Communications of the ACM
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March 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fashion and Generative AI
Did some work in fashion as it related to clothing care, possible connection here.
Generative AI: Unlocking the future of fashion McKinsey
March 8, 2023 | Article
By Holger Harreis, Theodora Koullias, Roger Roberts , and Kimberly…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Barbara Liskov: Byzantine birthdays
You may not think of computers as argumentative, but some of them do bicker quite a lot, and for good reason. They often need to, including to get things right and keep us safe. Barbara Liskov's contributions to this fiendishly…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 11 2023)
In 1500, China was the largest economy in the world, followed by India and France. The USA did not exist yet. In 1700, 4% of human beings lived in France. In the mid 18 century, there are 25 inhabitants in France and 5.5 in England…
From The Eponymous Pickle
I believe chatbots understand part of what they say. Let me explain.
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder does a good job in comparing the understanding exhibited by chatbot with our understanding of quantum Mechanics, along the way describes the 'Chinese Room' model used in early AI thoughts. Once…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Programming
Will the newest AI automate much/all programming work?
CACMmag (@Communications of the ACM) Tweeted:
The embrace of #ArtificialIntelligence #tools such as #ChatGPT have made it easier than ever to outsource #programming work,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Bain & Company and AI
Investigating how key consultants are positioning themselves regarding AI methods. Here is a start.
AI-based technologies and applications, like voice recognition, computer vision and process optimizations…From The Eponymous Pickle
Back to Synthetic Data
Have not talked this for sometime, still interesting.
What is Synthetic Data? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Sharing data can often enable compelling applications and analytics. However, more often than not, valuable datasetsA…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Trimming spaces from strings faster with SVE on an Amazon Graviton 3 processor
Programmers sometimes need to trim, or remove, characters, such as spaces from strings. It might be a surprising expensive task. In C, the following function is efficient: size_t trimspaces(const char *s, size_t len, char *out)…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Chinese Squid Fishing in the Southeast Pacific
Chinese squid fishing boats are overwhelming Ecuador and Peru.
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
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation Elects Project Boards for Rocky Linux, Peridot
RENO, Nev.—March 10, 2023—The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) today announced the inaugural projects and project boards that will initiate the work of the foundation. The officially hosted projects—Rocky Linux and…
From insideHPC
UK Looks to Join Exascale Club of Nations
The U.K.’s growing supercomputing infrastructure may include exascale-class HPC within a few years. A Bloomberg report states that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government is considering a plan to budget £800 for a new leadership…
From Schneier on Security
Elephant Hackers
An elephant uses its right-of-way privileges to stop sugar-cane trucks and grab food.
From The Eponymous Pickle
COVID Modelers Expand their Missions
COVID Modelers Expand their Missions, By Gregory Goth
Commissioned by CACM Staff,March 9, 2023
Last August, the University of Texas COVID-19 Model Consortium posted its model of the expected number of COVID-19 cases that wouldIn…From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatGPT: The Google Killer, Distributed Training with PyTorch and Azure ML, and Many Models Batch Training
Discovered in Medium, for exploration:
Distributed Training with PyTorch and Azure ML
Many Models Batch Training at Scale…From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaborative Robots and their Security
Collaboration among robots and further with humans, will become crucial
Fending off Cyberattacks on Collaborative Robots (CoBots)
By David Geer, Commissioned by CACM Staff, February 28, 2023
Collaborative…From insideHPC
TSMC February 2023 Revenue Up 11% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Mar. 10, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for February 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for February 2023 was approximately NT$163.17 billion, a decrease of 18…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers Develop Tool to Identify Existing Drugs to Use in Future Outbreak
More Sim advances link existing drugs to future outbreaks.
Researchers Develop Tool to Identify Existing Drugs to Use in Future Outbreak
By New York University, March 9, 2023
“Drug repurposing strategies provide an attractive and…From The Eponymous Pickle
How Generative AI Could Lower Healthcare Costs, Speed Up Drug Development
Interesting App in this space, makes much sense. Looking forward to prices going down.
How Generative AI Could Lower Healthcare Costs, Speed Up Drug Development
By ZDNet, March 3, 2023
Absci executives are confident generativeWhen…From The Eponymous Pickle
First General Purpose Humanoid Robot
Precise definition somewhat fluid.
Figure Promises First General Purpose Humanoid Robot The startup’s team includes robotics veterans from IHMC, Boston Dynamics, and Tesla Evan Ackerman
Today, a robotics startup called Figure…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Marissa Mayer: Lemons Linking 41 Shades of Blue – A/B Testing
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Google, one of the most powerful companies in the world, is famous for being founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, but a key person, the 20th person employed, was engineer, programmer…
From Putting People First
UNDP Guide to Deep Listening
This UNDP guide provides step-by-step guidance, practical tools, and hands-on experiences on the process of Deep Listening, including systems mapping, rapid ethnographic research, sensemaking and analysis.
From Schneier on Security
Another Malware with Persistence
Here’s a piece of Chinese malware that infects SonicWall security appliances and survives firmware updates.
On Thursday, security firm Mandiant published a report that said threat actors with a suspected nexus to China were …From The Eponymous Pickle
Dart Could Save the Earth from Something Inevitable
Here is a really big deal. Such hits are to be expected, catastrophic, and we can now often divert them.
NASA: DART Mission Proves Kinetic Impact Can Save Earth From Incoming Asteroids
By Ryan Whitwam on March 3, 2023 in Extremetech…From insideHPC
DOE: $120M Funding Opportunity for Fusion Energy Research
March 9, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy has announced a $120 million funding opportunity for fusion energy research. The deadline for pre-applications is Friday, April 7, 2023 at 5 pm ET. The deadline for applications is…
From insideHPC
Mythic Raises $13M for Edge AI Inference
Austin – March 9, 2023 – AI processing company Mythic has raised $13 million in a new round of funding. Mythic’s existing investors Atreides Management, DCVC, and Lux Capital contributed to the round, along with new investors…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Opinions, Opinions, Opinions
Social media is full of people’s opinions, whether about politics, movies, things they bought, celebrities or just something in the news. However, sometimes there is just too much of it. Sometimes, you just want an overview.…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Accessible Technology for All Workshop Summary
This post was originally published by Helen Wright in the CRA-Industry Blog. On February 22-23, 2023 in Washington, DC, the Computing Research Association (CRA) held the Accessible Technology for All Workshop. The workshop was…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UA Day: Global Effort to Drive a More Inclusive and Multilingual Internet
This press release was originally published on icann.org ICANN and the UASG to Mobilize the Global Internet Community for Universal Acceptance LOS ANGELES – 09 March 2023 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers…
From insideHPC
LUMI Wins Green Data Centre Award
London — March 8 — The LUMI data center has been recognized in the 2023 Data Centre World Awards for the Green Data Centre of the Year. The award was presented at the Data Centre World event in London on 8 March 2023. LUMI is…
From BLOG@CACM
Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners: Part Two
"When I heard we will be learning Python, I became anxious."