Meanwhile, after 555 years

International design and innovation firm CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, together with Italo Rota, unveils the installation for the exhibition Il polittico agostiniano riunito, or, The Polyptych of St. Augustine Reunited, bringing together masterpieces by Piero della Francesca held in London, New York, Washington, and Lisbon. For the first time in 555 years, the great altarpiece by […]

A bucket of Versificators

*That’s not a site one sees every day. *We had to rebuild the makerspace in the Ibizan garage. It’s comical, how often Makers stop all their ongoing projects and rebuild the studio.

Nervous System at MIT

*How splendid that their union has been blessed with issue. https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9493

NVIDIA Blackwell

*Just look at those CEOs bowing the knee to NVIDIA and their pricey new AI hardware. https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-blackwell-platform-arrives-to-power-a-new-era-of-computing New Blackwell GPU, NVLink and Resilience Technologies Enable Trillion-Parameter-Scale AI Models New Tensor Cores and TensorRT- LLM Compiler Reduce LLM Inference Operating Cost and Energy by up to 25x New Accelerators Enable Breakthroughs in Data Processing, Engineering Simulation, […]

Bruce Sterling at SXSW2024

https://schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP1145788

Personal Computer Large Language Models

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/17/ai_pc_local_llm/ How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about Tobias Mann Sun 17 Mar 2024 // 14:00 UTC HANDS ON With all the talk of massive machine-learning training clusters and […]

Piedmontese grissini at SXSW2024 in Austin

*Piedmontese cultural imperialism in Texas.

Artificial Intelligence Act in the EU

*Feel free to move fast and break it, and also feel free to pay billions of euros in penalties as a sort-of-tax for that privilege. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240308IPR19015/artificial-intelligence-act-meps-adopt-landmark-law On Wednesday, Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence Act that ensures safety and compliance with fundamental rights, while boosting innovation. The regulation, agreed in negotiations with member states in December […]

The “Haus Liselotte” Leatherman Micra tool from Laura Kampf

*Probably sold out. *However, Share Festival has one. HAUS LISELOTTE Leatherman micra