Communications of the ACM
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August 2018
From The Eponymous Pickle
July/August 2018 Analytics Magazine
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From insideHPC
Supercomputing Dark Matter
Dan Rosplock from Virginia Tech writes that Large-scale simulations could shed light on the 'dark' elements that make up most of our cosmos. By reverse engineering the evolution of these elements, they could provide unique insights…
From insideHPC
SWE Awards Recognize Engineers in the STEM Community
Today the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) announced the recipients of its annual awards program. SWE Awards recognize individuals who have proven to be innovators and leaders in their local communities, the STEM community and…
From insideHPC
Advances in the Fields of Atmospheric Science, Climate, and Weather
Susan Bates from NCAR gave this talk at the Blue Waters Summit. "For the past five years, the Blue Waters Project has provided an invaluable platform for research in the fields of atmospheric science, climate, and weather. The…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Delivering a Technical Course to Busy Developers
At work, I'm experimenting with how to deliver a technical course to my fellow employees in such a way that participants succeed and our team doesn't have to put in too much time on top of our regular duties. Just making them…
From Computational Complexity
The Zero-One Law for Random Oracles
A couple of years ago, Rossman, Servedio and Tan showed that the polynomial-time hierarchy is infinite relative to a random oracle. That is if you choose each string independently to be in or out of an oracle R with probability…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Olay Uses AI for Skin Advisor
Worked previously with a company seeking to determine physical age via AI classification methods. Here another. Note too the long history of P&G with advisory and conversational systems.
In Venturebeat:
AI gave Olay its biggest…
From insideHPC
NVMe SSDs and DRAM for High Performing Mixed Workloads
This guest article from Kingston Technology covers how NVMe SSDs and DRAM are being used for high performing mixed workloads.
The post NVMe SSDs and DRAM for High Performing Mixed Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategy for the Digital World
Developing a Strategy for the Digital World
NEW BOOK: A new book by Sunil Gupta, "Driving Digital Strategy," explores how traditional businesses can make the leap into the digital age.
Digital transformation is certainly a threat…
From Schneier on Security
John Mueller and Mark Stewart on the Risks of Terrorism
Another excellent paper by the Mueller/Stewart team: "Terrorism and Bathtubs: Comparing and Assessing the Risks": Abstract: The likelihood that anyone outside a war zone will be killed by an Islamist extremist terrorist is extremely…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Insights on Voice Technology, Conversation
From the Google Blog. Their take on voice, conversation and expectations.
Five insights on voice technology
By Scott Huffman VP, Engineering, Google Assistant
Over the last couple years something interesting happened—millions
We…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cristie's to Sell AI Art
Consulted for the Auction industry in past years. Can such art also be profitable for sale?
Is the Art Market Ready to Embrace Work Made by Artificial Intelligence? Christie’s Will Test the Waters This Fall
The auction house is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Attributes of Blockchain Value
Quote from: Currnt.com
New post to the Current Theme in the The Future of Blockchain in Retail & CPG Supply Chains Public Panel
A new post was made by Steve Kuh in the The Future of Blockchain in Retail & CPG Supply Chains Public…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Avoid lexicographical comparisons when testing for string equality
By default, programmers like to compare their bytes and strings using a lexicographical order. “Lexicographical” is a fancy word for “dictionary order”. That is, you compare the first two elements, check if they differ, if they…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Contextual Assistants Needed
O'Reilly piece on the challenge of contextual chatbots. And beyond the need to keep track of past conversations and plan future goals.
The next generation of AI assistants in enterprise
Chatbots are just the first step in the journey…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How AI is Changing Sales
Well known examples, but worth reviewing
How AI Is Changing Sales By Victor Antonio in the HBR
Companies are using AI in all kinds of innovative ways to advance their businesses. If you’ve ever searched Netflix to watch a movie…
From insideHPC
D-Wave Demonstrates First Large-Scale Quantum Simulation of Topological State of Matter
Today D-Wave Systems published a milestone study demonstrating a topological phase transition using its 2048-qubit annealing quantum computer. This complex quantum simulation of materials is a major step toward reducing the need…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF’s New Enabling Quantum Leap Solicitation
The National Science Foundation‘s Division of Materials Research (DMR), the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS), the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS), and the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversations with Time Logic and Risk
This kindcof problem has just come up again. How do we make the most out of a conversation? In specific contexts. With defined goals? With people, or combined with intelligent agents? Note here the inclusion of 'safety critical'…
From insideHPC
Video: Moving HPC Workloads to Verne Global in Iceland
In this video, Tate Cantrell from Verne Global describes how the company is taking advantage of the nearly unlimited power and cooling available in Iceland for their datacenters running HPC workloads. "Whether deployed as stand…
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Unveils Details on Post-K Supercomputer Processor Powered by ARM
Today Fujitsu published specifications for the A64FX CPU to be featured in the post-K computer, a future machine designed to be 100 times faster than the legendary K computer that dominated the TOP500 for years. "A64FX is the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Marketers are doing Wrong with Data Analytics
Interesting podcast piece in K@W. Some useful cautions. The notorious p-hack is brought up again. Its often used because is so easy to apply. Simplicity Bias It cannot be used alone.
What Marketers Are Doing Wrong in Data Analytics…
From insideHPC
Video: An Update on the Exascale Computing Project
In this video, Mike Bernhardt sits down with Doug Kothe from the Exascale Computing Project for a quick update and a look ahead. "As we traverse the second half of the 2018 calendar year, the Exascale Computing Project (ECP)
…
From insideHPC
Virtualization Adds Value, Benefits to HPC Environments
VMware explores the concepts of virtual throughput clusters and CPU overcommitment with VMware vSphere to create multitenant and agile virtual HPC computing environments.
The post Virtualization Adds Value, Benefits to HPC Environments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Explores Podcasts
In the past I ran an internal podcast in a large company. Have always been interested in podcasts as an information channel, but also one that that had issues, for example it is a serial channel, and takes time to ingest that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Faster Training for Deep Learning
Training, an re-training are important consideration for machine learning. More detail at the link.
Training Time Slashed for Deep Learning By George Leopold in Datanami
Fast.ai, an organization offering free courses on deep…
From Schneier on Security
Good Primer on Two-Factor Authentication Security
Stuart Schechter published a good primer on the security issues surrounding two-factor authentication. While it's often an important security measure, it's not a panacea. Stuart discusses the usability and security issues that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hack to Get Amazon Alexa to Respond to ASL
Had heard of this before, here are more details. Still very much an early prototype. How close can this get to being very useful? Below the motivation...
Getting Alexa to Respond to Sign Language Using Your Webcam and TensorFlow…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Requirements for an Enterprise AI Benchmark
Invitation to the ISSIP Cognitive Systems Institute Group Webinar
Please join us for this call and invite your contacts - e.g., at universities, partners & clients. The call is in a series - and you can see the series here http…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Does Your Brand Need a Specific Assistant Voice?
One more time, we looked at this very question in great detail a decade plus ago. With our 'Mr Clean' brand. And decided yes, it needed a specific voice, a culture, attitude, a backstory ... and more. Like a brand had then…