ThirdAI Training of Billion-Parameter Neural Networks on Commodity CPUs
August 30th, 2023Via: AnyScale:
Today, all widely-used deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, require access to a plethora of specialized hardware accelerators, such as GPUs or TPUs, to train large neural networks in a feasible amount of time. However, these specialized accelerators are extremely costly (roughly 3-10x more expensive than commodity CPUs in the cloud). Furthermore, these custom accelerators often consume a troubling amount of energy, raising concerns about the carbon footprint of deep learning. In addition, data scientists working in privacy-sensitive domains, such as healthcare, may have requirements to store data in on-premises environments as opposed to the cloud, which may hinder their ability to access such specialized computing devices for building models.
Motivated by these challenges for democratizing the power of deep learning in a sustainable manner, we at ThirdAI rejected the conventional wisdom that specialized hardware is essential for taking advantage of large-scale AI. To achieve this vision, we have built a new deep learning framework, called BOLT, for efficiently training large models on standard CPU hardware.
Bill Gates: Chop Down Trees and Bury Them to Save Planet
August 30th, 2023Via: Forbes:
But logging in the dark isn’t the most intriguing part of the plans at Kodama, which has raised $6.6 million in seed funding from Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy and others. After cutting down the trees, Jenkins plans to bury them—to help slow climate change and to reap salable carbon offsets (and maybe, someday, tax credits too).
Yes, the conventional idea is to plant trees to soak up carbon dioxide from the air and to then sell credits to corporations, private jet owners and others who need or want to offset their emissions. But scientists say burying trees can reduce global warming as well—particularly if those trees would otherwise end up burning or decaying, spewing their stored carbon into the air.
CDC Now Refusing New COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports in Its V-Safe Program
August 29th, 2023Via: Brownstone Institute:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) V-safe website quietly stopped collecting adverse event reports with no reason or explanation. The V-safe website simply states: “Thank you for your participation. Data collection for COVID-19 vaccines concluded on June 30, 2023.”
National Archives Has 5,400 Biden Emails in Which He Uses Fake Names
August 29th, 2023Via: New York Post:
The National Archives and Records Administration has admitted that it is in possession of nearly 5,400 emails, electronic records and documents that potentially show President Biden using a pseudonym during his vice presidency, it was revealed on Monday.
NARA confirmed the existence of the trove in response to a June 2022 Freedom of Information Act request by the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a nonprofit constitutional legal group.
The request sought emails pertaining to the accounts of Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters and JRB Ware — pseudonyms the 80-year-old president was known to use in the White House during his time as President Barack Obama’s vice president.
99% of ‘Covid Deaths’ Not Primarily Caused by the Virus, CDC Data Shows
August 29th, 2023Via: Daily Mail:
Nearly 99 percent of ‘Covid deaths’ reported by the CDC each week are not primarily caused by the virus, official data shows.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Covid dashboard shows just 1.7 percent of the 324 Covid deaths registered in the week ending August 19 had the coronavirus as the primary cause of death.
The figures suggest just a handful of American lives are being lost directly to the virus each week.
Pfizer Fails to Answer
August 28th, 2023This is difficult to get through, but useful to keep in mind if you are considering taking any product from Pfizer.
Via: Dr. John Campbell:
Biden To Fund New COVID Vaccine “For Everybody… Whether They’ve Gotten It Before Or Not”
August 28th, 2023Tell me another one, Joe.
Via: ZeroHedge:
President Joe Biden on Friday told reporters that he’s planning to request more money from Congress to develop a new coronavirus vaccine.
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The announcement follows a recorded rise in Covid-19 cases in some regions, which has been accompanied by the return of mask mandates and cancelled classes by some colleges and businesses.
1952: Goal of CIA Mind Control Program
August 28th, 2023One goal of the CIA's mind control research according to their own 1952 memo was to “get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against such fundamental laws of nature as self-preservation.” It's 2023. What do you see? pic.twitter.com/tmBIeQsC1j
— Truthstream Media (@truthstreamnews) August 28, 2023
San Francisco Nordstrom Closes After Nearly Three Decades
August 27th, 2023Perhaps Nordstrom will reopen in the new San Solano Burbclave to the northeast? And the triads should buy up downtown San Francisco and turn it into a Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong franchise.
(If you don’t get my humor, see Snowcrash.)
Via: Daily Mail:
Video shows San Francisco’s flagship Nordstrom store almost completely barren as the store closes after nearly three decades in business.
The department store – located in downtown’s San Francisco Centre – closed Sunday amid the city’s rise in crime, homelessness, and public drug use.
The clips taken by local media show the once vibrant store depleted of its merchandise and customers as it prepared to close its doors on Sunday.
CDC Accidentally Admits Masks Are Totally Useless
August 27th, 2023Oops. pic.twitter.com/SJvKdhyEru
— Del Bigtree (@delbigtree) August 27, 2023
How about five masks?
Dr. Byram Bridle, Viral Immunologist & Vaccinologist, DEBUNKS the ability of masks to stop transmission with a simple experiment.
Kudos to @BLNewsMedia pic.twitter.com/209IgRwUzT
— New World Odor™ (@hugh_mankind) August 23, 2023
In other mask news: N95 Covid masks may expose wearers to dangerous level of toxic compounds linked to seizures and cancer
