Nam Pho

Building supercomputers and other scientific computing infrastructure for researchers in the higher education, non-profit, and government spaces. Opinions own.

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"A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into IO-bound problems." - Ken Batcher #HPC #BigData #DataScience #ATPESC

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"Confusion is the sweat of learning." #AI #CS #HigherEd https://t.co/8qWyGCS0oD

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Interesting analysis of the tokenomics but the unaccounted for risk is if pass through provider pricing today reflects VC subsidized rates and are raised in the future. https://t.co/BoNZW8kowI

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Interesting differences between European and US expectations surrounding organs upon death. https://t.co/cECnNge8Su

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"The world is about to need elders more than it has needed them in a century, and an elder is not a person of a certain age. An elder is a person who passes something on." https://t.co/9sRmeNgudB

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@BentleyAudrey Unlike when the tables are turned, he probably didn’t know you were staring.

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@vrexec I appreciated the original post, it made me reflect on things. I hope this experience doesn’t stop you from asking other questions in the future.

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Kind of wild how lean this company runs their data center and HPC/AI infrastructure. https://t.co/ZVEi0idaJw

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Qwen3.5-2B's internal monologue when I say "Hi" sounds like what goes on in my head in a new social situation 😅

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An interesting read if you're on the research or user land side and aren't in the floor tiles keeping the supercomputing infrastructure running. #HPC #Top500 https://t.co/RSnYfnHcL6

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Has someone vibe coded a skills security auditor for agentic AI yet? https://t.co/dHlG2zzzJw

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I dunno, maybe the AI data centers in space thing is slowly looking less far fetched of a possibility. https://t.co/N4UlkbMkqK

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If recent advances in AI are giving you anxiety, remember the playbook. "The meta-skill is this: learning to spot what becomes possible when a constraint disappears, then building your value around that new possibility." https://t.co/FxNGWogAIB

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... Holbrooke [is] an example of how sometimes a strong, even overbearing, individual is needed to knock heads of autocratic bullies. ... strong-arm negotiations under pressure of military punishment proved ... “that American diplomacy is not an oxymoron.” https://t.co/xP70cwksgF

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Thoughtful take on how to embrace AI for student assessment in higher education, a lot of good ideas here. https://t.co/1ANtMpzYwY

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If Google is serious about driving TPU adoption they need to help make JAX more ubiquitous in college courses the way CUDA is now. https://t.co/352GZa200H

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If this is true you'll never look at the show the same way again... https://t.co/NjJHUU8keL

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The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.

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If you wanted to know why uv is so much faster than pip for Python package and dependency management (hint: it's not solely because it's written in Rust). https://t.co/AIJW4shiGK

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The first step to solving a problem is understanding it. This excellent article breaks down the state of US health care and accounts for the flow of money among all parties. https://t.co/r7o8G9pGq2

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If you have an iOS device it's always good to do a security and privacy settings audit once in a while. I find this guide from the EFF to be approachable for a broad audience. #InfoSec https://t.co/HWG3qj5Leg