“The Funeral”

I wondered if my cousins thought my mother was dramatic as she cried, after all, she had not seen them in years. Perhaps she was sad for herself, or sad in the way people are when they realize the end is coming and all the people they have known in their lives are marching in a line toward the edge of the cliff, falling off one by one.

I enjoyed reading this. This is not a fantastical story. You don’t see stories like this so much these days.

Microsoft says this new cooling method could enable more powerful chips and efficient data centers by Justine Calma

With microfluidic cooling, liquid flows through channels etched onto the back of a chip. The trick is making sure the channels, about the width of a human hair, are deep enough to prevent clogging but not so deep that the chip becomes more likely to break.

Two things here -

1. Since the coolant does not need to cool the metal stuck to the chip, it does not need to be as colder. So less energy.
2. During spike in demands, you could overclock, instead of scale so less machines, possibly.

OpenAI has added a new feature (or new to me) called previews. For me, what it shows is a web preview of my website, a snapshot of the changes I could expect to see on the page it is working on.

It’s excellent. Now I don’t have to wait for the build to complete. Even though the build overall is pretty fast.

Ghost of Yōtei is exactly the kind of game PlayStation needs by Andrew Webster

Things have been weird for PlayStation of late. After years spent cultivating an image akin to the HBO of video games through single-player franchises like The Last of Us, God of War, and Horizon Zero Dawn, the company shifted focus, jumping on the live-service bandwagon to mostly disastrous effect. Aside from a few standouts and a number of remasters, those beloved single-player games have slowed to a trickle: which is what makes Ghost of Yōtei so notable. Like its predecessor Ghost of Tsushima, it’s an attempt by studio Sucker Punch to merge the freedom of an open-world game with the style and drama of a classic samurai movie. More importantly, it’s exactly the kind of game that PlayStation needs more of.

This release snuck up on me.

For this year, I had two titles to play - DS2 and Ghost of Yotei.

I have started playing DS2. But progress is slow. I just don’t have the time. Once DS2 is done, I will start with Ghost.

I had thought I would finish DS2, by the time Ghost released, but here we are!

Microsoft’s AI CEO on the future of the browser by Tom Warren

“It’s almost like having a little angel on your shoulder doing the boring hard work of reading reviews, doing price comparisons, synthesizing research, but instead of it happening away from you, you can actually see it in real time unfolding before your eyes,” says Suleyman.

But the research is the point, when it comes to buying a new piece of technology. I enjoy reading the reviews. I enjoy the process. I don’t want someone to do the research and tell me what to buy.

Trump says H-1B visas will now cost $100,000 per-year by Terrence O'Brien

The fee will only apply to new applicants and it’s likely to face legal challenges, but even just the specter of this change appears to have some companies scrambling. There are reports that Microsoft issued an internal memo advising any workers currently abroad that operate on a visa to return to the US before the new fees kick in at midnight tonight. And tech companies have already been warning those working on visas not to leave the US for fear that they might not be able to return.

Why not just scrap the program?

Also, The United States is Starved for Talent, Re-Upped - Marginal REVOLUTION

Overall, getting (approximately) one extra high-skilled worker causes a 23% increase in the probability of a successful IPO within five years (a 1.5 percentage point increase in the baseline probability of 6.6%). That’s a huge effect.

Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space by Sophie Hurwitz

Altman has proposed creating a Dyson sphere of data centers around the sun, referring to a hypothetical megastructure built around a star to capture much of its energy. The rather glaring downside to this is that building it would likely require more resources than exist on Earth, and could make the planet uninhabitable. But somewhat more realistic plans are inching closer to reality. Startups like Starcloud, Axiom, and Lonestar Data Systems have raised millions to develop them.

It will be slow though getting data to and from these DCs. Wireless is very slow compared to fibre.