With a grant from DARPA, the Department of Defense’s research arm, Buck hacked the shaders to access the parallel-computing circuits below, repurposing the GeForce into a low budget supercomputer. Soon, Buck was working for Huang. Buck is intense and balding, and he radiates intelligence. He...
I don’t think sanctions are absolutely necessary or unnecessary— but beyond apartheid South Africa in the 80s and possibly the BDS movement, it’s hard to think of sanctions that have been effective. Russia does not seem deterred in its war against Ukraine, no matter how many sanctions the...
It’s almost as if they say, “If I don’t know it, it’s not worth knowing.” Experienced writers might indeed have problems with who/whom; good writers don’t have such problems. As for Safire’s advice, he knew his audience, i.e., those who ultimately paid to read what he wr...