Friday, November 19

All day I did this and that and hard to say what exactly I have done. I figured out how to create a VM with 40 gig GPU in GCP – spend an hour reading the docs, then it turned out it was a click away on another tab. I thought maybe I should just buy this GPU, then looked at Amazon: it's priced $12K. Aw, okay, not today. The thing is called Nvidia A100. 

It finally got cold outside. 37ºF / 3ºC, but it felt freezing. Still sunny though; crisp air. I love it. I put on my winter jacket. It's puffy; I felt unusually voluminous in it. I put on my winter boots; I felt too tall in it. This usual discomfort of inter-seasonal clothing change. Wearing all the same last year's colors: all dark, black jeans, not much changed from last year; sad. At last, I put on a yellow hat. The hat is new. Yay. I went to the subway and didn't notice anything or anyone remarkable.

House of the Dragon in the evening. The king is still alive. B dislikes him; I find it funny that he always almost dies and never does, hates his job as a king, but sees it as his duty despite being not smart enough for the surrounding him politics. 

In the evening, reading Bsheer's "A Counter-Revolution State". She's taking an interesting approach to explaining the state formation of Saudi Arabia in the 1950-60s: by looking at the leftist movements in the country and at how they were suppressed and shutdown by the monarchy with support of first British and later Americans. From this history, I can see how Saudis must be surprised that killing Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 was not okay with Americans this time.