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@elonmusk But can it make the Kessel run in 12 parsecs? Thought not.

SpaceX has almost finished writing V1.0 of an in-house AI training stack in C that exact-maps to 220k GB300s with 800G NICs, making heavy use of pipeline parallelism and getting as close to bare metal as possible. The potential speed improvement vs JAX for large training runs is over an order of magnitude.

I'm a Brit but I love America. I have never had any time for anti-Americanism. America is a brilliant country with brilliant people who've given the world so much - not least their cultural exports which are integral to Western culture. It's certainly been central to my upbringing. I still haven't forgiven them for Friends, but this is the country of Star Trek, Tour of Duty, South Park, Breaking Bad, Slayer, Metallica, Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters... the list is endless. A wonderful country of great intellect, talent and humour. I also do not forget that Europe owes it a great debt. For sure, America had its own imperial interests first and foremost, but America has been our security umbrella against fascism and communism for a century - and as a small country, it has always been in our best interests for America to be the top dog - because America stands on the fundamental principles of liberty and free speech. That is what makes America the innovation engine of the world. A place where people are free to just do things. As such, it is not a coincidence that America leads the way into space. America invents, Europe regulates, China steals, Russia invades, India swindles. So as the the old order collapses, you have to pick a side. I choose America every single time. I want America to win, not least because their survival is our survival. But America is not a happy country. America is teetering on the brink of civil war because it has allowed its enemies to prosper. The degenerate American left is anti-Christian, anti-capitalist, anti-white, anti-freedom and anti-democracy. The shitlib left are attempting to destroy America by holding the door open for parasites and enemies. This is what gives rise to MAGA and Trump. The European mind sneers at Trump. He's brash, unapologetic, impulsive and unpredictable. For me, that's all the more reason to love him. I don't mind that he's antagonising Europe because Europe is no longer an ally to America. Europe is occupied by a Malthusian suicide cult that would sell out to China in a heartbeat. Europe has wound down its armed forces, destroyed its own industrial base, exported its economic power to China and India, and is now suppressing and replacing their own people. I have no loyalty to the regimes of Britain and Europe. They are as much the enemy as the American shitlib left. The same can be said of Canada whose moral fabric is so warped that they'd rather go cap in hand to Communist China than secure and enforce their own borders as requested by the USA. Meanwhile, A failing, decrepit Europe, on the brink of cultural and ethnic extinction, wags the finger at America even while enjoying the security of US defence umbrella. Europe funds lavish welfare systems - throwing money at sub-literal third worlders while its major countries can't even field a squadron of combat aircraft or deploy a functioning armoured brigade without American logistical support. The only countries in Europe taking the social, economic and defence threats seriously are Poland Hungary, and the EU uses its full bureaucratic weight to blackmail them into adopting gay race communism and relaxing their borders. Meanwhile Germany outlaws democratic opposition and Britain throws citizens in jail for tweeting. The same miserable shitlib countries can't even give a full throated defence of Israel for defending its own borders from Islamists because our politicians are electorally in hock to Pakistanis in the post-industrial hinterlands who rape our kids on an industrial scale. So yes, on balance, I don't give a fuck if ICE agents shoot shitlib leftists in the face, or if Trump invades Greenland for resources. It's not as though Europe has the good sense to exploit them. Britain is wilfully impoverishing its own people by not exploiting its fossil fuel resources and the EU will come up with equally bullshit reasons for not exploiting Greenland. EU member states can mewl about territorial sovereignty but they'll happily hand over their political sovereignty to the death cult in Brussels, while our own feckless prime minister hands over the Chagos Islands to China - and allows the EU to squat in Northern Ireland. If America can use Greenland's resources to its own advantage, they can fill their boots for all I care. American prosperity and security has never been more pivotal to the survival of the values (and people) the Western alliance has turned it back on.

@boringcompany Yes

Announcing the Tunnel Vision Challenge! Pitch us your best 1-mile tunnel idea (Loop, freight, pedestrian, utility, etc.), we'll pick a winner, and build it…for free! Details: boringcompany.com/tunnelvision Criteria: -Usefulness (good bang for the bore) -Stakeholder Engagement (get hyped) -Technical, Economic, and Regulatory Feasibility (success is physically possible) Prufrock was designed to build mega-infrastructure projects in a matter of weeks instead of years - so let’s build!

@VincentWal6220 @LoganairCare17 I know that guy, he's also helped me, he is excellent. Unfortunately he wasn't working that night. After many calls she's flying out on Sunday, 4 days late.

It is mind-boggling to think these tunnels under Piccadilly Circus tube station were built in 1906, and the elaborate station complex above it, complete with escalators and deep lifts, in 1928. And it is still in operation today. #London

Grok is super cool. It helped me identify this obscure handmade paper which was used by Picasso to make his La Chèvre print on in 1952. You can read more about this super rare paper here vintagepaper.co/collections/18… Turns out ai can be pretty helpful, even for nerdy nerds.

I captured the entire "Planetary Parade" using my 11" telescope, and combined everything into one composite photo that stayed true to the angular scale of these objects. Made entirely with real photos, I hope this composite helps illustrate the scale of these things!

@UsafreeTrue @GuntherEagleman Don't you mean fire they/them all?

🚨 TEACHERS: If your students know your political or sexual preference, you should be fired.

@Glinner Scooby Don't

You know that guy who goes into restaurants and tries to get the staff fired when they call him 'sir'? This is content from his Only Fans. They're. Just. Men. Dressed. As. Women.

@MrJamesMay The answer is a freezer.

I bought a new mattress yesterday. Can anyone name a more boring thing to buy? Expensive ‘n’ all.

@MrJamesMay @by_witter Ooh, hark at Mr Fancy, with his in-house la di dah toilet.

@by_witter We have a lav in our house. You should try one.

@RevRichardColes Don't worry about it. Just know that you're watching the second best film ever made, after Kelly's Heroes.

Only one gay rights group had the courage to campaign against the use of puberty blockers for gender-confused children: @AllianceLGB. They fought for the right of gender-questioning kids to grow up with their bodies and fertility intact. Blockers have now been banned in the UK.

Jet suit paramedics can fly to the top of Helvellyn in just 3.5 minutes instead of the usual 1 hour 15 minutes.

So I found the worst thing ever.

Pretty flippin big news! Over 2 years ago we agreed to buy this old bank in Stromness, Orkney. After much delay, we finally picked up the keys yesterday! We open in spring '25 when you'll be able to join us for coffee, cake, bookbinding, prints, bags and other handmade goodness.