Communications of the ACM
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May 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
For Better Understanding of Deep Learning
Very good extensive piece.
A Deeper Understanding of Deep Learning By Don Monroe
Communications of the ACM, June 2022, Vol. 65 No. 6, Pages 19-20 10.1145/3530686
Deep learning should not work as well as it seems to: according…From The Eponymous Pickle
Chinese Hackers Tried to Steal Russian Defense Data, Report Says
More examples of hacking based warfare.
Chinese Hackers Tried to Steal Russian Defense Data, Report Says
By The New York Times, May 20, 2022
The emails landed on March 23 in the inboxes of scientists and engineers at several ofBut…From The Eponymous Pickle
Net-zero Transition in the Wake of the War in Ukraine
Ultimate meaning in how much time and integrated level of risks?
The net-zero transition in the wake of the war in Ukraine: A detour, a derailment, or a different path?
May 19, 2022 | Article McKinsey By Hamid Samandari, Dickon…From The Eponymous Pickle
Gen Z and Cryptocurrency and NFT
In a recent encounter also discovered this, was surprised at the fluency seen in these technologies. But not the risk in their use.
How Gen Z is hooked on cryptocurrency and NFTs
By Mariko Oi in the BBC Technology, AsiaThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot 'Chef' Represents Leap Forward in Automated Cooking
Practical application still behind, will it ultimately take over? Ultimately in what contexts? Big interest of mine.
Robot 'Chef' Represents Leap Forward in Automated Cooking
Bloomberg,Nina Massey, May 4, 2022
The designers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Rephrasing Communications in Context
Advances in assistant communications. In Google Blog, As always context is very important.
Contextual Rephrasing in Google Assistant
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Posted by Aurelien Boffy, Senior Staff Software Engineer, and Roberto…From The Eponymous Pickle
Vaccine Hesitancy
Researchers Can Predict Vaccine Hesitancy at Zip Code Level
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Maya Abu-Zahra, May 16, 2022
University of Southern California (USC) researchers have developed natural language processing (NLP) software…From The Eponymous Pickle
Anti-aging Drugs are Being Tested as a Way to Treat Covid
Covid advances from alternative treatmens.
Anti-aging Drugs are Being tested as a way to treat covid
Drugs that rejuvenate our immune systems and make us biologically younger could help protect us from the disease’s worst effects…From The Eponymous Pickle
Meta AI System
Plan to test
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Meta has built a massive new language AI—and it’s giving it away for free
Facebook’s parent company is inviting researchers to pore over and pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3
By Will…From insideHPC
Intel Puts $700M into Hillsboro Liquid Cooling, Sustainability R&D ‘Mega Lab’
Intel announced a $700 million “mega lab” at its Jones Farm campus in Hillsboro, OR, to be used for R&D in liquid cooling and other sustainability technologies with implications for power-insatiable HPC data centers. The company…
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Releases Arm-Based Server for NVIDIA Baseboard Accelerators for HPC, AI
May 19, 2022 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced a scalable server, G492-PD0, that supports dual Ampere Altra Max or Altra processors with NVIDIA HGX A100 Tensor…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond GDP: A Framework for Measuring Economic Progress
From: Irving Wladawsky-Berger: A collection of observations, news and resources ...
Beyond GDP: A Framework for Measuring Economic Progress
“What is meant by economic progress, and how should it be measured?,” asked economists…From The Eponymous Pickle
Beware Allure of Training Tech
As it says, context matters a great deal when training. Will the VR actually change results?
Beware the allure of training technology By Tim Marler in Defense News
The allure of training technology can often overshadow itsWhile…From The Eponymous Pickle
GPT-3 Algorithm Is Now Producing Billions of Words a Day
Consider the huge moves of GPT-3.
OpenAI’s GPT-3 Algorithm Is Now Producing Billions of Words a Day By Jason Dorrier -Apr 04, 202110,176 in Singularity Hub
When OpenAI released its huge natural-language algorithm GPT-3 lastAll…From insideHPC
AMD to Use AMD EPYC-Powered Google Cloud’s C2D VM Instance for EDA
Google Cloud and AMD today announced a partnership in which AMD will run electronic design automation (EDA) for its chip-design workloads on Google Cloud, extending the on-premises capabilities of AMD data centers. AMD will also…
From insideHPC
Report: China Plans 10 Exascale Systems by 2025
Exascale supercomputing – which systems vendors can deliver it, which supercomputing centers can access it, which countries have it – will no doubt be a hot topic at the ISC 2022 conference in Germany later this month and in
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk, A Users Guide
Just brought to my attention, now reading. Many of the examples are military, which is OK by me. I would have liked more distinctly quantitative analyses. Worth the read.
Risk: A User's Guide Hardcover – October 5, 2021…From The Eponymous Pickle
Deepmind Gato Applications
Thinking this and it application.
DeepMind Introduces Gato, A New Generalist AI Agent in InfoQ
Gato, as the agent is known, is DeepMinds’s generalist AI that can perform many different tasks that humans can do, without carving…From The Eponymous Pickle
Widely Available AI Could Have Deadly Consequences
Misuses of Drug Discovery
ACM NEWS
Widely Available AI Could Have Deadly Consequences, By Wired, May 18, 2022
In September 2021, scientists Sean Ekins and Fabio Urbina were working on an experiment they had named the "Dr. Evil…From The Eponymous Pickle
Faster Ransomware Detection
But is the method easily side-stepped?
New Approach for Faster Ransomware Detection
By NC State University News, May 18, 2022
Engineering researchers at North Carolina State University (NC State) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have…From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone App Could Make It Easy to Screen for Neurological Disease
Connected with UCSD
'Eye-Catching' Smartphone App Could Make It Easy to Screen for Neurological Disease
UC San Diego News Center
Liezel Labios, April 29, 2022
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) researchers have enabled…From The Eponymous Pickle
Combatting Brand Exposures with Trusted Intelligence
Trusted Brand Intelligence
Combatting Brand Exposures with Trusted Intelligence
APRIL 7, 2022 • ELLEN WILSON
The only way to stay one step ahead of the adversary is by knowing their intent, toolset, infrastructure, target – and…From insideHPC
Amazon Web Services Joins Q-NEXT Quantum Research Center
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become a member of Q-NEXT, a quantum research center developing the science and technology for controlling and distributing quantum information. Q-NEXT’s mission is to furthers quantum R&D and help…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Google Cloud’s 9 Exaflop AI Supercomputer, Chip Price Hikes, HPC Helps Photograph a Black Hole in Our Galaxy and IBM’s Quantum Ambitions
@HPCpodcast was so pleased with our last episode, an extensive interview with the University of Tennessee’s (and Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s) Jack Dongarra (our followers liked it too), that we decided to let that episode…
From insideHPC
Sylabs Readies for Native OCI Compatibility with Release of SingularityCE 3.10
Reno, NV – May 18, 2022 – Sylabs, provider of tools and services for performance-intensive container technology, today announced that it has released SingularityCE 3.10. The newest update makes significant steps towards full …
From insideHPC
NEC Selects DDN and Nvidia for AI Research Supercomputer in Japan
CHATSWORTH, Calif., May 18, 2022 — High performance storage company DDN today announced that NEC Corporation (NEC) has selected DDN storage for its new supercomputer dedicated to AI research. DDN said the system will have a raw…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Recycling: Opportunities for Growth
Noting especially plastics.
Advanced recycling: Opportunities for growth in McKinsey
May 16, 2022 | ArticleBy Zhou Peng, Theo Jan Simons, Jeremy Wallach, and Adam Youngman
Advanced recycling: Opportunities for growth
As interest…From insideHPC
Wellspring Receives FedRAMP Authorization for IP Management Platform
CHICAGO, May 18, 2022 — Wellspring, developer of Innovation Ops software, today announced it has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authorization at a Moderate impact level for its Sophia Knowledge…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are shoppable ads finally ready for prime time?
Or has prime time completely changed its shopping dimensions?
Are shoppable ads finally ready for prime time? by Tom Ryan in RetailWire
At International Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) NewFronts showcase for digital…From Putting People First
[Book] Human-Centered Data Science: An Introduction
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Best practices for addressing the bias and inequality that may result from the automated collection, analysis, and distribution of large datasets.