I count at least 7 points on that star.

The labels get confusing especially between countries, but left and right are normally viewed as being economic policy classifications, but you can have authoritarians on right and left and all need to be fought.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that left mean anti-authoritarian. Left or right is an economic stance, and is orthogonal to beliefs surrounding government rights Vs population rights.

It’s a mixed bag. The smaller nodes have bigger problems with static leakage power, Vs dynamic switching power (which goes down)

…but you’ve got Microsoft writing the OS.

Power draw is not all hardware.

I think people believe that the ARM ISA brings a power efficient design but what really made Apple able to sip power on the M1 was a decade of phone processor design experience and full control of the software stack.

Don’t confuse TFLOPs and TOPs. Especially when the latter is 4-bit integer operations.

Why would AMD make an ARM CPU? The power efficiency isn’t related to the instruction set.

Do you think a style guide is enough for an open source code base? Contributions could be coming from lots of directions, and the code review process to enforce a style guide is going to be a lot of work. Even rejecting something takes time.

Alien is a horror movie, and horror movies always have the virtuous survive. It’s no different to Friday the 13th.

Furthermore there are many changes to NumPy internals, including continuing to migrate code from C to C++, that will make it easier to improve and maintain NumPy in the future.

I realise that C can be rather low level a lot of the time, but I’m not sure I’d pick C++ to help keep things easy to maintain. It opens up a Pandora’s box of possibilities.

Battery prices are now close to $100 per kWh and are predicted to keep dropping.

https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/electric-vehicle-battery-prices-falling.html

That’s $7k for the 60-70kWh battery we see in lots of cars. That’s offset against an engine that has multiple hundreds of moving parts, also worth several thousand.

No. It’s all about politics and “non-escallaction”.

The US doesn’t want to be seen as fighting this war.

US Vs Russia is a war nobody wants. Unlimited fire power would be easily framed as the US being an active participant.

Then at home Biden has an isolationist opponent framing him as a war-monger.

Everything is contaminated with micro plastics.

Got it! Understood.

1. What damage is it doing in these places?
2. How do we mitigate that damage?

That’s what papers should be focusing on at this point IMHO.

It’s not “lurching”.

They haven’t had their Brexit / Trump / anti establishment movement play through yet. That’s it.

• … we’ll recognise Palestine as a state.
• … we’ll stop military aid to Israel.
• … we’ll install a new leader in Israel.

Loads of things to offer.

Drones have been making their way 5-600 miles inside Russia to numerous air bases and oil refineries. It’s remarkable that they can do this without getting shot down.

Even where the systems still exist, they just don’t seem to be active / effective.

If anything, I think Musk’s takeover of twitter has thankfully removed a lot of the power that the platform had. People don’t trust it anymore, and they never should have.

I wouldn’t be so quick to write it off.

It’s a proof of concept showing the weaknesses in Microsoft’s vetting process for extensions published on the store. They then used the process to get pseudo-malicious code inside hundreds of organisations (not hundred of installs) some of which are high profile.

A lot of places seem to view it as “we just work from the backlog” with no requirements on when features are delivered, or their impacts on other parts of the project.

You still need a plan, goals and a timeline. Not just a bucket of stuff to get done.