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Tired: particle accelerator which crosses the border between France and Switzerland.

Wired: particle accelerator which crosses the border between Quebec and Ontario.


Wireless: Quartks crossing between France and Ontario

https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/30/what-are-ukraines-new-gu...

> Zelenskyy also said that Ukraine is willing to share its expertise in unblocking maritime trade routes with the naval drones.

> “We shared our experience with the Black Sea corridor and how it operates. They understand that our Armed Forces have been highly effective in unblocking the Black Sea corridor. We are sharing these details.”


To be fair, it was bright Chinese minds at ByteDance which worked on getting US teenagers addicted to TikTok videos.

Meta, Google did their parts too

A recent blog post from Christoper Drum on running Lotus 1-2-3 on MS-DOS in a 286 emulator https://stonetools.ghost.io/lotus123-dos/ .


Yhe initiator of the scheme, Edward O. Thorp, was also a father of modern blackjack card counting, and wrote the definitive book about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_counting#History_of_blackj... . "The Invention of the First Wearable Computer" http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/courses/mobwear/resourc... is Thorp's paper about the blackjack-computer scheme.

(Another famous '70s card counter, Ken Uston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Uston ended up writing one of the very earliest video game guides, Mastering Pac-Man (it came out in 1981, the same year as Tom Hirschfeld's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Master_the_Video_Games .) Apparently one of its readers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Dukach discovered Uston's blackjack books as a result, got into blackjack and so ended up on the later, late-'70s-to-early-2000s MIT Blackjack Team led by J.P. Massar .)


Yes Thorp had secured a hard to schedule meeting with Shannon regarding his research. Turned out Shannon was more interested in the analysis of a few gambling games that Thorp had thrown in the conversation.

The wide interest in things that Shannon held from weird gadgets to possibly the most famous Masters thesis dissertation, Shannon has me in awe and respect. Had he been a good storyteller, I suspect, people would have been as familiar with his name as Feynman.


Thorp is alive and in his 90s.

Here’s an interview with him from a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/CNvz91Jyzbg?si=vR8jxJ7iBCP0uYzk


A great reference, thanks! I can imagine both Thorp and Shannon desperately trying to solder loose wires in a toilet booth could make a great awkward scene in a future film

I don't get it tbh. What market participants were speculating here? There aren't futures markets in RAM as far I know, though I certainly don't know much. And the supply constraints appear to have been pretty real (though maybe not immediate) if eg. Valve was begging publicly for RAM consignments. Were there pure-play speculators filling warehouses with DDR5?

>There aren't futures markets in RAM as far I know

sure there is. not formally, but if you hold a contract for x units of future production, you can sell that contract to somebody else who wants those units more than you do.


That’s a forward contract yeah. They def do exist.

Futures are standardised forward contracts traded on exchanges


And apparently the most efficient training and inference thanks to their TPUs, IIUC?

Also, an out-of-date model which doesn't know about last year's world events, hit songs and new JS libraries is a depreciating asset even before you consider low-cost competitors catching up. So you'd presumably have to do some training just to keep the model up to date at the current quality level (unless you completely give up and just sweat the assets). And on the other side of that coin: over the next few years, do the latest, biggest models continue to generate user-perceived real-world improvements sufficient to keep users wanting the latest and greatest?

More SAIL emphemera: a short film of the regular SAIL volleyball game, starring John McCarthy, Les Earnest and special guest, Xerox PARC's Bob Taylor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaoBt_yBXg0 .

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