#77 We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business
Apologies for a few missed issues. Covid caught up with me late but it caught up with me "good". Hopefully, we are back on track from now on.
We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business
Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed “last man standing in the floppy disk business.” He is the time-honored founder of floppydisk.com, a US-based company dedicated to the selling and recycling of floppy disks.
Nvidia’s flagship AI chip reportedly up to 4.5x faster than the previous champ
Upcoming "Hopper" GPU broke records in its MLPerf debut, according to Nvidia.
Twisty device explores alternative path to fusion
Revamped German stellarator should run longer, hotter and compete with tokamaks.
Why economists are flocking to Silicon Valley
For more than a decade Facebook, now known as Meta, has awarded fellowships to promising graduate students working on cutting-edge research. The prize, which this year comes with up to two years’ worth of university tuition and a $42,000 stipend, has gone to computer scientists, engineers, physicists and statisticians.
Pounds That Kill: The External Costs of Vehicle Weight
Heavier vehicles are safer for their own occupants but more hazardous for other vehicles. Simple theory thus suggests that an unregulated vehicle fleet is inefficiently heavy.
Today I announced a layoff at Patreon of 80 people, or about 17% of our teammates. Here is the note that I sent to the Patreon team about it earlier this morning.
SEC Charges VMware with Misleading Investors by Obscuring Financial Performance
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged VMware Inc. for misleading investors about its order backlog management practices, which enabled the Palo Alto, California-based technology company to push revenue into future quarters by delaying product deliveries to customers, concealing the company’s slowing performance relative to its projections.
Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken.
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