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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 Schneier on Security
I Am Parting With My Crypto Library
The time has come for me to find a new home for my (paper) cryptography library. It’s about 150 linear feet of books, conference proceedings, journals, and monographs...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Measuring memory usage: virtual versus real memory
Software developers are often concerned with the memory usage of their applications, and rightly so. Software that uses too much memory can fail, or be slow. Memory...
From Computational Complexity
Covid Stats
A stat often quoted: About 97% of hospitalized coronavirus patients have not been vaccinated. People take this as proof that once vaccinated no worries. But I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cost of Data Breaches
What it costs to have a Data Breach, useful data.IBM Report: Data-Breach Costs Hit 17-Year High of $4.24MNancy Chenyizhi Liu | Editor in SdxCentralJuly 28, 2021...
From insideHPC
NSF Partnerships Expand National AI Research Institutes to 40 states
WASHINGTON — July 29, 2021 –Today, the U.S. National Science Foundation announced the establishment of 11 new NSF National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes...
From insideHPC
Wavicle Data Solutions Introduces Augment, ML-powered Data Management Platform
CHICAGO (July 29, 2021) – Chicago-based Wavicle Data Solutions, a leading data analytics firm offering cloud migration services and data management consulting,Wavicle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Weather Company Best Weather Forecast
We actively used weather prediction data and programs for supply chain models. I now use IBM's Weather Company almost daily. Quite good, very accurate, not perfect...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Skin Is Naturally Anti-microbial
Often it feels like squid just evolved better than us mammals. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that Ihere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disrupting Ransomware by disrupting Cybercurrecy
Good piece in Schneier. Disrupt the chain of reward. Disrupting Ransomware by Disrupting BitcoinRansomware isn’t new; the idea dates back to 1986 with the “Brain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amex Uses Synthetic Data for Rare Fraud Patterns
Something we modeled even before machine learning to test 'nearness' to rare, or even nonexistent patterns. Companies Beef Up AI Models with Synthetic Data By...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Playing with Bacon's Cipher
Bacon's cipher is a fairly well-known and simple cipher. Its considered a form of steganography. Unlike most steganography, the code is hidden in the text and not...
From insideHPC
Verifying the Universe with Exascale Supercomputers
The ExaSky project, one of the critical Earth and Space Science applications being solved by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP)...
From insideHPC
Putting Data in The Driver Seat Can Change Everything
[Sponsored Post] When you have data in the driver’s seat, it’s a smooth ride. Any other operator, you risk a bumpy experience. The explosion of Digital Transformation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What3Words Location Database
And we continue to follow up the complexity, security and implications of determining location. With a system called What3Words, which I had not heard of before...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Concerns about QR Codes
Good points. I had not known that some of this data was always gathered. We did formally tesgrt the use of QR codes in store to get information about products...
From insideHPC
Chenbro Launches RM252/RM352 Short Depth Edge Computing Server Chassis Series for 5G
Taipei, Taiwan, July 27, 2021 – Chenbro (TWSE: 8210), a maker of own-brand rackmount system, announced the RM252 and RM352 series, its latest short depth 2U and...
From insideHPC
NTT Research Launches Joint Research on Neuro-Computing with The Univ. of Tokyo
Sunnyvale, Calif. – July 28, 2021 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that it has entered a joint research agreement with The University...
From insideHPC
Authors of AI/ML White Paper Win Annual Si2 Power of Partnerships Award
AUSTIN – July 28, 2021 – Authors of a groundbreaking Silicon Integration Initiative white paper identifying a common data model as the most critical need to accelerate...
From insideHPC
DOE Funding $7.7M for 11 Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling Studies
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $7.7 million in funding for 11 studies to improve understanding of earth system predictability and DOE’s Energy...
From insideHPC