Communications of the ACM
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July 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learn how to make ChatGPT to Generate Block diagrams and Sequence Diagrams
Useful things from Jason.
Jason @ ML Mastery [email protected] via dripemail2.com
Fri, Jul 7, 5:12 PM (2 days ago) to Franzdill
Hi, this week we have three new posts about ChatGPT.
Learn how to make ChatGPT to>>…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Is Coming for Mathematics, Too?
Consider this.
AI Is Coming for Mathematics, Too
The New York Times
Siobhan Roberts, July 2, 2023
An artificial intelligence (AI)-driven transformation of mathematics looms, with former Google computer scientist Christian Szegedy…From The Eponymous Pickle
Lasers Enable Internet Backbone via Satellite
Lasers Enable Internet Backbone via Satellite
ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Daniel Meierhans
June 20, 2023
Scientists at Switzerland's ETH Zurich, French aerospace laboratory ONERA, and French space company Thales Alenia Space transmitted…From The Eponymous Pickle
High-Tech Pavement Markers Support Autonomous Driving in Tough Conditions
High-Tech Pavement Markers Support Autonomous Driving in Tough Conditions, Remote Areas
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
June 20, 2023
Engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Western Michigan…From The Eponymous Pickle
How New AI tools can Transform Customer Engagement and Retention
Considering this, interesting?
How new AI tools can transform customer engagement and retention
Ryohei Fujimaki, dotData, July 8, 2023 8:20 AM in Venturebeat.
As the cookieless future continues to gain momentum, the global digital…From The Eponymous Pickle
Packing Just Got Faster, Easier
Packing is always a place you should search for better.
Packing Just Got Faster, Easier
MIT News, Steve Nadis. July 6, 2023
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and MIT spinout company Inkbit created a…From The Eponymous Pickle
China Releases Its First Open Source Operating System
China Releases Its First Open Source Operating System
Reuters, Josh Ye, July 6, 2023
Chinese state media reports that nation has released its first domestic open source desktop computer operating system, in a bid to reduce its…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Device Keeps Better Tabs on Wolves
Tracking Device Keeps Better Tabs on Wolves
University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
June 15, 2023
Scientists at Denmark's University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and the Technical University of Denmark worked with researchers at Germany's Max…From The Eponymous Pickle
Dr. ChatGPT Will Interface With You Now
Inevitable applications, How broadly? Accurately?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/chatgpt-medical-exam
Dr. ChatGPT Will Interface With You Now Questioning the answers at the intersection of Big Data and Big Doctor, Eliza Strickland
…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Stealth, not secrecy
The strategy for winning is simple: do good work and tell the world about it. In that order! This implies some level of stealth as you are doing the good work. If you plan to lose weight, don’t announce it… lose the weight and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Ethernet-Based AI Management Fabrics with MLAG
And more improving training.
Optimizing Ethernet-Based AI Management Fabrics with MLAG
Jun 21, 2023, By Davinder Singh
For HPC clusters purposely built for AI training, such as the NVIDIA DGX BasePOD and NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, fine…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Nebula
A mysterious squid-like cosmic cloud, this nebula is very faint, but also very large in planet Earth’s sky. In the image, composed with 30 hours of narrowband image data, it spans nearly three full moons toward the royal…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
FOCS Test of Time Awards
David Zuckerman holds an Endowed Professorship in the Texas Computer Science department. He wrote to some of us about the 2023 FOCS Test of Time Awards. Note that we just posted about the corresponding STOC awards. The rules…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Packing a string of digits into an integer quickly
Suppose that I give you a short string of digits, containing possibly spaces or other characters (e.g., "20141103 012910"). We would like to pack the digits into an integer (e.g., 0x20141103012910) so that the lexicographical…
From insideHPC
Intel, NVIDIA to Collaborate on Confidential Computing for AI Workloads
Chip rivals Intel and NVIDIA have joined in a “coopetition” collaboration for Confidential Computing solutions targeting AI workloads. At the recent Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco, Intel said it working with NVIDIA…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A VR Headset. Meta to Lower Age for Users of Headset to 10
Hardly 'proves' safety, but what would? As the article suggests, market vs needs?
A virtual reality headset. Meta to Lower Age for Users of VR Headset to 10
The New York Times
Mike Isaac; Adam Satariano; Natasha Singer
June 16…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Installs the Shopping tools to Compete with Google.
More on the shopping aspects/tools being provided. In Techcrunch.
Microsoft brings new AI-powered shopping tools to Bing and Edge
Frederic Lardinois@fredericl / 11:00 AM EDT•June 29, 2023
People walk past a Microsoft store entrance…From The Eponymous Pickle
Dream of Harvesting Solar Power From Space Gaining Momentum
Space harvesting of solar power ....
The Dream of Harvesting Solar Power From Space Is Gaining Momentum
By Edd Gent, June 18, 2023 in SimilarityHub
The idea of beaming solar power down from space might seem like something out…From The Eponymous Pickle
Galileo Launches LLM Studio for AI Adoption for the Enterprise
More developments ,,,
Galileo Launches LLM Studio for AI Adoption for the Enterprise in Venturebeat
Galileo, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, announced the launch of Galileo LLM Studio, a platform to diagnose…From The Eponymous Pickle
Airbus Experiments with More Control for Autopilot
Airbus Experiments with More Control for Autopilot
BBC News
Shiona McCallum; Ashleigh Swan
June 19, 2023
French aerospace company Airbus' recently completed Project Dragonfly aimed to extend the scope of control of aircraft autopilot…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI is Transforming Architecture. 4 top Studios Explain How
Inside view is good to have to scope changes.
AI is transforming Architecture. 4 top Studios Explain how in FastCompany
From automating replicable tasks to dreaming up unthinkable concepts, architects reveal how they’re using…From Schneier on Security
The AI Dividend
For four decades, Alaskans have opened their mailboxes to find checks waiting for them, their cut of the black gold beneath their feet. This is Alaska’s Permanent Fund, funded by the state’s oil revenues and paid to every Alaskan…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: An Architecture Update from RISC-V International CTO Mark Himelstein
Mark Himelstein, chief technology officer at RISC-V International, joins us to discuss the latest developments with the RISC-V instruction set architecture and its growing community and footprint. Topics include: HPC use cases…
From insideHPC
Multiverse Computing, Iberdrola Partner on Quantum Optimization for Power Grids
SAN SEBASTIÁN, SPAIN, July 6, 2023 – Quantum software company Multiverse Computing today announced a joint project with multinational clean energy firm Iberdrola to modernize electrical grids and facilitate additional green energy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GPT and Human Psychology
Analogies with Human Thinking and Reasoning.
Towards Data Science, Maarten Grootendorst
Published in Towards Data Science
The state of AI has changed drastically with generative text models, such as ChatGPT…From insideHPC
Quantum Delta NL Awarded €60M by National Growth Fund
Delft, Netherlands; 5 July 2023 – Quantum Delta NL, the Netherlands’ national ecosystem for quantum innovation, today announces it secured a €60,2 million investment from The National Growth Fund as the Dutch contribution to
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From insideHPC
UnifyFS Team Wins IPDPS Award for Open Source Software
Oak Ridge, TN — A research team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories won the first Best Open-Source Contribution Award for its paper at the 37th IEEE International Parallel and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paper-Like, Battery-Free, AI-Enabled Sensor for Holistic Wound Monitoring
Paper-Like, Battery-Free, AI-Enabled Sensor for Holistic Wound Monitoring
ACM TECHNEWS
By National University of Singapore, June 29, 2023
The sensor patch, resembling a five-petaled Pinwheel Flower (Tabernaemontana divaricata),…From The Eponymous Pickle
10 million sign up for Meta's Twitter rival app, Threads
Media to extend back.
10 million sign up for Meta's Twitter rival app, Threads
By NPR, July 6, 2023
The logo for Meta's new app, Threads.
Meta's new app appears to mimic Twitter, a direct challenge to the social media platform owned…From The Eponymous Pickle
In UK: Barred from Grocery Stores by Face Recognition / In US, Used by TSA
Barred from Grocery Stores by Facial Recognition, By The New York Times June 30, 2023
A facial recognition system alerts Simon Mackenzie, a QD Stores security guard near London, when someone on a shoplifting watchlist has…