Communications of the ACM
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December 2022
From insideHPC
NTT Research and Tokyo Tech Announce Algorithm that Enhances Performance and Scope of Coherent Ising Machine
Sunnyvale, Calif. – December 20, 2022 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that scientists from the NTT Research Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab and Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have…
From Schneier on Security
Trojaned Windows Installer Targets Ukraine
Mandiant is reporting on a trojaned Windows installer that targets Ukrainian users. The installer was left on various torrent sites, presumably ensnaring people downloading pirated copies of the operating system:
Mandiant uncovered…From The Eponymous Pickle
Mars Has Year Round Energy
Surprising?
Mars has enough wind to power bases near the poles all year round
An analysis of the wind energy available on Mars finds that one well-placed turbine could enable a group of six people to live near the poles all year…From BLOG@CACM
How do Authors' Perceptions about their Papers Compare with Co-Authors' Perceptions and Peer-Review Decisions?
Does peer review change authors' perception of their own papers?
From BLOG@CACM
On the Evolution of Languages: Natural, Mathematical, and Computational
Comparing the evolution of natural languages, which are used by people all over the world, with two artificial languages: the language of mathematics and programing languages.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White Papers for Mid-cycle Robotics Roadmap Update due January 9, 2023
A reminder that white papers for a mid-cycle update to the Robotics Roadmap due January 9, 2023. Through support from the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the US National Robotics Roadmap was first created thirteen years…
From Geeking with Greg
Are ad-supported business models anti-consumer?
Advertising-supported businesses are harder to align with long-term customer satisfaction than subscription businesses, but they make more money if they do.
A common view is that ad-supported websites, in their drive for more…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts on Optimization of Code
Donald E. Knuth famously said "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." The important word there is “premature.” Optimization is not a bad thing. It isn’t always required though. The joke is that a programmer will spend…
From BLOG@CACM
Can Transaction Costs Explain Scale-Free Networks Born by Preferential Attachment?
Centralization leads to more efficient communication and control, which leads to lower transaction costs, which increases the useful work each node can spend on core non-communication tasks.
From insideHPC
Silicon Photonics and the Hunt for an HPC Bandwidth Bottleneck Breakthrough
“FLOPS are cheap, moving data is expensive.” In HPC circles this sentiment is heard often. There’s a growing sense that classical HPC systems and the advanced chips that power them are pushing up against their practical limits…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sears Hometown
Was informed of this some time ago and the name Sears struck me, in the day had consulted with Sears and often shopped there. Used to have the best prices. Knew of Sears Holdings, which at this time primarily was involved with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts on Remote Factory Supply Chain Work
Thought is not new, a step towards the Metaverse? Increases in security concerns an issue, it canbe done, but will it be? Most supply chains are remotely automated to some degree today.
Will the next industrial revolution…From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts on ChatGPT
Diving deeper into this, definitely worth a look.
As Google weighs in on ChatGPT, You.com enters the AI chat
By Sharon Goldman @sharongoldman, December 15, 2022 in VentureBeat
Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent…From Schneier on Security
How to Surrender to a Drone
The Ukrainian army has released an instructional video explaining how Russian soldiers should surrender to a drone:
“Seeing the drone in the field of view, make eye contact with it,” the video instructs. Soldiers should then…From Putting People First
[Book] Co-Cities
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A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services.
From Computational Complexity
Voter Suppression, Harvard Style
The following appeared on Harry Lewis's blog, here, hence it is written in his voice, though it is a co-authored. You'll see why later. I then have some comments on it.
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Voter Suppression…From The Eponymous Pickle
Europe, Germany, Gets first Exascale Super Computer
Europe get a big computing push. See here for more about the specs of Exascale computing.
EUROPE GETS AN EXASCALE SUPERCOMPUTER
Germany will host JUPITER, Europe’s entry into the exascale realm in Spectrum IEEE
The existing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Augmented Reality Talent Sources
Agree, this is not common, perhaps in the game space? Appreciate the lack of connective knowledge. We spent some time at this in two very different domains. (Defense and Packaged Goods)
The talent Needed to adopt mobile …From The Eponymous Pickle
Generative AI and Games
Intriguing approach .
The Generative AI Revolution in Games
Excerpt from James Gwertzman and Jack Soslow in a16z.com, Andreessen Horowitz
AI, machine & deep learning gaming, social, and new media Generative AI machine learning…From The Eponymous Pickle
New AI Speeds Computer Graphics by Up to 5x
New AI Speeds Computer Graphics by Up to 5x
By IEEE Spectrum, December 1, 2022
Examples of two-dimensional images rendered in three dimensions.
Nvidia Instant NeRF uses neural rendering to generate 3D visuals from 2D images.
On September…From The Eponymous Pickle
Trust in Online Content Moderation Depends on Moderator
See also previous note about this topic
Fairly obvious if the background of moderators is accurately provided.
By Cornell Chronicle, November 3, 2022
A human and an artificial intelligence providing content moderation.
Nearly 400…From The Eponymous Pickle
Fake News, Echo Chambers & Polarization: How Bad Is Social Media?
Sabrine Hossenfelder does a good job in covering a number of research papers on this important topic, and analyzes them. A fairly balanced look as I see it. Including references to a number of studies that have been made…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding with ChatGPT–Armstrong Numbers
Trying out ChatGPT seems to be all the rage these days in certain geek circles. I may even be late to the game but I tried a few things over the last couple of days.
I started with one of my favorite little projects. Armstrong…From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Tiny Robotics
Still hard, but advancing.
Minuscule Sensing Suite Is a Big Step Toward Robotic Gnats Tiny flying robots need even tinier flying sensors By Evan Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum
Picture: An accelerometer, camera, and microprocessor…From The Eponymous Pickle
Water Worlds?
The breadth of planet types is beginning to be seen ...
Scientists may have found the first water worlds?
Density suggests these "super-Earths" are more like giant, hot Europas.
JOHN TIMMER - 12/15/2022 in ArsTechnica
Two planets…From The Eponymous Pickle
RIP Passwords Again?
Security advances.
RIP Passwords? Passkey support rolls out to Chrome stable
With a huge list of caveats, initial Google passkey support is here.
RON AMADEO
Passkeys are here to (try to) kill the password. Following Google's beta…From The Eponymous Pickle
Hololens Use Example in Healthcare
An example that as recently described to me in more detail.
HoloLens Headsets Connect Patients, Metropolitan Doctors
By ABC News (Australia), October 31, 2022
HoloLens allows a nurse to pinpoint areas of concern to a specialist…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid in Concert
Squid is performing a concert in London in February.
If you don’t know what their music is like, try this or this or this.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven…From The Eponymous Pickle
Overture Maps to Emerge to Compete with Google
Nice to see Competitive Geographical mapping, been using Google for some time. Google has done a great job, but want to see yet more creative things. Open Source I see. Note the number of participants.
Linux, Amazon,Overture…From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Fails to Gain Traction in the Enterprise
More on Enterprise Blockchain, Maersk
Blockchain Fails to Gain Traction in the Enterprise
The Wall Street Journal
Isabelle Bousquette, December 15, 2022
Blockchain technology's widespread enterprise adoption has failed to materialize…