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My music revisted.
Thanks to the helpful people here on soylent telling me about bandcamp, I have published an album of my music on bandcamp!
I really appreciate the help and the advice, and I would like you to listen to my music. You can listen for free. If you like it any purchase would be massively appreciated. Believe me, and my broke ass, I need all the help I can get.
http://f4music2.bandcamp.com/releases/
It will have an angry Mickey Mouse for the album cover (sue me Disney I don't have a pot to piss in).
I call my band "F4" (though I'm the only one) and the name of the album is "beginning".
I hope you enjoy it, and if you don't that's ok also. Thanks for being such cool people! I'll try to be cool too.
realDonaldTrump's Gift to Ethanol-Fueled
Trump administration prepares to release Central American migrants 'across the entire nation'
The Trump administration is preparing to send Central American migrants caught along the southern border to Border Patrol stations "across the entire nation," according to a senior Border Patrol official who confirmed the plans Friday.
With more than 4,500 people being caught each day crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, the agency has run out of room at its Border Patrol facilities in the four border states. The agency has started looking at its facilities around the country, which are mostly along the northern border with Canada and coastal states.
That means states from Oregon to North Dakota to Maine may begin receiving planeloads of migrant families in the weeks to come. On Tuesday, Customs and Border Protection sent its first plane full of migrants from Texas to San Diego.
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Good news for my wife?
My wife's white cell count has stopped doubling (she thought it was going to be at 60 from 30, but it's only at 45.... So, good news in a way...the next test in 3 months should show better? the progress.
Here's hoping it levels out and just becomes chronic and steady.
Fingers crossed.
Taiwan's Legislature Approves Same-Sex Marriage Law
Samsung Samples 32 Gb DRAM Chips
Samsung Samples 32 Gb DDR4 Memory Chips
JEDEC’s DDR4 specification only describes 4 Gb, 8Gb, and 16 Gb memory devices. As a result, DRAM makers have to use advanced packaging techniques to build chips for high-capacity memory modules for servers or workstations. DDPs are not something particularly new, but 32 Gb DDR4-2666 DDPs are unique to Samsung.
[...] Samsung does not disclose pricing of its 32 Gb DDR4-2666 DDPs, but it is obvious that they will be sold at a premium given the fact that they are only available from Samsung and they are harder to build than SDPs.
The expensive way to double capacity.
By comparison: Samsung Shows Off 256 GB Server Memory Modules Using 16 Gb Chips
Makeup YouTuber #Cancelled
The canceling of James Charles: Beauty YouTuber loses 3 million subscribers in a weekend
One video led to YouTube’s biggest makeup vlogger losing millions of subscribers
That's apparently the largest/fastest loss of subscribers in YouTube history.
Funny memes aside, if you look into the circumstances more closely, James Charles got called out for promoting a company's gummy vitamin formulated for sleep (melatonin and other junk) instead of his friend Tati Westbrook's vitamin product. But Tati Westbrook doesn't sell any sleep vitamin products (they are intended for hair/nails and skin). So the whole feud is built on a misunderstanding or deliberate misrepresentation. As for catfishing/trying to turn guys gay, Tati Westbrook kept those allegations under wraps and only decided to bring them up after complaining about a stupid product promotion (or more accurately, her own stupid product not being promoted by her "friend").
That isn't to say that James Charles isn't necessarily a scumbag and scam artist selling overpriced junk and $500 fan meetup tickets. But the recent cancelling of YouTuber "ProJared" (NSFW) is much more clear cut.
For those interested in QI
New entry, involving red shift, Big Bang, and rethinking the cosmos measurements.
http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2019/05/halton-arp-vs-big-bang.html
AMD Milan Rumor: ~80 Cores, Combined With GPUs + HBM
Milan - The Next Frontier? (22m28s)
Notes from SemiAccurate's CC with Susquehanna this morning
Various sources said things like "Milan will have 80 cores" or "Milan will have 15 chiplets".
The speculation, based on sources and other reasoning, is that the the 8-core chiplet will continue to be used going forward. They have great yields compared to bigger monolithic chips and AMD can simply make them smaller in size rather than boost core count of each to 10-12 cores. Zen 2 Epyc uses eight 8-core chiplets for up to 64 total cores, and a future version could use ten chiplets to get to 80 cores.
AMD and Cray will make a 1.5 exaflops supercomputer.
In fact while AMD has kept the details on the technology light, it sounds like this version of [Infinity Fabric] will be the most advanced version yet. AMD is specifically noting that it’s an “incredibly” coherent fabric, calling it the first fully optimized CPU + GPU design for supercomputing. AMD’s GPUs and CPUs will be arranged in a 4-to-1 ratio, with 4 GPUs for each EPYC CPU. It’s worth noting that AMD’s slide shows a mesh with every GPU connected to the CPU and two other GPUs, but I’m not reading too much into this quite yet, as AMD hasn’t disclosed any other details on the IF setup.
Design and Analysis of an APU for Exascale Computing
AMD may try to do something like create a server/HPC APU that consists of ten 8-core CPU chiplets, four GPU chiplets(?), and the I/O chiplet, with DRAM/HBM stacked on top of the I/O die which emits less heat.
If the GPU thing is a red herring but Milan does have 14 CPU chiplets + 1 I/O chiplet, that's a whopping 112 cores. Even if clock speeds regressed a bit, it could offer more multithreaded performance per dollar than predecessors.
Is Albania's government falling?
It's typically not a good indicator of the long term health of a state when "protesters" wearing fire-retardant gear and respirators have the police holed up in front of the "government headquarters" and are throwing molotov cocktails at them.
"Opposition protestors tossed Molotov cocktails at the Albanian government headquarters on Saturday, while the police responded with tear gas. The Balkan country’s accession to the EU is to be decided in less than two months."
If you watch the video, it's actually very odd. The "protesters" start with bottle rockets, firecrackers, and fireworks of all sorts. Which strikes me as an attempt to provoke a reaction. When no reaction is forthcoming, then the molotovs start coming out, and also smoke to cover their positions. And then tear gas comes at them. But these folks were equipped to handle that as a minor inconvenience, and apparently the standoff continues.
I'm not going to give you any kind of good guy/bad guy analysis here. Maybe the cops are the good guys, because they literally have their backs to the wall and molotovs coming at them before they return fire. And even then they're trying to be non-lethal. Hard to ask for more restraint from them really. Did he order it, or is that the cops themselves?
Maybe the protesters are the good guys though. Because Albanians have been ripped off by their own government for generations and I doubt very much their current PM is a saint, or uninvolved in the most recent rip-offs which stripped the country of so much of what little it had left.
In terms even of pattern recognition, this is an odd one. If the Russian Federation has a stand on such a matter, RT will usually let me know. The same way that in this country NPR will let me know what the Democrats (well some of them) think, Faux News will let me know what the Republicans (well some of them) think, CNN and MSNBC will let me in on what the dumbest think... but anyhow, from RT, on this, mum's the word it seems. Russia doesn't seem to have a position.
Only slightly odd. Albania IS a historical Soviet bloc nation. Ideally, I'm sure Putin and his team would like to keep every one of them on board. But it's on the other side of hostile territory, recently looted, and even back in the Soviet days it never really paid its way.
Hrmm so here's my best guess. West is indeed financing a "color revolution" event against its own client. RT refrains from saying so because Russian Federation not inclined to waste any capital against it because they already wrote this off, and lost effective control, some years ago. I'm just guessing comment if I'm wrong.
I do know that the "Democratic Party" boycotted the election then refused to accept the results - pattern recognition sees that as starting to match with a Shadow intel operation.
But the US and EU have backed Rama publicly, and he's not getting any support from RF. Sure sounds like "we" are overthrowing our own puppet government.
If you know more about him, please post. Sources too if possible. I really don't know much about him.
Audio Recording of Einstein discussing the Atomic Bomb
Rejected submission by RandomFactor at 2019-05-04 13:59:02 from the the only real valuable thing is intuition, and old tapes dept.
RandomFactor [soylentnews.org] writes:
A rare recording of the famed physicist Albert Einstein is up for auction, May 4th on Heritage Auctions' page.
Bidding for the tape starts at $3,500 the auction house said, adding that the successful bidder will also receive a CD containing the recording.
The recording is of a 1951 interview with Jack and Frances Rosenburg at the institute for Avanced Studies in Princeton.
Their 1951 casual conversation was recorded on long-playing discs. It was subsequently transferred to magnetic tape and given to the present consignor close to thirty years ago. We are unaware of the whereabouts of the original discs. When transferred to tape, the conversation was "embedded" in the back portion of the reel, spliced to some recorded music. The conversation lasts around 33 minutes. The initial volume level is fairly low, but reaches a normal level after a brief period. There is some background noise and surface "scratches" and popping. Einstein, as expected, speaks in a thick German accent. The three-way conversation is punctuated with joking and laughter, indicative of Einstein's sense of humor. They cover a wide range of topics, including:
1. The Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Trial. ("So unwise what they do... very unfair the whole action.")
2. The acquisition by the U.S.S.R. of the atomic bomb. ("It is better for world welfare that the Russians have it, too."). He acknowledges knowing the head of the Soviet atomic program, but humorously says "I gave no secrets to him."
3. The status and risks associated with being a scientist under authoritarian rule. "In other countries, a man with great influence can do a great deal of harm."
4. His famous letter to FDR suggesting the possible development of the atomic bomb. "I repent it very much... I believe it was a great misfortune." He downplays his role in the development of the A-bomb.
5. The difference between FDR and Truman. FDR "...would not have used it had he lived... this I am convinced."
6. His acquaintance with European and Soviet scientists.
7. His love of music, including a preference for Schubert, Beethoven and Brahams. "I did very much like Wagner... In my youth, I had heard nothing better than Ionescu's Violin Concerto." Toscanini was "very brave in Mussolini's time."
You can hear a short (3 minute) snip of the conversation here
Albert Einstein was not much for interviews and limelight and recording of him are quite rare considering his notoriety
Here are some others: some others
Straw poll - who recalls actually hearing recordings of him in the past?
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UPDATE 05/11/2019: Final bid was $5,850 May 5th on the auction site.
