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🌌 A supercomputer has created the largest universe simulation.

📊 Lesson of the Week: Best practices to ensure and maintain high-quality, reliable data.

💰 Amazon pours $4B more into Anthropic, making AWS its primary AI training platform to rival Microsoft-OpenAI.

💬 Weekly Tech Tip: Schedule your text messages on iPhone.

📕 Book of the Week: “How We Learn” by Stanislas Dehaene.

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Largest Replicated Universe Simulation

In a groundbreaking achievement, researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have created the largest universe simulation ever, using the Frontier supercomputer to simultaneously model both atomic and dark matter across cosmic scales.

The simulation, which ran on approximately 9,000 compute nodes and performed nearly 300 times faster than previous attempts, sets a new standard for cosmological hydrodynamics and will help scientists match observational data from large telescope surveys with theoretical models.

Lesson of the Week

This week's lesson from "Evaluating Data Quality" covers best practices for ensuring reliable data management, including methods to measure, address, and maintain high data quality while avoiding common pitfalls like duplication, inconsistency, and outdated information.

The results of a marketing campaign were recorded in the table shown.

Question of the Week:

You conclude that the field most likely to be impacted by the timeliness of the data is:

Select one

A) Income

B) First_Purchase

C) Last_Purchase

D) ID

See if you’re right–the answer is at the bottom!

AWS & Anthropic vs. OpenAI-MS & Nvidia

Amazon has invested an additional $4 billion in Anthropic (total $8 billion) while making AWS Anthropic's primary cloud platform and pushing its custom Trainium chips, in what appears to be a strategic move to challenge both Microsoft-OpenAI's dominance and reduce reliance on Nvidia's GPUs.

This comes at a critical time, as Nvidia has been reported to control 97.7% of the pure GPU chip market and has seen explosive revenue growth from $7.1 billion to $22.1 billion between Q1 and Q4 2024, largely driven by AI workloads.

The partnership highlights the growing competition in AI infrastructure, where cloud providers are developing their own chips to reduce dependence on Nvidia, even as analysts predict Nvidia's dominance will continue for at least the next five years.

Weekly Tech Tip

Schedule Your Text Messages on iPhone

Don’t want to forget to send a text, but also not wanting to send them at midnight? iOS 18 introduces "Send Later" in Messages, allowing users to schedule text messages for a future date and time.

1. Open the “Messages” app
2. Select a Conversation
3. Tap the + icon next to the text input field.
4. Choose "Send Later" Select Send Later (under "More" if not immediately visible).
5. Set Date and Time for the text (up to two weeks in advance).
6. Tap the text box to return to the keyboard, type your message, and press the send button.
7. Verify or Edit Scheduled Message

Book of the Week

In “How We Learn,” neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene explores the fascinating intersection of neurobiology, computer science, and cognitive psychology to reveal how our brains acquire and retain knowledge.

Through cutting-edge research, he illuminates the unique learning algorithms that make human cognition so remarkably adaptable, while offering practical insights for optimizing learning at any age.

Dehaene bridges the gap between the brain's biological foundations and its extraordinary ability to reprogram itself.

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Lesson of the Week Answer:

C) Last_Purchase