A sneak peek inside the glorious life of a high-tech Data Center Engineer - HINT - it ain't that glorious!

Decommissioning Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Sierra Supercomputer. https://www.wired.com/story/why-sierra-the-supercomputer-had-to-die/ #Computing #SuperComputer #Sierra #CPU #GPU #Dehydration #LawrenceLivermore #USGov #Simulations #Recycling #Linux #ClassifiedData #Data #OS #HardDrives

Kimon Fountoulakis (@kfountou)

정확한 학습(exact learning)에서 시뮬레이션 요소를 제거하려는 연구 방향을 언급했다. 단순히 텍스트를 학습하거나 '시뮬레이션을 모방하는 학습'을 넘어서고자 하며, 이 접근이 핵심 문제였다고 설명한다. 새로운 학습 패러다임 탐색으로 볼 수 있다.

https://x.com/kfountou/status/2046822922942058968

#machinelearning #research #exactlearning #simulations #ai

Folks that do software and analog electronics: (and please boost for visibility)

Is there an OSS tool that simulates analog circuits for signals? In particular, I want something that I can script and write expectations of the output signals for given inputs. And ideally that scripting would include programmatically adding/removing/changing components in the simulated circuit and then testing the outputs.

Thanks!

#electronics #analogElectronics #simulations #programming

✨🔭 Interesting news from outer space: #Cassini data plus global #MHD #simulations show that #Saturn’s cusp is not noon-centered like #Earth’s, but shifted toward the post-noon and even post-dusk sector. Xu, Yao, & Arridge et al. identify 67 cusp events and argue that rapid rotation plus internal #plasma sources fundamentally reshape Saturn’s global magnetic topology:

📝 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-69666-9

#SpacePhysics #PlanetaryScience #Magnetosphere

Excited to share that I’ll be speaking about how the game mechanics of Oceania 2084 reinforce the political themes of the game at Serious Play Europe 2026 in Mainz, Germany, June 18 to 19 at KUZ Kulturzentrum. The program features a packed lineup of talks, workshops, panels, and walk-and-talk sessions, plus an expo and arcade zone, bringing together an international community working at the intersection of games, learning, health, and social impact. If you’ll be in Mainz, I’d love to connect, and I hope to see you there. Registration details are at https://eu.seriousplayconf.com/registration/

#seriousplay26 #seriousgames #gamebasedlearning #gbl #gamification #training #simulations #games #play #educationalgames #innovation #gamesforrevolution

3-Apr-2026
Engineering the bite of ancient marine predators
A new study compares the bite efficiency of #fossil #reptiles using advanced #engineering #simulations.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1122694

#science #ecology #paleontology #biomechanics

Excellent article from Saudi-Arabia, asking the question whether the USA entered the war because they trusted silly little text extrusion machines over human expertise?

#Palantir's "Ender's Foundry" used to develop #simulations for #war outcomes was developed only SIXTY F****NG DAYS before planning commenced!!

So, basically an off-the-shelf #chatbot, with sycophancy still full on, gave these clowns the confidence to go into a full-scale disaster in #iran 🤦‍♂️

https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/

#ai