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Tested on the back of a car on a country road in New Zealand.
Construction tutorial at: https://opensourcelowtech.org/wind_turbine.html
This is the second test of the super low cost ($30), easy to construct (6 hours for two people) build of the Lenz2 vertical axis design, with the intention being of surviving sustained 100 km/h winds.
I didn’t log and graph the RPMs on this run as I did in the last, as we had an intermittent tail wind which kind of messed up the data.
I’m pretty happy with 105 km, the next step is attaching a car alternator or pump with a chain and getting some usable power off the thing.
Most AI systems are not one model doing everything. They are several components working together, and something has to keep them in sync.
Think of an insurance claim: one component extracts information from documents, another checks it against policy rules, another routes the case to the right team. Orchestration is the logic that decides which does what, in what order, and what gets passed between them.
Terms covered:
– Orchestration: the coordination layer across components
– Agent Orchestration: orchestration applied to autonomous agents handing off work
– Agent Runtime: the execution environment where agents actually operate
– Agent Harness: the framework connecting agents, tools, memory and instructions into one system
This is how AI goes from a single smart response to a coordinated system handling complex, multi-step work at scale.
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Tom Krcha shares his first impressions of GPT-6 Astra through a customizable logo tool, website designs with coordinated visual details, and adjustable photo shaders. He explores how the model helps designers develop ideas, build interactive prototypes, and bring a clearer creative direction to their engineering teams.
At PyTorch Conference 2026, Lu Fang, Research Scientist, and Ilina Mitra, Engineering Manager at Meta, will present a deep dive on building high-performance recommendation inference systems.
They will detail end-to-end production workflows, covering graph capture, model splitting, and serving across large-scale platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Attendees will gain technical insights into advanced optimizations for high TPS and low latency, as well as strategies for multi-accelerator support to handle diverse machine learning workloads at scale.
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Dr. Jochen Papenbrock (EMEA Head of Financial Technology at NVIDIA) breaks down Jensen Huang’s 5-Layer AI Factory stack and explores how open-source foundation models power production-grade financial applications. From Royal Bank of Canada’s multi-modal equity research agents to Revolut’s custom transaction foundation models, Jochen details the open microservices, agent toolkits, and guardrailing frameworks needed to scale trustworthy AI in regulated banking.
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🕒 Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction: Deconstructing Jensen’s 5-Layer AI Factory Stack
1:03 The AI-Powered Bank: Post-Training Customization & Intelligence Flywheels
2:32 RBC Case Study: Accelerated Multi-Modal Deep Research Workflows
3:49 Next Frontier: Training Transactional Foundation Models from Scratch
4:46 Revolut & Payments Industry Blueprint: Tabular Transformers in Action
5:35 The Flywheel Engine: NeMo Microservices & NeMo Guardrails
7:02 The Nemotron Model Family: High-Efficiency Reasoning and Agent Harnesses
8:24 Managing Agent Fleets: NeMo Agent Toolkit & Profiling Latency Gains
9:28 Deep Research Blueprints: Equity Analysis Architecture
10:54 NeMo OpenShell: Trust Boundaries and Policy Signing Gateways
12:20 Summary: TCO Optimization, Token Manufacturing, and GPU Acceleration
📊 The Problem: The High Friction of Siloed Financial AI Systems
Deploying point-solution AI models without a cohesive platform leads to massive hardware inefficiencies, high latency, and data privacy vulnerabilities. Financial institutions attempting to run agentic workflows across fragmented infrastructure struggle with high token costs, difficult regulatory compliance tracking, and an inability to continuously capture operational learnings back into their systems.
🏗️ The Solution: The 5-Layer AI Factory & NeMo Ecosystem
Jochen Papenbrock provides a full-stack blueprint to operationalize AI inside banks:
Custom Post-Training & Weights Control: Utilizing open-source foundation models (like Nemotron) where banks retain access to model weights, enabling internal domain tuning for high-precision tasks.
NeMo Microservices & Guardrails: Deploying open-source runtime checks, benchmarking tools, and GPU-accelerated policy enforcement layers to secure agent interactions.
Tabular Transaction Transformers: Moving beyond text-based LLMs to train custom transactional foundation models from scratch using tabular customer behavior data.
⚙️ Why This Matters for Financial Engineering
Open Shell Security Boundaries: Enforcing model-agnostic trust boundaries and policy signing gateways around every agent action in production.
Optimized Token TCO: Co-designing software microservices directly with underlying GPU hardware to maximize token generation throughput while minimizing energy and infrastructure costs.
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How can universities prepare students for a workforce shaped by AI, digital platforms, and enterprise technology?
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Chapters:
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This week in Linux, CERN makes some Linux news revolving around Debian, lawmakers are giving open source a way out of OS-level age verification … well in California, and Ubisoft found away to make Linux gaming news frustrating right at the same time as we hit a huge milestone for Linux gaming.
Plus, Audacity gets one of its biggest updates in years, OpenShot levels up in a big way, and Linux From Scratch has a brand new release for everyone who thinks installing Linux should require just a little more suffering.
All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let’s jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews!
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### Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:55 CERN is moving some systems to Debian
05:26 California Legislature Passes Open-Source Exemption From OS Age Verification
09:56 30,000 Games Playable on Linux but Ubisoft Is Intentionally Blocking For Honor
16:46 Audacity 4.0 Released With a Completely Rebuilt Interface
20:31 OpenShot 4.0 Brings Major Upgrades
22:47 The Ur Project – A Clear Linux Architect Is Building a New Linux Distro
26:20 Linux From Scratch 13.1 Released
29:57 Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Released
32:16 Update: NVIDIA confirmed they are buying Hugging Face
34:24 Support the show
35:39 Outro
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### Links:
– CERN is moving some systems to Debian
– https://ch2026.mini.debconf.org/talks/6-controlling-cerns-accelerators-with-debian/
– https://micronews.debian.org/2026/1788286274.html
– https://linux.web.cern.ch/debian/
– https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL
– https://itsfoss.com/news/cern-debian-push/
– California Legislature Passes Open-Source Exemption From OS Age Verification
– https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1856
– https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1856
– https://agelesslinux.org/
– https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/california-bill-ab-1856-passes-exempting-open-source-from-age-verification/
– https://www.phoronix.com/news/California-AB-1856-Passes
– https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Exempt-from-California-s-Age-Verification-Law
– 30,000 Games Playable on Linux but Ubisoft Is Intentionally Blocking For Honor
– https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steam-deck-steamos-hit-over-30-000-verified-playable-games/
– https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/for-honor/news-updates/4WKJhG6v6C9sbCOZkFZ6wG/ranked-faq
– https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ubisofts-for-honor-will-block-steamos-linux-on-september-10/
– Audacity 4.0 Released With a Completely Rebuilt Interface
– https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-4/
– https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/audacity-4-is-out-now/153852
– https://www.phoronix.com/news/Audacity-4.0-Released
– https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/audacity-4-released
– OpenShot 4.0 Brings Major Upgrades
– https://www.openshot.org/blog/2026/08/30/openshot-40-record-edit-color-like-never-before/
– https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenShot-4.0
– https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/openshot-4-0-release
– The Ur Project – A Clear Linux Architect Is Building a New Linux Distro
– https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7499950666367459328/
– https://ur.foo-projects.org/
– https://www.phoronix.com/news/The-Ur-Project
– https://itsfoss.com/news/the-ur-project-appears/
– Linux From Scratch 13.1 Released
– https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/news.html
– https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable-systemd/LFS-BOOK-13.1-NOCHUNKS.html
– https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/13.1-systemd/chapter01/changelog.html
– Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Released
– https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-26041-lts-point-release-download
– https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04.1-LTS-Released
– Update: NVIDIA confirmed they are buying Hugging Face
– https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/
– https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-buy-hugging-face-nearly-13-billion-big-bet-open-ai-models-2026-09-03/
– https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/nvidia-wraps-itself-129-bln-insurance-2026-09-03/
– Support the show
– https://tuxdigital.com/membership
– https://store.tuxdigital.com/
Bernie Sanders calls for a ban on superintelligence, proposing jail time for developers. But is ‘superintelligence’ even real? Catch the full episode of This Week in Tech: https://twit.tv/twit/1100 #AISafety #ArtificialIntelligence #Superintelligence #TechDebate #FutureTech #AIregulation #Innovation #TechNews
Slightly better version of the tracking video I posted earlier.
The wobble isn’t tracking error, due the to the spring I was using as a worm gear being a bit rusty I had to loosen the gearing to avoid friction, which meant the wind was able to move it around more.
Subsequent versions have had nicer springs, which has pretty much eliminated the wobble altogether.
Peter Gostev shares his first impressions of GPT-6 Astra, from building a 3D London that moves through different historical eras to improving an app with around 150,000 lines of code. He discusses more natural feedback, greater reliability, and taking on complex tasks with less supervision.
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