Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2018
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use Weight Regularization to Reduce Overfitting of Deep Learning Models
Overfitting is a classic problem with all models. It means you are finding the solution to a particular set of data, rather than a generalized problem. This should be found afterward in testing against new data, but can be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on Digital Strategy
Digital strategy: The four fights you have to win By Tanguy Catlin, Laura LaBerge, and Shannon Varney in McKinsey
Yesterday’s tentative approaches won’t deliver; you need absolute clarity about digital’s demands, galvanized…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Cities and Blockchains
Never thought of this particular kind of approach. Security of Why versus good database architectures? Intriguing thought.
10 Ways Blockchain Is Revolutionizing Smart Cities
By Sergio. (Excerpt)
Blockchain will transform…
From insideHPC
Video: China’s Tsinhua University Takes the Student Cluster Competition
In this video from CGTN, China's Tsinghua University takes the Student Cluster Competition at the SC18 conference in Dallas. The win was the final step in a Triple Crown for the team, as they won similar competitions in Asia
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From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (November 18th 2018)
It seems that reducing your carbohydrate (sugar) intake might be a good way to lose weight: lowering dietary carbohydrate increased energy expenditure during weight loss maintenance. This metabolic effect may improve the success…
From Schneier on Security
Israeli Surveillance Gear
The Israeli Defense Force mounted a botched raid in Gaza. They were attempting to install surveillance gear, which they ended up leaving behind. (There are photos -- scroll past the video.) Israeli media is claiming that the…
From Putting People First
Consumer behaviour and the circular economy
Report: Behavioural Study on Consumers’ Engagement in the Circular Economy London Economics for the European Commission – Consumers Health and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) 23 October 2018, 202 pages The objective of this study…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chemical Reaction Predictions using AI
Missed this, well worth a look
Talk by Teodoro Laino (Technical)
"Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Predictions: IBM RXN for Chemistry” from IBM ... Exploring the nearly endless chemical space Chem. Sci., 2018…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mindmap for Managers about Data Science
Nicely done, Though would have liked more connection from the map to details. But worth a scan.
Intro to Data Science for Managers [Mindmap] Posted by Igor Bobriakov in DSC
Data science has become an integral part of many modern…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Crime
Course we have long been able to predict likelihood, its very close, but when does it flip over to making a decision, what are the broader implications of that decision and what is the risk of that decision?
Can we predict when…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Runs Down the TOP500 Fastest Supercomputers
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back on the highlights of SC18 and the newest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
Buddy Bland shows off Summit, the world’s fastest supercomputer at ORNL. "The latest…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Lead Systems Engineer at Defense Analyses (IDA) in San Diego
The Institute of Defense Analyses (IDA) in La Jolla is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We are seeking a Lead Systems Engineer, who with minimal supervision, envisions, designs, administers, and maintains…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Cars will Upend Transportation
A podcast and transcript at the big question: What will our personal transportation look like in a decade or less?
Podcast:
How Autonomous Vehicles Will Upend Transportation
Nov 14, 2018 Books Business Radio Law and Public Policy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Transformation
And I had just posted about Predictive maintenance. Here elevator maker Thyssenkrupp AG talks about the technology and how it links to their own experience in digital transformation. See my previous notes on Thyssenkrupp
An…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Simple table size estimates and 128-bit numbers (Java Edition)
Suppose that you are given a table. You know the number of rows, as well as how many distinct value each column has. For example, you know that there are two genders (in this particular table). Maybe there are 73 distinct age…
From Putting People First
[Book] Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting The Rules Of Work
Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting The Rules Of Work by Alex Rosenblat University of California Press October 2018, 296 pages Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American…
From Putting People First
HSBC study on trust in technology
HSBC bank commissioned Populus and Ipsos MORI to conduct an independent study of more than 12,000 people in 11 countries into global technology perceptions and habits. Our Trust in Technology research (pdf report) explores public…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Sculptures
Pretty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
From Schneier on Security
Mailing Tech Support a Bomb
I understand his frustration, but this is extreme: When police asked Cryptopay what could have motivated Salonen to send the company a pipe bomb or, rather, two pipe bombs, which is what investigators found when they picked…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nissan to invite Google onto Car Dashboards
A step forward on automotive driver/occupant interaction. The rolling channel. Closer than this, I think. How will driverless vehicles effect/change this?
Nissan will invite Google into its cars’ dashboards starting in 2021…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can AI Fix Disaster Relief?
Visuals are interesting here in the linked article below. Another example of where there needs to be strong, real-time collaboration with human interactions.
Disaster Relief Is Dangerously Broken. Can AI Fix It?
By Katharine
The…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA’s New Turing T4 GPU is going gangbusters in the Cloud Space
Two months after its introduction, the NVIDIA T4 GPU is featured in 57 separate server designs from the world’s leading computer makers. It is also available in the cloud, with the first availability of the T4 for Google Cloud…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Which Data Science Project?
We dealt with exactly this, with AI projects and with and any new tech projects. Below article very nicely put piece worth reading. Even more straight forwardly put: Start simply, where you have data, know your goals,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Health Ecosystems in Japan
We spent sometime trying to understand Japan's needs, and noted their particular emphasis on eldercare solutions. Impressive work in robotic solutions:
Building digital ecosystems in Japan From McKinsey.
Two Merck Healthcare
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From insideHPC
Bitfusion Enables InfiniBand-Attached GPUs on Any VM
"With Bitfusion along with Mellanox and VMWare, IT can now offer an ability to mix bare metal and virtual machine environments, such that GPUs in any configuration can be attached to any virtual machine in the organization, enabling…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL- EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Society – Supported Jointly with the Partnership on AI
The following is a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) from James Kurose, Assistant Director for Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), and Arthur Lupia, Assistant Director for Directorate for Social, Behavioral…
From insideHPC
Intel Offers Sneak Peek at Cascade Lake Advanced Performance edition for HPC
In this video from SC18 in Dallas, Thor Sewell from Intel describes the company's pending Cascade Lake Advanced Performance chip. "This next-gen platform doubles the cores per socket from an Intel system by joining a number of…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Testing Computer Science Knowledge Is Hard
How to evaluate computer science students is always a tough question. It’s everywhere that computer science is taught. There is something of an issue with a course offered in the United Kingdom f or example. Exams ‘useless’ for…
From Schneier on Security
Hidden Cameras in Streetlights
Both the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights. According to government procurement data, the DEA has paid a Houston, Texas company…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Connected Consumer Products
A topic we often worked on in in the innovation center, excellent infographic overview when connected
to the smart city. Smart at all sorts of levels. (full clickable graphic at the link)
Reimagining Smart Cities with the Arrival…