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Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

I attended an Intel "AI day" in London back in about 2018, before they bought Habana and had all of their focus on Nervana (mentioned in the article) and Saffron - which I've basic…

A competing research team in France almost cracked the same problem - but their funding agency said Un Oeuf is Un Oeuf.

"Buncha fuckin' nerds, don't they know I got an MBA from Hahvad?"

From the inside, RTO feels more like a way to reclaim leverage from highly paid technical employees who have become too uppity. Summoning us back to the office is about putting us …

Most of my consulting clients do barely any work on Fridays anyway and so wouldn't mind me reducing to 4 days at all.

When it comes time to write Python 4, please just let these guys handle it.

The bad weather places you mention have largely uniform bad weather, which is not true of England - the south east is noticeably warmer and drier than the north west. Weather is of…

Any article which seeks to explore the problems of northern England and doesn't mention the weather is fundamentally incomplete. I've lived in every part of England, but being in t…

I have observed a strange/alarming behaviour when I carry a notebook - because friends and family don't typically have one, they find it intriguing and so will sometimes absentmind…

I have a solid sheet of grey clouds over my head for what feels like 300 days of the year - would happily take some of that variability!

Education comes in many forms. School taught me about long division and the battle of Hastings, but weekends away with my family taught me about societal norms. We hear lots of com…

> Suddenly, the economy looks more like an infinite series of tiny frauds than a harmonious ecosystem. This hits hard. I enjoyed reading that far more than I expected, even if I di…

Always has been

> That means your manager has to be switched on and fully on board. Your manager also needs enough political capital to drive the promotion. This is something I have an acute aware…

Calling it now - a leetcode-based kindergarten programme is the next big a16z investment.

Fujitsu seems to be weirdly stubborn about global commercialisation of their CPUs. I know of at least a couple of HPC customers who wanted to build systems based on A64FX and the a…

> I woudn't work on it though. That's fair enough, but would you at least contribute to the development?

Cal Newport beat you to #3

The problem is that so many people being paid for 5x8 are actually working 5x9 or 5x10. At least for myself, I was raised with the notion that working harder would be recognised an…

If you aim for the stars and fail, others can remember your folly by the smoking crater you leave behind.

Amazon culture was on a downward trajectory for a while before this, but the decay really accelerated in 2022 and has only gotten worse. No amount of face-to-face contact will fix …

Someone paid a Cornish builder to work on their patio, this is how far he got. I'm sure he'll finish it dreckly.

With the greatest of compassion and respect: America - get a fucking hold of yourselves, would you please?

> Maybe it is naive but I think search would probably work again if they could roll back code to 10 or 15 years ago and just make search engines look for text in webpages. Even mor…