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The FT recently did a series on 'The AI race', which they described as 'A three-part series exploring the quest for AI capacity and the data centres at the heart of hundreds of billions of dollars in capital investment'

- ‘Absolutely immense’: the companies on the hook for the $3tn AI building boom [1][2]

- Inside the AI race: can data centres ever truly be green? [3][4]

- Inside the relentless race for AI capacity [5]

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/efe1e350-62c6-4aa0-a833-f6da01265...

[2] https://archive.ph/sn3lT

[3] https://www.ft.com/content/0f6111a8-0249-4a28-aef4-1854fc8b4...

[4] https://archive.ph/10tca

[5] https://ig.ft.com/ai-data-centres/

Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT

zoenolan — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:08:59 +0000

Article URL: https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-code-just-published

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45046814

Points: 2

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Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, technology pioneer, dies aged 91

zoenolan — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:02:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzzlp7p3po

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870433

Points: 4

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New comment by zoenolan in "Millau Viaduct"

zoenolan — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:42:08 +0000

I was lucky enough to visit a few years ago. A great technical achievement and a design classic.

The approach from the Mediterranean side is very well done. The road curves with a hill blocking most of the bridge. As you turn the corner, the bridge comes into view. As you move onto the bridge and valley drops away and you get an idea of how high you are.

Later on I got the view from an airplane after leaving Béziers. A different view but did show how the bridge sits in the landscape.

If you get the chance to visit, you should.

Inigo Quilez – Unlocking Creativity with Signed Distance Fields [video]

zoenolan — Fri, 30 May 2025 04:33:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71gny-kYRw0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44132884

Points: 1

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New comment by zoenolan in "Ask HN: What is the worst communications tool you've ever used?"

zoenolan — Sun, 11 May 2025 01:20:28 +0000

We had Lotus Notes forced on us at a previous job. Just slow, chunky and a painful to do anything. I was glad to go back to Outlook when I moved on.

New comment by zoenolan in "Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer job posting"

zoenolan — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:56:10 +0000

Some football analytics links

Soccermatics course[0], the book of the same name[1], R code [2] and some more general resources [3].

Learn Python and Data Science With Football[4] and Python library for plotting football charts[5].

Machine learning Fantasy Premier League team [6] and Python for Fantasy Football [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

[0] https://soccermatics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26073086-soccermatics

[2] https://github.com/JoGall/soccermatics

[3] https://github.com/eddwebster/football_analytics

[4] https://fcpython.com/

[5] https://mplsoccer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[6] https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/AIrsenal

[7] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-in...

[8] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-ma...

[9] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-ge...

[10] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-ap...

[11] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-in...

[12] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-ad...

[13] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-un...

[14] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-fe...

[15] http://www.fantasyfutopia.com/python-for-fantasy-football-ra...

New comment by zoenolan in "A FPGA friendly 32 bit RISC-V CPU implementation"

zoenolan — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 18:49:20 +0000

CPU to GPU to FPGA to ASIC

All the acronyms

New comment by zoenolan in "Size Optimization Tricks (2022)"

zoenolan — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:32:29 +0000

One of my previous jobs involved coding on a media processor. That processor had a direct-mapped cache, so code size and layout mattered. Ideally, you wanted the performance-critical code to fit in the cache and be in different cache lines to avoid thrashing.

New comment by zoenolan in "Why Canada Should Join the EU"

zoenolan — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:25:33 +0000

Well, they do take part in Eurovision

New comment by zoenolan in "Ask HN: Resources for Learning Graphics Programming"

zoenolan — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:59:45 +0000

https://raytracing.github.io/