Communications of the ACM
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February 2023
From Schneier on Security
Malware Delivered through Google Search
Criminals using Google search ads to deliver malware isn’t new, but Ars Technica declared that the problem has become much worse recently.
The surge is coming from numerous malware families, including AuroraStealer, IcedID, Meta…From The Eponymous Pickle
Start with the Basics for Machine Learning
Pretraining and related topics.
Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics
A wave of research improves reinforcement learning algorithms by pre-training them as if they were human. By Max G Levy In QuantaMagazine…From Computational Complexity
After you are notified that an article is accepted...
After just one round of referees reports
(they send me the reports, I made the corrections, they were happy) I got email saying my paper on proving the primes are infinite FROM Schur's theorem in Ramsey was ACCEPTED. Yeah! Now…From insideHPC
HPC User Forum to Be Held at Princeton April 18-19, Spotlight on High- and Low-Growth HPC Segments
Feb. 6, 2023 — HPC iindustry analyst firm Hyperion Research announced that the HPC User Forum will hold a conference on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 18-19, at the Princeton, NJ, Marriott at Forrestal. The conference agenda can…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attacking Machine Learning Systems
Considerable piece in Schneier
Just now reading, suggested ...
Attacking Machine Learning Systems
The field of machine learning (ML) security—and corresponding adversarial ML—is rapidly advancing as researchers develop sophisticated…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC is Accepting Visioning Proposals from the Community
The mission of Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research that aligns with pressing national and global challenges. The CCC accepts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning, Forgetting and Reinforcement
Very interesting thing, came to our level of interest as we tried to analyze how consumers could 'forget' brands, and how that forgetting might be turned around. A kind of learning and forgetting cycle. Domain context is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Arms Race to AI
An arms race. Important point, Clouds bring the data, feed the results.
Big Tech companies use cloud computing arms to pursue alliances with AI groups in Arstechnca
Deals between Big Tech and "generative AI" startups raise competition…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Logistics
Worked in logistics for years, good to see more applications emerging
Tompkins Solutions Partners With Loko AI to Deliver Innovative Automation Technology to Logistics Operations Worldwide
Mon, January 30, 2023
The strategic…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI with a Modular Future
Intro to Whisper and its architecture, transcribing speech ...
Whispers of A.I.'s Modular Future, By The New Yorker, February 1, 2023 in CACM
What’s so unusual about Whisper is that OpenAI open-sourced it, releasing notOne…From insideHPC
Open Source or Enterprise-grade Containers? How SingularityPRO Adds Value for Mission-critical HPC Workloads
Sylabs developed SingularityPRO and Singularity Enterprise to deliver an array of important features and capabilities, along with enterprise-grade support, for organizations that need more stability, security, and support. Organizations…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Back From A Vacation
I am just back from a multi-week vacation on the cruise ship the Voyager. My dear wife—Kathryn Farley—and I were on the trip together with her brother. It was wonderful. It was relaxing and terrific. Well Not Exactly When I first…
From Schneier on Security
Attacking Machine Learning Systems
The field of machine learning (ML) security—and corresponding adversarial ML—is rapidly advancing as researchers develop sophisticated techniques to perturb, disrupt, or steal the ML model or data. It’s a heady time; because…
From Putting People First
Design for AI: What should people who design AI know?
Hal Wuertz, Adam Cutler and Milena Pribic of IBM Design defined a unique set of five skills for “AI Design.”
From The Eponymous Pickle
Four Themes Shaping the Future of the Stormy European Power Market
Euro Energy details in play ...
Four themes shaping the Future of the Stormy European Power Market
January 27, 2023 | Article in McKinsey
By Markus Schülde, Xavier Veillard and Alexander Weiss
Demand for electricity in Europe…From The Eponymous Pickle
Lucy 4 and Generative AI
Lucy 4 just brought to my attention in this realm.
AI News
Lucy 4 is moving ahead with generative AI for knowledge management
By James Bourne | February 3, 2023 | TechForge Media https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/
Categories:…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Artificial Intelligence Just Lost a Leader
Roger Schank just passed away. Roger was a top leader of AI. I overlapped with him for my time at Yale. In 1974, he became a professor of computer science and psychology at Yale University. In 1981, Schank became Chairman of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Yann LeCun: ChatGPT 'Not Particularly Innovative'
Surprising from LeCun, but do understand the point, The pieces of ChatGPT are well understood, and they have been made very broadly accessible, which makes it easy to test in many contexts. But can it be sufficiently tuned…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need an Artistic Frig?
Too much ART complexity for what needs to be a simple as possible device, would not buy one.
Samsung is announcing that its Bespoke line of custom appliance decorations will enable a form of generative AI art on its refrigerators…From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Birkin Bags on Trial in Hermès Case Testing IP Rights
Virtual property rights examined in NFT's examined. Assets , virtual versus actual.
Virtual Birkin Bags on Trial in Hermès Case Testing IP Rights
By The Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2023, in CACM
Image shown: A Laura Merkin…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Lego Computer Science: Truth Tables
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Truth tables are a simple way of reason about logic that were popularised by the 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. They provide a very clear way to explain what logical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Ships First Quantum Computer
China moves forward with Commercial Quantum Computing
China’s Origin Quantum Ships First Quantum Computer
By Matt Swayne in QuantumInsider ...
Origin Quantum, a Chinese quantum computer startup, sold its first device, making China…From The Eponymous Pickle
Escape from Model Land
True, caution about modeling is always needed. Worth a look, on order.
The limitations of mathematical modeling
A new book demonstrates the danger of the perfect model., by Mike JakemanJanuary 3, 2023
Escape from Model Land:by…From The Eponymous Pickle
Interpol Policing the Metaverse
Never seen this before, Interpol involved in this kind of activity. Has it been common? Note mentions they are creating their own VR space.
Interpol working out how to police the metaverse, In the BBC , By Marc Cieslak & Tom…From The Eponymous Pickle
Programmable Materials
Notable methods and applications
Changing shapes at the push of a button from Fraunhofer, Research News / January 02, 2023
Programmable materials are true shapeshifters. They can change their characteristics in a controlled and…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Jacquie Lawson: the multi-million pound greeting
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (from the cs4fn women are here special issue) There is real money to be made out there in the virtual world – if you are willing to put in the effort to develop appropriate skills…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Studying the Colossal Squid
A survey of giant squid science.
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 insideHPC
TSMC Offers Its FinFET Technology to Academia for IC Design Skills Development
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Feb. 3, 2023 – TSMC today announced the launch of its “TSMC University FinFET Program,” aimed at developing future IC design talent for the industry and empowering academic innovation. The program will…
From insideHPC
EuroHPC JU Renews Support of EuroCC and CASTIEL
Stuttgart, Germany — February 3, 2023 — With the start of a new three-year grant, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has renewed its support of EuroCC and CASTIEL. Together, this pair of projects has been supporting the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emerging AI Attached to Business Meetings and Process Management.
Some of the work we did in the enterprise a dozen plus years ago was to improve executive decision making based on visualized data. Especially useful when it needed to focus complex, expensive and difficult to obtain expertise…