Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2019
From BLOG@CACM
Variable Vagaries
The variable, construed as an L-value, makes some offbeat appearances.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text Generating AI
Still have not seen an example of text generation that is completely convincing. But having one, especially if it was context adapting, could be a real concern.
Get ready to waste your day with this creepily accurate text-generating…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Wing Drone Deliveries Approved
Continued inclusion of advanced tech, like drone services, as needed.
Google Wing drones approved for US home deliveries
Alphabet's drone company will begin deliveries in the coming months
Drone home delivery company Wing has been…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Locating Microscopes
Technical piece that lets devices learn about goal oriented use. Likely broader applications as well.
Information-rich localization microscopy through machine learning
By aehwan Kim, Seonah Moon & Ke Xu
Nature Communications, volume…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple, Scalable and Sustainable AI
Simple, scalable, and sustainable: A methodical approach to AI adoption
Rajendra Prasad explains how leaders in large enterprises can make AI adoption successful.
By Rajendra Prasad
This is a keynote from the O'Reilly Artificial…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Low-Code No-Code Future
Wrote many thousands of lines of computer code, built systems large and small. Coding is powerful, but also time consuming, non-transparent to most of the people that need its help and prone to error.
Sometimes you have to code…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Astronomers Turn to AI as New Telescopes Come Online
In this AI Podcast, Brant Robertson from UC Santa Cruz describes how astronomers are turning to AI to turn the vast quantities of data that will be pouring out of next-generation telescopes into world-changing scientific discoveries…
From insideHPC
Seeking Nominations for the XSEDE Advisory Board
XSEDE seeks nominations for individuals to serve on the XSEDE Advisory Board (XAB). "The XAB aims to ensure that XSEDE is designed to impact a broad range of disciplines, enable both research and education, have broader impacts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Car Rental
Largely agree. But a decade out who knows? Good overview.
Semi-autonomous and always available: A peek into the near future of car rental in DigitalTrends
The world is inexorably moving to an era where personal mobility is connected…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Measuring the system clock frequency using loops (Intel and ARM)
In my previous post, Bitset decoding on Apple’s A12, I showed that Apple’s latest ARM-based processor can decode set bits out of a stream of words using 3 cycles per set bit. This compares favourably to Intel processors since…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmenting Movie Making Using VR
Makes sense to use a visual medium to show alternative views to be chosen or combined. Using game techniques. No mention of a potential AR capability when combining shots with physical sets, but would be similar. How this…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
An App Proof
That is “app” as in an on-line application [ Leo Stein ] Leo Stein is an assistant professor in the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Mississippi. His research interests include general relativity from…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Alpha is 10!
I was an early tester, loved it. An assistant that emphasized the computable! Free and amazing. How great to see things as computable. But somehow I drifted off to others. You know the other glitzy assistants, often mentioned…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparison of Wal-Mart and Amazon as Online Retailers
Good review of the topic. The details in the Why are interesting.
Walmart vs. Amazon: Which online retailer is better, and why in Digitaltrends
Walmart vs. Amazon: Which has better prices, shipping, and customer service?
Back
These…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethically Deploying AI
Thoughtful piece, making the distinction between creating an AI and deploying it. Deploying means how it operates in current and predicted future context. Often with statistical outcomes. But then any augmentation of humans…
From insideHPC
CosmoGAN Neural Network to Study Dark Matter
As cosmologists and astrophysicists delve deeper into the darkest recesses of the universe, their need for increasingly powerful observational and computational tools has expanded exponentially. From facilities such as the Dark…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: AI Technical Lead at New York University
"The NYU High Performance Computing team is seeking an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technical Lead to build state-of-the-art computing infrastructure in-house and in the cloud, and an ecosystem with AI and machine learning solutions…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 18th 2019)
Though depression has genetic components, the previous studies that identified “depression genes” are probably all bogus. They are the results of poorly conducted research, using underpowered studies to reach untenable conclusions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driverless Electric Trucks
More driverless examples emerging. Note the remote operation of these as well, so limitation of autonomous and public interaction.
Driverless Electric Truck Starts Deliveries on Swedish Public Road
Reuters
By Esha Vaish; Inze…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Egeria for Sharing Metadata
We spent much time on the application of relevant contextual metadata. One big issue is making sure the quantity and quality of metadata is preserved in context for specific goals. Maintenance again.
ODPi Announces Egeria for…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM CompEd Conference
Brett Becker has been blogging about the ACM CompEd conference now taking place in China. See his blog post at ACM CompEd daily update 1: Day 1 for example. Looks to be a great conference. Not a lot of high school teachers have…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Intelligence
Two links. 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 The Eponymous Pickle
Google Tracking What You Buy
Google tracks what you buy, a purchase history shown it all. Article in TheVerge reveals it all
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/17/18629789/google-purchase-history-gmail-email-receipts
Google has been tracking nearly everything…
From insideHPC
Preliminary Agenda Posted for HP-CAST at ISC 2019
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has posted their Structural Agenda for HP-CAST at ISC 2019. The event takes place June 14-15 in Frankfurt, Germany. "HP-CAST provides guidance to Hewlett Packard Enterprise on the essential development…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nissan Claims Updated System is Highway Hands-Off
Quite a claim. Not all the way to autonomous cars. First of all the claim is for highway driving only. And even there you wont be able to play cards with your passenger. A driver facing camera will look for distractions…
From insideHPC
Big Compute Podcast: HPC and Genomics to Revolutionize Medicine
In this Big Compute Podcast episode, Gabriel Broner hosts Mark Borodkin, COO of Bionano Genomics, to discuss how genomics and HPC enable doctors and researchers to diagnose complex diseases and prescribe unique personalized treatments…
From insideHPC
DUG Opens the Doors for 250 PF Bubba Supercomputer in Houston
Today DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) opened its giant new data center in Skybox Houston. Touted to be one of the most powerful supercomputers on earth, the facility is home to the company’s geophysical cloud service, DUG McCloud…
From insideHPC
HPE to Acquire Cray for $1.3 Billion
Today HPE announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cray for approximately $1.3 billion. "This pending deal will bring together HPE, the global HPC market leader, and Cray, whose Shasta architecture…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Differential Programming
Intriguing description and demonstration code. I am always looking at ways to connect process models and AI pattern recognition. (or any analytics) Is this an alternative way?
Reinforcement Learning vs. Differentiable Programming…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Helping Employees Improve
New book at about jobs, work and employee improvement.
What Really Helps Employees to Improve (It’s not Criticism) In Knowledge@Wharton
“The best employees are well-rounded individuals.”
“People can reliably rate others’ performance…