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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
Hacker Resistant Cloud Software
From a former employer of mine. Don't understand the details as yet. See that it is to be presented shortly. A proof? See also the paper mentioned below for...
From insideHPC
Ramon.Space Raises $17.5M for Supercomputing in Space
PALO ALTO, Calif. and YOKNEAM, Israel, May 25, 2021 — Ramon.Space, developer of space computing solutions, has raised $17.5M in Series A funding. The round includes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
LaMDA: Next Generation Chatbots
Short intro to Google's LaMDA. Looking for smarter conversations. Hope to use this in upcoming applications.Google’s LaMDA: The Next Generation of ChatbotsFirst...
From insideHPC
Kao Data Is NVIDIA DGX-Ready
London, May 25, 2021 — Kao Data, developer and operator of carrier neutral data centres for high performance colocation, has today announced it has become NVIDIA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Does Your AI Work? (Not just what is it called)
Interesting piece in Datanami. But I suggest that the implications are incomplete. The chart shown only mentions the general type of 'AI' mentioned. Not how...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Celebrates Its 35th Anniversary
This month marks the 35th anniversary of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate. CISE was founded...
From Computational Complexity
Does the university matter?
As we come out of a pandemic with online teaching and research collaborations, how much do we actually need the university?Theoretical research in computer science...
From insideHPC
June 2 ENERXICO Webinar: Energy Subsurface Exploration with HPC
The ENERXICO project, a Europe-Mexico collaboration to develop performance simulation tools requiring exascale HPC and data intensive algorithms for energy sources...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What should a Robot do when it Cannot Trust the Model it was Trained on?
Also a thing we expect of useful 'intelligence'... knowing its limitations. Or do we? How is this different? What should a robot do when it cannot trust theHelping...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deceiving AI
Made me think, usually models we create are to determine some state, current or future, to be more accurate. But now we can make models that have more precisely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Theory for Large Scale Data Analysis
Intriguing thought, technical.Game theory as an engine for large-scale data analysis By Brian McWilliams, Ian Gemp, Claire VernadeEigenGame maps out a new approach...
From insideHPC
ALCF Data Science Program Awards 4 Projects
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) recently awarded computing time and resources to three new projects and one renewed project for 2021-2022, through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford Chatbot Study
Mostly obvious results, but useful characterizations. We leveraged a 'concierge' model being most important, how do you get people to the right humans, the ones...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Executive Director Andrew Bernat Announces Retirement
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sad to announce the retirement of CRA Executive Director Andrew Bernat. Bernat was instrumental in the development of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft in China Retail Tech?
Had visited Microsoft's retail tech facility in the past.Microsoft Pushes into Growing Grocery Tech Market with Deal in ChinaCNBC, Evelyn Cheng, May 20, 2021 Microsoft's...
From insideHPC
UL Joins Open Compute Project to Further Enable Data Center and Enterprise System Designs
Northbrook, Ill., May 24, 2021 — UL, the global safety science leader, today announced that it has joined the Open Compute Project (OCP). UL joined the organization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China to Ban Bitcoin Mining
Surprising, perhaps? What are the details? China will likely ban all bitcoin mining soonCountry’s top financial regulator homes in on the source. By Tim De...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
ACM Athena Lecturer Award
It was never about winning medals or being famous—Nancy Kerrigan Award page Ayanna Howard is this year’s winner of the ACM Athena Lecturer Award. She works in robotics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Events
Don't like 'rules' in particular, but reasonable considerations in some context of use:10 rules for any executive navigating the new world of virtual conferences...
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