Communications of the ACM
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April 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI's Will Start to Hack
Very good pieces below. Something we talked about early in the days of AI, and when hacking did start to adapt to its environments. Started with simplistic worms, that aimed to change their locations to find the most vulnerable…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Composite AI:
Could not agree more, but I am seeing practitioners wanting to stay with pure 'AI/Machine Learning'. It stays with the 'magic' of AI. When hybrid methods should be used. Why? Because the other methods are seen as dated? And…
From insideHPC
Lawrence Livermore Computational Scientist Jeffrey A.F. Hittinger Wins 2021 Corones Award
Ames, Iowa — April 26, 2021 — Jeffrey A.F. Hittinger, a computational scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is the 2021 recipient of the James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building and Communication…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast, Episode 34 – Health Informatics with Katie Siek (Part 2)
A new episode of Catalyzing Computing, the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) official podcast, is now available. This episode is part two of Khari Douglas‘ (CCC Senior Program Associate) interview with Dr. Katie Siek, a…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Incomplete Contracts
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA and NVIDIA Collaborate
Example of data science uses: NASA and NVIDIA addressing pollution data. , Including some instructive code snippets.
NASA and NVIDIA Collaborate to Accelerate Scientific Data Science Use Cases, Part 2
By Christoph Keller and…From BLOG@CACM
An Open Call to Establish an Interdisciplinary Data Science Education Journal
In this blog, we describe our vision for a journal that would focus on data science education from the interdisciplinarity perceptive.
From BLOG@CACM
From U-boats to 'U-bots'
Considering the outlook for undersea cyberwar.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comments on Solar Winds Security Event
Well done piece on the implications and future considerations for the recent Solar Winds cybercriminal Data compromise. Some good thoughts. Below the introduction .... and linkon for the detail. Full coverage at the link…
From Computational Complexity
Ferrer's Diagrams can be used to prove X theorems about partitions. What is X?
1978: I took an excellent ugrad course in combinatorics from James C Frauenthal (he sometimes wrote his name as the biniomial cofficient (J choose F)) and he covered Ferrer's diagrams. They are a nice way to prove equalities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Some No Code Platforms
A general exploration of current N-Code platforms. Have been asked.
12 No-Code Platforms for Some DIY Machine Learning In NAnalyze
Only 25% of organizations are using artificial intelligence (AI) in their businesses today…From The Eponymous Pickle
From Blockchain to Contracts
Have been looking at the use of 'smart contracts' in a broader way. Is this one direction? Incorporating trust.
Investing in Aleo by Katie Haun and Ali Yahya in Andreessen Horowitz
From the beginning, our core thesis has been…From insideHPC
New Hypre Library Approach Brings GPU-Based Algebraic Multigrid to Exascale and HPC Community
First developed in 1998, the hypre team has adapted their cross-platform high performance library to support a variety of machine architectures over the years. Hypre supports scalable solvers and preconditioners that can be applied…
From The Eponymous Pickle
FlavorGraph: Food Pairings with AI and Molecular Science
Combines a number of interests of mine. Food science and AI, Chemistry and Graph Analytics. At the link see some impressive graphs that look at the connections Nicely done approach to loooking at a complex problem. In our…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Labor Intensive Work and Analytics
There will continue to be labor intensive jobs, with key skills required.
Labor-intensive factories—analytics-intensive productivity
April 21, 2021 | Article in McKinsey
By Manuel Gómez, Jorge Riveros, and Kevin Sachs
New analytics…From The Eponymous Pickle
Training for Brain on a Chip Using SNN
First I had heard of this detailed. Probably worth a look.
Brain-on-a-Chip Would Need Little Training in CNN
KAUST Discovery (Saudi Arabia), April 20, 2021
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Back in the Classroom Again
“What would motivate you to come out of retirement to teach during a pandemic?” That was the question I was asked during an interview for a long term substitution position. My retirement last June had been planned for a year…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pandemic Eviction Modeling
More models accurately done, with the right data, address the results of specific decisions.
Modeling Shows Pandemic Eviction Bans Protect Entire Communities From Covid-19 Spread
Johns Hopkins Medicine Newsroom
April 19, 2021
Researchers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Plane Paradox: More Creativity for Complex Automation
Operating complex automated systems needs more training to be creative, rather than more training about very the details complex systems. Or do we just need more training to deal with surprises in automated systems? Wordering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT to Reconcile Data Sharing with EU AI Regulations
Proposed regulations constraining AI proposed by the EU are over 100 pages long. What is MIT's view? Note some other things also include 'subliminal behavior manipulation', I assume specifying exactly how this differs from…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Many Simple Small Robots,
Robot work at Ga Tech, which we visited a number times. Always liked the idea of small, multiple and cooperative problem solving doing tasks. Bur even without collaboration can have value. Gathering data, especially canSimple…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How and Why to Share Scientific Code
Rarely done this consistently, but it is a useful approach to follow. Add it to a review and follow up of results. Plans for maintaining models.
How and why to share scientific code
A simple guide to reproducible research…From The Eponymous Pickle
Overview of Graph Databases
Overview of Graph DBs and their uses. From the CACM. Below the intro, more at the link.
Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Graph Databases By Alex Williams in CACM
While originating as a subset of NoSQL or "Not Only SQL…From The Eponymous Pickle
Perspective Brain Hack
Good thought, but not always.
Perspective Taking: A Brain Hack That Can Help You Make Better Decisions
Mar 22, 2021 Opinion North America
Supports K@W's Innovation Content
In business and in life, many of our interactions benefit…From insideHPC
Rice Univ. Researchers Claim 15x AI Model Training Speed-up Using CPUs
Reports are circulating in AI circles that researchers from Rice University claim a breakthrough in AI model training acceleration – without using accelerators. Running AI software on commodity x86 CPUs, the Rice computer science…
From The Noisy Channel
Query Understanding
This publication is a series of posts devoted to query understanding. Each post is self-contained, but there is a natural progression. If you’d like to read them all, start with the first one.
Query Understanding was originally…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Small Drone Rules in US
How full will the skies ultimately become, with more drone-like and autonomous devices? Expect it. Note remote ID requirements.
New Rules Allowing Small Drones to Fly Over People in U.S. Take Effect
Reuters, David Shepardson,…From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Amazon's Palm Scanning System
Amazon Bringing Palm-Scanning Payment System to Whole Foods Stores
CNBC, Annie Palmer, April 21, 2021
Amazon's palm-scanning payment system will be rolled out to a Whole Foods store in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood before…From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Supplier Targeted with Ransomware
Even Apple suppliers are vulnerable. Note in particular theft of corporate data and plans.
Apple Targeted in $50-Million Ransomware Hack of Supplier Quanta
Bloomberg, Kartikay Mehrotra, April 21, 2021
Taiwan-based Apple contract…From Putting People First
[Book] Anthro-Vision
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In an age when the business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett presents a radically different strategy for success: businesses can revolutionize…