Communications of the ACM
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March 2021
From Computational Complexity
I didn't understand The Art Market before the NFT sale, and I understand it less now
(This post is a sequel to my post from Feb 13, 2007 which you can find here. While the gap from 2007 until 2021 seems large, its not as long as the gap between Knuth Vol 3 and Knuth Vol 4, nor as long as the gap between Stan…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Value of Pi
A post for Pi Day—but should it be a different day? Unilad story source Emma Haruka Iwao set an official Guinness world record in 2019 by calculating pi to 31,415,926,535,897 digits. If she had calculated it to 62,831,853,071…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Value of Pi
A post for Pi Day—but should it be a different day? Unilad story source Emma Haruka Iwao set an official Guinness world record in 2019 by calculating pi to 31,415,926,535,897 digits. If she had calculated it to 62,831,853,071…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automation of Accounting
Because large parts of accounting is less creative than other aspects of business, its automation is more likely. Here emphasizing RPA.
The Robots Are Coming for Phil in Accounting
The New York Times, Kevin Roose, March 6, 2021…From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Sourcing Bots
Sourcing automated. Bots an indication of intelligence introduced to provide additional value.
Smart Sourcing Bots Are Taking On Air Freight Procurement
March 11, 2021, Alan Holland, SCB Contributor
The unprecedented scale of…From The Eponymous Pickle
More Singapore Law Boosting Sensors
Its inevitable that policing will be advanced by cameras, sensors, automation.
Singapore Eyes More Cameras, Technology to Boost Law Enforcement By ZDNet
Singapore intends to utilize more cameras and technology to support law enforcement…From The Eponymous Pickle
New FAA Drone Rules Emerging
New drone rules coming out, somewhat haphazardly. As one might expect, mostly changing commercial rules. My son is a certified part-time commercial drone pilot, will get his opinion.
FAA Announces Effective Dates for Final…From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering the Post-Cookie Marketing World
Have mentioned some other tracking methods being experimented with that could lead to dangerous erosion of Web privacy. See for example: 'CNAME Collusion' tag link below.
Preparing for a post-cookie World: Five Considerations…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cameras Hacked
More events and threats to doing business emerging. Note the links to key infrastructure providers.
Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals By Bloomberg March 10, 2021
A group of hackers…From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Recorded Future Threat Webinar
Reported yesterday, have often mentioned Recorded Future now working with IBM on threat management here. See upcoming Webinar, mentioned at the link.
IBM Security and Recorded Future: Better Together by Ellen Wilson
Today,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Learnability: Brainome
Was just introduced to a new company: Brainome An example problem indicating breadth and possibilities :
" ... We've been working with a genomics research group to analyze the cancer atlas which aggregates gene expression…From The Eponymous Pickle
Reducing Complexity of Big Data
Feature detection and extraction to simplify data use in complex data. Intriguing approach is worth a look, Simplifying is always a good idea if it provides insight.
Algorithm Could Reduce Complexity of Big Data
Texas A&M Engineering…From Putting People First
The State of User Research 2021
The US based user research recruiting platform "User Interviews" has just published its State of User Research 2021 report, based on responses from 525 people who do research as at least part of their job..
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Hilbert’s Tenth Again
I think it’s never too late to start anything, except maybe being a ballerina. — Wendy Liebman Marta Sved was a Hungarian mathematician who in 1930 moved to Down Under and became a teacher of math at the University of Adelaide…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Hilbert’s Tenth Again
I think it’s never too late to start anything, except maybe being a ballerina. — Wendy Liebman Mujeres Con Ciencia source Marta Sved was a Hungarian mathematician who in 1930 moved to Down Under and became a teacher of math at…
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Public Quantum Company
Not premature still lots to do in understanding the potential, needs and directing research, but there is lots also happening with larger players.
Quantum computing takes important step with first public company
Ashley Montanaro…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair
On March 8th we celebrated International Women’s Day. In some countries, the entire month of March is designated as Women’s History Month.
From insideHPC
UK Denies Atos Lawsuit in Microsoft’s $1.2B Weather Supercomputer Contact Win
In the aftermath of Microsoft’s win of a mammoth, £854 million ($1.2 billion) weather supercomputing contract from the British government, the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is fending off a…
From insideHPC
XSEDE-Allocated Supercomputers, Comet and Stampede2, Accelerate Alzheimer’s Research
By Kimberly Mann Bruch, San Diego Supercomputer Center Communications Since 2009, Daniel Tward and his collaborators have analyzed more than 47,000 images of human brains via MRI Cloud — a gateway created to collect and share…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Double Masking has Limited Benefits, Says Supercomputer Model
Am not in a place to evaluate this analysis, or seen a validation, but surprised we have not seen similar analytics regarding transmission of CoronaVirus.
Double-Masking Benefits Are Limited, Japan Supercomputer Finds By Bloomberg…From The Eponymous Pickle
MS Exchange Server, Patched Late
Why did it take so long for Microsoft to respond? I have been getting updates, including I assume patches, from Microsoft once a week since the beginning of the year. ' Zero day', means there were existing potentiallyMicrosoft…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Agricultural Drone Use
New uses continuing to emerge:
Drones vs. Hungry Moths: Dutch Use Tech to Protect Crops By Associated Press March 10, 2021
A moth-killing drone hovers over plants in a greenhouse.
New palm-sized drones seek and destroy moths that…From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC: Cerebras AI Computing at EPCC and HPE’s Chippewa Falls Remodel
We have a full crew for this wide-ranging episode of RFHPC. We start with a discussion of the new Cerebras and HPE-based supercomputer slated for the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center in, well, Edinburgh. We talk some feeds…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Time tothink Your Global Logistics
Some thoughts about changes Post Pandemic adjustments in supply chains.
It’s Time to Rethink Your Global Logistics
by Willy C. Shih and Adrien Foucault in the HBR
Over the last three decades, companies have established wide-ranging…From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Learning and Entropy
Have recently been looking at Reinforcement Learning methods. And this as a form of simulation-optimization for 'Twin' style models that need training. Berkeley BAIR makes some points about entropy (disorder) in a recent…
From insideHPC
Nominations Open for SC Test of Time Outstanding HPC Paper Award
Nominations for the SC Conference’s annual Test of Time Award (ToTA), given for “an outstanding paper that has deeply influenced the HPC discipline,” open today, March 12, and close Monday, March 15. Nominations can be submitted…
From Computational Complexity
Cake Cutting in Overtime
There's a new proposal out of Baltimore for a new way to handle overtime in National Football League games. This post is about American Football, soccer has its own overtime issues we won't talk about here.
Instead of randomly…From insideHPC
TotalCAE Achieves AWS High Performance Computing Competency Status
PLYMOUTH, Michigan, March 4, 2021 – TotalCAE, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency status. This designation recognizes that TotalCAE has demonstrated deep …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hw to Get Started in Quantum Computing
Pointers to lots of resources and simulators.
How to Get Started in Quantum Computing By Nature March 3, 2021
For those who want to see what the fuss is about, a growing collection of online tutorials, programming languages,…