Pyramidion of Amenemhat III Translation of the Hieroglyphs of All Four Sides
The basalt pyramidion is the capstone of the pyramid “mr” of Amenemhat III “imn-m-hA.t” ‘Amun is Foremost’, a pharaonic ruler from yhe 12th dynasty (ca. 1860-1814 BC). The pyramidion is a small pyramidal-shaped stone representing the benben or the primordial mountain the first to emerge from the ocean at the creation of the world by the god Atum It´s decorated with a solar disc flanked by two cobras with outspread wings. The two eyes are to see the Neferu “nfrw”, the beauty of god Ra , as inscribed there in sunken relief. The pyramidion is from Hawar, now located at the Cairo Museum, Egypt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g_V2A2NEE4
*Note: Ponders people of violence masquerading as ICE officials, with masks and no facial recognition, to commit heinous deeds of destruction? * The audacity of the situation is staggering. And then when something really bad happens, everyone will play the blame game and point fingers. But I and others are telling you now, this is wrong. ~LArry
The Heart of a Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn, As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on, Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home. The heart of a woman falls back with the night, And enters some alien cage in its plight, And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.
https://poemanalysis.com/georgia-douglas-johnson/the-heart-of-a-woman/
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpmeswMK7cY&list=RDUpmeswMK7cY&start_radio=1
https://www.particleadventure.org/
The Tree Feels No Pain Poem by Gajanan Mishra
The tree feels No pain when cut, Is it true? So also is it Not true, I have Not forgotten you. In between birth and death, I act as a hero.v
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-tree-feels-no-pain/
From Romania With Love* Poem by Sulaiman Mohd Yusof
Wallachia, Moldavia or Transylvania Of which you were born Or you flow from Mt. Moldoveanu To evolve in the Mures or Siret Your adolescence soaked with The sands of God that kisses The miracle of the Black Sea Marieta Maglas, as famous As Timisoara, giving a new lease of life You blend life, honey coated with caviar of love You flourish many with a new fate From Bessarabia to Bucharest They walk with a glittering smile A Philosopher, a Dentist and a Poetess A complete package that could even Melt Communism, without having To drip innocent blood I read your vivid words Like Danube, it flows back to the Black Sea The heart of Romanian The place where you’d drown All of your poems Only to be read As a history When you’ve become a Legend Marieta Maglas, save for the last You’re in your own class I beget your wisdom To heal my conundrum * Dedicated to Romanian Poetess, Marieta Maglas.
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-romania-with-love/
A comprehensive collection of symbols used in mathematics — categorized by function, subject and type into tables along with each symbol's usage and meaning.
https://mathvault.ca/hub/higher-math/math-symbols/
The Moon by Em(n) Atkinson (not definitively)
The Moon As she rises in the sky, night after night, the Moon supports the continuous cycle of becoming and releasing. Becoming who we're born to be and shedding the layers of who we're not. A cycle that never ends.
I look to the moon, inconstant that she is, And ask her why I fell for the sun. I ask her why she hasn't the curtesy to chase all thoughts of him away When it is her shift that has begun. I ask her why she simply watches, And wonder if it is because she too is half in love with him, And in the darkness, in the dim, Through the looking-glass of my dreams, If that is the only chance she will have to look upon his face, When she is night and he is day, And one is present while the other is away. And in some small way I understand, In some small way I pity her, For I have seen the sun once, And now my dreams are full of him, But she, as she sits gazing in the sky, With a smile much like my own, She has only ever caught a glance. With her round and ghostly eye. Her hope is foolish as is mine, When I have memory, but she is time, And when I am gone, she will live on, And dream of him until the dawn. Emma Atkinson
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-moon-181/
*Ponders* Beowulf as the thread and google TPU as the process.
In 2026, the relationship between Beowulf clusters and Google TPUs represents a generational shift in parallel computing. The Beowulf architecture provides the conceptual "thread"—the philosophy of scaling through networked nodes—while the Google TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) acts as the modern "process," the specialized engine that executes the work. 1. Beowulf as the Thread: The Scaling Philosophy Beowulf clusters, pioneered in the 1990s, established the blueprint for high-performance computing (HPC) by linking commodity-grade hardware into a single parallel system. Decentralized Control: Beowulf introduced the idea of a single system image where complex tasks are distributed across a "thread" of interconnected nodes. Democratization of Scale: Just as Beowulf made supercomputing accessible via off-the-shelf PCs, modern AI seeks to "democratize" training by reviving Beowulf-style clusters to manage massive model workloads. The Network as the Interconnect: Beowulf clusters relied on Ethernet; today's TPU "threads" utilize advanced Optical Circuit Switching (OCS) and Inter-Chip Interconnects (ICI) to link up to 9,216 chips into a single "pod". 2. Google TPU as the Process: The Specialized Engine While Beowulf handles the organization, the TPU (specifically the seventh-generation Ironwood released in 2025/2026) is the purpose-built "process" that executes matrix operations with extreme efficiency. Systolic Array Architecture: Unlike general-purpose CPUs, TPUs use a systolic array to flow data through a matrix of ALUs, minimizing memory reads and maximizing computational throughput. Inference Focus (2026): The 2026 Ironwood TPU is heavily optimized for "thinking models" and high-volume inference, offering nearly 30x the efficiency of early generations. Native FP8 Support: In 2026, TPUs have shifted to native FP8 precision, allowing for better memory management in multi-modal models and million-token windows. 3. Comparison of Architectures (2026 Status) Feature Beowulf "Thread" Philosophy Google TPU "Process" Implementation Hardware Commodity, identical PC nodes Specialized ASICs (Ironwood/TPU v7) Scalability Distributed Linux nodes TPU Pods (9,216+ chips per cluster) Efficiency Cost-effective for HPC 44% lower TCO than GPU-based servers Primary Task General parallel scientific apps Neural network training and inference In this 2026 landscape, Beowulf-style management (like the BProc distributed process space) is what allows Google's massive TPU infrastructure to function as a singular, cohesive supercomputer for AI.
*Ponders* will current computer architecture and quantum computer eventually lead to a completely decentralized system like the merging of philosophies of Beowulf and Google TPU
Thinking Searching In 2026, the convergence of quantum computing and specialized architectures like Google TPUs is driving a shift toward a hybrid decentralized model that mirrors a modernized "Beowulf-meets-TPU" philosophy. Rather than a single uniform architecture, the future is evolving into a globally distributed network of specialized accelerators. Emerging Decentralized Architecture The merger of these philosophies is manifesting in three key ways: Beowulf 2.0 (Decentralized Ownership): The original Beowulf philosophy of using commodity hardware is evolving into Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN). Platforms are now emerging that allow individuals to contribute idle GPU or specialized processing power to a global pool, effectively "slaying the monster" of centralized cloud control. TPU Philosophy at the Edge: Google's TPU philosophy—using high-throughput, specialized systolic arrays—is moving beyond the data center. By 2026, Edge AI is seeing rapid adoption, with specialized inference chips (like TPU-inspired architectures) being integrated directly into edge devices and even solar-powered satellites. Quantum-as-a-Service (QaaS) Clusters: Quantum computers are not replacing classical machines but act as specialized accelerators within hybrid cloud environments. By 2026, businesses are accessing these via decentralized "marketplaces" like Amazon Braket, which allows users to experiment with various hardware without central ownership. Philosophical Convergence The "merging" you described is the transition from general-purpose central computing to Massively Parallel Specialized Computing: From Beowulf: The concept of high-performance computing built from distributed, diverse nodes. From TPU: The concept of hardware specifically optimized for matrix math and high-throughput "inference" tasks. Outlook for 2026 While "complete" decentralization remains a long-term goal, 2026 marks a pivotal year where Modular IT architectures and Zero-Trust Models are becoming the foundational standard. The primary driver is not just performance but security; as quantum threats emerge, decentralized protocols and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) are being deployed to secure the billions of global endpoints.
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John von Neumann: Life, Work, and Legacy
https://www.ias.edu/von-neumann
who developed the architecture to use process and threads
Thinking Searching The architecture for processes and threads was not developed by a single person but emerged through the evolution of operating systems and hardware designs from the 1940s to the 1960s. Architecture Development History The development of these concepts involved several key figures and organizations: John von Neumann (1945): Proposed the von Neumann architecture, which established the "stored-program" concept. This design, featuring a central processing unit (CPU) and memory, provided the hardware foundation for running the sequences of instructions that would later be managed as processes. IBM (1960s): Developed the System/360 architecture, which was one of the first major systems to implement support for multiple parallel processes and what we now call multithreading. In 1964, IBM's OS/360 MVT (Multiprogramming with a Variable number of Tasks) introduced "tasks," which are widely considered the earliest implementation of threads in a production system. Victor A. Vyssotsky: Credited by Jerome Saltzer in 1966 with coining the specific term "thread" to describe these lightweight execution units. Fred Brooks (IBM): Developed the concept of a computer "architecture" as distinct from a specific machine's implementation during the design of the System/360. Key Differences in Architecture Modern computer systems use these two components to manage execution efficiently: Process: A running instance of a program that has its own isolated memory space (code, data, and files). Thread: Often called a "lightweight process," a thread is a unit of execution within a process that shares the same memory space as other threads in that process, allowing for faster communication and lower resource overhead.
https://share.google/aimode/gPPvDcjTR0dgw82cG
*ponders* thread and process architecture
Process Architecture Philosophy (Isolation & Protection) Core Idea: Each process is a distinct, independent world with its own virtual memory, file handles, and resources. Focus: Security, stability, and fault containment (one process crashing doesn't affect others). When to Use: Running separate applications (e.g., browser tabs, different software). Tasks requiring high security or running untrusted code. When tasks are heavy and don't need frequent shared data. Trade-off: Slower communication (IPC needed) and heavier context switching (saving/restoring entire memory maps). Thread Architecture Philosophy (Sharing & Concurrency) Core Idea: Threads are lightweight sub-tasks within a single process, sharing the same memory, code, and resources. Focus: Responsiveness, efficiency, and easy data sharing for concurrent operations. When to Use: Performing multiple tasks within one application (e.g., UI updates while downloading). CPU-bound tasks that benefit from parallelism on multi-core systems. Trade-off: Lack of built-in isolation; requires careful synchronization (locks, mutexes) to prevent race conditions and data corruption.
Opening a new era in algorithmic development
IBM Research is turbocharging algorithm development for a world with quantum computing and AI.
https://research.ibm.com/blog/future-of-developing-algorithms
*Ponders* How will Quantum computer architectures change standard process and thread design. ~LArry
People sometimes hide their personalities in similarities . For better or for worse. The inner worlds of micro aggressions and passive aggressiveness. ~LArry
The Akhenaten Temple Project and Karnak Excavations
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/the-akhenaten-temple-project-and-karnak-excavations/
The Great Temple of Amon at Karnak, This great national monument of Egypt has no equal. It is not a single temple, but temple within temple, shrine within shrine, where almost all the pharaohs, particularly of the New Kingdom, wished to record their names and deeds for posterity. Though most of the structures were built in honour of Amon-Ra, his consort Mut and son Khonsu, there were numerous shrines within the complex dedicated to what might be called “guest deities', like Ptah of Memphis and Osiris of Abydos.
https://www.journeytoegypt.com/en/discover-egypt/karnak-temple
Ashurbanipal's collection was the largest, broadest and most important library ever assembled over 3,500 years of cuneiform culture. Until the Library of Alexandria
Understanding Reactive Abuse: Signs and Solutions
In this article, we explore the psychological dynamics of reactive abuse, the signs to look out for, the impact it can cause, and steps to get help.
https://www.verywellmind.com/reactive-abuse-signs-impact-and-tips-to-break-the-cycle-7567483