Communications of the ACM
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March 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consider AI Worst Case
AI’s 6 Worst-Case Scenarios. Who needs Terminators when you have precision clickbait and ultra-deepfakes? By NATASHA BAJEMA in IEEE Expert
HOLLYWOOD’S WORST-CASE scenario involving artificial intelligence (AI) is familiarHowever…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Brain Rotates Memories
How might we utilize this this? Beyond just tagging memories with a time stamp?
The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations By Jordana Cepelewicz, Senior Writer, Quanta Magazine
Some populations of neurons simultaneously…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Writing out large arrays in Go: binary.Write is inefficient for large arrays
Programmers often need to write data structures to disk or to networks. The data structure then needs to be interpreted as a sequence of bytes. Regarding integer values, most computer systems adopt “little endian” encoding whereas…
From insideHPC
Truman and Hruby 2022 Fellows at Sandia Explore Their Possibilities
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Postdoctoral researchers who are designated Truman and Hruby fellows experience Sandia National Laboratories differently from their peers. Appointees to the prestigious fellowships are given the latitude to…
From insideHPC
DOE: $50M for Fusion Energy Research Opportunities
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide up to $50 million to support U.S. scientists conducting experimental research in fusion energy science at tokamak and spherical tokamak facilities in the U.S. and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Dogs Join NY Fire Department
I recall they were rejected for any police work, but fighting fires is OK. It seems the same 'Spot' style systems from Boston Dynamics. Would like to see the kinds of processes being automated. Reading up on it.
See ‘Spot…From The Eponymous Pickle
Algae as Energy Source
Had heard of this some time ago, is it reasonably useful?
AI Predicts Algae Potential as Alternative Energy Source
By AgriLife Today, March 17, 2022
Scientists at Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the U.S. Department of Energy's…From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Flexible Drone Warefare
It has been been mentioned in a number of press sources that so-called 'Switchblade' drones are now being used and provided by the US, and are being used in the Ukraine. These are small, single use, anti-armor, readily carry…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and the Topological Qubit
Msoft Says it will arrive, and it will even scale.
Microsoft announces progress on a completely new type of qubit
Topological qubits don't exist yet, but the company is convinced they'll scale.
JOHN TIMMER - 3/15/2022, In Arstechnica…From insideHPC
Quantum Announces Smart Video Surveillance Servers
SAN JOSE, March 15, 2022 — Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO), the leader in solutions for video and unstructured data, today announced the Unified Surveillance Platform (USP), a resilient, flexible, and secure software platform…
From insideHPC
NEC: First Unit Cell for Scaling up to a Fully-connected Quantum Annealing Architecture
Tokyo, March 17, 2022 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has developed the world’s first LHZ scheme (*1) unit cell facilitating scaling up to a fully-connected architecture using superconducting parametron (*2) quantum bits (qubits)…
From insideHPC
AlmaLinux OS Foundation Announces New Members
PALO ALTO, Calif. — March 17, 2022 — AlmaLinux OS Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the community owned and governed open source CentOS replacement AlmaLinux, today announced four new members have joined. Sine Nomine Associates…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Catching Falling Satellites with Robots
Good to see such 'mundane', garbage collection type problems being addressed as we continue to fill our local area of space.
By IEEE Spectrum, March 16, 2022
The U.S.-German TumbleDock/ROAM projectResearchers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking with GPU Fingerprinting
A challenge for privacy online
GPU Fingerprinting Can Be Used to Track You Online By Tom's Hardware February 2, 2022
An international team of researchers from France, Israel and Australia have developed a new technique that…From The Eponymous Pickle
Drawback of Machine Learning and Self-Driving Cars
Good piece by Lance Eliot.
Strict Literal Interpretation Is A Hardheaded Drawback Of Machine Learning And Likewise Bad For AI Self-Driving Cars
Lance Eliot Contributor in Fortune.
ON Transportation
Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned…From Computational Complexity
The War and Math
During the early parts of the cold war of the 20th century, we saw two almost independent developments of computational complexity, in the west and in the then USSR. There was little communication between the two groups, andJuris…
From The Noisy Channel
Content Annotation
Content understanding requires both holistic and reductionist approaches, just like query understanding. The previous post focused on content classification as a holistic approach. This post explores content annotation as a reductionist…
From insideHPC
Edge. Retail AI. Digital Twinning. Oh My!
[SPONSORED POST] Attending NVIDIA’s GTC? While you’re there, join Lenovo - Diamond sponsor - to connect, learn, and get inspired by some of the world’s brightest minds. It all comes together online March 21-24. You’ll hear about…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Meta Wishes
When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. Neil L. is a leprechaun. He has been visiting me or Ken once every…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Forthcoming Draft EU Rules About AI
Excerpt of EU regulation being considered, now in draft.
The EU’s AI rules will likely take over a year to be agreed By Ryan Daws | February 17, 2022 in AI News
Rules governing the use of artificial intelligence across the EU…From BLOG@CACM
Students Speak to Ethical Issues
What are the concerns of students after study of computer ethics?
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on No-Code
Yes will continue to emerge, and decrease security
No-Code' Brings the Power of AI to the Masses
The New York Times,Craig S. Smith, March 15, 2022
"Citizen developers" are tapping products that allow anyone to use artificial intelligence…From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Connected Car Has Your Data
What can it do with it? Here some implications for now and the future.
Your connected car knows you. The tussle for that data's hitting high gear
By Nick Carey in Reuters
LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - Where you go. What you pass…From insideHPC
Why HPC Clusters Require Ultra-Low Latency Network Monitoring
High performance computing (HPC) requires an extremely high-powered network with ultra-low latency to move large files between HPC nodes quickly. IT and network operations (NetOps) teams in industries such as financial service…
From insideHPC
DPCM Capital Files Statement for Proposed Business Combination with D-Wave
MIAMI, PALO ALTO and BURNABY, British Columbia — DPCM Capital, Inc. (NYSE: XPOA), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company (“DPCM Capital”), today announced the filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Brain With a Single Neuron?
Novel idea here, workable?
Artificial Brain with a Single Neuron
A striking mathematical idea could solve two hardware challenges in artificial intelligence (AI)
Researchers at Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) have succeeded…From The Eponymous Pickle
IT Crisis from Lack of Cloud
Need for Storage is critical it seems.
Russia faces IT crisis with just two months of data storage left in Bleeping Computer.
By Bill Toulas
Russia faces a critical IT storage crisis after Western cloud providers pulled outThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
Policing Privacy
Building in some expertise and ongoing responsibility.
How California Is Building the Nation's First Privacy Police
By The New York Times, March 15, 2022
Ashkan Soltani, the head of California's new online privacy regulator, needed…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Changing Chip Design
Seeking better chips.
Q&A: Here’s How AI Will Change Chip Design Artificial intelligence’s promise and potential for the semiconductor industry By RINA DIANE CABALLAR08 FEB 2022 in IEEE Spectrum
The end of Moore’s Law is looming…From Putting People First
Haptics devices cannot replicate physical contact
Haptics devices probably won’t ever live up to their promise to replicate physical contact, writes David Parisi (associate professor, College of Charleston) in the online Real Life magazine.