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From the AP today, a new Stanford Nobel Prize winner:
STANFORD, California (AP) — Dr. Karl Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls after learning early Monday that he had won a Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open a new field of brain science called optogenetics.
But it wasn’t long before the California scientist asked for a break from all the attention for a more ordinary task: He needed to make school lunches for his children, who were asleep in the family home in Stanford, where their father had been speaking in the middle of the night with journalists and well-wishers.
Deisseroth, 54, shared this year’s medicine prize with two researchers in Germany for their work in optogenetics, a field that combines light with genes to switch on and off neurons in living brains.
A self-described night owl, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and Stanford University professor often works past midnight. After reviewing papers and emailing his students, he said he had just gone to lie down when he got the call from the Nobel Assembly in Stockholm.
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The Thinking Machine, Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and The World's Most Coveted Microship, Stephen Witt, c. 2025
This is where I track this book (sporadically): link here. I'm now starting Chapter 10 and the author is back to CUDA.
It reminds me why Nvidia is #1 and is going to be #1 for a long, long time.
Query:
Early on among PCs (and Apples) Microsoft / Intel were noted for their relative monopoly, which to great extent is still the operating system that pretty much leads the pack. Now fast forward. Nvidia is, of course, known for its GPU, but one might argue where it is going to old the advantage for a long, long time is CUDA which has been embedded throughout the semiconductor revolution for decades. Is there an analogy there -- between the Microsoft operating system and Nvidia's CUDA system or is it just something I noticed that doesn't have any relevance?
Reply. Link here. Link: https://share.google/aimode/IWszA47PxLWQRi5s0.
Never quit reading.
