Cyril Hilsum has died aged 101. His late daughter Karen was my friend so I've tried to honour her memory by supporting women engineers in industry especially their retention.
I love the photos of Cyril enjoying the 'applied science' he spoke about to me.
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Cyril Hilsum was kind to women engineers especially those who honoured the memory of my friend Karen. His advice was sought by the most eminent scientists, industry and political advisors. His range was unique and he will be missed.
Cyril Hilsum obituary: physicist who developed displays used in iPhones. Wonderful obituary of my father @thetimes
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Sitting next to Dr. Wally Rhines and @timothybcosta ahead of the DAC pre show - AI Meets EDA: The Future of Chip Design
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Ahead of #ISCA2026 I refreshed the Computer Architecture Hall of Fame with this year's program. 12 researchers crossed the 8-paper ISCA threshold and joined, including first-timers Jovan Stojkovic (UT Austin) and Nika Mansouri-Ghiasi (ETH Zurich).
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For ppl interested in AI & Sustainability this livestream is a tribute to Prof Sir David MacKay, Cambridge fmr UK DoE Govt C. Scientific Advisor. So memorable for wit & wisdom on Energy policy & use of data
youtube.com/live/unuuHyddufA
I'm watching the Livestream of a Cambridge conference to commemorate Sir David MacKay author of Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air. Interesting speakers on Climate & other topics. He was inspiring, provocative & prescient.
youtube.com/live/unuuHyddufA
It would seem that I need to say @IanCutress & @sallywf have a new AI Hardware video.
While looking for a post by either, I discovered a nice article by @DavidBennett__
Calibre of my feeds about semi is great, tho I'd love some customer stories ab choices
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Wish I could be there tonight, I'll be looking for a recording.
Lecture by Dr Alex Kendall CEO @wayve_ai
Building Embodied Intelligence: Insights from Wayve’s Journey in Autonomous Driving Cambridge Philosophical Society cambridgephilosophicalsociet…
I've been recommending the 'Cheeky Pint' podcast and Stripe books (inc Dwarkesh's) to everyone but wasn't expecting this.
I'm astounded by the pace of development and the ambition, missing for far too long.
Peerless in so many ways
New season of Cheeky Pint starts tomorrow! First up: @dwarkesh_sp and I sit down with @elonmusk to discuss space GPUs and much more.
I'm in hospital - dropped fr loft to floor below. Read this while trauma surgeon fixed leg. Arm later..
Essential to understand the difficulties with accountability in UK. Horrendous technical illiteracy of legal & corp ldrs.
Many comprise integrity.
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Great to see London born electronic engineer interviewed about future networking.
Norwegian investment fund has good feed (my niece is snr engineer in Norway).
Attitude shift being noted....
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Week 2 of the AI Hardware Show - in this episode we tackle the Datacenter Training chips. @nvidia Blackwell, @AMD MI350 Series, @Google Ironwood, and even a few Chinese options.
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Hot Chips 2025 presentations and videos are now publicly available: hc2025.hotchips.org/
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@glennklockwood ‘s SC25 recap is out:
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Nuclear power is making a comeback. @juliadewahl joins to describe how Antares is starting with micro-reactors providing power for the US military in hard-to-reach places.
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DESILO and Cornami Announce Breakthrough in Encrypted AI Computation
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#DESILO #Cornami #EncryptedAI #PrivacyPreservingAI #FullyHomomorphicEncryption #FHE #EncryptedComputing #AIPrivacy #SecureAI #PrivacyEnhancingTechnologies #PET #AIInfrastructure
I'm watching the livestream, worth following up, hopefully other presentations will be available too
After spending a splendid day speaking at the IBM AI HW Forum, I will be at the "IBM IEEE CAS/EDS – AI Compute Symposium" to present "The Next Shift in AI: Autonomous Agents and Proactive Intelligence." I will share my slides on Substack afterwards. zurich.ibm.com/thinklab/AIco…
Collison brothers interview is superb at revealing the issues in biotech (lots nearby in Cambridge) and pharma +manufacturing of drugs.
The peer-to-peer discussion, full of insights is very watchable.
Eli Lilly building Nvidia machine that I hope does accelerate devt&test.
Dave Ricks has been at @EliLillyandCo for 20% of its 150-year history. He came to the pub, poured his own Guinness, and gave us a 2-hour state of the pharma union: drug prices, clinical trials, patent clocks, the rise of generics, Chinese peptides, compounding pharmacies, the US healthcare system, and how the broad success of GLP-1s have transformed Lilly's business. If you've never heard Dave speak before, you're in for a treat.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
05:08 Making R&D decisions
10:11 Clinical trials
24:59 Drug pricing
32:43 Stimulating more R&D
45:16 Pros and cons of US healthcare
58:20 New pharma business models
01:05:53 Stripe + enterprises
01:07:00 China
01:16:31 Generics
01:22:37 GLP-1s
1:37:43 r/Peptides
01:41:25 LillyDirect
01:46:35 Why do investors love LLY?
