DeepSeek’s AI chip is a wake‑up call: the arms race has only just started
DeepSeek’s push to design its own AI inference chip is a clear sign that the real AI arms race is shifting from flashy models to control of the hardware stack.
Australia
Colonialism, Convicts and Country: How the British Empire shaped my Australian Story
Reflection on how colonialism shaped the modern world and my Australian family story, built on both convict and migrant histories and Indigenous dispossession.
Sir Nicholas Winton: saviour, people smuggler, hero?
The sad news of the death of a great and humble man came out overnight:
Sir Nicholas, then a stockbroker, arranged for trains to carry Jewish children out of occupied Prague.
Via BBC
He, like others during the 1930s and World War Two period, took action at great personal risk
Australia and the secret sauce of western civilisation?
Historian Niall Ferguson, in his Civilization: The West and the Rest, notes that:
"For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one Asian country after another has downloaded these killer apps — competition, modern
Australian citizenship, ceremony and ritual
A friend invited me along to his citizenship ceremony the other day. He's terribly excited about becoming an Aussie after living here for a number of years.
We went to the newly refurbished Sydney Town Hall and the Lord Mayor, wearing her Lord Mayoral bling, gave a lovely