Communications of the ACM
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September 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA AI Generate Objects and Characters for Virtual Worlds
NVIDIA always impressive:
NVIDIA's new AI model quickly generates objects and characters for virtual worlds in Engadget
GET3D could make it easier for developers to make games and VR experiences.
3D objects created by NVIDIA'sNVIDIA…From The Eponymous Pickle
European automobile industry is going quantum
Automobile Industry takes a number of leaps
The European automobile industry is going quantum By Tristan Greene in TheNextWeb
Spooky action at a distance goes vroom
September 19, 2022 - 7:40 pm
It’s a bold new world for automobile…From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Neural Nets on Small Devices
Good direction.
We Can Train Big Neural Networks on Small Devices
IEEE Spectrum
Matthew Hutson, September 20, 2022
A new training method expands small devices' capabilities to train large neural networks, while potentially helping…From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Industrial Policy
Brought to my attention for comment, somewhat dense, but scannable:
FIRST: A Note on "Industrial Policy”…
Stephen S. Cohen & J. Bradford DeLong
September, 2022
The not-quite-surprise passage of the CHIPS Act and the surprise passage…From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG Brands and Direct to Consumer
After Covid influence involved?
Should CPG brands cast their DTC (Direct to Consumer) businesses in a supporting role to stores?
Sep 22, 2022 by Melissa Minkow in Retailwire
It appears there’s been a significant tide turn for…From The Eponymous Pickle
Using AI to Improve Agricultural Yields
Impressive outlines, Podcast:
August 30, 2022 / The farm-to-fork cooperative uses artificial intelligence to improve agricultural yields.
You might have seen Land O’Lakes’ dairy products on store shelves…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Built from Magnetic Fluid
A robot made from magnetic fluid can be made smaller, thinner, or directed to break up with special magnets, which could be useful for delivering drugs into the body
PHYSICS 16 September 2022 in New Scientist
By Karmela Padavic…From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers Bring Underwater Messaging App to Smartphones
Quite Unusual Direction here, but could empower such teams.
Researchers Bring Underwater Messaging App to Smartphones
Allen School News (University of Washington)
Kristin Osborne, August 29, 2022
The AquaApp mobile interface developed…From insideHPC
MIT AI Policy Forum Virtual Summit Sept. 28 to Explore Challenges Surrounding AI Deployment
Cambridge, MA — Sept. 22, 2022 — On Wednesday, Sept. 28 from 9 am to 5 pm Eastern Time, the MIT AI Policy Forum will host a free, virtual summit convening leading voices from government, business, and academia to explore the
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Microfluidic Lab on a Chip
New to me.
ACM NEWS
By R. Colin Johnson
For decades, laboratory procedures have been a popular target for automation; sequencing the human genome, for instance, would not have been feasible without…From The Eponymous Pickle
Linguistics and the Development of NLP
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Linguistics and the Development of NLP By The Gradient
September 9, 2022
Christopher Manning is the director of the Stanford University AI Lab…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Builds a Visual Conversation
Conversation flow with a No-code environment
Amazon Is Adding Visual Conversation Builder for Amazon Lex
SEP 19, 2022 in Infoq.com
by Daniel Dominguez
Amazon is introducing the Visual Conversation Builder for Amazon Lex, a drag…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at AI
From the Gartner Blog:
When AI is Really AGF (Artificial Gut Feel) By Anthony J. Bradley | September 20, 2022
Human Interviewer: “Do you prefer dogs or cats?”
Randy the Robot, “Yes, I’m very familiar with their pixel patterns…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Dealing With Student Misconceptions
I was reading through The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy, as one does, the other night. Specifically, the section on student misconceptions. Misconceptions are one of my favorite topics in teaching computer science. The articles…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cheating at Chess—Not Again
Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the end game like a machine — Rudolf Spielmann Kenneth Regan is my dear friend and co-writer of this blog. He obtained his doctorate—technically D.Phil not PhD…
From Computational Complexity
POSTED UPDATED VERSION OF Computers and Intractability: A guide to Algorithmic Lower Bounds posted (New title)
We have posted a revised version of
Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Bounds
by Demaine-Gasarch-Hajiaghayi
The book is here.
(For the original post about it, edited it to use the new title (see below), see…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Cluster Pioneer John Gustafson Talks Gustafson’s Law, Unums and Richard Feynman on the Bongos
Here at the @HPCpodcast, Shahin and Doug are treated to speaking with some of the world’s leading HPC computer scientists, the ones who have made a deep and lasting impact. We spoke with one of them this week: commercial cluster…
From insideHPC
DOE SciDAC: $30M Awarded to 5 National Labs for Research on High Energy Physics through Advanced Computing
Sept. 21, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $30 million in funding for five projects in computation and simulation techniques and tools to understand the universe via collaborations that enable effective…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Announces NVIDIA H100 GPU Systems
SAN JOSE, Sept. 20, 2022 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a enterprise computing, GPUs, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology company, announced 20 NVIDIA-certified systems options with NVIDIA H100
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From insideHPC
Equinix Partners with NUS Centre for Energy on Hydrogen-powered Data Centers
SINGAPORE and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 20, 2022 — Equinix, Inc. ( Nasdaq: EQIX) today announced a partnership with the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) under the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) College…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tumor Size Tracking
Seems novel application.
Engineers Develop Wearable to Monitor Tumor Size
Stanford News
Andrew Myers, September 16, 2022
Stanford University engineers have designed a wearable device that can measure the size of tumors. The researchers…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Releases Open Knowledge Network Roadmap Report
Transformative advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technology require large amounts of accurate, comprehensive data. There is a widening disparity between the types and amounts of datasets that organizations have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Book: Stories, Dice and Rocks that Think, by Byron Reese
Completed reading .... Recommended! An excellent book that looks at a number of leaps of key technical history that have led us to today. Should be read by everyone who seeks to understand the possibility and limits of our…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pitching Your Startup to a robot.
Found this case study of how you might pitch a new startup to a GPT-3 Based robot, called Pitchexpert.
I pitched my ridiculous startup idea to a robot VC, By Luke Dormehl in DigitalTrends
September 1, 2022 6:30AM
Aqua Drone…From Putting People First
Human-Centered Design: what architects can learn from UX designers
Approaching architectural design with a UX designer’s mindset ensures a more holistic approach to designing the experience of using a building. From the outset, a stronger understanding of the user enables human behavior to dictate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
LowCode for Data Science
Low Code for Data Science
3 Reasons Why You Need Low-code Platforms For Data Science Solutions in TowardsDataScience
Low-code ML applications help address the challenges of model maintenance, time-to-market, and talent shortage…From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaverse Standards Forum Established
Will this be sufficient?
The Metaverse Needs Standards, Too The big players have founded a “forum”—but will it make the place come to life any sooner? By Michael Koziol
When Meta (formerly Facebook) announced in October 2021…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding It Yourself Can Be Fun
Every couple of weeks I bake a couple of loaves of bread. The bread mostly gets used for breakfast sandwiches. Now my bread does not look as perfect as what I could get in a bakery. And the bagels? Once in a while I try my hand…
From insideHPC
DOE: $8.5M Awarded for High-Performance Algorithms for Complex Energy Systems and Processes
Sept. 20, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced $8.5 million in funding for basic research in the development of randomized algorithms for understanding and improving the properties and behavior of complex energy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disentangling Quantum Facts
Overview of interest: Opinion
Disentangling the Facts From the Hype of Quantum Computing IEEE Quantum Week is a chance to celebrate progress and acknowledge the challenges JAMES S. CLARKE 19 SEP 2022
This is a guest post in…