Communications of the ACM
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February 2020
From insideHPC
Efficient Model Selection for Deep Neural Networks on Massively Parallel Processing Databases
Frank McQuillan from Pivotal gave this talk at FOSDEM 2020. "In this session we will present an efficient way to train many deep learning model configurations at the same time with Greenplum, a free and open source massively
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From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Upgrades Debate AI Tool to Better Derive Evidence
Intriguing approach to mining information to support a goal directed conversation. A key aspect to making conversational systems more powerful. Note also the crowdsourcing integrated here to grade evidence. Noting that the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Healthcare Supply Chain
Useful and logical piece here. Good additional data at the link.
Five Tips for Optimizing Healthcare Supply Chains
By James Hickland, SCB Contributor
Healthcare supply chains tend to be high-margin, regulated businesses with strict…
From Schneier on Security
New Research on the Adtech Industry
The Norwegian Consumer Council has published an extensive report about how the adtech industry violates consumer privacy. At the same time, it is filing three legal complaints against six companies in this space. From a Twitter…
From Putting People First
The first of a thousand nights – ToNite project opening event
Presentation event on 14 February in Torino of the European project that aims to improve the liveability of the areas around the river Dora
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Smart Surface Improves WiFi
From the images , seems it may be difficult to install, but having a more universal surface could be quite useful for smart home and business installations.
MIT's 'Smart Surface' Could Improve Your Wi-Fi Signal Tenfold By Engadget…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Tricks of The Trade
Tricks are used in deep results. [ IAS ] Pierre Deligne is a famous number theorist who has won most of the top honors in mathematics. Among many achievements he developed Alexander Grothendieck’s idea of motives, a way to unify…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Competition in Retail Pricing Algorithms
Algorithms don't just come from the suggestion of AI methods, we worked with many, over many years. Here an attempt to infer retail pricing strategies from data, and implications. Note increased data from online. Also note…
From insideHPC
vScaler Launches AI Reference Architecture
A new AI reference architecture from vScaler describes how to simplify the configuration and management of software and storage in a cost-effective and easy to use environment. "vScaler – an optimized cloud platform built with…
From Putting People First
La prima di mille notti – Evento di inaugurazione progetto ToNite
Evento di presentazione del progetto europeo che intende migliorare la vivibilità delle aree attorno al fiume Dora
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Community Consortium at AAAS 2020
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to be a part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2020 Annual Meeting taking place February 12-16, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. This year the CCC…
From insideHPC
Reflecting on 10 Years of Active Archive
In this special guest feature, Molly Presley from the Active Archive Alliance reflects on how the unstructured data storage industry has evolved and the implications for active archives. "We now have software that allows us to…
From insideHPC
Call for Submissions: 8th Annual Altair Enlighten Awards
Today Altair announced that the 2020 Altair Enlighten Awards is now open for submissions. Presented jointly with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), the 8th Annual Enlighten Awards were created to acknowledge the world’s…
From insideHPC
Researchers transmit genome sequence using quantum cryptography
Tohoku University Medical Megabank Organisation (ToMMo) has demonstrated the world’s first quantum cryptography transmission of whole-genome sequence data in collaboration with Toshiba. The transmission exceeded several hundred…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Check Out The CS Ed Podcast
I first heard about the CS Ed Podcast back when I wrote on debugging. Amy Ko of the university of Washington talked about teaching debugging in a recent interview. I listened to that interview, which I recommend, but did notWelcome…
From The Noisy Channel
Thoughts on Promoted Search Results
I’m not a fan of ads. So you might expect me to be violently opposed to promoted search results — search engine results that are optimized for something other than the searcher’s utility.
Indeed, I am ambivalent about promoted…From The Eponymous Pickle
Behavioral Economics Driven by Digital Design
All design drives behavior, but how well does it do in achieving goals? Financial domain an obvious space where there are numbers and needs.
How Digital Design Drives User Behavior
Shlomo Benartzi, Saurabh Bhargava in the HBR
Decisions…
From Schneier on Security
Attacking Driverless Cars with Projected Images
Interesting research -- "Phantom Attacks Against Advanced Driving Assistance Systems": Abstract: The absence of deployed vehicular communication systems, which prevents the advanced driving assistance systems (ADASs) and autopilots…
From Putting People First
Imagining the next decade of behavioral science
The editor in chief of Behavioral Scientist asked 120 behavioral scientists around the world how they imagined the next decade of behavioral science: hopes and fears, predictions and warnings, open questions and big ideas.
From Putting People First
A new psych paper on why being extremely online makes you cynical
A new psychology study on how being disrespected leads to increasing cynicism has repercussions for online behavior
From Putting People First
Amy Orben: ‘To talk about smartphones affecting the brain is a slippery slope’
The psychologist Amy Orben talks about the widespread fear that smartphones are harmful to our wellbeing – and the difficulty of proving it
From insideHPC
International Advanced Research Workshop on HPC Returns to Cetraro June 29 – July 3
The International Advanced Research Workshop on HPC will return to Cetraro, Italy this summer with a focus on state of the art, emerging disruptive innovations and future scenarios. "The main aim of this workshop is to present…
From My Biased Coin
Current CS 124 Stats
This is as much personal recording for me (and perhaps of interest to Harvard people who read the blog). But also putting the numbers here for others to know for comparison.
I'm teaching the undergraduate algorithms and data
Current…
From insideHPC
New Algorithm to make AI less biased
A researcher from Queen’s University Belfast has developed an innovative new algorithm that will help make artificial intelligence (AI) fairer and less biased when processing data. "Employing AI techniques directly on raw data…
From insideHPC
Video: Data Parallel Deep Learning
Huihuo Zheng from Argonne National Laboratory gave this talk at ATPESC 2019. "The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) provides intensive, two weeks of training on the key skills, approaches, and tools…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Realism Considered
Not sure what to fully make of this, but recently have listened to some podcast conversations about how we were all in a Matrix-like simulation of sorts, and this seems to be in a similar vein. Posting it not because I think…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins for Urban Planning
Reminds me of the urban/city planning games like SimCity. And then also the Agent Models we used to construct simulations of very complex country spaces. The Digital Twin idea allows us to further specify the details of the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can an AI System Reinvent Physics?
The idea has been kicked around a bit. I see Gary Marcus is one of the authors. have much enjoyed his book on the current limitations of AI. See my review at the tag below. So the answer is if we include a rather narrow range…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Subliminal Graph Duals
Why don’t we have a good general notion of graph duality? Nat. Medal of Science source Hassler Whitney was an American mathematician. He contributed seminal ideas to both discrete and continuous mathematics and forged between…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at the Google Meena Chatbot
Just pointed to this, the claims are considerable. A very good conversational model would be a big step forward. Current assistants do poorly except for the simplest requests. I want assistants to be to not only consider context…