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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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Cambridge Quantum: Algorithm Solves Combinatorial Optimisation Problems Faster
Cambridge, UK, July 22, 2021 – In a development the company said “is likely to set a new industry standard,” scientists at Cambridge Quantum (CQ) have developed...
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Registration Open for LLNL-sponsored Industrial ML Forum
Registration is open through July 29 for the first Machine Learning for Industry Forum (ML4I), a three-day virtual event starting Tuesday, Aug. 10. The event is...
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The Whole World Is Watching: ORNL’s Bernholdt & Programming Environment Team Prepare for Frontier and Exascale
The world’s fastest supercomputer comes with some assembly required. Frontier, the nation’s first exascale computing system, won’t come together as a whole until...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithm Helping Demystifying Networks
Interesting, but don't understand it directly. But thinking it. Boolean models are easy.Algorithm May Help Scientists Demystify Complex Networks By Penn State...
From Schneier on Security
Nasty Printer Driver Vulnerability
From SentinelLabs, a critical vulnerability in HP printer drivers: Researchers have released technical details on a high-severity privilege-escalation flaw in...
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Hard-Rock Mining
Once consulted in this space. McKinsey talks the underlying economic processes of mining.Digging deeper: Trends in underground hard-rock mining for gold and base...
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Future of Brain Computer Interfaces
Back to the classic problem of machine human interfaces.Scientists Warn of 'Bleak Cyborg Future' From Brain-Computer InterfacesBy SciTechDaily, July 20, 2021Surpassing...
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Pentagon Hacks Itself
A former employer of mine tests a by now classic approach. Note aiming at AI efforts here in particular. The Pentagon Is Bolstering Its AI Systems—by HackingBy...
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Sero! Concept Mapping: Free Trial
Mentioned here many times here before, the concept mapping tool Sero!The Evidence Basis for Concept Mapping: 50 Years and Still GrowingMore research-backed reasons...
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More Novel Drone Use
Makes one wonder though, how secure are these drones?As Spain's Beaches Fill Up, Seaside Resort Sends in DronesReuters, Horaci Garcia, July 15, 2021Officials in...
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DOE Funds $13M for Adapting Scientific Software to Run on Exascale Supercomputers
July 21, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced more than $13 million for five advanced-computing projects across nine states, including $4.4...
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Joking Chatbots Help Learning?
Brought the below up before, here is more detail. Humor is powerful, but how do we harness it? Need a good way. Thoughts? See my Humor link.Joke-Cracking Chatbots...
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AI and Media Buying
Early on considered this option. Key was to also include options available, risks in choices, knowledge from previous choices. How custom algorithms will shape...
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Kubernetes Data Services Company ionir Names Mike Wall CEO
NEW YORK — July 21, 2021 — ionir, a microservices-based Kubernetes Data Services provider, today announced Mike Wall as CEO. The move comes as the company experiences...
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Using AI to Detect Gravitational Waves
Gravitational waves, ‘ripples’ in space-time caused by some of the most violent and energetic processes in the Universe, were first predicted by Albert Einstein...
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Quobyte Releases Hadoop Native Driver for Analytics, ML, Streaming and Real-time Applications
SANTA CLARA, CA, July 21, 2021 — Quobyte Inc., a developer of scale-out software-defined storage (SDS), today announced availability of its Hadoop Driver. Quobyte...
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Aliro Quantum Wins U.S. Air Force Contracts for Quantum Network Simulation and Control
BOSTON — July 21, 2021 – Aliro Quantum today announced it has secured several contracts through AFWERX, a program from the U.S. Air Force focused on expanding technology...
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Spectra Logic and StorMagic Announce Active Archive Repository for Video Surveillance, Digital Evidence Management and Media and Entertainment
BOULDER, Colo. – July 21, 2021 – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data storage and data management solutions, today announced a partnership with StorMagic, aSpectra...
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Exascale Computing Project’s CEED to Hold Virtual Annual Meeting Aug. 3-4
The Exascale Computing Project‘s (ECP) Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED) will hold a virtual annual meeting highlighting progress on high-order...
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