportunity for ecommerce in coming decades and Nigeria's Paystack has been growing fast. "Stripe is a San Francisco-based fintech startup that provides payments infrastructure for businesses. Its software and APIs are used by millions of companies of all sizes to accept payments,...
Source: techstartups.com
Apple iPhone 12: The chip advance set to make smartphones smarter
Apple iPhone 12: The chip advance set to make smartphones smarter: A chip-making process pioneered in the Netherlands will let smartphones take the next leap forward.
Source: bbc.co.uk
"Black in Tech Berlin" campaigns for the employment of young black engineers | Africanews
"Black in Tech Berlin" campaigns for the employment of young black engineers | Africanews
Source: africanews.com
Benin innovation hub | Africanews: An innovation centre in Benin is poised to "solve African problems."
Benin innovation hub | Africanews: An innovation centre in Benin is poised to "solve African problems."
Source: africanews.com
Dying in a Leadership Vacuum Why has the United States handled this pandemic so badly?
Dying in a Leadership Vacuum Why has the United States handled this pandemic so badly? The NEJM Editors asks what has gone so wrong in the US and lays the blame with the political leadership. "This crisis has produced a test of leadership. With no good options to combat a novel pathogen, countries were...
Source: nejm.org
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