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Carl Sagan: There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. [...] it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home [...]
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The sols wonβt be the same without the #MarsHelicopter.
#ThanksIngenuity, for being my partner in exploration from the very beginning. go.nasa.gov/42b77KA
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Perfection doesn't exi...
Waitβhave you seen the cables in our data center? π€
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For those @NASAVoyager aficionados. Periodically Voyager 1 will transmit 1.4kb/s PWS Digital Tape Recorder playback data, up from its normal 160b/s. To be received the DSN has to array every available antenna. Madrid's DSS63/53/54/55/56 have been booked for next week
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SQLite, used in every phone and browser in the world, has 3 developers, millions of tests, and no manual testers. So don't tell me you need a 1:1 tester:engineer ratio for your "mission critical" system.
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You've heard that July 2023 was the warmest July on record globally, both in anomaly and absolute temperature. How did it stack up by land vs. ocean, and by hemisphere? Here are those plots. Data is from GISTEMP and the annual cycle (black line on each plot) derived from ERA5. π§΅
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A frosty Monday morning in Canberra with DSS43 tracking @NASAVoyager 2. Note the mist rising from the top of the antenna dish as its warmed by the sun.
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The first Oxide rack being prepared for customer shipment!
ALT An Oxide rack being wrapped in preparation to ship to a customer.
Want to work for #Intel #Labs on the future of #orchestration of #cloud/edge native apps? Maybe this is sth for you? It is a remote; you would work on stuff like #kubernetes etc.; and yes - it is cool!
jobs.intel.com/en/job/karlsrβ¦
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This year I am seeing new ways people leverage #SLOs to improve the quality of life for developers.
Check out @befreax of Intel Labs chat on SLOs to reduce cognitive load - resulting in less required knowledge and fewer mistakes.
Register at SLOconf toβ¦lnkd.in/gUhG3aiH
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#VLSI2023 Highlight paper T1-1 βE-Core Implementation in Intel 4 with PowerVia (Backside Power) Technologyβ β Intel Corp.
Intel reports a high-yielding backside power delivery technology, PowerVia Technology*, and Intel E-Core Implementation in PowerVia Technology.
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Excited to see this one. Lots of other great talks!
SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT: Thijs Metsch and Adrian Hoban of @intel ππ½
"Away from a monitoring & alerting way of looking SLOs, towards a way of using SLOs to manage the system." π₯
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I'll be speaking at #SLOconf 2023, May 15-18th. Feel free to register to hear my talk on #Intent-Driven #Orchestration with SLOs! -
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SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT: Thijs Metsch and Adrian Hoban of @intel ππ½
"Away from a monitoring & alerting way of looking SLOs, towards a way of using SLOs to manage the system." π₯
sloconf.com
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I am happy to confirm that Aurora looks and sounds complete (still noisy despite the water cooling). Last time I saw it at @argonne a year ago, photos were not ok yet ;-).
The 2nd exaflop computer at an expected cost of $500 million running #HPC and #AI!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auroraβ¦
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Back in 2018, I found Moore's desk at Intel. Lots of exciting stuff, I wrote about it: anandtech.com/show/12830/gorβ¦
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Introducing OpenChatKit. A powerful, open-source base to create chatbots for various applications. Details in π§΅
together.xyz/blog/openchatkiβ¦
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The DSN tracking schedule is just about to drop off the proverbial cliff as we enter a 14 hour global down time. This is to test new software for the enhanced DSN operations platform. Missions have been tucking their spacecraft in to bed for the predicted comms blackout period.
