Communications of the ACM
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June 2018
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tutorial on Association Rules
Good piece in KDNuggets, the approach is useful because it is transparent and thus easily visualized. Here is a further technical definition, from the approach of set mining and rule generation. Note this applies in many domains…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Creates Doodle Games with Garden Gnomes
Once again Google leverages their search page to present a clever yet simple gaming idea. I like their use of their entry page to teach about history, technology and even approaches to simple game design. Very hard to predict…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human AI Collaboration and the Nature of Work
Via MIT Sloan. Note the decomposition of jobs into tasks in context, which we also examined.
Why human-AI collaboration will dominate the future of work
At the 2018 MIT Sloan CIO Summit, a panel of AI experts discussed how machine…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Smell Digitization Classification, and Health
We actively worked on digitally reproducing the senses of smell and taste. Both in their classification and their production. In one case for taste of products like coffee and also the analysis of aromas produced by perfumes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Systems Dynamics and Data Science
Interesting connection, though I have never heard of systems dynamics directly invoked in a business process model in a very long time. Embedded yes in things like process and systems control, but not in high level process.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reactions to Images, Packaging as Password?
So could we use this differently? Could your reaction to a product change its price, or be a kind of loyalty connection? Integrated with product detection in an automated checkout, 'Amazon Go' type interaction?
Your Reaction…
From insideHPC
Women in HPC Workshop Returns to ISC 2018
The eighth international Women in HPC workshop will be held June 28 at ISC 2018 in Frankfurt. "This workshop provides leaders and managers in the HPC community with methods to improve diversity and also to provide early career…
From insideHPC
Energy Efficiency and Water-Cool-Technology Innovations at Lenovo
Karsten Kutzer from Lenovo gave this talk at the 2018 Swiss HPC Conference. "This session will discuss why water cooling is becoming more and more important for HPC data centers, Lenovo’s series of innovations in the area of
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From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 9th, 2018)
A woman with late-stage breast cancer has been successfully cured using immunotherapy. She was preparing to die. She is now going to live hopefully many more years in good health. Deep learning generalizes poorly, in at least…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Books on Data Science and Machine Learning
KDNuggets has been very good in pointing these out. Very high quality. Good price (free). We live in amazing times. Books that cover breaking technology insights. Have you looked at the cost of required texts for college…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at the New Summit Supercomputer at ORNL
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new 200 Petaflop Summit supercomputer that was unveiled this week at ORNL. "IBM designed a whole new heterogeneous architecture for Summit that integrates the robust data
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Fog Consortium
The Open Fog Consortium
Welcome to the Fog Computing Era
The growth in IoT is explosive, impressive – and unsustainable under current architectural approaches. Many IoT deployments face challenges related to latency, network bandwidth…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Senior Engineer for HPC at Merck
Merck in New Jersey is seeking a Senior Engineer for HPC in our Job of the Week. As a Senior Engineer in an Operations role of High Performance Computing your primary role is that of “Senior Linux Systems Administrator and Scientific…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fog Computing Meets the BlockChain
Thought provoking idea. If Fog Computing is computing on the Edge, especially in things like an IoT, why think of this for a distributed ledger? Because we don't have trusted elements. The trust can be distributed, like the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Keras Workflow for Experiments
I just reviewed and discarded several packages we used to experiment with neural nets in the late 90s. Fairly easy to use, but little iterative architecture capability and data wrangling capabilities. Had been asked about…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger and Ocado for Delivery Options
Kroger sees Ocado as key to its home delivery plans in FoodBusinessNews
Kroger's deal with high-tech British retailer Ocado could lead to orders for its ClickList service being fulfilled in warehouses instead of on store floors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines Speaking for Themselves
Pretty broad statement. What is the nature of this machine conversation? The driving goal mentioned here of 'maintaining contact' is interesting.
Machine Speak: Left to Their Own Devices, Computers Can Figure it Out
Oak Ridge
Researchers…
From Putting People First
[Book] Radical Help – by Hilary Cottam
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Radical Help – How we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the welfare state By Hilary Cottam Virago Publishing June 2018, 320 pages > Book talk at the RSA How should we live: how should we care for one another…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Extinct Relatives of Squid
Interesting fossils. Note that a poster is available. 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
Volkswagen Using Quantum Computing to Build Batteries
Not quite understanding the physics and chemistry at work here, but it is interesting that a major auto manufacturer is thinking this. Will QC be used for combinatorially difficult materials problems? I am intrigued because…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts on Textbooks in Progress
My first published book, Microsoft Visual Basic FUNdamentals, came out 18 years ago. It was for Visual Basic version 6 and what I did was to take what and how I taught and turn it into a textbook. It was a good book. It didn’t…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Hilbert’s Irreducibility Theorem
A pretty neat paper about a pretty neat theorem [ GLL edited ] Mark Villarino, William Gasarch, and Kenneth Regan are terrific writers. Bill is a co-author of a famous blog located here. Ken is a co-author of another blog that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Joseph Novak and Learning/Sharing through Concept Mapping
We very actively used some of Prof Joseph Novak's work to capture knowledge and use it to capture, understand and improve process. That story is told in the Concept Mapping tag below. The method is not used enough. I happened…
From The Eponymous Pickle
It will be About the Cobot
Not a new term: Cobot: Collaborative Robot. but fairly rarely used recently. Does not have to mean a physical robot, but can also include collaborative AI systems tools. Its how the architecture of collaboration is set up,
Why…
From insideHPC
ORNL Unveils Summit: World’s Fastest Supercomputer with 200 Petaflops of Performance
Today Energy Secretary Rick Perry unveiled Summit, the world's most powerful supercomputer. Powered by IBM POWER9 processors, 27,648 NVIDIA GPUs, and Mellanox InfiniBand, the Summit supercomputer is also the first Exaop AI system…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows Collaboration Displays
Good possibility for retail applications. The particular use of the word 'collaboration' is interesting. Meetings, yes. I had seen some good chatbot examples shown with Azure, could these be the kind of collaboration/assistant…
From insideHPC
SC18 Perennials Keep Coming Back
Over at the SC18 Blog, Mike Bernhardt writes that the a small group known as the Perennials have attended the conference from the very beginning. There's no doubt that they'll be back this year for the show, which takes place…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Versus Traditional Mergers and Acquisitions
Interesting detail at the link.
Why Traditional M&A Is Becoming Less Important David Harding, Andrew Schwedel in HBR
" ... Consider today’s trends in M&A. Companies are seeking to be quicker on their feet and more innovative…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Regulatory Uncertainty for Blockchain
Some conversations I have had indicate that little regulation is in place.
Regulatory uncertainty could stymy blockchain adoption
Even as companies seek to integrate the distributed ledger technology into their business models…
From insideHPC
HPC Startups: Sign up for the SC18 Coffee Shop
Startups have always had a tough time in the HPC space. Now, the SC18 conference is offering to lend a helping hand with a startup showcase they're calling the SC18 Coffee Shop. "Starting a new business is no easy feat and this…