February 27, 2025

AI

The Dangers of Deceptive Data–Confusing Charts and Misleading Headlines | Towards Data Science

“You don’t have to be an expert to deceive someone, though you might need some expertise to reliably recognize when you are being deceived.” When my co-instructor and I start our quarterly lesson on deceptive visualizations for the data visualization course we teach at the University of Washington, he emphasizes the point above to our students. With the advent of modern technology, developing pretty and convincing claims about data is easier than ever. Anyone can

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Hardware

Thermal Grizzly now selling delidded Ryzen 9 9800X3D CPUs, warranty covers heavy overclocking

TL;DR: Thermal Grizzly offers delidded AMD Ryzen 9 9800X3D processors, optimized for higher overclocking with exotic cooling. Delidding removes the heat spreader, enhancing cooling but voiding warranties. Thermal Grizzly is now selling delidded AMD Ryzen 9 9800X3D processors, tested to hit far higher overclocked frequencies, with its heatspreader removed and ready for exotic cooling tech. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Overclocker Roman “Der8auer” Hartung is the owner of Thermal Grizzly, with the new TG Delidded

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AI

Nine Rules for SIMD Acceleration of Your Rust Code (Part 1) | Towards Data Science

Thanks to Ben Lichtman (B3NNY) at the Seattle Rust Meetup for pointing me in the right direction on SIMD. SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) operations have been a feature of Intel/AMD and ARM CPUs since the early 2000s. These operations enable you to, for example, add an array of eight i32 to another array of eight i32 with just one CPU operation on a single core. Using SIMD operations greatly speeds up certain tasks. If you’re not using SIMD, you may

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Hardware

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 reviews go live on March 4, the day before Radeon RX 9070 reviews

TL;DR: NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5070 reviews will be released on March 4, with retail availability on March 5, coinciding with AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 series reviews. NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 5070 will have reviews go live on March 4, with retail availability on March 5… right in the middle of AMD’s new Radeon RX 9070 series reviews and launch. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The review embargo for NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 5070 is set

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Hardware

SK hynix hits 70% yield on its new HBM4 12-Hi memory: ready for NVIDIA’s next-gen Rubin AI GPUs

TL;DR: SK hynix has achieved a 70% yield rate on its HBM4 12-Hi memory, which is set to be used in NVIDIA’s upcoming Rubin R100 AI GPUs. SK hynix has reportedly reached a 70% yield rate on its next-gen HBM4 12-Hi memory, ready to rock and roll on NVIDIA’s next-gen Rubin R100 AI GPUs. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES In a new report from ETNews, we’re learning that SK hynix has reached 70% yield on

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