For data sovereignty I'll run a node on my pi-cluster, or my cloud instance.

I'm kinda terrified to see AI generated assembly language.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fai...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new instructions to scientists that partner with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) that eliminate mention of “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI fairness” in the skills it expects of members and introduces a request to prioritize “reducing ideological bias, to enable human flourishing and economic competitiveness.”

The information comes as part of an updated cooperative research and development agreement for AI Safety Institute consortium members, sent in early March. Previously, that agreement encouraged researchers to contribute technical work that could help identify and fix discriminatory model behavior related to gender, race, age, or wealth inequality. Such biases are hugely important because they can directly affect end users and disproportionately harm minorities and economically disadvantaged groups.

About 55% of the technical staff at my non-proft appears to be foreign nationals. What concerns me are the non-technical positions folks appear to be getting in on work visa's, (i.e. project management?).

I particularly liked the idea to force companies to hire STEM graduates before grabbing an H1B employee.

I just checked and of 133 software engineers at my non-proft, 55% are foreign nationals. I'm not certain how many are H1B vs other means.

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This will sound racist or at the very least xenophobic but..

Some days I don't even notice that I'm one of 5-10 american's in my shop of 120 in a large DC based non-profit.

Other days I get tired of reading through only resumes for H1B visa holders. Many have bachelors degrees in non-technical fields, with a moderately recent technical field masters degree from their home country.

85-90% of the development team of 100 are from out of country. 99% of the QA team. The only teams that are reasonably balanced demographically are the designer and system engineering/admin team (I'm the senior member of the latter).

I've noticed the hours many of the developers and QA staff put in, it's obscene, and not something I would ever consider. I know without a doubt the reason they're willing to do so. It's a highly inefficient system, and results in a mono-culture and group-think in regards to creating solutions to software problems.

As one of the primary decision maker for hiring within my team, I make a conscious effort to fairly employee american citizens, and visa holders.

I noticed that I only see a single CPU package on the slides, yet somehow they can cram 12-cpu cores in there? The highest Xeon E5s I've seen appear to max out at 8cores/16threads. So the only way I can see that happening is if they can somehow get a multi-processor card or dual CPU mulit-cpu die package in there.

Anyone else notice that GE sold their plastics division overseas in 2007 because it was just barely breaking even and the market wasn't expected to grow in 2007-2008. But it sounds like they had this in the works since 2003? Why are they selling off R&D units? Are they mad?