Sunday, November 19, 2023

Quick notes: Nvidia | Resistant starch...

  • "Nvidia armed China single handedly": "If you think about Chinese AI capabilities, Nvidia gave them extraordinary amounts of Nvidia GPUs. There's no other way to look at it. It was legal, but that doesn't mean it doesn't carry a moral responsibility."


  • Microsoft wants to be less dependent on Nvidia: Microsoft unveils its first custom-designed AI, cloud chips. . . . . Why no chips from India, the "design powerhouse"? Waiting for domestic 28nm fabs to come online? By then, leading-edge tech will go past 2nm.


  • China’s 7nm Breakthrough: How Far Can China Push its Technology?



  • Game-changer, as long as we limit this to STEM: Keep woke poison out.


  • Pasta and Rice May Be Healthier as Leftovers: Cooking and cooling causes the food’s starch molecules to become “resistant,” meaning its sugar molecules aren’t as easily broken apart and absorbed into your bloodstream as they normally would be. Because resistant starches aren’t easily digested, they don’t spike your blood sugar as much as regular starch does. Instead, it continues on in your intestines, where it can feed the good microbes in your gut.


  • Eye drops recalled by Indian maker: Tainted eyedrops came from a company in Navi Mumbai called Kilitch Healthcare India Ltd.


  • Traffic Acquisition Costs: Alphabet pays Apple 36% of Safari search revenue, Sundar Pichai confirms. Google spent nearly $49 billion in Traffic Acquisition Costs in 2022. Google’s TAC costs include all of Google’s payments to companies like Apple and Samsung to place its search engine in front of users.


  • SriLanka redux: Nepal Is Investigating New Airport Made by China. Nepal’s $216 million international airport in Pokhara, the country’s second-biggest city, opened in January. The airport has failed to attract any regular international flights, raising concerns about whether it will generate enough revenue to repay loans to its Chinese lenders. Nepali officials have asked Beijing to change the loans into a grant to ease the financial burden, but China has not agreed to do so.


Friday, November 10, 2023

Quick notes: Minorities first | Colombo port...

Sunday, November 05, 2023

US Meddling in Bangladesh Elections

 

While India is promoting multi-polarity in the world order, we can see US is responding by promoting multi-polarity in SouthAsia, as a counter-reaction. US is now suddenly sharply trying to meddle in Bangladesh internal politics/elections in order to get rid of Sheikh Hasina / Awami League, who are seen as too close to India. US would like to have Khaleda Zia / BNP in power in Bangladesh, because this will result in more Indo-Bangladesh frictions, which US can exploit. Khaleda Zia / BNP would work closely with China to destabilize India's Northeast, which US could again exploit to gain more leverage with India. The Americans feel that we're behaving too cockily because we have it too good, and want to see us cut down to size.

Friday, November 03, 2023

Quick notes: Donor revolt | Search engine...

  • Put a billion-dollar hole in the University’s books: Wall Street titans help to fuel Ivy League donor revolt. Billionaires plan to stop donating to their preferred universities to protest how they have responded to the war.


  • Law Firms Warn Universities About Antisemitism on Campus: “We look to you to ensure your students who hope to join our firms after graduation are prepared to be an active part of workplace communities that have zero tolerance policies for any form of discrimination or harassment, much less the kind that has been taking place on some law school campuses,” the firms wrote.


  • $26.3 Billion: Google spent a staggering $26.3 Billion to maintain default search engine status on browsers and phones in 2021 according to a slide made public in a federal antitrust trial. Bernstein previously estimated Google could pay Apple as much as $19 billion this year for the out-of-the-box default placement on Apple devices.


  • How Erode-native KP Ramasamy walked into the exclusive club of India’s richest: A visit to his native village Kalliyampudur will, however, lay bare endearing anecdotes of his philanthropy stitched across decades.


  • When in Karnataka, speak like a Kannadiga: Online tuitions to make learning Kannada easy for non-native speakers. For details, visit kannadaonlinetuitions. Experienced moderators make learning easy, adding a personal touch, and improving fluency in no time.


  • 1.7 million: Afghans forced to flee as Pakistan cracks down on refugees


  • The Left-Islamist coalition: Yasmine Mohammed author of Unveiled



  • Alcohol Might Be Ruining Your Orgasm: “It does make you think, ‘Oh, I feel hornier!’. But the irony is that, in fact, it’s a central nervous system depressant.” While it may contribute to relaxation and inhibition reduction initially, it can hinder the brain’s ability to process sexual stimuli and coordinate muscle contractions, which are central to the orgasmic response


  • AI for Chip Design: Nvidia has unveiled ChipNeMo, a specialized large language model with 43 billion parameters aimed at bolstering chip design productivity. The tool promises to streamline various aspects of chip design by answering questions, condensing bug reports, and crafting scripts for electronic design automation (EDA) tools.


  • Chinese tech: Chinese Phytium's New CPU Claimed To Rival Arm's Neoverse N2


Thursday, November 02, 2023

Tom Friedman praises MMS for not retaliating to 26/11

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/remarkable-restraint-us-author-praises-manmohan-singh-amid-israel-hamas-war-2456145-2023-10-31 LOL. Thomas Friedman praises P.M Manmohan Singh for *"NOT retaliating militarily to 26/11”*. That’s exactly how they would like Hindus to be - emasculated and anatomically deficient like Shikhandi Maulana Mumble Singh! That is in line with a broader principle of demonizing Sanatana Dharma while promoting supposedly pacifist Buddhism. There is a deliberate effort by charlatans like DeeQuack Chopra, et al to ascribe to Buddhism - everything that is universally acknowledged as good and invented by Hinduism - things like Yoga, Pranayama, etc. while denigrating Hinduism as mere superstition, if not an evil, oppressive cult. HHM (Hindu Holy Men) are also culpable in the project of Hindu emasculation by teaching exclusively about Raas Leela, Makhan Chori, Baal Kreeda, etc. and NOT depicting armed, ferocious “Roudra Roop” of our deities complete with their Shastras and the true reason why they are worshipped - the Vadh of demoniac Rakshasas like Ravana, et al. An insidious message is being propagated that only “Pet Pooja” aka “Langar” is good for Hindus, i.e. NOT “Shastra Pooja” whereas “Kirpan” is OK for Sikhs because it is an “integral article of their faith”. During the recent NavaRatri festival, many Pandals in W. Bengal depicted Maa Durga - the fierce manifestation of the Mother Goddess Shakti WITH many arms and WITHOUT any of her Shastras! This is the “good Hindu” that they want - disarmed both physically and intellectually, pacifist, vulnerable and accomplices to their own civilizational extinction. Hindus are not “allowed” to protect their families, their religion, culture, their nation and anything else they hold sacred. Hindus can be humiliated, raped and massacred by anyone wantonly at their pleasure - but “good Hindus” are NOT “allowed” to retaliate. They MUST always turn the other cheek. Basically, for the establishment - a “good Hindu” is a dead Hindu OR a practically dead/lifeless Hijda like Ghandy! With this carrot and stick approach of: eulogizing emasculated HINO pacifists, massaging the egos of egotistical megalomaniacs - Ghandy like Hijdas (conforming to their official prescribed version of a “Hindu”) singing “Ishwar Allah Teri Naam” and spinning away the “Charkha” on their way to extinction like Dodos - while simultaneously demonizing traditional, assertive Sanatani Hindutva - Hindus are kept caged like lapdogs craving for approval from the Tom Friedmans, Fareed Zakarias of this world. Ghandy was a British, Church stooge - a vegetarian Christist planted in India at the right time to emasculate Hindus and subjugate the nascent struggle for Freedom from Christist colonial rule. If the Hindu nation - the last civilizational entity of its kind in the world is to survive - then Ghandy needs to be repudiated and his perverted, sadomasochistic ideology needs to be incinerated! Start by rejecting Tom Friedman’s laughable comparison/ praise of Shikhandi Manmohan with the extreme malice, derision and utter contempt that it deserves. Tom Friedman’s postulation could be the subject of a joke - but, should NOT be internalized by Hindus, especially not to deify Shikhandi Mumble Singh as the new “Mahatma” Ghandy!