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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 …
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$125M in NIH Grants to Study Cellular Aging to Be Coordinated by PSC and Other Pittsburgh Institutions
Oct. 20, 2021 — National Institute of Health grants totaling approximately $125 million over five years to 16 U.S. institutions will fund research to explore the...
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US Commerce Dept Bans Selling Hacking Tools to China, Russia
Not sure this means very much, but the list of tools mentioned within the article is interesting. Commerce Department announces new rule aimed at stemming sale ...
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Qualcomm Smart Cities And Cepton
Cepton Joins Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program, Bringing Expertise in Smart Lidar Technologies for Higher Levels of Safety, Intelligence and Connectivity...
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Robots Sewing
Useful to see examples where robotics have problems with manufacturing steps.Why Robots Can't Sew Your T-ShirtBy Wired, September 28, 2021SoftWear Automation https...
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IBM's Journey to AI Blog
IBM taking a fresh look at AIIBM's Journey to AI BlogData: It’s becoming richer, cheaper, and increasingly open in the post-pandemic world of broad digitalization...
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The Security of Pin Codes
Disconcerting suggestion. Via Schneier, see where there are comments of interest .... Credit card PINs can be guessed even when covering the ATM pad in Bleepingcomputer...
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Exxact Partners with SoftIron on Ceph-based Software Defined Storage
FREMONT, CA, October 19, 2021 — Exxact Corporation, provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and data center solutions, and SoftIron...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Some Statistical Gamma Fun
Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum. — Leonhard Euler Cantor’s Paradise page Kasper Müller is a mathematics and...
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Lucy as a Robot Archaeologist
Archaeologists adapt to the context to make the best use of their time and resources. Is this what is being done or are just doing remote control? Following.Why...
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Small Data Also Crucial, With Tested Transfer Assumption
We tried related ideas but found that the transfer assumption rarely held well enough to be useful. Useful to keep in mind to potentially simplify models, with...
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Quantum Data Link over Chinese Cities
Repeated, was asked for new comment on this: via ACM TECHNEWSQuantum Data Link Established Between 2 Distant Chinese CitiesBy New ScientistResearchers at theThe...
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PRACE Invites Participation in HPC for Industry Survey
Oct. 19, 2021 — PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has issued a survey aimed at assessing difficulties and issues SMEs face when attempting...
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AI Forecasting
All of AI is a kind of forecasting and I like see the comparison of statistical and AI style methods. Some related examples below.New Post: Updates and Lessons...
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ColdQuanta’s Research-as-a-Service Begins 1st Project with Oak Ridge
BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 18, 2021 — Cold atom quantum technology company ColdQuanta has announced the company has embarked on its first project under its new Quantum...
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Frontier: OLCF’S Justin Whitt on Deploying the First Exascale Supercomputer
In this installment of the Let’s Talk Exascale podcast series produced by the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, Justin Whitt, program directorFrontier...
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Robot Trains for Clogged Infrastructure
Intriguing solution.How to Move More Goods Through America's Clogged Infrastructure? Robot TrainsThe Wall Street Journal, Christopher Mims, October 9, 2021Autonomous...
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Facebook's Tools can Target a Single User
Well I would think the title above is clearly true, but the question is how effective is it in a useful context? And is that ethically more powerful than a typical...
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Pentagon Predicting Events
Long after I worked for NCSS at the Pentagon, but you could start to hear the same questions at the time, when we were predicting events using large scale visualization...
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Join insideHPC at Today’s HPE Exascale Day Broadcast
Exascale Day, today, is a special occasion for HPE, which isn’t surprising considering that the company is the prime contractor for two of the first three exascale...
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