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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 Eponymous Pickle
600 KM Quantum Encryption Transmission
Recently studied a company doing something similar, over considerably less distance. Will this continue to expand? Implications? Quantum-Encrypted Information...
From insideHPC
AWS Announces GA of Habana Labs-powered EC2 DL1 Instances
SEATTLE– Oct. 26, 2021– AWS has announced general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) DL1 instances designed for training machine learning...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
In C++, is empty() faster than comparing the size with zero?
Most C++ programmers rely on “STL” for their data structures. The most popular data structure is probably vector, which is just a dynamic array. The set and the...
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale: Guiding the Construction of Frontier’s Mechanical Systems
In this episode of the Let's Talk Exascale podcast, David Grant, high performance computing engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, talks with the lab's Scott...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NATO Releases first ever Strategy for AI
Was a bit surprised at this, will review. Mentioned are related ethics. Cooperative approaches. Indicates a level of seriousness. Have worked with some NATO...
From insideHPC
Secure Petabyte Transportable Storage for the Rugged Edge
In this sponsored post, Braden Cooper, Product Marketing Manager at One Stop Systems, discusses how OSS uses the latest in NVMe storage technologies and ruggedSecure...
From insideHPC
Oak Ridge Partners with University of Oklahoma
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Oklahoma (OU) recently executed a memorandum of understanding to officially recognize their partnership in pursuing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk Assessment Algorithms Can Unfairly Impact Court Decisions
An aspect hat we examined for potential changes in court standings on regulations. Well worth following. Risk Assessment Algorithms Can Unfairly Impact Court ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating and Detecting Manipulated Images
Creating and human detection of manipulated images. Including an excellent explanatory video. Expect this to become increasingly common. Considerable detail...
From insideHPC
Los Alamos Names 3 Athena Engineering Scholars
The Athena Engineering Scholars Program is designed to inspire women to achieve their full potential as future leaders in engineering. The Athena Program is open...
From insideHPC
AMD to Showcase New EPYC and Instinct Data Center Chips at Nov. 8 Virtual Event
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) will host its Accelerated Data Center premiere on Monday, Nov. 8 at 11 am ET, showcasing the company’s upcoming EPYC CPU processors and Instinct...
From My Biased Coin
How to send a real number using a single bit (and some shared randomness)
In this post, we'll look at the natural problem of how to communicate an estimate of a real value in [0,1], using just 1 bit. The post is based on this paper (by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Partners with Wolfram for Data
Just noted this, a good direction. Can see this as useful, especially in filling analyses with meta or test data. Which we often integrated. I just also started...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Robotics for Eldercare
We worked with researchers in Japan on related efforts.Collaborators Launch AI-Robotics Initiative to Aid Older Adults in Daily Care By University of Massachusetts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Pseudo Coffee
I did technical analysis work for one of the world's largest coffee companies. So this was interesting. But I disagree that the environmental issues here are...
From The Noisy Channel
Thoughts on Search Result Diversity
Regular readers know that search is about much more than ranking. If you’re new here, you might want to read this post about ranking vs. relevance.But a topic I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
From CIS: Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law
Very good piece from Stanford Law on technology. Below intro and beyond.From: The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MFA is Phishable
Multi factor authentication (MFA) is seen as a strong means of security, but can be less so, here some reasons why.Why Is the Majority of Our MFA So Phishable?Published...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watch Who You Talk to
More details about the approach at the linkTwitter accounts linked to cyberattacks against security researchers suspendedNorth Korean hackers are luring professionals...
From Computational Complexity