Cloudstrike Round-up, ⚛️ Usable Quantum Chips, 🚀 SpaceX experiences 'Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly'
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It's been a weekend 😂 Having only happened on Friday, if feels like the global havoc caused by a bad update has been going on a least a calendar month. It's still unfolding, and the whole office has bought tickets to the post-mortem, but for now, here's some interesting links to background and thoughts on the whole debacle.
Updated: Dave's walkthrough and commentary is excellent, I'd make it your first stop on the CrowdStrike subject!
Animesh Gaitonde
First day at Crowdstrike, pushed a little update and taking the afternoon off ✌️ pic.twitter.com/bOs4qAKwu0
— Vincent Flibustier 👽 (@vinceflibustier) July 19, 2024
Iain Thomson
Nick MarshBBC NewsReporting fromSingapore
James Tapper
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Depositphotos
Would you eat synthetic butter? Is it even synthetic if it's the same at the atomic level? I'd give it a go! Spread the word <sorry />
Chris Young
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Al Williams
👢 Ah, bootloaders. Back in the day (2014) I was responsible for delivering bootloaders across three widely-deployed consumer devices. I think only Apple spent more 😂 Bootloaders are a special class of software, being so tightly coupled with hardware. A great read!
Ameya Paleja
The is a lot more interesting, given the context of the story from the last newsletter about quantum legislation. This area is going to hot up, especially if it can proven that this newer chips can start to pose serious threats to existing cryptography.
Richard Speed
🫤 Oh dear....
SpaceX boss Elon Musk was blunter and said the restart "resulted in an engine RUD." While we like a three-letter-acronym as much as the next person – a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly – it's safe to say that something probably went bang.
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Zvi Mowshowitz
The development of LLM's continues to accelerate, and is starting to focus on aspects such as efficiency, training cost and user experience. I see the next focus being to increase the corpus depth and complexity, whilst make them lighter to run, even supporting smaller devices without sacrificing performance through severe quantisation.
Sonnet's answers *materialize out of thin air*, far faster than you can read, at better-than-Opus quality.
Staff Writer
Top tip: If you want to lower cost of chips, don't use HBM. Seems simple when you think about it 😂
Soooooo much data is in spreadsheets. This feels like a really useful development.
Initially, we propose a vanilla serialization approach that incorporates cell addresses, values, and formats. However, this approach was limited by LLMs' token constraints, making it impractical for most applications. To tackle this challenge, we develop SheetCompressor, an innovative encoding framework that compresses spreadsheets effectively for LLMs
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Want to live an extra 20%? Looks like inhibiting interlukin-11 might be the answer. Of course, it wouldn't stop you getting hit by a bus or killed by a swarm of angry bees tomorrow...
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