IBM Roadrunner retires from the supercomputer race Sun, 31 Mar, 2013 12:21 PM PDT For all the money and effort poured into supercomputers , their lifespans can be brutally short. See IBM's Roadrunner as a textbook example: the 116,640-core cluster was smashing records just five years ago, and yet it's already considered so behind the times that Los Alamos National Laboratory is taki... Continue reading | | Brendan Brown on the "Global Curse of the Federal Reserve" Sun, 31 Mar, 2013 10:48 AM PDT A relatively short video that hits on the major points of what the Federal Reserve is doing, and the impacts of the surge in monetarism in today's world. Fed is creating Asset Price Inflation (See S&P 500) Fed is creating Goods & Services Inflation By the time the Fed realizes the first two points, it'... Continue reading | | A lament for cricket's stayers Sun, 31 Mar, 2013 09:55 AM PDT What's wrong with Australian cricket? Too much slather and whack. The shorter forms of the game such as the ODIs and the T20s have cultivated a breed of batsmen with short attention spans. The younger generation may find such slog fests exciting but let me tell you what's exciting: the English f... Continue reading | |
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