Communications of the ACM
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October 2019
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Hobgoblins in Our Equations
With consequences for physics Britannica source Paul Painlevé was a French mathematician who specialized in classical mechanics. He is known for a conjecture in 1895 about anomalies in Isaac Newton’s equations that was proved…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Paid for Your Data
More and better data means better training. Better results. And better adaption to future knowledge. Still not perfect results, and the risk involved in that imperfection must be considered. Payment or the means to use…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on McD's Knows What You Want
More on the McDonald's drive through idea. Less friction, more sales. Note plan to roll to all drive-throughs. Looking forward to see it in action.
McDonald’s drive-thru AI knows what you want before you orde by Matthew Stern…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Disinformation is (Unfortunately) Here to Stay
We live in a new world. A world where information can spread fast and without any regard to accuracy. Our challenge as individual citizens is to somehow identify the disinformation from the actual information. Kate Starbird and…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing numbers in C++: streams, strtod, from_chars
When programming, we often want to convert strings (e.g., “1.0e2”) into numbers (e.g., 100). In C++, we have many options. In a previous post, I reported that it is an expensive process when using the standard approach (streams)…
From Computational Complexity
Statistics to Scare
So how do you parse the following paragraph from Monday's NYT Evening Breifing.
A study in JAMA Pediatrics this year found that the average Halloween resulted in four additional pedestrian deaths compared with other nights.
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From insideHPC
Spectra Logic Protects Genome Data for Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Today Spectra Logic announced that the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has chosen the Spectra NAS solution for management of its extensive library of research data. "The IT group set out to procure a solution that could
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictions in Science
Could you crowdsource validity within science?
Individual predictions might not tell us much, but group predictions are useful. in Arstechnica
Last year, a huge group of researchers collaborated to try to replicate the results…
From insideHPC
Dell EMC to Deploy World’s Largest Industrial Supercomputer at Eni
Today Eni announced plans to deploy the world's largest industrial supercomputer at its Green Data Center in Italy. Called "HPC5," the new system from Dell EMC will triple the computing power of their existing HPC4 system. The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numbers Being Transformations
Claimed success or sometimes not. Rarely seen the actual numbers discussed. Metrics are important.
The numbers behind successful transformations By Kevin Laczkowski, Tao Tan, and Matthias Winter
“What gets measured,” Peter…
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing: The Why and How
Jonathan Baker from the University of Chicago gave this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "Jonathan is studying quantum architectures, specifically how to map quantum algorithms more efficiently…
From insideHPC
How PRACE Brings HPC to Industry
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World speaks with Lee Margetts, chair of PRACE’s industrial advisory committee, about its work to increase the engagement of industrial HPC users. "When we started…
From The Eponymous Pickle
4 Keys to AI Success
Good, completely non technical piece in the Cisco Blog. Needs much filling out but starts the conversation.
AI and the 4 Keys to its Success: Diving Deeper
By Anthony McKinney, Cisco Blog
October 31, 2019 - 0 Comments
Like the internet…
From insideHPC
A Liquid Cooling Petascale Supercomputing Site and GROMACS Workload Optimization Benchmark
Accelerated computing have been viewed as revolutionary breakthrough technologies for AI and HPC workloads. Significant accelerated computing power from GPUs paired with CPUs is the major contributor. Our friends over at Quanta…
From Schneier on Security
A Broken Random Number Generator in AMD Microcode
Interesting story. I always recommend using a random number generator like Fortuna, even if you're using a hardware random source. It's just safer....
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Codes Have Considerable Value
Someone recently mentioned to me, in a discussion of brand package identification, that QR Codes had disappeared. I knew that was not the case, but did not have a good set of examples. And then came this. Here a very extensive…
From insideHPC
GCS Student Team preps for SC19 Student Cluster Competition
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) will once again sponsor some of Germany’s brightest collegiate minds at the SC19 Student Cluster Competition. Team “deFAUlt" is one of four European teams entering the student competition…
From insideHPC
Parker Hannifin to Showcase Liquid Cooling Solutions at SC19
Parker Hannifin will showcase their latest quick connect couplings for liquid cooling at SC19 in Denver. "Recognized as the largest manufacturer of quick couplings in the world, Parker couplings incorporate non-spill valving,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wind Energy Kites
Intriguing approach for wind energy production, in IEEE Spectrum.
Alphabet’s Makani Tests Wind Energy Kites in the North Sea
The flyers are just one of several airborne wind energy technologies that could shape the future of wind…
From insideHPC
TMGcore and Vertiv Collaborate on Self-Contained Data Center Platform
Today TMGcore announced today a partnership with Vertiv to help develop its new self-contained data center platform that requires an average of 80 percent less power to cool than traditional infrastructure. Vertiv’s critical
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From The Eponymous Pickle
People-Centered Design Principles for AI
I attended the following, and I think the following links will work for you, but will test.
Watch your webinar on demand!
MIT Sloan Management Review
.... “People-Centered Design Principles for AI Implementation.” You can access…
From insideHPC
New Cray ClusterStor E1000 to Power Exascale Workloads
Today Cray unveiled its Cray ClusterStor E1000 system, an entirely new parallel storage platform for the Exascale Era. "As the external high performance storage system for the first three U.S. exascale systems, Cray ClusterStor…
From Schneier on Security
WhatsApp Sues NSO Group
WhatsApp is suing the Israeli cyberweapons arms manufacturer NSO Group in California court: WhatsApp's lawsuit, filed in a California court on Tuesday, has demanded a permanent injunction blocking NSO from attempting to access…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Inventing the Future with AI for Science
In this Sound of Science podcast, researchers from ORNL dispel some of those myths and discuss how AI is transforming cancer research, manufacturing and plant biology. "Artificial intelligence is no longer just a subject of science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Michael Goodkin on Getting Answers Faster
Recent reading inspires some thoughts.
Struck me that such methods what we are doing today. Is faster always better? And may be further advanced by technologies like 5G. Depends on the risk involved and how it is managed.
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Scans Will Identify You
Not unexpected, with that much data. But can it be done externally? Methods are evolving in many kinds of biometrics.
Someday a Computer May Use Brain Scans to Identify You
The New York Times By Gina Kolata
Mayo Clinic investigators…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Notes and Introduction to Extreme Classification
Notes on.
Extreme Classification By Manik Varma (Abstract)
Communications of the ACM, November 2019, Vol. 62 No. 11, Pages 44-45
10.1145/3355628
What would you do if you had the super-power to accurately answer, in a few milliseconds…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk Tomorrow: On the need of an Ethical AI Due Diligence
Speaker: Roberto Zicari, Goethe University
Talk: On the need of an ethical AI Due Diligence
Time: October 31, 2019 11:30 ET
Zoom meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/7371462221
Zoom Callin…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk: Sports Summary Highlight Video Construction Using AI
You can now find the recording from Stephen Hammer's excellent Oct 24th talk on improving the fan experience: "Sports Summary Highlight Videos using AI"
Slides: http://cognitive-science.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/csig_Sports__AI_Hammer_v1…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Program Webinar on November 7th
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) new solicitation, titled National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes: Accelerating Research, Transforming Society, and Growing the American Workforce, has a program webinar…