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Head of RSE Chris Edsall at #rsecon24 leading our first workshop on accessing the AI Research Resource using Cambridge's AI supercomputer Dawn.


RSE colleague Tom Meltzer pulls off a live demo of debugging HPC applications with his tool mdb at #rsecon24
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Moving to the GreenRSE BOF and Loïc Lannelongue on the environmental impact of research computing. There are many tools out there to try: calculate the carbon footprint of your algorithms with calculator.green-algorithms.org #RSECon24


Laura Shemilt (Rosalind Franklin Institute) on the opportunities and challenges of green computing with cloud-native applications. If you run kubernetes on Azure, check out github.com/Azure/carbon-a… #RSECon24


Andy Turner @EPCC on analysing the mean node power draw of thousands of jobs run on ARCHER2. Check out the full report at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7128628 #RSECon24
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My favourite gif (dancing banana) made it onto the #RSEcon24 thank you for coming slide!


If you’re involved with any journal, publisher, repository, archive or other institution that records names of authors/contributors/creators: Do you have a name change policy? Are you implementing it smoothly?
If not, let’s improve that! I’ll be around at #RSECon24 all afternoon; or message me on here!
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Next year's @ResearchSoftEng conference will be at Warwick University 8-10 September 2025! #RSEcon24


Pink Lane bakery just en route to NCL station highly recommend #RSECon24 Not sure what British Rail Gingerbread was but it was sold out! 🍰


Invest #99L has been designated near the U.S. East Coast. It has a low chance of organizing into a tropical depression in the next 7 days.

Follow updates here: zoom.earth/storms/99l-2024/?da…

#99l


🤭“A #Trump official who made a police report, according to the document, “THINKS THEY HAVE FOUND LISTENING DEVICES ‘BUGS; IN THE OFFICE.’” A plastic prank device that can be purchased on Amazon for $13.97 was the cause of the problem.”
#GiftArticle 🎁
nytimes.com/2024/09/03/us/poli…
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We’re getting closer to a robot vacuum that can climb stairs

Roborock’s latest robovac has an auto lift chassis that can raise its body to navigate high transitions — stairs feel only a small step away.

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Tough choice for most people, isn’t it?


Do you feel like this summer has brought just unending terrible ideas for how to use “AI”? You’re not alone! Join me and @alex as we attempt to clear out the backlog of Fresh AI Hell on the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream:

Monday, September 9, noon Pacific
twitch.tv/dair_institute

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The challenge of liability insurance left the fabled Gore Fest race dormant for two years but an innovative paddler with a unique Class V insurance policy revived the contest on the Colorado River

coloradosun.com/2024/09/05/gor…



Nobody Asked Me: Taken For Granted

Welcome back to another edition of Nobody Asked Me, the column where I respond to advice letters that were sent to someone else. Today's letter was originally answered by Asking Eric. As always, my response is not a critique of the original response and is just me adding my own two cents that no one asked for.

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#France's Macron names former Brexit negotiator Barnier as new prime minister - reuters.com/world/europe/franc…
in reply to Babs E. Blue #IStandW/Ukraine

@BlueWaver22 I do. I have a couple of slipped discs in my neck that act up now and then. Lightning pain down the arm woke me up. Sigh.


DJI’s $199 Neo selfie drone is going to be everywhere

Priced for mass adoption, you still get a surprisingly capable 4K 30fps drone that can launch and land in the palm of your hand.

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