I sometimes get questions from people interested in reading about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, looking for some way to understand it in an "Objective" (sigh) way.

I'll try to give a minimal high-impact list below.

Always start here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%… I'm going to ignore obvious, easy-to-google topics such as the 1947-1949 war, but this next article introduces the major players en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Agr…

When I joined NVIDIA in 2016 I was frustrated to no end by how available game engine and server architecture was against generating synthetic data. You could hack it together 0-1 but scaling was inconceivable. We're now seeing the first economic usecases of cloud synthetic data.

https://twitter.com/80Level/status/1668913669055365122

All it took was making a new simulation engine modular enough to run on servers, make a renderer that could scale horizontally, use a file format with 0 commercial dependencies, a programming language that ML people used, connect every artist tool in the planet, and

Reading WHERE WIZARDS STAY UP LATE. Things I learned: goodreads.com/en/book/show/2… 1. Bolt, Beranek & Newman, an Acoustics engineering firm, won the contract to build the Interface Message Processor. ARPA chose the Honeywell 316 (left) - not for its IO (that was BBN's recommendation), but for its' ruggedized custom version (right) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface…

This piece by @YousefMunayyer captures the success of the right wing in Israel in the past 3 decades to turn a security stopgap into what currently appears as permanent annexation.

My notes below.

foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/12/isr… 1. Overall I agree on facts, and his observation of a cognitive dissonance that kept the Israeli public docile in the 2010s.

2. The article misses on the attempts to fight “Green Line Vision”. Early 90s-mid 00s, the Israeli majority was bullish on 2 states.

Rockets on Tel Aviv. tfw you manage to run a build before running for shelter