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Building supercomputers and other scientific computing infrastructure for researchers in the higher education, non-profit, and government spaces. Opinions own.

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Joined September 2012
"A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into IO-bound problems." - Ken Batcher #HPC #BigData #DataScience #ATPESC
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A great rebuttal for those wondering about the existential threat to PhD studies in the age of AI. pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sharonli/…
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Higher education was always struggling to reconcile competing identities: the academy devoted to pursuit of knowledge and the pragmatic credentialing factory where learning was incidental. AI only surfaced the urgency to deal with it. theconversation.com/friday-e…
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Diving into numeric representation with the IEEE 754 format this weekend, using AI for custom explainer videos really helps the learning process.
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"To lose our taste for effort would not just risk an intellectual slide backwards. It would also mean the loss of one of life’s truest joys: succeeding at something you found really hard to do." ft.com/content/b30eb538-b5a3…
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new paper just dropped
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I learned quite a bit, thanks for putting together this very informative article. I'm guessing this means we'll see inflationary pressure on consumer beef prices in the coming years.
The US spent 50 years eradicating screwworm from North and Central America. Over the past 5 years, those efforts have unravelled. This week on Construction Physics, the fall and rise of screwworm. construction-physics.com/p/t…
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Literally the worst cable management I've ever seen in my life
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Interesting analysis of the tokenomics but the unaccounted for risk is if pass through provider pricing today reflects VC subsidized rates and are raised in the future. williamangel.net/blog/2026/0…
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"The world is about to need elders more than it has needed them in a century, and an elder is not a person of a certain age. An elder is a person who passes something on." stbadhon.substack.com/p/the-…
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Kind of wild how lean this company runs their data center and HPC/AI infrastructure. blog.comma.ai/datacenter/
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Qwen3.5-2B's internal monologue when I say "Hi" sounds like what goes on in my head in a new social situation 😅
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If recent advances in AI are giving you anxiety, remember the playbook. "The meta-skill is this: learning to spot what becomes possible when a constraint disappears, then building your value around that new possibility." newsletter.jantegze.com/p/yo…
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