Communications of the ACM
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August 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Gaming
Will control of voice gaming take us to better voice oriented business?
" ... Alexa is powering new games where you control the action with your voice
Games played with voice commands are catching on, and now Amazon is bettingTanya…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Deep Learning Podcasts
Just experienced and signed onto onto these podcasts with accessible big player and state of the art topics on practical applications of AI. By Lex Fridman. Worth following.
https://lexfridman.com/ai/
MIT Artificial Intelligence…
From The Noisy Channel
I’m hardly an expert on legal IR. But here are a few pointers:
I’m hardly an expert on legal IR. But here are a few pointers:
- Passage retrieval in legal texts
- [PDF] Passage Retrieval Starting from Patent Claims A Clef-Ip 2013 Task Overview - Semantic Scholar
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Leaps and Bounds: Practice Meets Theory
Solving the runtime selection problem Composite from src1, src2 Brendan Lucier and Csaba Szepesvári were consecutive speakers at this week’s workshop at the Tokyo Technological Institute in Chicago on “Automated Algorithm Design…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Physical Throttles vs Touchscreen
Always Thoght there was something unnnatural about touchscreeen controls where there was a natural connection to the physical actions controlled. Here seems to confirm that.
Navy Reverting DDGs Back to Physical Throttles,
By…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leading Large Scale Change
Not about digital, which I see is not even mentioned. Why not? But I like some of the points made:
A Better Way to Lead Large Scale Change in McKinsey
In Beyond Performance 2.0 (John Wiley & Sons, 2019), McKinsey senior partners…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consider Process too for Digital Transformation
A view from the APQC domain. As an answer to this see a recent book on the subject I also mentioned here: Why Digital Transformations Fail by Tony Saldanha with lots of real recent examples in the big enterprise. Some good…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Should Amazon Upskill its Employees?
Retention, improvement and modeling HR asset.
Will Amazon’s Plan to ‘Upskill’ Its Employees Pay Off?
Wharton’s Matthew Bidwell and NYU’s Ari Ginsberg discuss Amazon’s $700 million plan to retrain its workforce.
Prime Day was a big…
From insideHPC
Mellanox to Maximize Performance on AMD EPYC 7002 Processors
Today Mellanox announced that the company's InfiniBand ConnectX smart adapter solutions are optimized to provide breakthrough performance and scalability for the new AMD EPYC 7002 Series processor-based compute and storage infrastructures…
From insideHPC
Video: High-Performance Computing with Python – Reducing Bottlenecks
This course addresses scientists with a working knowledge of NumPy who wish to explore the productivity gains made possible by Python for HPC. "We will show how Python can be used on parallel architectures and how to optimize…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Taxes
Reading the rest to determine how this is done. Via determining algorithms via machine learning. Note also the insertion of 'jurisdictional rules'
Deloitte uses AI to transform indirect tax recovery
Tax technology spotlight:
NEW…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (August 10th 2019
A short (less than one hour) online lesson improved grades among weaker students. The lesson taught the growth mindset: that intellectual abilities can be developed. The chip maker AMD, has released a processor (EPYC 7742) which…
From insideHPC
HPE ProLiant Sets 37 World Record Performance with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors
HPE announced today that it shattered 37 world records, establishing undisputed performance and efficiency leadership with the new HPE ProLiant DL325 and HPE ProLiant DL385 servers equipped with the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Postdoctoral scholar position for terrestrial systems modeling at Jülich Supercomputing Centre
The Jülich supercomputing Centre in Germany is seeking a Postdoctoral scholar position in the field of terrestrial systems modeling. "You will setup and perform large scale terrestrial systems simulations over the European continent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data as Valued Corporate Asset
A topic I have now followed for some time, we even implemented aspects of valuation in the enterprise by starting with semantic structures. Good thoughts at the link. Value is meta data of the most important kind, but also…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Voice Science
Got to this somewhat late, but some useful directions about the nature and value of conversational assistance. Still don't see the required richness and context dependence that is required for intelligent interaction.
Expansion…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skeptical About Data
Or more precisely about common errors in data. Good overview of what the data error can look like. Problem is we rarely look at this closely enough. And data is also rarely looked at over time after the model is built to…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Sinuous Asperoteuthis Mangoldae Squid
Great video of the Sinuous Asperoteuthis Mangoldae Squid. 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
On Japanese Eldercare Robotics
Artificial Intelligence for eldercare and disabled. Not sure I agree with the cursory 'suck' tag below. I have seen some very useful examples, much work yet to do, but much work being done.
Toyota is giving robot helpers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will MyCroft Compete with Best AI Assistants?
Had seen Mtcroef some time ago, in 2015, then also touting its Open Source. Still has a long way to go to compete. Will try to get a demo of it in context. I think its unlikely the privacy issues will make a difference as…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge Graphs in the Enterprise
How big enterprises are using Knowledge Graphs. Very good to understand this if you are planning to use knowledge graphs of your own. Instructive. in ACMQueue, CACM Here a short starting excerpt, full text at the link…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Blog: We are Very early in Predictive Analytics
Here an excerpt. Interesting thought, and our forecasting will become much better, in some areas spectacularly so. But still, it will be operating with some of the same data. Old, faulty, in the wrong context, gathered haphazardly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Kind of Brain Inspired AI?
New Type of AI?
The brain inspires a new type of artificial intelligence by Bar-Ilan University in TechXplore
Machine learning, introduced 70 years ago, is based on evidence of the dynamics of learning in the brain. Using the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beginners Guide to Smart Contracts
Extract.
Everything You Need to Know About Smart Contracts: A Beginner’s Guide
Introducing Smart Contracts and its features in an efficient way By Mayank Pratap in Hackernoon
One of the most unique features of blockchain is its…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chemist Augmentation
The kind of augmentation we will continue to see.
Guided by AI, robotic platform automates molecule manufacture
by Becky Ham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Guided by artificial intelligence and powered by a robotic platform…
From insideHPC
TYAN Launches Servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors
Today TYAN launched 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processor-based server platforms to deliver a new level of performance to power the modern datacenter. "TYAN’s first-wave offerings include a 2U single-socket Transport SX TS65-B8036 server…
From insideHPC
Streaming Analytics at the Edge With CyberRax Data Flow Pipeline
Today PSSC Labs launched the CyberRax Data Flow Pipeline for streaming analytics on the edge. The CyberRax DataFlow Pipeline platform is designed in conjunction with Cloudera to deliver an on-premise, turnkey environment for
…
From insideHPC
OSS Awarded $36 Million Contract to Provide Flash Storage Arrays for Military Radar Application
Today One Stop Systems announced a five-year sole source agreement valued at $36 million to provide flash storage arrays to a prime contractor for the U.S. Navy. The systems will be used within state-of-the-art Navy surveillance…
From insideHPC
Cray Shasta Supercomputer to Power Weather Forecasting for U.S. Air Force
From The Eponymous Pickle
Roadmap for AI Research in the USA
A considerable 100+ page PDF:
A 20-Year Community Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Research in the USA.
Gil and B. Selman. Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence…