Communications of the ACM
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April 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Galactica: A Large Language Model for Science Research
Quite Useful idea for sharing orgaizedscience data with with Large Language Methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTs_mXwMCs8&t=1418s
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09085
Galactica: A Large Language Model for Science
Computer Science…From The Eponymous Pickle
Artificial Intelligence Still Can't Form Concepts
Artificial Intelligence Still Can't Form Concepts
By Bennie Mols
Commissioned by CACM Staff
Melanie Mitchell.
"If the goal is to create an AI system that has humanlike abstraction abilities, then it does not make sense to have to…From The Eponymous Pickle
EleutherAI Examined
EleutherAI Conner Leahy is an open-source organization focused on advancing the state-of-the-art in large-scale AI models, particularly in the field of natural language processing (NLP). It was founded in 2020 by a group…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Under the Ice
New dimensions of exploration.
Robot provides unprecedented views below Antarctic ice shelf
By James Dean, Cornell Chronicle, March 2, 2023
High in a narrow, seawater-filled crevasse in the base of Antarctica’s largest ice shelf…From Geeking with Greg
Why did wisdom of the crowds fail?
Wisdom of the crowds summarizes the opinions of many people to produce useful results. Wisdom of the crowds algorithms -- like rankers, recommenders, and trending algorithms -- usefully do this at massive scale.
But severalstarted…
From Geeking with Greg
Netflix and their new streaming with ads
I was curious about how well Netflix's new ad-supported plans are doing. There hasn't been a lot of criticial reporting on it, and I'm sure others are wondering too, so let's go take a look at what we can find.
Their Q1 2023…From Geeking with Greg
Only as good as the data
The Washington Post reports on the data used for ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs):
We found several media outlets that rank low on NewsGuard’s independent scale for trustworthiness: RT.com No. 65, the Russian…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploratory Data Analysis with Pandas Python 2023
Nicely done general, beginners piece on data analysis
by Rob Mulla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi0vhXFPegw
122,509 views Premiered Dec 31, 2021 Medallion Python Data Science Coding Videos
In this video about exploratory data…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 29 2023)
Ovaries age quickly in women. By the age of 40, most ovaries are poorly functional. However, there is an ongoing clinical trial to check whether the drug rapamycin might slow down this aging. It is one out of several initiatives…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Dark Silicon
Ivan Sutherland played a key role in foundational computer technologies back in the 1970s. He won most if not all the major awards—the Turing Award and the Kyoto Prize in particular. Now he sees a path for America to claim the…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Manufacturing Magic
Can computers lend a creative hand to the production of new magic tricks? That's a question Howard Williams and Peter McOwan wrestled with.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dall-E Illustrating the facts
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/04/dall-e-does-palsgraf
DALL-E DOES PALSGRAF
By Bryant Walker Smith on April 3, 2023 at 8:31 am
A new article, written in 2022 and published in 2023 -- with pictures!
The article asks a leading…From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at the Future of Big Robotics: Boston Robotics
Very Good:
Subject: Watch "Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #374" on YouTube
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evolutionary Tree LLims
We build Here’s a research group trying to replicate squid cell transparency in mammalian cells. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: More Squid Camouflage Research
From insideHPC
Purdue Announces GPU Expansion of Gilbreth HPC Cluster
April 27, 2023, West Lafayette, IN — The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) at Purdue University has added 104 new NVIDIA A100 GPUs to the Gilbreth community HPC cluster. Based on Dell PowerEdge R7525 compute nodes with…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking the Layoff Process
My latest book, A Hacker’s Mind, is filled with stories about the rich and powerful hacking systems, but it was hard to find stories of the hacking by the less powerful. Here’s one I just found. An article on how layoffs at big…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AR Art Takes Over British City
A novel idea.
AR Art Takes Over British City
Wired, Elissaveta M. Brandon, April 24, 2023
The U.K. city of Sheffield has transformed its rooftops into an augmented reality (AR)-based art display. Launched in February, the "Look…From insideHPC
Flatiron Institute Using Argonne HPC to Design Peptide-based Drugs with Quantum Mechanics
A team from the Flatiron Institute is leveraging supercomputing resources from the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility to advance the design of peptides with the aim of speeding up the search for promising new drugs. “Existing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
Had not seen the innovating teams and remote work aspect being examined.
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
by James Heskettin in HBSwk.edu
Many companies are still trying to figure out how to manage teams that have limited…From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenCog
Opencog.org — July 15-16, 2020
OpenCog Foundation, SingularityNET and TrueAGI are hosting a 2-day online event aimed at spreading the word about some of the interesting things currently being done with the OpenCog proto-AGI platform…From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Said to Be Developing an AI Health Coach
Health Coaching, Easy?
Apple Said to Be Developing an AI Heath Coach
Codenamed Quartz, the monthly subscription service will guide users through their exercise, diet, and sleep-related goals.
By Adrianna Nine April 28, 2023
Apple…From The Eponymous Pickle
PRC and Chat
Very nicely done,good basics and hints.
The perils of AI (Artificial Intelligence) in the PRC (China)
April 17, 2023 @ 6:49 am · Filed by Victor Mair under Artificial intelligence, Computational linguistics, Language and politics…From The Eponymous Pickle
What Kind of Mind does ChatGPT Have?
Interesting thoughts.
What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have?
By The New Yorker, April 14, 2023
illustration of a box with a simple wire speaking and listening device.
ChatGPT is amazing, but in the final accounting it is clear that…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC at AAAS Panel Recap: “Maintaining a Rich Breadth for Artificial Intelligence” Q&A
This blog post is a continuation of yesterday’s summary of the Maintaining a Rich Breadth for Artificial Intelligence panel at the 2023 AAAS meeting. This panel was moderated by Maria Gini (University of Minnesota) and the panel…
From insideHPC
TSMC Reports Progress on 2nm Technology and 3nm Process at 2023 Technology Symposium
SANTA CLARA, CA, Apr. 26, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) showcased its latest technology developments at its 2023 North America Technology Symposium, including progress in 2nm technology and new members of its 3nm technology…
From Putting People First
Ageing with smartphones
Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland, Urban Italy, Urban Brazil, Urban Chile, Urban China and Uganda: six free open access books as part of the five year "Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing" project.
From CERIAS Blog
Reflections on the 2023 RSA Conference
I have attended 14 of the last 22 RSA conferences. I missed the last three because of COVID avoidance; many people I know who went became infected and contributed to making them superspreader events. I saw extremely few masks…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAS Panel Recap: Maintaining a Rich Breadth for Artificial Intelligence
The final CCC panel of AAAS 2023, “Maintaining a Rich Breadth for Artificial Intelligence”, was held on Sunday, March 5th, the last day of the conference. This panel was composed of David Danks (University of California – San…
From The Noisy Channel
Minimalist Models for Search Ranking
Search application developers put a lot of effort into optimizing the ranking of search results, especially in areas like ecommerce, where incremental ranking improvements translate directly to revenue. As a result, there have…