Chapter 6 of the Daodejing focuses on the eternal, feminine aspect of the Dao, portraying it as the nurturing source of all existence, subtle yet omnipresent, and an inexhaustible wellspring of life and creation. Section 1 The spirit of the valley never dies. It is called the mysterious feminine. The…

Chapter 5 of the Daodejing challenges artificial human constructs of kindness and benevolence by highlighting how nature treats everyone and everything with equal indifference. Mirroring this cosmic impartiality, the sage shows no favouritism to anyone, transcending conventional moral judgments and emotional attachments. By likening the space between heaven and earth…

Chapter 4 of the Daodejing adopts a mystical tone, portraying the Dao as a profound, mysterious force that is the source and sustainer of all things. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing the role of the Dao in creating balance and harmony in the natural world, while also acknowledging its…

Google’s announcement of the availability of its new Cloud TPU v5p AI accelerator provides further evidence of the growing importance that leading cloud service providers are placing on developing their own custom silicon optimized for data center specific workloads. It follows the recent launches by Microsoft of the Azure Maia…

Chapter 3 of the Daodejing features the first mention of the character 民/mín, which means common people, folk, or masses. The Min were illiterate peasants and workers eking out a precarious existence in the fields and towns, who could at any moment be called upon to perform corvee labour on…

Given that many of the technical details of AMD Instinct MI300X GPU and MI300A APU had already been available beforehand, perhaps the biggest news from the yesterday’s launch event was that company executives increased their estimate of the total size of the data center AI processor market to $45 billion…

Chapter 3 of the Daodejing highlights how the practice of wuwei, or effortless action, by a sage ruler creates a stable and peaceful society in which everyone lives in harmony with each other and the surrounding environment. Section 1 Not honouring the worthy, Keeps the people from contending. Not prizing rare…

The December 6 launch of the highly anticipated AMD Instinct MI300X and MI3000A accelerators promises to add some much-needed competition for Nvidia in the AI GPU market. The MI300 series features a chiplet design and uses TSMC’s SoIC 3D inter-chip stacking and CoWoS advanced packaging technologies. The MI300X accelerator is…

Chapter 2 of the Daodejing features the first mention of the term 聖人/shéngrén, which I have translated as sage. Unlike Confucius, Laozi did not regard a sage as a shining beacon of morality. …