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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
More on Amazon Sidewalk
This continues to generate controversy, here from CNet and ACM:Amazon Sidewalk: What to know before sharing your home's bandwidthBy CNet June 9, 2021June 8 marked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Excel with Python
Nice idea. In fact can think of several application examples where we were appending to capabilities of existing spreadsheets. One a much used, almost historical...
From insideHPC
Rasgo Raises $25M to Deliver the Feature Store for Cloud Native Databases and Introduce New Data Science Capabilities
June 22, 2021, New York – Rasgo Intelligence, the feature store that is transforming how data scientists engineer, collaborate on, and operationalize Machine Learning...
From insideHPC
Xilinx Claims Highest AI Performance-per-Watt for Edge Compute
SAN JOSE, June 9, 2021 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the adaptive computing company, today introduced the Versal AI Edge series, designed to enable AI innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
Was just pointed out to me, seems a good resource.The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) leads the industry in offering cloud security-specific research, education,Welcome...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast: Why Our Judgment is Flawed
An important idea to understand, and I think even our quick jump to assume that our judgments are wrong also needs to be better understood. In ourselves and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google to Add Atlantic Sea Cable
Somewhat surprising with all the attempts to get Satellite based links. I assume to get more backup connections as we continue to depend more on reliable data....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Mental Health
But needs to be carefully studied in various contexts. Recall some of the various 'therapist' capabilities in early AI that had unexpected results.TechnologyTexas...
From insideHPC
ECP Pushes Cross-Platform Tested Compilers for HPC and Exascale Architectures
The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is working to combine two key technologies, LLVM and continuous integration (CI), to ensure that current and future compilers...
From insideHPC
RMACC Names HPC Symposium Poster Winner
BOULDER, CO – Doga Cagdas Demirkan, a third-year mining engineering Ph.D. candidate at Colorado School of Mines, has been named the winner of the annual student...
From The Noisy Channel
Ranking vs. Relevance
Most folks who work on search worry about relevance. But it’s surprisingly difficult to find a useful definition of relevance.Defining RelevanceMerriam-Webster ...
From insideHPC
Univ. of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Expands Research Capability, Adds 10PB of Panasas Storage
SUNNYVALE, Calif.– June 8, 2021 —Panasas, a maker of high-performance computing (HPC) data storage solutions, announced an expansion of its 13-year relationship...
From insideHPC
GUC Tapes Out AI/HPC/Networking Platform on TSMC CoWoS Technology with 7.2 Gbps HBM3 Controller and PHY, GLink-2.5D and 112G-LR SerDes IPs
Hsinchu, Taiwan – June 8, 2021 – Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), the Advanced ASIC Leader, announced today that it has successfully taped out AI/HPC/Networking CoWoS...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Margaret Martonosi Receives the 2021 ACM/IEEE-CS Eckert-Mauchly Award
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society recently announced that former Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Research...
From My Biased Coin
Machine Learning for Algorithms Workshop (July 13-14)
We're having an online workshop on "Machine Learning for Algorithms" on July 13-14, with a great group of speakers. Announcement below, link at https://fodsi.us...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Players Want to Play Semantics for Meaning
This precisely what we wanted to do, to let our systems understand the meaning of words, rather than just what the meaning they have been assigned by language....
From insideHPC
IBM Releases AI Toolkit for Deep Learning Uncertainties
Deep learning is smart and it knows it. It loves to show off its ability to connect dots no one else can see, to be the smartest in the room. But that’s when deep...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Deepfake Picture Editing
“Markpainting” is a clever technique to watermark photos in such a way that makes it easier to detect ML-based manipulation: An image owner can modify their image...
From Schneier on Security
Information Flows and Democracy
Henry Farrell and I published a paper on fixing American democracy: “Rechanneling Beliefs: How Information Flows Hinder or Help Democracy.” It’s much easier for...
From Schneier on Security