Eugene O'Rourke
@ejsorourke.bsky.social
#neural #FPGA #inniskeen #astronomy #semiconductor #physics #asic #vlsi #radio #sdr ⏦⎓⎎⎍⏚ 🔭 📻 🛰 📡 🪐 🖖 ⛵️🧠 RT ≠ endorsement - My opinions, not my employer's.
Chip Industry Week in Review semiengineering.com/chip-industr... #semiconductor
Chip Industry Week in Review
12-inch high-NA EUV masks; Arm's edge AI push; Amkor's expansion; 3D memory; FeRAM startup makes waves; Qualcomm-AWS $60B custom silicon deal; Ayar Labs' scale-up deal; new iPhone chip and format; rog...
semiengineering.com
This week, AI researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation from Anthropic went viral after he claimed there's a real chance AI could wipe out humanity by decade's end. On the latest “Uncanny Valley,” WIRED experts discuss: Is the doom narrative overblown or overdue? www.wired.com/story/uncann...
this picture is still one of my favorites from the artemis missions. it’s just so beautiful and perfectly framed.
An engineer details their month-long effort to reverse-engineer a Jane Street ASIC challenge. By building custom circuit simulators and using Z3 constraint solvers, they successfully decoded the chip's logic to reveal the hidden password, finishing the project.
Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge (155)
Or: Why do I always do things the hard way?
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We are delighted to announce that Professor James Maynard will deliver the 2026 Hamilton Lecture. Professor Maynard is a Fields Medal Winner based in @ox.ac.uk and will present his talk on the mysteries of prime numbers on Friday, 16 October. Book your ticket: www.eventbrite.ie/e/2026-hamil...
Can analog computation unlock the next leap in AI efficiency? 🧠⚡ Join Prof. Naveen Verma (Princeton / EnCharge AI) for our SSCS Technical Webinar on In-Memory Computing & scalable AI hardware! 📅 Sept 28, 12 PM EDT 👉 Register: https://bit.ly/3UagOt4 #IEEESSCS #AIHardware
🚨 NEW RESEARCH ON FIRST JOBS🚨 A first job that builds confidence and readiness for more senior work is associated with 24% higher earnings by one's mid-30s. But the best first jobs go disproportionately to those who already have a head start 🧵
From @shaunsaviation.com: "In the last while, an Aer Lingus regional flight reported a ‘Large black drone’ at 6,000 feet to Dublin ATC, who noted that the aircraft was not on their radars. From the pilots description, it appears drone was off the coast near bray/greystones"
One of the things I miss about Twitter is seeing some interesting academic type on the telly and being able to find and follow them there. Lot of nerds here, but not enough. We may need to start hunting and trapping PhDs
“Before one can declare victory, you need a few more data points, but now they have something to aim for, they know where to look.” - Wick Haxton, Berkeley Lab scientist emeritus on LZ’s new #DarkMatter result. Learn more from New Scientist ⬇️
The first signs of dark matter particles may finally have been spotted | New Scientist
Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but for decades physicists haven't been able to directly observe it – that may have just changed
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Last night, Isar Aerospace achieved the first launch to orbit from continental Europe, becoming the first provider to reach this milestone for @transport.esa.int's European Launcher Challenge. More 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... 📸 Isar Aerospace
Isar Aerospace achieves first launch to orbit from continental Europe
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During a recent conference held in Winterthur, Switzerland, engineers working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) confirmed that the laboratory is going to move from...
CERN is moving more than 2,200 specialized computers from RHEL to Debian
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A human can only survive 2-7 days without clean water, whereas we can survive in perpetuity without datacenters. Choose wisely.
"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
For nearly 50 years, the title "Intel fellow" has been reserved for the company's most accomplished scientists. https://mrf.lu/2q4XG
A famed physicist’s scribbles reveal the answer to a quintessential dilemma: When dining out, is it better to stick with an old favorite, or try something new? https://www.sciencenews.org/article/math-restaurant-meal-feynman
The math of choosing a restaurant meal is revealed in Richard Feynman’s notes
Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people approximate his solution on their own.
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Anthony Howe is a kinetic sculptor who creates wind-driven sculptures resembling pulsing, alien creatures and vortices. This one is in downtown Montreal. Original post
“With Racing, it’s life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.” LE MANS (1971) #SteveMcQueen
One of my fondest childhood memories was not knowing the name of any CEO of any company.
Richard O’Sullivan, star of 70s sitcom Man About the House, dies aged 82
Richard O’Sullivan, star of 70s sitcom Man About the House, dies aged 82
Actor, who also played title roles in Robin’s Nest and Dick Turpin, dies peacefully at Royal Variety Charity care home Richard O’Sullivan, known for his role as Robin Tripp in the 1970s TV sitcoms Man About the House and Robin’s Nest, has died aged 82. The actor, who was also famous for playing the title character in the TV series Dick Turpin, died peacefully with his family at his side at the Royal Variety Charity’s care home on Friday, the organisation said. Continue reading...
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Chip Industry Week In Review semiengineering.com/chip-industr...
Chip Industry Week In Review
2D Tunnel FET; in-memory photonic computing; India's $13.4B Semicon 2.0; SEMICON Taiwan; PCIe 6/7 test; MediaTek deal; 300mm Si photonics; InP expansion; $75M to recycle rare earths; GF PDKs; Gain-Cel...
semiengineering.com
Récemment a été lancé le Nancy Roman Space Telescope, un télescope spatial aux propriétés uniques, très complémentaire des autres télescopes spatiaux déjà à l'œuvre. J'aime bien cette infographie de Thierry Delestre pour en faire la synthèse :
AMD has released a permissively-licensed soft-core image signal processor targeting computer vision and camera projects powered by its FPGA hardware — designed to take up as few hardware resources as possible.
AMD's Permissive-License Mini-ISP Is a Tiny Image Signal Processor for UltraScale+ and Newer FPGAs
Looking to build a machine learning system without burning resources? Mini-ISP might just be for you.
hackster.io
Interested in electronics, engineering labs and supporting student innovation? We're hiring a Technical Officer at @tcddublin.bsky.social's School of Engineering. Work across teaching, research and the new E3 Learning Foundry. Apply: www.tcd.ie/engineering/...
Roman is on its way. Zooniverse is getting ready NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully launched, beginning its journey toward a new era of wide-field space astronomy. Roman is NASA’s next flagship observatory, designed to survey vast areas of the universe in near-infrared…
Roman is on its way. Zooniverse is getting ready
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully launched, beginning its journey toward a new era of wide-field space astronomy. Roman is NASA’s next flagship observatory, designed to survey vast areas of the universe in near-infrared light. Its observations will help scientists tackle some of the biggest questions in astrophysics: What is dark energy? How is dark matter distributed across the universe?
daily.zooniverse.org
In the spring of 1951, Jack Kerouac's muse struck hard, leading him to create a full-length manuscript for “On the Road” in just three weeks.
A 120-foot burst of genius: Jack Kerouac’s 'On the Road' scroll and its wild afterlife
In the spring of 1951, Jack Kerouac's muse struck hard, leading him to create a full-length manuscript for “On the Road” in just three weeks.
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