Why one building falls and another untouched
A really great resonance vibration demonstration shows why in an earthquake one building will fall down and the others around may go almost completely untouched
Metallica at 20 years old
Not one of them is over 21 years old, and they were already turning out stuff like this.
People today can replicate their sound perfectly, but nobody then (nor really now?) was innovating new sounds at the velocity they were in the 80’s. Every one of their songs were incredible and had all kinds of technical innovations in them.
Who would have thought they would grow up to this:
Remember kids – those ‘boomers’ many young people blame for everything were often much cooler than you and made a lot of the same choices you’re making now. And it’ll happen to YOU:
How fast is a GH200 Grace Hopper?
Google, Apple, and Amazon have been making their own compute chips. nVidia has been in the game too. But how fast is it? GPTshop.ai built an incredibly powerful desktop computer based on the nVidia Grace Hopper GH200 processor and provided Phoronix with access to the chip so it could benchmark it.
How fast is it? The GH200 performance nearly matched the Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ Emerald Rapids processor.
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When things fall apart and you have nothing but pieces
“You’re never going to get to finish telling your story if you keep re-reading the last chapter”
AI Portland
AI PDX has become a pretty popular group for folks working with AI systems in Portland. Check out their calendar for upcoming events.
Brave
“You only have to be brave for a second, the rest will take care of itself.”
Leave a legacy in Portland
Want to leave your mark on Portland?
Buy a brick with your name on it for Pioneer Square ($150), or get a park bench dedicated to you or someone you love ($1500/bench).
Dysfunctional papal elections
History was made in the election of the American Augustinian as Pope Leo XIV.
While this election was fairly straightforward, people love to take for even the most minor signs as indications scandals and diabolical cover-ups.
As anyone who has studied history knows – the truth is far, far more crazy than anything conspiracy theorists have come up with. For those that think the world has never been worse off, perhaps take a moment to hear some real events the Catholic Church has gone through.
As Hilaire Belloc said, if the Church were not of divine origin, it wouldn’t have lasted a month.
Lessons from Automotive Security
It’s a bit dated (2017), but Josh Hammond on IOActive presents some of the things he learned from automotive vulnerabilities.
Making and breaking codes for fun
I loved codes as a kid. I think I checked out every book on writing codes from the local library and even took a cryptography class during my college computer science courses.
While I usually stay away from social media, some of the non-political areas are decent. Reddit has a codes forum where users post different codes that they have made or run across and try to solve them.
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