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Good ole Microsoft
Apparently when I sacked out earlier I had left the TV and XBox in the other room on. One of the perks of being in your mid-40s though is you can rest assured that you will be up during the night to whiz and get a second chance to notice it. Now Microsoft being Microsoft, they just can't help advertising on the home screen about whatever random crap they're trying to push on you this week. Usually it's whatever they've replaced Gold Memberships with this week. Not this time though.
No, this time they felt the need to tell me to make sure and register to vote. Which is generally just annoying since nobody actually gives a fuck if you vote or not unless they're pretty sure you're going to vote for their lizard. It was annoying tonight for about ten seconds, then I remembered that it's five days too late to register if you want to vote in the November elections here in TN, six by the time the registration office opens in the morning. Which struck me as hilarious since I never heard a word about registering from them all last month.
So, my question is this: Was someone at Redmond trolling like a boss or are they stepping up their game as far as incompetence goes?
Wave of Intel Rumors Before Zen 3 Announcement
AMD announces Zen 3 CPUs tomorrow.
Intel Desktop Roadmap Through Q2 2021 Leaked – No HEDT Update Till 2H 2021, RKL-S In Mid March
Intel ‘Rocket Lake’ Desktop Processor With Next Generation Willow Cove Cores Landing In 2021
Intel Confirms Rocket Lake on Desktop for Q1 2021, with PCIe 4.0
Rocket Lake will compete with Zen 3, using backported "Willow Cove" cores on "14nm" instead of "10nm". That could improve performance by around 10%.
If it needs to, AMD could respond in the middle of 2021 with a Zen 3+ refresh, possibly on the new AM5 socket, or just wait until Zen 4 (late 2021, early 2022).
Intel 12th Generation ‘Alder Lake’ CPU With 8 + 8 Cores Spotted In Sisoft Sandra Benchmark
Alder Lake will likely end up competing with Zen 4.
This would be a second attempt at a hybrid x86 architecture, and it will probably find its way into laptops. Maybe even with the full "16" cores?
56 cores was expected, on-board HBM2e is new.
Kyrgyzstan Protesters Storm Parliament Over Vote-Rigging
Kyrgyzstan election: Protesters storm parliament over vote-rigging claims
Protestors in Kyrgyzstan calling for the country's parliamentary election to be annulled have broken into parliament in the capital, Bishkek.
Footage showed people throwing papers from the building's windows, while others were seen entering the office of President Sooronbai Jeenbekov.
The break-in follows a day of clashes with police, who initially dispersed crowds with water cannon and tear gas.
The clashes come amid allegations of vote-rigging in last Sunday's election.
Following the vote, only four parties out of 16 passed the 7% threshold for entry into parliament, three of which have close ties to President Jeenbekov.
Kyrgyzstan election: 120 taken to hospital following result protest
Progressive teacher abusing 10 yr old student
Rantz: Video shows Tacoma teacher scold 10-year-old for admiring Trump
The morning after the world learned President Donald Trump contracted the coronavirus, a Seattle-area teacher went on a rant about the president to sixth graders. When a mom complained, he misled her about what happened. Luckily, the mom recorded the incident on her cell phone.
Brendan Stanton, a middle school teacher at P.G. Keithley Middle School in Tacoma, asked students who they admired and why. One student answered President Trump. That triggered Stanton.
Not only did the teacher boot the student from the chat, he proceeded to scold the child for his “inappropriate” answer.
Elsy Kusander’s 10-year-old son logged into his remote classes for another day of online learning on Friday, Oct. 2. Little did he know he’d be scolded for his support for Trump.
Each day, Stanton asks his students a daily question. This time he asked students, “Who is the one person you admire and why?” Students are asked to write their answers in the online chatroom. According to a screenshot, Kusander’s son wrote:
I admire Donald J. Trump because he is making America great again. And because he is the best president the United States of America could ever, ever have. And he built the wall so terrorists couldn’t come into in the U.S. Trump is the best person in the world. And that’s why I had admire him.
Stanton almost immediately kicked the student out of the chatroom, deleted the chat, and proceeded to attack the president, while calling out the student for mentioning him. The student, who I am keeping anonymous, immediately told his mother.
Trump name triggered teacher
When Kusander came into the room to see what happened, she heard Stanton berating the president. She started to film the comments on her cell phone.“The example that was shared in the chat, which I went ahead and erased for us, was not appropriate right? Especially as that individual has created so much division and hatred between people and specifically spoken hatred to many different individuals, OK?,” Stanton told his students.
Stanton was so offended, he apparently wouldn’t even say the president’s name. Instead, he referred to Trump as “that individual.” But he wasn’t done.
“Again, that individual has spoken hate to many individuals and I don’t think is an appropriate example for a role model that we should be admiring,” Stanton concluded.
Kusander was shocked at Stanton’s comments.
“I went into my son’s room and I heard the teacher saying that this individual is hateful and divisive, etc. I started to record,” Kusander told the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH. “How can a teacher be teaching to his students horrible things about the president of the country without facts?”
Teacher misleads mom about what happened
Kusander demanded a phone call with Stanton to discuss the incident. The teacher obliged later that afternoon.
Normally, digital classes are recorded and posted to the online portal for students and their parents. This portion of the class? Stanton said he didn’t record it, citing student privacy. But perhaps he knew he acted out inappropriately, but without any evidence, who could ever know? He didn’t know Kusander recorded a portion of the incident when he initially spoke to her. That might be why Stanton didn’t explain to her everything that happened.
Stanton told the mother that he only deleted the Trump comment because it wasn’t related to the question of the day. He insists he told the students to choose a computer programmer they admired and if they couldn’t think of one they could list someone from the community.
“Donald Trump would not fit that prompt … just because it was a little bit off topic,” Stanton told Kusander according to an audio recording of the conversation shared with the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH.
Kusander told Stanton she was recording the conversation at the start of the call.
Someone else’s fault!
Stanton then claims another student was offended by Kusander’s answer, and that’s why he deleted it. He assured the mother that it had nothing to do with his own political positions.
“My perspective has nothing to do with Donald Trump himself, right? I try to keep politics out of the classroom,” he explained.
When Kusander questions his recap, Stanton again assured her it wasn’t political at all.
“I do try to keep politics out of the classroom … because students have different opinions, right?,” he said. “And so if the way that I said it was not perfect, I do apologize. What I was trying to say is just, ‘Hey, hey, guys, let’s get it back to our topic of the day because we really need to get moving into our content, which was on our computer scientists.
But even in this call, Stanton pushed his political position. He said he was offended by her son’s claim that the border wall keeps out terrorists.
“But we know that our neighbors at the southern border are not all terrorists, right?,” he noted.
The student neither said southern neighbors are terrorists nor implied it.
Kusander pointed out that she emigrated to the United States from Honduras. Stanton told her, “So you would understand.” Not quite. She went on to explain why she’s against illegal immigration, despite Stanton assuming she’d agree with him.
Teacher changes his story
Kusander finally revealed she actually witnessed and recorded the incident. Stanton’s story then started to change.“I came into the room, and you were talking, I got my phone and I recorded part of your conversation,” she revealed before doubling down. “I clearly saw and recorded what you were saying …”
Suddenly, the apolitical Stanton who would never bring his political opinion into the classroom, was a little more honest about what transpired.
“I do apologize if my words were not perfect at the time,” he told her. “If I used … if I said that Trump was ‘hateful and divisive,’ that may have been what I used at the time, but my purpose was in bringing us back to the conversation of computer scientists and the positive role that they’ve played in our history.”
He again offered to apologize to her son.
“I totally respect him as an individual. And his opinion. I am always interested in student feedback and also parent feedback as well. So I appreciate you having this conversation with me,” Stanton said.
Politics clearly played a role
As much as Stanton would have Kusander believe he keeps politics out of the classroom, the opposite was quite clearly the case here.
The teacher’s comments weren’t fleeting to get the conversation back on track. They were sustained criticisms to make it clear that he doesn’t approve of the president, as if any of his students even care what his stance is. He literally wouldn’t say the president’s name. That doesn’t seem particularly healthy.
Multiple emails to Stanton, the principal of P.G. Keithley Middle School, and the district communications manager went unanswered.
It’s a pattern
Kusander shouldn’t just be commended for being such a tremendous advocate for her son. Her decision to record the rant and confront the teacher is a masterclass in how to handle these issues. She’s not doing this to get Stanton fired. She just wants him to understand why this is inappropriate so he better handles himself if this happens again.Let this be another reminder to pay close attention to what teachers are telling your kids. Some of their political bias is pretty clear.
At Seattle’s Catharine Blaine K-8, one teacher taught students as young as 11-years-old to refer to a riot as an “uprising” and rioters as “freedom fighters.” A second grade teacher at Grove Elementary in Marysville pushed a shockingly anti-police video to students. In Gig Harbor, at Discovery Elementary, students were recommended a book instructing them to become Progressive activists.
Remember to talk to your children and ask them about what they’re learning. And don’t be too shy to record what you witness teachers saying to your kids if it’s inappropriate. If you don’t, the video from the classroom may not be uploaded as you expect.
Gotta love this Mom for defending her child, and calling out a lying sack of shit.
"You don't know, but I'm from Honduras" "Coming to this country illegally is a crime." "building the wall is not something divisive"
God bless this woman. And, this Political Indoctrination Propagandist "teacher" should be fired, and barred from ever having contact with children again.
https://mynorthwest.com/2203336/rantz-seattle-teacher-scolds-student-trump/
Who will Trump blame: my guess is Biden et al
Trump is in the hospital: should he live, who will he blame ('cos, you know, it ain't HIS fault)? (Or is the question: "Should he live?")
We all know Trump won't get a clue and say, "Hey, I REALLY messed this up and Biden et al were correct", so who will he blame for getting sick and how will he explain the situation?
My guess is, he will blame Biden's team for giving it to him during the debate through a 'seeding the air' or some such nonsense (I don't follow American politics THAT closely). It can't be his team who is to blame, so it has to be the Left who did something bad: maybe getting someone with Covid to lick the toilet handle in Trumps bathroom or other nonsense.
Who will he blame? How will his getting sick be explained? Will he actually throw someone from his own team under the bus???
Stay tuned: same Bat Time, same Bat Channel.
Ahhhh! Here we go: blame other for your own stupidity. Classic classy.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/trump-gold-star-families/index.html
M.2/mPCIe AI accelerator card with 26 TOPS
Hailo-8 M.2 and mini PCIe AI accelerator cards deliver up to 26 TOPS
When looking at the performance chart released by Israeli startup Hailo, which pits Hailo-8 against Google Edge TPU and Intel Myriad X using popular ResNet and MobileNet models, I might as well titled this article as “Hailo-8 M.2 card mops the floor with Google Edge TPU and Intel Movidius Myriad X AI accelerators”.
The amount of AI processing power packed in such a tiny M.2 card is impressive, and it’s made possible by the higher 3 TOPS per watt efficiency compared to the typical 0.5 Watt per TOPS (or 2 TOPS per Watt) advertised by competitors. So a 26 TOPS Hailo-8 card will consume around 8.6 W, while a 4 TOPS Google Coral M.2 card should consume about 2 W.
As noted by LinuxGizmos who alerted us of the new cards, Hailo-8 was previously seen integrated into Foxconn fanless “BOXiedge” AI edge server powered by SynQuacer SC2A11 24x Cortex-A53 cores SoC and capable of analyzing up to 20 streaming camera feeds in real-time.
POLL: This election I intend to stock up on:
from the we're-all-grasshoppers-at-some-level dept.
Since the SN polls only allows for 8 entries, and I really thought this poll should have more and I don't have the time to learn perl at this moment just to suggest the necessary changes in rehash, I'm throwing it up here. (and it's also here because there's a good chance any election related poll will get veto'ed by the editors... and it's probably better that way too)
For the 2020 election, I intend to stock up on:
- food
- water
- ammo
- masks
- Motrin
- rage
- relevant information
- propaganda
- campaign stickers
- righteous karma
- some combination of above as described below
- all of the above
- I'm a grasshopper man, I don't stock up anything.
--= Write In Ballots =-- - Booze
(42) weed, beer, beans, tortillas
My recommendation is to vote as AC, responding to the top comment "vote here" using the list number and provide commentary as logged in user or AC as you would normally below the voting thread.
This is why people think woke folks are insane
Good ole Slate, always ready, willing, and able to let everyone know exactly what kind of insane shit yall woke motherfuckers have going through your heads. Child abuse for social justice, baby!
Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages
Something interesting I read.
PDF is here.
Abstract
This paper presents a study of the runtime, memory usageand energy consumption of twenty seven well-known soft-ware languages. We monitor the performance of such lan-guages using ten different programming problems, expressedin each of the languages. Our results show interesting find-ings, such as, slower/faster languages consuming less/moreenergy, and how memory usage influences energy consump-tion. We show how to use our results to provide softwareengineers support to decide which language to use whenenergy efficiency is a concern.
Languages are broadly divided into three groups:
* compiled (eg, C, C++, Rust, others)
* VM (Java, C#, others)
* interpreted (Python, others)
The fastest language is not necessarily the most energy efficient. The authors measure CPU energy and DRAM energy separately.
I was most interested in the results for the language I use most: Java.
It did surprisingly well. On page 7 it was interesting to look at the bar graphs for several of the benchmarks in the Compiled, VM and Interpreted groups.
For a language in the VM group, Java had low energy numbers. If you look at the bar graph scale, Java was more comparable to the compiled languages group.
The results on page 8 are also interesting. Three tables. In the Energy and Time table, Java is fifth from the very top. On the Memory Use table, Java is 6th from the bottom. My conclusion: memory only costs money. You can't buy back Time, and you want low energy use. So higher memory use for great performance while having low energy use seems to be a win.
Interesting on page 10 is: Table 5.Pareto optimal sets for different combination of objectives.
The Combinations of Objectives are:
1. Time & Memory
2. Energy & Time
3. Energy & Memory
4. Energy & Time & Memory
On number 2, my favorite, Energy & Time, I see Java is again fifth from the top (below C, Rust, C++ and Ada). With a whole lot of languages below Java. Again I would point out that Memory is only a one time capital cost. Development Time (not in article) and Energy cost are ongoing costs. Execution performance is important to provide good customer experience, and Java does well in on that. You could get better execution performance than Java by trading off other factors.
There is also the factor of development time in different languages, which is another factor. But it is an economic consideration when building big software systems.
12-core 5900X: 5 GHz hype?
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X “Vermeer” 12 Core & 24 Thread Zen 3 CPU Allegedly Up To 5 GHz With 150W TDP
Rumors say:
AMD will skip over 4000 to name the new Zen 3 desktop CPUs. There were plenty of complaints about Zen+ APUs being lumped in with Zen 2 CPUs and so on.
Somewhere between 15-20% higher overall IPC, ~10% higher clocks. Higher TDP: 150 Watts for the 12-core. Single core boost to 5 GHz.
Part of the improvement will be a unified 32 MB L3 cache for an entire core complex die (CCD). Maybe applications that are sensitive to that will show the most improvement.
12-core might be the top model at launch. That's how it was with Zen 2. The 16-core 3950X launched 4½ months after the 12-core 3900X. But it used better binned chiplets and had higher power efficiency than the 3900X.
