A Complex, Global 21st Century
1/ Zuckerberg is spending $15-18 billion on 600,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs ($30,000 each) or equivalents to do even bigger AI: open source AGI.
2/ Explainer of how LLMs work in terms of compute power and operations.
3/ Iran attacked Pakistan, which then retaliated.
A Changing Spain
4/ The Foreign Secretary, Albares (PSOE), asked people not to “give up” if Israel didn’t get behind the idea of a Palestinian state, after Netanyahu again rejected the idea. Broadening the war to Lebanon would be “a catastrophe”.
5/ The judge investigating Puigdemont for terrorism with the Tsunami Democratic Catalan separatist group is digging in: he is particularly interested in the group’s actions at El Prat airport in 2019, in which 115 flights were delayed and a French tourist died (heart problems).
6/ A government minister criticised the judge this morning for insisting with his investigation at such a “politicallly sensitive moment”.
7/ The prosecutor’s office is to investigate Vox leader Abascal over his comments in Argentina about hanging the PM from his feet.
8/ Vox was defiant: “the goverment and the prosecutor and their media intoxicators” are not going to stop them reelecting Abascal leader next week.
9/ Olona reckons Vox will now go to zero, like Ciudadanos and Podemos have.
10/ The politicians finally managed constitutional reform: Article 49 will now use the term “people with a disability” instead of “the physically diminshed”.
11/ Two Army officers and one NCO are to be charged over the death of two soldiers during a water-crossing exercise in Cerro Muriano in December.
12/ Cerro Muriano, if that name rings a bell, is where Capa’s famous Civil War photo of “the falling soldier” was taken…or maybe not really.
13/ Guardian: EU citizens are being kicked out of the UK. In Spain people are asking: why not treat Brits the same way?
14/ FT: Spain’s amnesty for separatists sparks investor backlash
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"EU citizens are being kicked out of the UK. In Spain people are asking: why not treat Brits the same way?"
Are British expatriates and their Pounds a problem for Spain? A country that needs British tourism for a living? No? In that case, let's make it a big one!
Four hundred thousand Spaniards leave Spain every year (most of them young university graduates) in search of work abroad (mainly Europe). There is no greater failure for a country than that, but as you well know, my friend, that is never talked about in Spain. It seems that our problem is the British expats and their Pounds.
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