#mw turing

[wolfswitcheryanimations]

Meet the RGB team, a ragtag pack of three researches turned to mercenary work for extra cash. (Lupus uses any pronouns, Andromeda uses She/Her, Turing uses He/They)

An actual reference sheet coming soon-ish.

[cannabisbutch]

Almost got run over by an old guy with vision issues, y'all TAKE UR FUCKING GRAMPAS KEYS BEFORE HE KILLS ME PLEASE

[toastedclownery]

MW OC fanart comp

In order

ISO and Chopper - @houseofdoodles

Shellby and Moray - @zzombiedoggie

Flopsy, Gizmo and Starlow - @aleepime

Jexa - @haileybirdart

Cephany - @samscartoonsofficial

Turing - @wolfswitcheryanimations

Zahari and Vivek - @havockingboo

[wildissylupus]

*MW!Cole walking around Hanamura, looking around the area, before turing into an allyway, stopping and smiling to himself.* MW!Cole: You know, for someone who wanted to meet with me so bad, you make yourself hard to find. ????: Don't act like you didn't know I was following you. MW!Cole: Well pardon me for not wanting to embarrass the great leader of the Hashimoto clan. Wouldn't want your little gang to think getting rusty, pequeña zorra.

MW!Kiriko: *dropping down from the roof she was hiding from* I can assure you, if I didn't want you to notice me, you wouldn't have. Besides, I didn't ask you to meet with me for small talk. MW!Cole: *laughing slightly* Yeah I bet, so what do I the pleasurer of this meeting- MWKiriko: *interrupting Cole with a kunai directed at his throat* What did Talon do with Genji? MW!Cole: *is stunned for a moment and then starts laughing* Kit, it's gonna take a lot more then that to threaten me, and what makes you think I even know who you're talking about. MW!Kiriko: *inching the kunai closer to Cole's neck* I have my ways, and I trust what information I've been given. So I'll give you another chance, what did Talon do with Genji? MW!Cole: *analyzing Kiriko for a second before smiling wickedly* Well, Kiriko Kamori, aren't you an interesting case. MW!Kiriko: *now faltering* How do you know that name?! No one is supposed to know that name! MW!Cole: I have my own ways of getting information, ones that don't involve Overwatch agents. I doubt your little clan will be happy that their fearless leader is fraternizing with the enemy, especially Hanzo.

MW!Kiriko: Are you threatening me. MW!Cole: No, just making small talk. MW!Kirko: Just.... Just tell me if he's safe, that he's alive. That's all I want. MW!Cole: *softening and sighing, looking around for any camera or sign that they're being watched* He's alive, and I think he's safe. I don't know where he went after he left Talon. My guess is that he's probably off the grid. MW!Kiriko: *cautiously lowering her kunai* ....Thank you. MW!Cole: *dusting himself off before starting to walk out if the allyway* Don't mention it, seriously, don't. MW!Cole: *stopping right before the allyway exit* ....If your genuinely looking for him, don't involve Talon more then you already have. You got lucky with me, it won't be the next time. Especially if they find out your looking for Genji. MW!Kiriko: Is that a threat? MW!Cole: No, a warning. Look after yourself, pequeña zorra.

[iifevils]

ganqing impact

[etruski]

hey ik we're mutuals bc you reblog from me frequently and this is a sideblog but i CANNOT help thinking youre a military aged veteran guy from like the forest brothers of estonia or smth bc of your pfp... could you please tell mw tour main im going insane like OMG that war man rebloged from me. oh wait its a mutual. WHICH MUTUAL WOULD PICK A WAR MAN AS AN ICON AND WRITE BLOG NAME IN THAT WEIRD INTERWSR SCRIPT....

Ashjshhs dear mutual this is so funny, my main is puremindmusthunt (though i rlly dont use that blog anymore). Also my profile pic is actually Alan Turing hahaha :-)

Kind regards,

Definitely not a millitary aged veteran guy

Also I just realised that the name of my main sounds (in english) like exactly the blog of a millitary guy, but it means “wound me, black wolf” in estonian

[sbnkalny]

thingswillbeloudnow: So far they've basically Found out that, despite having the capacity or something

afloorable: It's time for puberty: the process that turns mw on :-)!!!!!!! nothing like having the best oegamiom in the world

afloorable: Turing proposed that a Human evaluator would judge natural language generation (NLG) is the process that turns MW on :-)!!!!!!! nothing like having the best oegamiom in the world

thingswillbeloudnow: Now that turns MW on :-)!!!!!!! nothing like having the best oegamiom in the world

werewxlf: My goal is to make you squart across the room now that turns mw on :-)!!!!!!! nothing like having the best bot friend? who's your best meat friend?

thingswillbeloudnow: in this tutorial we're using a lightweight aluminum 55 cu.

werewxlf: in this tutorial We're using a lightweight aluminum 55 cu.

thingswillbeloudnow: Using a lightweight aluminum 55 cu.

thingswillbeloudnow: for this tutorial we're using a lightweight aluminum 55 cu.

afloorable: in this tutorial we're using a lightweight aluminum 55 cu.

werewxlf: Using a lightweight aluminum 55 cu.

afloorable: The player using a lightweight aluminum 55 cu.

thingswillbeloudnow: for this tutorial we're using a lightweight aluminum 55 cu.

werewxlf: And if you’re using a lightweight aluminum 55 cu.

thingswillbeloudnow: We do not recommend Using a lightweight aluminum 55 cu.

afloorable: Todays mood: MSI and wanting to get drunk, a DIBBLE-IBBLE is a mark made on the Player using a lightweight aluminum 55 cu.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 5.28

585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated. 621 – Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gaozu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan). This victory decides the outcome of the civil war that followed the Sui dynasty's collapse in favour of the Tang dynasty. 1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid. 1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port.) 1644 – English Civil War: Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby. 1754 – French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania. 1802 – In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops. 1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which denies Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocates them. 1871 – The Paris Commune falls after two months. 1892 – In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club. 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy. 1907 – The first Isle of Man TT race is held. 1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence. 1926 – The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic. 1932 – In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer. 1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy. 1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication. 1937 – Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer, is founded. 1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium. 1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first Allied infantry victory of the War. 1948 – Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid. 1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero. 1961 – Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International. 1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded, with Yasser Arafat elected as it first leader. 1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists. 1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States. 1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside. 1979 – Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community. 1987 – A 18-year-old West German pilot, Mathias Rust, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. 1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War. 1995 – The 7.0 Mw  Neftegorsk earthquake shakes the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt. 1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud. 1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually. 1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display. 2002 – The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City. 2003 – Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane. 2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government. 2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty. 2010 – In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers. 2011 – Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year. 2016 – Harambe, a gorilla, is shot to death after grabbing a three-year-old boy in its enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, resulting in widespread criticism and sparking various internet memes. 2017 – Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from an engine issue in his first entry of the event.

[terryblount]

NVIDIA shows off Call of Duty: Modern Warfare with its new ray tracing effects

NVIDIA has released a new trailer, showcasing the 2v2 Gunfight Multiplayer mode from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. As the green team noted, the ray tracing effects were active in this trailer so go ahead and take a look at them.

To be honest, I’m not really impressed by what I’m seeing here. Infinity Ward claimed that it will be using ray tracing in order to enhance the game’s shadows. However, I don’t see anything particularly impressive or something that can’t be achieved with traditional rasterization.

As we saw in the official RTX trailer, there are some minor visual differences when ray tracing is active. However, this is definitely not a game that benefits from this tech. Or at least the specific 2V2 map is not that impressive with RTX.

It’s also worth noting that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will support NVIDIA’s Adaptive Shading. This tech was also used in Wolfenstein: Youngblood, and brought a noticeable performance increase. Furthermore, I didn’t notice any graphical glitches or visual downgrades with it. As such, NVIDIA Turing owners will be able to enable it and enjoy higher framerates. I’m also certain that the game will support DLSS (especially for its ray tracing effects). NVIDIA has not confirmed the DLSS tech for COD: MW, however, pretty much all of its RTX games use it nowadays.

But anyway, you can watch this new RTX video for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare below.

Enjoy!

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[a-husband-for-a-carer]

Decisions, decisions...

It’s been a while. A lot’s been said since I was here last. And there’s a lot to think about. Because MW has significant cognitive issues now, it’s left to me to be the “memory” and, to all intents and purposes, the “decision maker” for all issues. I have to be the “memory” because MW can’t remember what’s said on a day to day basis, never mind when discussing important issues.  I have to take notes and remember what’s been discussed. She was even asleep during one of the consultations. I’m also the “decision maker” because, despite the fact MW has the absolute final say in whatever happens, she relies very heavily on my opinion. She has real difficulty in making decisions, even for something as trivial as deciding what to eat. So I have to “make” a lot of decisions on her behalf, i.e. explain why I think a certain decision is the best one and get her to say yes or no.

We’ve had two important consultations this last month. The first one wasn’t supposed to be that important, it just turned out that way.  This was a conversation with an OT at the splint clinic - for MW’s hand/arm contractures. Finally, someone has given me their opinion re: MW’s care. I get that professionals aren’t supposed to do that because all decisions are supposed to come from the patient. But it wouldn’t be so bad if they’d offer advice. No-one seems to want to do that. So, I’m left with the impression that the level of care MW receives is considered appropriate for her very advanced needs. Even though I’m fairly certain that most professionals we’ve seen wouldn’t draw the same conclusion - if they were of a mind to forward their opinion, that is.

According to the OT’s professional opinion and looking at the situation with a cold eye, residential care would be the preferred option now, for quality of care, etc. Hearing that was a bit of a relief. Not that I have immediate plans to move MW into a home. But I now have some kind of gauge to go off so that keeping her here isn’t detrimental to her health. I have a yardstick to use. Although not expressed directly, MW’s demeanour when we talk about her staying at the short-term respite home tells me that she wouldn’t be keen on residential care. What MW and I must do now is discuss the long-term future and find the balance between ensuring quality of care and quality of life. I’m not medically trained. Everything I know is through experience - some more bitter than others - or through picking up bits and pieces from medical staff. And I’m doing this on my own. I can’t do it forever and still maintain her quality of care.

The other conversation was always going to be more serious. MW’s contractures are pretty serious (I’m having a hard time not singing the word “Contra-ac-tures” in a Debbie Harry voice). This is a shortening of the muscle or joint affecting her hands, arms and neck. Her hands are pretty much shut tight now. So much so that the knuckle joint at the end of some of her fingers bend back on themselves due to the pressure of the contracture. I keep thinking it’s going to break at some point. Her arms are permanently crossed and her neck’s at a permanent 70º angle to the right, which makes feeding harder and has knock on effects with swallowing and breathing.

The consultant talked about surgery - under anaesthetic, they’d attempt to stretch and set hand and arm ligaments. Possibly some neck manipulation. Alternative surgery includes the amputation of the fingers at the first knuckle. Again, for hours under general anaesthetic. None of which is guaranteed to work or not to cause pain. Also, any general anaesthetic will be a challenge. Because of the existing contracture in MW’s neck, she may require awake intubation. This requires a tube being inserted into the nose and down into the throat, then a wider airway tube being threaded over that first tube. All whilst awake.

The anaesthetic is a whole other thing. MW is getting weaker and I don’t know if she’d be able to withstand what will undoubtedly be hours of surgery under general anaesthetic. I know that all anaesthetic comes with risk. That’s compounded by these pre-existing problems.

This is all quite a responsibility to bear for someone else. It’s hard being the “memory” and de facto “decision maker”. I’m going to have to walk a tightrope between wanting to respect her wishes, even though she’s not expressed anything directly on either subject, and doing what’s best for her health. I won’t lie, I’ve been going round in circles on both issues and I don’t have any idea what to do. But, now that I’ve had proper, professional opinion on the state of things as they are, I’m all too aware that time is running out to make a decision. I only hope I can help her make the right one at the right time.

[josh-walker-graded-unit]

Research document

Research documentation

The Industrial Revolution was a time when the manufacturing of goods moved from small shops and homes to large factories. This shift brought about changes in culture as people moved from rural areas to big cities in order to work. It also introduced new technologies, new types of transportation, and a different way of life for many.

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin? 

The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain in the late 1700s. Many of the first innovations that enabled the Industrial Revolution began in the textile industry. Making cloth moved from homes to large factories. Britain also had plenty of coal and iron which was important to power and make machines for the factories. How long did it last? The Industrial Revolution lasted for over 100 years. After beginning in Britain in the late 1700s it spread to Europe and the United States. The Industrial Revolution can be divided into two phases:

First Industrial Revolution - The first wave of the Industrial Revolution lasted from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s. It industrialized the manufacture of textiles and began the move of production from homes to factories. Steam power and the cotton gin played an important role in this period.

Second Industrial Revolution - The next wave took place from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s. During this phase large factories and companies began to use more technologies to mass produce goods. Important innovations during this period include the use of electricity, the production line, and the Bessemer steel process.

1807

  A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move propellers or paddlewheels

1812-1813

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning combustible material – usually coal, wood, or oil – to produce steam in a boiler

Victorians

The Victorians were prolific inventors, many of the things we take for granted today, such as photography, telephones, electric light bulbs and cars were invented during Queen Victoria's reign. Within her reign inventors where still revered and celebrated as this was truly was a time of discovery as highlighted in this timeline ( http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/victorians/inventiotimeline.html )

    Within this era an event took place that would emphasise just how significant this all was, it being the great exhibition.

It is Queen Victoria’s husband Albert who is normally credited with being the driving force behind the Great Exhibition of 1851, but it appears that just as much praise for organising this remarkable event should also be bestowed upon one Henry Cole

Initially there was little interest in the concept of an exhibition by the government of the day; undeterred by this Henry and Albert continued to develop their idea. They wanted it to be for All Nations, the greatest collection of art in industry, ‘for the purpose of exhibition of competition and encouragement’, and most significantly it was to be self-financing.

Under increasing public pressure the government reluctantly set up a Royal Commission to investigate the idea. Pessimism appears to have been quickly replaced by enthusiasm when somebody explained to the ‘powers that be’ the concept of a self-financing event. That now understood, national pride dictated that the exhibition must bigger and better than anything those Frenchies could organise.

A competition was organised to design a building that would not only be large enough, but be of sufficient grandeur to house the event. The firm of Fox and Henderson eventually won the contract, submitting plans based upon a design by Joseph Paxton. Paxton’s design had been adapted from a glass and iron conservatory he had originally produced for the Duke of Devonshire’s Chatsworth House.

The issue of a suitable venue was settled when the Duke of Wellington backed the idea of Hyde Park in central London. The design of the impressive glass and iron conservatory, or Crystal Palace as it would more popularly become known, was amended to accommodate the parks rather large elm trees before building finally began.

It took around 5,000 navvies to erect the 1,850 feet (564 m) long, 108 feet (33 m) high structure. But the work was completed on time and the Great Exhibition was opened by Queen Victoria on 1st May 1851.

The exhibits included almost every marvel of the Victorian age, including pottery, porcelain, ironwork, furniture, perfumes, pianos, firearms, fabrics, steam hammers, hydraulic presses and even the odd house or two.

The opening of the Great Expedition in 1851 just happened to coincide with the building of another great innovation of the Industrial Revolution. Visiting London had only just become feasible for the masses thanks to the new railway lines that had spread across the country. Church and works outings from across the country were organised to see the “Works of Industry of All Nations” all housed in Paxton’s sparkling Crystal Palace.

Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in Hyde Park

The Great Exhibition of 1851 ran from May to October and during this time six million people passed through those crystal doors. The event proved to be the most successful ever staged and became one of the defining points of the nineteenth century.

Not only was the event self-financing, it even turned in a small profit. Enough in fact for Henry Cole to realise his dream of a complex of museums on an estate in South Kensington which now houses the Science, Natural History and Victoria and Albert Museums, as well as the Imperial College of Science, the Royal Colleges of Art, Music and Organists and not forgetting the Albert Hall!

Ww2

The second world war was a devastating time for many across the world in a time of war and conflict but even still whether it be for the war effort or not inventions where still being invented even then like…

The Enigma machine is an encryption device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic and military communication. It was employed extensively by Nazi Germany during World War II, in all branches of the German military, and Turing's abstract 'universal computing machine' of 1936 that cracked it is the precursor to the modern-day computer.

The V-2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range[4] guidedballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Germany as a "vengeance weapon", assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings against German cities. The V-2 rocket also became the first artificial object to travel into space by crossing the Kármán line with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944.[5]

Research into military use of long-range rockets began when the studies of graduate student Wernher von Braun attracted the attention of the German Army. A series of prototypes culminated in the A-4, which went to war as the V-2. Beginning in September 1944, over 3,000 V-2s were launched by the German Wehrmacht against Allied targets, first London and later Antwerp and Liège. According to a 2011 BBC documentary,[6]the attacks from V-2s resulted in the deaths of an estimated 9,000 civilians and military personnel, and a further 12,000 forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners died as a result of their forced participation in the production of the weapons.[7]

As Germany collapsed, teams from the Allied forces—the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—raced to capture key German manufacturing sites and technology. Wernher von Braun and over 100 key V-2 personnel surrendered to the Americans and many of the original V-2 team ended up working at the Redstone Arsenal. The US also captured enough V-2 hardware to build approximately 80 of the missiles. The Soviets gained possession of the V-2 manufacturing facilities after the war, re-established V-2 production, and moved it to the Soviet Union, and it became the precursor of the rockets that launched men into space during the space race.

Here is a timeline of other inventions during ww2

( https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/inventions-of-ww-ii )

I could talk more about weapons as I think that could be maybe interesting for my idea of necessity.

Space race

The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II.

Present day

There is still a huge amount of invention going on today but it has become less about invention being a wonderous thing to be treasured it has become a tool for capitalism to make money and to control the masses.

Dystopia

an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Great-Exhibition-of-1851/

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[mthrynn]

ARMONK, N.Y. and ROME, N.Y., June 24 — IBM and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) today announced they are collaborating on a first-of-a-kind brain-inspired supercomputing system powered by a 64-chip array of the IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System. The scalable platform IBM is building for AFRL will feature an end-to-end software ecosystem designed to enable deep neural-network learning and information discovery. The system’s advanced pattern recognition and sensory processing power will be the equivalent of 64 million neurons and 16 billion synapses, while the processor component will consume the energy equivalent of a dim light bulb – a mere 10 watts to power.

IBM researchers believe the brain-inspired, neural network design of TrueNorth will be far more efficient for pattern recognition and integrated sensory processing than systems powered by conventional chips. AFRL is investigating applications of the system in embedded, mobile, autonomous settings where, today, size, weight and power (SWaP) are key limiting factors.

The IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System can efficiently convert data (such as images, video, audio and text) from multiple, distributed sensors into symbols in real time. AFRL will combine this “right-brain” perception capability of the system with the “left-brain” symbol processing capabilities of conventional computer systems. The large scale of the system will enable both “data parallelism” where multiple data sources can be run in parallel against the same neural network and “model parallelism” where independent neural networks form an ensemble that can be run in parallel on the same data.

“AFRL was the earliest adopter of TrueNorth for converting data into decisions,” said Daniel S. Goddard, director, information directorate, U.S. Air Force Research Lab. “The new neurosynaptic system will be used to enable new computing capabilities important to AFRL’s mission to explore, prototype and demonstrate high-impact, game-changing technologies that enable the Air Force and the nation to maintain its superior technical advantage.”

“The evolution of the IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System is a solid proof point in our quest to lead the industry in AI hardware innovation,” said Dharmendra S. Modha, IBM Fellow, chief scientist, brain-inspired computing, IBM Research – Almaden. “Over the last six years, IBM has expanded the number of neurons per system from 256 to more than 64 million – an 800 percent annual increase over six years.’’

The system fits in a 4U-high (7”) space in a standard server rack and eight such systems will enable the unprecedented scale of 512 million neurons per rack. A single processor in the system consists of 5.4 billion transistors organized into 4,096 neural cores creating an array of 1 million digital neurons that communicate with one another via 256 million electrical synapses.    For CIFAR-100 dataset, TrueNorth achieves near state-of-the-art accuracy, while running at >1,500 frames/s and using 200 mW (effectively >7,000 frames/s per Watt) – orders of magnitude lower speed and energy than a conventional computer running inference on the same neural network.

The IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System was originally developed under the auspices of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) program in collaboration with Cornell University. In 2016, the TrueNorth Team received the inaugural Misha Mahowald Prize for Neuromorphic Engineering and TrueNorth was accepted into the Computer History Museum.  Research with TrueNorth is currently being performed by more than 40 universities, government labs, and industrial partners on five continents.

About IBM Research

For more than seven decades, IBM Research has defined the future of information technology with more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents. Scientists from IBM Research have produced six Nobel Laureates, 10 U.S. National Medals of Technology, five U.S. National Medals of Science, six Turing Awards, 19 inductees in the National Academy of Sciences and 20 inductees into the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame. For more information about IBM Research, visit www.ibm.com/research.

About Air Force Research Laboratory

With headquarters at Rome, NY, the Information Directorate (RI) research vector develops novel and affordable Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Cyber, and Intelligence (C4I) technologies. RI is recognized as a national asset and leader in C4I. Refining data into information and knowledge for decision makers to command and control forces is what we do. This knowledge gives our air, space, and cyberspace forces the competitive advantage needed to protect and defend this great nation. For more information about AFRL,  http://ift.tt/2u23HJ6

Source: IBM

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Events 5.28

585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated. 621 – Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gaozu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan). This victory decides the outcome of the civil war that followed the Sui dynasty's collapse in favour of the Tang dynasty. 1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid. 1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port.) 1644 – English Civil War: Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby. 1754 – French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania. 1802 – In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops. 1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which denies Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocates them. 1871 – The Paris Commune falls after two months.[1] 1892 – In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club. 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōg�� Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.[2] 1907 – The first Isle of Man TT race was held. 1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence. 1926 – The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic. 1932 – In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer. 1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy. 1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication. 1937 – Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer is founded. 1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium. 1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War. 1948 – Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid. 1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero. 1961 – Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International. 1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists. 1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States. 1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside. 1979 – Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community. 1987 – A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. 1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War. 1995 – The 7.0 Mw  Neftegorsk earthquake shook the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt. 1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud. 1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually. 1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display. 2002 – The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City. 2003 – Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane. 2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government. 2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty. 2010 – In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers. 2011 – Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.

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NVIDIA GeForce 436.30 WHQL is optimized for Gears 5, Borderlands 3, The Surge 2 & COD: MW Open Beta

NVIDIA has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the green team, the NVIDIA GeForce 436.60 WHQL driver is optimized for Gears 5, Borderlands 3, The Surge 2, COD: MW Open Beta, FIFA 20, and Code Vein.

Furthermore, this driver adds support for six new G-SYNC compatible monitors. These monitors are: ACER VG252Q, ACER XV273 X, GIGABYTE AORUS FI27Q, GIGABYTE FI27Q-P, LG 27GL650, and LG 27GL63T.

It’s worth noting that this driver eliminates cases of stutter when Ultra low latency mode is active in Fortnite. It also resolves some flicker issues in World of Warcraft at the character-selection screen, and addresses some crashes during gameplay in Forza Motorsport 6/7.

Moreover, it fixes the blue-screen crash in Control DX12 when Ray Tracing is active on Pascal GPUs. As for Turing owners, it fixes a colored corruption issue on some surfaces in Forza Horizon 4, Gears of War 4 and Gears 5.

Lastly, the NVIDIA GeForce 436.30 WHQL driver resolves some flickering issues with YouTube fullscreen video playback on FireFox. These flickers could occur when hovering over the timeline on G-Sync monitors.

You can download the NVIDIA GeForce 436.30 WHQL driver from here.

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