SAMUEL ☄

[Bahama Don 🇧🇸 @N8TheCre8tive]

A lot of y'all "pro blackness" solely revolves around pissing hypothetical white people off. No affirmative values or vision. Just childish reactionary bullshit.

[Daily Roman Updates @UpdatingOnRome]

It’s always crazy to realize who was alive at the same time.

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

i think a lot about that guy in the early 1900s who went to bosnia to the last illiterate communities in europe and found out they were still reciting homer epic-length poems to each other from memory.

but when they became literate they lost the ability to remember the poems

[Iyefu @iyefuu]

Surely, when we consider pillars and attributes of civilisation as eurocentric ideals and constructs, we end up with Africans who are scared to do what I call “synthesis of power”

What you end up doing is
1. Ignoring the fact that Africa has its own history with these same civilisational pillars.
2. Falling into a purity trap, where your idea of being “authentically African” forces you to reject mechanisms required to build cohesive and powerful societies

It’s why I think it is imperative to see these tools and systems, as human heritage not eurocentric. That way Africans with a disposition of grievance can metabolise it into imagination and praxis rather than get paralysed by it.

I believe Africa's future will not be secured by rejecting civilisational tools because of their historical association with Europe rather by recognising those tools as part of humanity's shared inheritance and adapting them to African realities, values, and ambitions. That is what I mean by the synthesis of power.

[𝐙𝐝𝐤 — @zadokism]

You can tell Persians aren't supposed to be Muslim. This much critical thought is unbeknownst to the Arab mind.

[мустафа ибрагим, 21 ans 🥀 @patryusha]

As Europe & America prioritise shared INTERESTS over shared VALUES, Africa is discovering pretty quickly that the culturally Christian benevolence which underpinned our relations is fast fading into obscurity.
Existential questions will be asked, and Africa will have no answers.

[Favour Ayorinde @viyancefavour]

in Geopolitics, Nigerians display their stupidity and naivety in two primary ways.

1. They assume America is a saintly kingdom and is coming to rescue them.

2. They assume America and the west are secret collaborators plotting to screw Africans over and keep them down forever.

[Favour Ayorinde @viyancefavour]

"They shot him so many times and the bullets didn't affect him, until they brought out a machete to cut him down"

[Mort-decai @DavidAririeri]

you might genuinely dislike a group of people & honestly, that's valid. I don't even like some ethnicities myself. But denying their ancestral identity, something they've clung to for millennia even in exile, is dishonest and deeply sinister.

Also, you've really fallen off.

[SAMUEL ☄ @Samuel_Stealth]

@ArtemisConsort

[SAMUEL ☄ @Samuel_Stealth]

@zuki_2024

[SAMUEL ☄ @Samuel_Stealth]

@zuki_2024 combine these with Muslim Prone Attitude towards Rent Extraction, They Milked so much, European were discovered another continent by Chance just to avoid trade tarriffs

[SAMUEL ☄ @Samuel_Stealth]

@MadMaxCrypto08 @KaiserLoengramm Harold Godwinson was the last of the Anglo Saxons, Before Norman Rule Under William the Conqueror

[𝕵𝖆𝖉𝖊 ☧ ✠🇺🇸🎆 @JadeAtrophis]

If you showed Speed Racer to a modern filmmaker they would die of color exposure

[Marshal Bohemond ⚔️⛨ | Space Crusader Vtuber @HMBohemond]

"For their faults."

People need to stop pretending that the first three films are bad and where instead just the target of pretentious critics and booty blasted Transformers tourists.

[Gekko @_Gekkostate_]

What sells the action in Bay films is he doesn't depict the military as cannon fodder. A lot of sci-fi action blockbusters treat normal soldiers disposably. They're effortlessly killed off to show how weak they are compared to whatever advanced threat they are facing. But having-

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

Memory cost and capacity are significant issues for AI accelerators.

Unlike game rendering, model inference can have a deterministic memory access pattern. You don’t need “random access memory” at all for model weights, and you could tolerate cold-start latencies in the multiple milliseconds, as long as continuous reads were delivered at the necessary bandwidth.

NAND flash is over 100 times cheaper per GB than HBM, so there should be opportunity there, even after giving a flash controller a 1024 bit interface with HBM bandwidth.

You could make a specialized pin protocol that just supported pipelined transfer of full 16KB+ pages from the flash to program-managed accelerator scratchpad memory and improve per-pin performance over HBM, but it might be more convenient to make it still look like a true random access memory with very fragile performance characteristics, where anything but sequential reads falls off a 1000x+ performance cliff.

That has the advantage of automatically using existing cache hierarchies, and providing a natural path to update the flash memory with new model weights. With the stream-to-scratch interface, code has to be completely rewritten before it works at all, while the ram-emulation interface will start off just extremely slow, and you can incrementally sort out the changes for full performance.

There may be cases where there isn’t enough scratchpad SRAM to hold the weights for a layer, which might force you to deploy the old optical drive optimization technique of duplicating data in multiple places on a sequential read to avoid seeking, but there would be capacity to burn.

It might be possible to do something like cuda graph capture to record a memory access trace and have everything magically remapped to a linear sequence, but deploying programmer / agent elbow grease to manage transfers and access in a scratch ram ring buffer would be lower risk.

A split memory system consisting of some channels of flash and some channels of HBM will probably be suboptimal compared to a uniform memory, but it could be much cheaper, and allow much larger models to be run.

I think th case is strong for inference, but you have to stretch more for training. You can still linearize all the weight memory accesses, both reads and writes, but flash memory would quickly wear out from the writes, even if they were all perfectly page aligned. Replacing low-latency HBM with massively parallel cheap(er) DRAM at high latency might still be a worthwhile cost savings.

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

I suspect that the perception of poor economic conditions comes from:

1. High housing prices. This is real and easily fixable via deregulation. This is the issue where the young have the strongest case against the old. Boomer NIMBYism really is fucking us in this way.

2. Mismatched expectations. A lot of people have felt like the smartest person in every room they’ve been in, yet the economy doesn’t reward them commensurately with their self-assessed value, because the things they’re good at (dinner party conversation, abstruse philosophical discourse) don’t produce any value. This is the chief source of communist agitators.

3. For the lower classes, immigration. We used to have a huge labor premium even for 30-50th percentile Americans. Now immigration and outsourcing have nuked that. Some Bangladeshi who grew up in a shack will grind incredibly hard for even a lower-class American life, and probably cheat and steal along the way. This feels to the lower class like a betrayal because it is one. They want the same labor premium their parents had, not to compete against the entire world.

All this being said, if you’re truly talented you have more opportunities now than at any other time in history. I care about my nation and want it to work better for the average, but if you conceive of yourself as exceptional you really have no excuse. Post. Make videos. Build with 3D printers. Write an app with AI. Trade. Become a master welder and make more money than I do. If you even brush the top 10% of talent, let alone the top 1%, the potential money stream is bountiful.

I am sympathetic to many zoomer concerns and think we should take them seriously, but that requires categorizing them correctly. We must distinguish “I can’t get by” from “I’m not as elite as I think I should be”

[Nasser @RichPianian]

I want to make something extremely clear for you, you little fаggоt. You are here to post funny clips of trump doing and saying funny and cool things. Nothing more. Nobody is asking for your political commentary. They never have and they never will. You are not a serious journalist despite what you tell your parents who are secretly depressed with what their son is doing with his life. Now post the funny Trump clips. Don’t make me get my whip out.
The president is also right a kindergarten in Minnesota shouldn’t look like Mogadishu.