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Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Emmanuel Macron joins growing criticism of Elon Musk in Europe - Quite a pot stir. Seems like everyone who is anyone has something to say now. Imagine if we had so much unity in peacefully working together. theguardian.com #
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Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits - "1 petaflop of AI performance, 200 billion parameters, 2 systems can be linked together to handle models with up to 405 billion parameters" - Sounds pretty cool, a top end workstation. Also sounds a lot like NVidia is eyeing up Apple’s lunch, and looks like they are about to go out to an S&M party. It would be kind of funny if all Nvidia employees wore Jensen Huang leather jackets to the office. He is so trying to be bad ass Steve Jobs. theverge.com #
Belgium issues food advisory against consuming Christmas trees - One memory I have of belgian Christmas’ was that for a number of years the big tree in Brussels’ main square had the usual christmas tree ornaments but additionally had several life size plastic sheep and cows, containing lit up neon bulbs of various colors, that were jammed in between the branches. I had no idea this little tradition had escallated and morphed to the point where people were eating the trees. They are quite surrealist in Belgium. I think it’s mostly well meaning even if it’s sometimes a bit risqé. theguardian.com #