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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
Is AI Re-Inventing Computers?
Very interesting piece. Anything can become a computer?Three key ways artificial intelligence is changing what it means to compute.By Will Douglas Heaven, October...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft: Orbit Database of Objects
Microsoft Announces a teachable database of objects.Announcing the ORBIT dataset: Advancing real-world few-shot learning using teachable object recognitionPublished...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moscow Implements Metro Facial Recognition
Expect parts of the world without these 'fears' to quickly implement many kinds of such recognition systems, for greater efficiency. Privacy Fears as Moscow Metro...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (October 23rd 2021)
Apple announced new processors for its computers. Here is a table with the transistor count of some recent Apple processors: processor release year transistorsContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting Living Cells on Chips
Linking biological responses to Computer ChipsPutting Living Cells on ChipsBy University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 21, 2021University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Abhijeet...
From Putting People First
UX Theatre, or the rise of UX design without users
UX Theatre is "the application of any sort of design methodology without including a single user in the process, or including users but merely for show."
From Putting People First
An anthropologist on Facebook’s new “Ray-Ban Stories” glasses
With this product, writes anthropologist Sally Applin in MIT's Technology Review, "Facebook is claiming the face as real estate for its own technology."
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Training Proof for Quantum AI
Technical finding regarding CNN and the ability to train. Applicability to discovering new materials. Breakthrough Proof Clears Path for Quantum AILos Alamos...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
An Annoying Problem
It’s the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers — Cory Doctorow ACM Turing Award source Robert Tarjan is well known to most...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recent AI books are Described in CACM
Some good recent books brought to my attention, intro below.AI Futures: Fact and FantasyThree books offer varied perspectives on the ascendancy of artificial intelligence...
From insideHPC
LLNL Joins Human Vaccines Project
Oct. 21, 2021 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has joined the international Human Vaccines Project (HVP), bringing lab research and computing resources...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Media Lab RFusion Finds Hidden, Missing Things
A classic problem for mapping, decluttering the Smart HomeMIT Media Lab: RFusion52.9K subscribersThis video presents a new robot from MIT called RFusion, whichFor...
From insideHPC
Overcoming Bandwidth and Capacity Bottlenecks in the Exascale Era
[SPONSORED POST] Join us for the Advanced Memory Architectures to Overcome Bandwidth Bottlenecks for the Exascale Era of Computing webinar on November 10 at 9:00...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Regulators Want more Details of Payment Systems
To be expected, how can the details of this be used to improve security?Regulators demand more info about tech payment systems in TheVergeQuery orders sent out...
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Did IBM Lose the Cloud?
Did IBM Lose the Cloud and was Emphasis on Watson to Blame? Interacted with them during the early Watson days and there was quite an investment in that. How ...
From insideHPC
Argonne Names 5 New Distinguished Fellows
Argonne National Laboratory has named for 2021 five new Argonne Distinguished Fellows, the lab’s highest title: Pete Beckman, Lois Curfman McInnes and Rick Stevens...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Hyperautomation?
My friend Gib Basset authors this piece in Retailwire, including further discussion: Will ‘hyperautomation’ determine retailing success from this point forward?...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Converting binary floating-point numbers to integers
You are given a floating-point number, e.g. a double type in Java or C++. You would like to convert it to an integer type… but only if the conversion is exact.Continue...
From My Biased Coin
Networking+Theory Postdoc at Harvard
The last couple of years one aspect of research I've greatly enjoyed is getting back into networking, which is really due to my excellent (and patient) collaborators...
From The Eponymous Pickle