The simple answer is cloud resources can scale to any number of cpus and gpus whereas on prem is static

Okay, a lot to unpack here. I work on atmospheric model development. Primarily upper atmosphere models, but have experience with forecasting models as well. Inherently, there is nothing wrong with moving to the cloud for hpc resources. However I do take an issue with the following statement:

“Cloud-based high-performance computing will accelerate the transition of research into operations by eliminating traditional bottlenecks of on-premise systems,” said NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs in a statement.

The bottleneck in forecasting is NOT hardware but unknown and unresolved physical processes. Even at high resolution, forecasting models cannot capture physics and dynamics at spatial scales smaller than the grid of the model. We can make assumptions and use things like machine learning to improve subgrid processes but we cannot fully resolve them without an infinitely small grid, which is impossible. So moving to the cloud will not improve forecasting or the transition of RTO.

The second issue with this guy is he is a Trump nut hugger. See the following:

Sharpiegate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Jacobs

Good find! Did not know that. I haven’t used eBay since the 2000s but I certainly won’t moving forward.

“The company said the conduct “is not representative of eBay’s culture” and said it has since changed leadership and strengthened its policies, procedures and ethics training.”

All employees are now required to attend trainings that include no sending of bloody pig masks, funeral wreaths and death threats. If the old leadership only had that mandatory training this would have never happened!

Thst’s true. They can teach them what to avoid and how to commit warcrimes.

Whew. Not sure China would want to take any Russian military advice, but you do you, Pooh.

“Today’s action will begin to correct what is both a human rights abuse and distortive trade practice to improve the welfare of workers everywhere,” US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said.

Imagine saying with a straight face from the U.S. of all places that they think the UK and EU need to improve the welfare of their workers. I understand it is related to the forced labor goods coming from China but holy.

“Once they understand what the technology actually does – not what it might do in 50 years, not what someone thinks it could do, but what it actually does, day in and day out, it takes a picture of a car – most people go, ‘This makes a lot of sense. I want my kids to be safe.’”

He argues that all it does it takes pictures of license plates. And then says how it keeps children safe. 🤨

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Agreed. U.S. definitely sucks and is trying to speed run to fascism but China is on another level. I’ll leave this here for those who have not seen the law they recently passed.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/01/china/china-ethnic-unity-law-intl-hnk

Good information. However, the safest fix would be to delete the OS and install literally anything else (https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/). But alas, due to work constraints I understand some are stuck with Windows.

This was 13 years ago but another classic.

https://abcnews.com/US/empire-state-building-shooting-nypd-gunfire-wounded-victims/story?id=17078377

I always try and mix in a little bitumen to thicken it up.

Bitumen would like a word with queso.

Within 24 hours they would have military patrols.

Actually for a very good reason. The entire government is designed for the wealthy to keep getting richer. Everything since Reagan has been a crafted plan to benefit the wealthy and fuck over the lower classes.

“We will only re-enable MCI when we are confident in the effectiveness of our data protection controls,” Stephane Kasriel, a Meta vice president overseeing AI research, told employees Monday, according to Wired. Kasriel said the company discovered and resolved the issue last week, but that the  initial fix didn’t work.

Temporary pause on the program. It will be back on by next week I bet. Also, at this this point, if you work for meta, it is getting harder and harder to feel bad for you.

I think the difference here lies in the fact that Meta the company was downloading it for model training. The company itself was doing something illegal. If an individual was to download copyright material, it is not the fault of the VPN provider.

Here is a terrible analogy. It is sort of like blaming an auto company for someone running over a person. However, if an auto company was purposely designing cars that ran people over, then it is on the auto company. (I did say it was a bad analogy).

I think the best part of the article (besides the decision of course) is the following:

“A Strike 3 Holding investigation found that 47 IP addresses belonging to Meta were used to torrent 2,396 of its videos a total of 6,008 times between 2018 and 2025.”

If videos are being downloaded more than once, it’s hard to argue it’s just for model training. lol.

"Netanyahu said Israel is continuing to operate in Lebanon against the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah, and that Israel “has full right to self-defense, and we will exercise it to the full extent necessary.”

Meanwhile, the Lebanese Health Ministry said an Israeli airstrike on the village of Zefta killed seven people Monday, including a Syrian child. Eight people were wounded. Another strike on the coastal city of Tyre killed five and wounded eight, some of them members of the Lebanese Red Cross, the ministry said."

Thankfully that child and members of the Red Cross were murdered in self defense so Israel can breath easier. /s