Communications of the ACM
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July 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wood Transistors?
How? Conductive. See Below.
Wood Transistors Take Root, en
A transistor made from balsa wood.
The team transformed the wood into a transistor by removing lignin, an oxygen-containing organic polymer that occurs naturally in…From Schneier on Security
Belgian Tax Hack
Here’s a fascinating tax hack from Belgium (listen to the details here, episode #484 of “No Such Thing as a Fish,” at 28:00).
Basically, it’s about a music festival on the border between Belgium and Holland. The stage was in…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Having fun with string literal suffixes in C++
The C++11 standard introduced used-defined string suffixes. It also added regular expressions to the C++ language as a standard feature. I wanted to have fun and see whether we could combine these features. Regular expressions…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Chair Emerita, Liz Bradley, Featured in Recent SpringerNature Podcast on Athlete-scientists
CCC Council Chair Emerita, Liz Bradley, was interviewed last month for a SpringerNature’s podcast segment on Athlete-scientists. As an Olympian, mathematician and Professor of Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder…
From insideHPC
El Capitan Supercomputer Installation at Livermore Has Begun
With pictures to prove it, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced today it has begun receiving and installing components for El Capitan, what is expected to be the third exascale-class supercomputer in the U.S. The
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From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Is Not Going to Reinvent the Alphabet Anytime Soon
AI Is Not Going to Reinvent the Alphabet Anytime Soon
By Wired
Illustration shows a mechanical, metal brain superimposed on a host of letters and typerwriter keys.
Looking at typography developed by AI is like looking at lettering…From The Eponymous Pickle
Book: Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark: Being Human in the Age of Artifical Intelligence
Currently reading, nicely done ...
Via ChatGPT prompted by 'Life 3.0':
"Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" is a book by Max Tegmark, a physicist and AI researcher. The book was published in 2017 and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Heat-resistant Ceramic ink for Data codes on Metal Components
Heat-resistant ceramic ink for data codes on metal components
Research News / July 03, 2023
Fraunhofer researchers have developed an extremely heat-resistant ceramic-based ink. For the first time, this enables metal components…From insideHPC
New York State Plans to Buy Supercomputer to Understand and Regulate AI
July 5, 2023 — New York’s Department of Financial Services’ (DFS) said it plans to buy an AI supercomputer to understand and regulate AI. A recent story by Bloomberg reported that New York DFS Superintendent Adrienne Harris,
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From BLOG@CACM
Lessons from PL/I: A Most Ambitious Programming Language
PL/I stands for Programming Language 1, and its aim was to be the Highlander of programming languages.
From BLOG@CACM
VOT Challenge: Computer Vision Competition
VOT Challenge is one of the outstanding competitions in computer vision. At the end of this important event this year, I would like to share my opinions about this competition.
From insideHPC
SK hynix Obtains AAA Ratings from South Korea Trade Ministry
Seoul, July 5, 2023 – SK hynix announced today that it has obtained the AAA certification, the highest level of voluntary compliance traders for strategic items*, from South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE)…
From insideHPC
Quantum Exponential Invests in Delta g Ltd
July 5, 2023 — Quantum Exponential Group plc (AQUIS: QBIT), a company focused on investing in quantum technologies, has announced it has invested £300,000 (the ‘Investment’) as part of a circa. £1,500,000 pre seed funding round…
From Computational Complexity
Automating Mathematicians
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nuclear Transport Fleet Testing AI-Powered Sails
Supply chain considered.
AI autonomously orients the sails for efficiency..
By New Atlas. June 22, 2023
Artist's concept of the Fastrig system deployed.
The Fastrig system consists of airfoils mounted on the deck of a ship. Autonomously…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Battling Spacejunk
AI Battles the Bane of Space Junk Neural nets navigate nuances of rogue orbital objects—and near-misses By Sara Well
Photos from low-earth orbit (LEO) are often strikingly beautiful. But what they typically fail to capture…From Schneier on Security
Class-Action Lawsuit for Scraping Data without Permission
I have mixed feelings about this class-action lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming that it “scraped 300 billion words from the internet” without either registering as a data broker or obtaining consent. On the one hand…
From The Eponymous Pickle
X.AI The New Elon Musk AI Company
X.AI The New Elon Musk AI Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6lvbUqwX0
8,075 views Jul 1, 2023 #elonmusk #ai #xai
X.AI The New Elon Musk AI Company That Will Change Everything...
Welcome to our in-depth analysis of "X.AI…From The Eponymous Pickle
China's Ernie Bot 3.5: Surpassing OpenAI's GPT-4 in AI Race
Has China delayed their AI development? Read about Baidu/Ernie elsewhere , but have not Tried it.
China's Ernie Bot 3.5: Surpassing OpenAI's GPT-4 in the AI Race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdXmsjLdDo0
https://www.youtube.com…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Independence Day 2046?
Plus backfeed on AI articles in today’s New York Times Will Smith may still be spry when we need him again. His first Oscar-worthy punch took out an alien in the 1996 movie Independence Day. In the 2004 movie I, Robot he fended…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Learning from Videos
Researchers Expand Ability of Robots to Learn from Videos
Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Aaron Aupperlee
June 20, 2023
A model developed by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers allows robots to learn…From The Eponymous Pickle
Emulating How Krill Swim to Build Robotic Platform for Ocean Navigation
Always interested in elements and power of biomimicry.
Emulating How Krill Swim to Build Robotic Platform for Ocean Navigation
By News from Brown, June 29, 2023
The Pleobot, a small robotic platform that emulates krill-like swimming…From The Eponymous Pickle
The AI threat: Keep Calm and Carry on
From the Penn Language lab, that I worked with years ago,
The AI threat: keep calm and carry on
June 29, 2023 @ 1:36 pm · Filed by Victor Mair under Artificial intelligence, Language and education
Three weekends ago, I (Victor…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Gemini
Beyond ChatGPT from Google?
Google's new Gemini AI could beat ChatGPT — here's why
By Christoph Schwaiger
Google is talking up the abilities of its next generation AI
Google is currently building an AI system that will outperform…From Schneier on Security
The Password Game
Amusing parody of password rules.
For example, at a certain level, your password must include today’s Wordle answer. And then there’s rule #27: “At least 50% of your password must be in the Wingdings font.”
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Crop Yields
Computer Model Predicts Crop Yields
By NC State University News, June 30, 2023
The new tool incorporates rainfall forecasts, groundwater level data, soil characteristics for each county, the water consumption of each crop, theCredit…From The Eponymous Pickle
Hope, Fear, and AI
following up on this ...
Hope, Fear, and AI, By The Verge June 29, 2023
Use of these new tools is still fairly limited, and experience with them skews decidedly toward younger users.
Credit: Diana Young/The Verge
AI is aboutTech…From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
ICANN77 and UA Day: Insights from the Universal Acceptance Community
By Anil Kumar Jain, UASG Chair It has been an exciting year for the global Internet community, in particular those who are working toward the Universal Acceptance (UA) of all domain names and email addresses. In recognition of…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Thousands Rally Worldwide to Support a Multilingual Internet
Universal Acceptance events held in over 40 countries/territories, featuring 22 languages Los Angeles, CA – 3 July 2023 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Universal Acceptance Steering Group…
From The Eponymous Pickle
BBCube 3D: A Breakthrough in Semiconductor Integration, Data Transmission
BBCube 3D: A Breakthrough in Semiconductor Integration, Data Transmission
Tokyo Tech News (Japan)
June 29, 2023
The Bumpless Build Cube 3D (BBCube3D) technology designed by scientists at Japan's Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo…