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Cake day: January 18th, 2024

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  • Apple Maps gets their data from openstreetmap, where anyone can insert a “place” if there’s not.one there already.

    I think some Japanese person just put up an entry and Apple Maps scooped it up as-is.

    The hotel I work for (also in Crete) was listed in the wrong address in Apple Maps and I had to make an openstreetmap account to edit it. It’s showing correctly now.

    Edit: I went to the place on Apple Maps and it’s plain old English in mine, either they corrected it or it’s a regional thing. It’s not like this on openstreetmap either










  • Clearly, Pezy can stand toe-to-toe with Nvidia GPUs on flops per watt at high precision and offer more flexible programming for non-AI workloads. Admittedly, the tensor cores in GPUs can crank through twice as much floating point work at FP64 and FP32 precision and also offer much lower precision for AI training (FP8) and inference (FP4).

    But the Japanese government can keep Pezy Computing as a hedge and keep a skillset in designing math accelerators in the country by funding this effort. And we think this is exactly why there will be a Pezy-SC5s and even follow-ons. Because you never know when you won’t be able to get a GPU because demand is too high or exports are restricted.

    So the answer is because the US is trying to monopolize the compute market and can not be trusted as an ally any longer, so they keep funding their home-grown tech, even if the performance isn’t there yet, because they may not have another choice soon.

    Europe needs to wake up and do the same.





  • There are current studies about growing entire organs in a lab environment using 3D printed scaffolding and stem cells harvested from the patient, so the final product is 100% compatible and eliminates the need for immunosuppressants.

    Still a few decades out for human testing imo but they’d be the first in line.

    If we figure that out, artificial blood (which is already making good progress) and finally a way to regenerate brain cells without causing massive brain tumors we can extend life considerably, probably closer to 200 years on extreme cases.

    Or, at least, making it to 110 while still having a good quality of life, basically making 100 the new 60.