Nvidia's GPUs powered AlexNet in 2012 and never looked back: almost every frontier model trains on its H100 chips and CUDA stack. With GPUs as scarce as oil, Nvidia briefly became a $3-trillion company — the infrastructure king of the AI era.
Information designer David McCandless turns dry data into art — military budgets as bubbles, media bias as maps, a lifetime as a chart. He argues that visualising data lets information speak for itself, correcting our intuitions and revealing hidden patterns. The slides are the star of this beautiful talk.
Located in Oxford, England, this is the oldest university in the English-speaking world, with teaching dating back to 1096. Made up of 39 colleges, it has deep traditions in politics, philosophy, law and medicine, and has educated 30 British prime ministers and many Nobel laureates.
The Golden Gate Bridge appears and vanishes in the morning fog, and cable cars climb the steep, flower-lined Lombard Street. Silicon Valley lies just across the peninsula, where technology and hippie culture live together in this hilly city.
These granite lions once guarded the temple of Amun at Kawa in Nubia (modern Sudan), and date from around 680 BC. The male and female lion stand side by side, with a small figure of a defeated enemy beneath each jaw. Brought to England in 1838, they are a proud example of Kushite royal art.
To use violence or force to harm or damage someone or something
📖 原文例句
“Skip to content British Broadcasting Corporation Home News Sport Business Technology Health Culture Arts Travel Earth Audio Video Live Site search Home News Sport Business Technology Health Culture Arts Travel Earth Audio Video Live Weather Newsletters Saudi Arabia shuts key oil pipeline after drone attack launched from Iraq 11 hours ago ShareSave Add as preferred on Google Tiffanie Turnbull How …”
🇨🇳 沙特在遭到来自伊拉克的无人机袭击后关闭了重要输油管道。
搭配: attack on · heart attack
同义: assault · assail
反义: defend · protect
drone/droʊn/ n. / v.
嗡嗡声;低沉单调的声音
a continuous low humming sound
📖 原文例句
“Skip to content British Broadcasting Corporation Home News Sport Business Technology Health Culture Arts Travel Earth Audio Video Live Site search Home News Sport Business Technology Health Culture Arts Travel Earth Audio Video Live Weather Newsletters Saudi Arabia shuts key oil pipeline after drone attack launched from Iraq 11 hours ago ShareSave Add as preferred on Google Tiffanie Turnbull How …”
🇨🇳 沙特在遭到来自伊拉克的无人机袭击后关闭了重要输油管道。
搭配: drone on · military drone
同义: hum · buzz
burial/ˈberiəl/ n.
埋葬;葬礼
The act or ceremony of burying a dead body
📖 原文例句
“Skip to main contentSkip to navigation Close dialogue1/3Next imagePrevious imageToggle caption Print subscriptions Search jobs Sign in Eur Europe edition UK edition US edition Australia edition International edition The Guardian Back to homeThe Guardian News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show moreHide expanded menu News View all News World news UK news Climate crisis Ukraine Environment Science …”
🇨🇳 英国《卫报》新闻、观点、体育、文化、生活方式等内容。
词根 · -al …的
搭配: burial site · burial ground
同义: interment · entombment
反义: exhumation
anchor/ˈæŋkər/ n. / v.
锚;使固定,抛锚
a heavy object attached to a ship to moor it to the sea bottom
📖 原文例句
“Oyo’s appointed successor, the news anchor Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma, cast nine coffee berries into the grave at the Karambi Royal Tombs, marking the formal handover of power in the western Ugandan kingdom.”
词根 · -or 人/物
搭配: drop anchor · anchor the ship
同义: mooring · mainstay
military/ˈmɪlɪteri/ adj. / n.
军事的;军用的
Relating to or characteristic of soldiers, armed forces, or warfare
📖 原文例句
“Iraq said it had fired a military commander and launched an investigation after admitting the drone attack on its neighbour's East West pipeline had originated in one of its provinces bordering Iran.”
transport · import · report · airport · passport · sport
-vers-
转
reverse · version · verse · versus · versatile · movers
短语 Phrases
call for
呼吁,要求
📖 原文例句
“The archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu, called for unity.”
🇨🇳 乌干达圣公会大主教斯蒂芬·卡齐姆巴·穆加卢呼吁团结。
result in
导致,造成
📖 原文例句
“The foreign ministry said the attack resulted in some injuries and damage, which was still being assessed.”
🇨🇳 外交部表示,袭击造成了一些人员受伤和损失,目前仍在评估中。
due to
由于
📖 原文例句
“Last year, The PIE News exclusively revealed that London Metropolitan University has decided to withdraw from Bangladesh due to a high number of visa refusals.”
🇨🇳 去年,The PIE News独家披露,由于签证拒签率过高,伦敦都市大学决定退出孟加拉国。
according to
根据,按照
📖 原文例句
“The number of CAS issued is down 26.9% compared with the same point last year, while international student acceptances have fallen 22.1%, according to new data from student compliance platform Enroly.”