New Zealand was colonised long after castles had become obsolete. There are a few remains of WWII coastal fortifications here and there, but they’re now obsolete too.
The Māori built thousands of hilltop fortifications with wooden palisades (Pā), but lacking metal tools they didn’t build with stone.
See, I'd class those as something like 'follies' or Whimsy, as they don't appear to be actual fortifications, rather forms of affectation.
That said, I'm not sure what definition or list this site uses - as others have already pointed out, there are loads of castle missing I can tell, just from a few that I've visited across Italy.
I work in a project with a similar goal, I think, but that was not related to AI: climate digital twins. I worked on two, EDITO (European Digital Twin of the Ocean, edito.eu), and currently on DestinE ClimateDT (Destination Earth Climate Adaptation Digital Twin, https://destination-earth.eu/).
These digital twins aim to simulate climate, oceans, atmosphere, wind speed, temperature, etc., regionally or globally. They apply physics, mathematics, software engineering, and high-performance computing to simulate the world. Both digital twins I mentioned use EuroHPC resources like CSC LUMI, BSC MareNostrum5, CINECA Leonardo, and soon others (and we also use other smaller HPCs).
Now there are some ongoing work about integrating AI/ML, LLM, etc.. I find it a better approach than building for LLM/AI-first, as it integrates existing components, and allows for AI to be used too. I think this could possibly be integrated as a component in a solution like this described in the article, as a component.
(There are other digital twins, for heart, human body, cities, urban climate, rivers, biodiversity, etc.)
I just finished a master's on HPC where I had to take some classes on CUDA, MPI+CUDA, OpenCL. Reading an article like this before the classes would have been a lot helpful! Especially the part just before and after "What does it mean for a warp to be eligible?".
I'm finishing a masters here in Spain about HPC (uploaded the thesis last night). It's a joint program by two universities from Galicia (USC/UDC). I paid about the same the author did. The programme is great, loved the professors --- I contacted them after the class and the interactions were helpful/interesting. Like in the author's case, my master had a lot of practical work (which is good, being in computing/HPC). But the workload is *really crazy*. Assignment pretty much every week, with overlapping deadlines.
There's something here called "second chance", which I don't remember seeing this in Brazil. My wife did a masters at University of Barcelona and they also had a second chance. In every subject if you fail, then you take the exam or submit some assignments to get the required grade. Some students realised they wouldn't get a good grade, and preferred to skip the exam or assignment, just to get a better grade on the second chance to graduate with a good score/honours/etc.. I found that interesting, but I focused more learning things that would help me at $work and tried to avoid stress (I was probably the oldest student in my class, 40+ yo).
Phantasy Star I was the first RPG I played when child. I remember my father showing us the basic commands, and then my brothers and I taking notes of items, magic, and drawing cave maps.
My company is involved in research and production of RISC-V-based chips in Barcelona, with partners. There is or was a partnership with Intel at some point, and I think NVIDIA collaborated in some tasks in one of the projects. But the idea that I heard from the presentations is to produce chips in EU with little dependency on US, China, etc.
I think there is a partition in our supercomputing facility for these new types of technologies, but since my work is running climate models, I only hear news from other teams like our AI factory, the quantum computer, or people involved with these new chips and some emulators (that I think work together).
That idea is different than what most are talking here in other comments.
The grammar and vocabularies don't match, but I think the worst are the expressions. Both sides have *a lot* of expressions that vary per context and location.
> But about time the Internet Archive had a US-independent backup.
Agreed!
> The Internet Archive Switzerland, online at https://internetarchive.ch/, is a newly-formed Swiss non-profit foundation that will operate independently within its national context.
I had a class in my masters about data centers (HPC Infrastructures). The professor was using some data centers somewhere in the middle of USA, in an area with hot weather as example. He compared that with ideal scenario (weather, power source, etc.).
In one of the slides, there were factors that influence the decision of where to build a data center, and several of the items involved finding a place with enough space and skilled people to work at this data center. He also commented sometimes there is politics involved on choosing the place for a next data center.
Just got an email from one HPC I have access in Germany. I guess all HPCs ans services like GH Actions are going to be offline for a bit. I think last time was on a Friday too, so it might be another Friday to organize emails, files, rotate backup/passwords...
Brazil also has a few castles, although not sure if they are classified differently -- https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_castelos_no_Brasil
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