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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Noisy Channel
Modeling Queries as Bags of Documents
Last week, I had the honor of presenting “Modeling Queries as Bags of Documents” at Search Solutions 2024 with Aritra Mandal.We introduced the bag-of-documentshow...
From insideHPC
Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger
Dec. 2, 2024, SANTA CLARA, CA — Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) today announced that Pat Gelsinger, the company’s CEO since February 2021, has retired from the...
From Schneier on Security
Details about the iOS Inactivity Reboot Feature
I recently wrote about the new iOS feature that forces an iPhone to reboot after it’s been inactive for a longish period of time. Here are the technical details...
From Computational Complexity
Conway's Trick for Divisibility. Asking its complexity is an odd question.
(I got this material from a nice article by Arthur Benjamin here.) Conway suggested the following trick to determine if a number is divisible by each of the following...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
December Adventure–Write some Code Everyday
Eugene Wallingford let me in on A December Adventure From the website “The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little bit of code every day in...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Inspired Needle Technology
Interesting research: Using jet propulsion inspired by squid, researchers demonstrate a microjet system that delivers medications directly into tissues, matching...
From Schneier on Security
Race Condition Attacks against LLMs
These are two attacks against the system components surrounding LLMs: We propose that LLM Flowbreaking, following jailbreaking and prompt injection, joins as the...
From Schneier on Security
NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments
The Israeli company NSO Group sells Pegasus spyware to countries around the world (including countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Mexico, Morocco and Rwanda)...
From insideHPC
AMD Releases ROCm Version 6.3
Nov. 26, 2024: AMD today announced the release of ROCm Version 6.3 open-source platform, introducing tools and optimizations for AI, ML and HPC workloads on AMD...
From insideHPC
Quantum: Alice & Bob Announce Logical Qubit Emulator
PARIS, 26th November 2024 – Alice & Bob, a fault-tolerant quantum computing company, today announced Felis 1.0, its toolbox with logical qubit emulator designed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hour of Code and Corporate Involvement in CS Education
An interesting article was shared on Facebook recently -Is the 'Hour of Code' the New 30-Minute Saturday Morning Cartoon Commercial? Take a look at it. It may make...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning and Hexapawn
A presenter at the recent New England CSTA New England Conference mentioned the game Hexapawn. Hexapawn is hardly new. It was first introduced in 1962. I first...
From insideHPC
Harbor Service, VAST Data Provide Storage Upgrade for NCSA Systems
Nov. 20, 2024: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and VAST Data are giving supercomputing system Delta and the newly launched DeltaAI a boost in...
From insideHPC
Webinar: ALCF Developer Session on HPC Workflows to Be Held Dec. 11
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar at 11 am Central Time on Wednesday, Dec. 11 covering remote workflows at ALCF. Registration is here...
From The Noisy Channel
Documents, Queries, and Categories
I have published a number of posts and presentations about the bag-of-documents model, which essentially represents query intent as a distribution in a document...
From insideHPC
Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute Selects IQM Spark Quantum Computer
Taipei, Taiwan, 25th November 2024 – The Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI) under the National Applied Research Laboratories today announces the procurement...
From Computational Complexity
We Will All Write Like AI
Will our writing all converge to a generic AI style? Let's take a quick detour into LaTeX. Back in the late '80s, before LaTeX was the standard, there was TeX—a...
From Schneier on Security
Security Analysis of the MERGE Voting Protocol
Interesting analysis: An Internet Voting System Fatally Flawed in Creative New Ways. Abstract: The recently published “MERGE” protocol is designed to be used in...
From Writing
Everything I wish I'd known about rotator cuff surgery
Image source: Nucleus Communications.
From Writing