The Jim Crow Era | A Stain on America’s Past (The Great Courses)

An African American named Homer Plessy predated Rosa Parks’ famous refusal to comply with racist transportation laws by more than 60 years. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction for sitting in a whites-only train car in Plessy v. Ferguson, leading to the Jim Crow era. Discover hard history and how “separate but equal” was far …

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What’s actually inside a $100 billion AI data center? (Dr. Waku)

OpenAI and Microsoft are apparently planning to build a $100 billion data center codenamed Stargate. We discuss how this compares to existing data centers and other planned investments into AI centric infrastructure. They don’t seem to have enough time to design special purpose networking and other hardware, but it is a massive investment compared to …

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