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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
Grand Transitions
Makes you think.A Theory of (Almost) EverythingA new book / Podcast analyzes the seven grand transitions that have formed the modern world By Steven CherryWe’ve...
From insideHPC
A New Approach to Storage and Data Management
In this sponsored post, Olivier Multon, Storage & Data Management Product Manager, Atos, BDS - Big Data & Security, believes that with the expansion of data-intensive...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Announces New Council Members Starting July 2021
The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed five new members to the Computing Community...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Superforecasting Update
For some time have followed GoodJudgment and their 'superforecasting' services. Most recently got a new overview with considerable efforts and claims. Since...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning From My Students
Being back in the classroom has been a learning experience for me. For one thing I have had to learn a bit of Processing (the IDE) as students had been using it...
From Schneier on Security
Apple Censorship and Surveillance in China
Good investigative reporting on how Apple is participating in and assisting with Chinese censorship and surveillance.
From Schneier on Security
Adding a Russian Keyboard to Protect against Ransomware
A lot of Russian malware — the malware that targeted the Colonial Pipeline, for example — won’t install on computers with a Cyrillic keyboard installed. Brian Krebs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo Tries Smart Glasses
A number of companies have tried the wearable assistant idea, announced originally in December, now Amazon will try the idea in earnest. Will the idea work this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using the Rust Language for Code Safety
In a recent dev oriented conversation someone mentioned Rust as a programing Language to improve code safety. I heard about it again today re Facebook's usage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Machine Learning Glossary
Ajit Jaokar Sends along his AI Newsletter, he writes: Open this article on LinkedIn to see what people are saying about this topic. Open on LinkedInEdition 4:Our...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Converting binary integers to ASCII characters: Apple M1 vs AMD Zen2
Programmers often need to write integers as characters. Thus given the 32-bit value 1234, you might need a function that writes the characters 1234. We can useContinue...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming NSF CISE Deadlines
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has some upcoming solicitation deadlines. Check them out...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Teams now for Friends, Family, Fun, Slack .... and Free too
Players have decided that free group software in all contexts is the way to win big and broadly post pandemic.Microsoft Teams is ready for 'friends and family'After...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Critical US Infrastructure and Fair Fights
Recent direct attacks on critical US infrastructure lead us to ask: How much of that is there?Bruce Schneier asks:Is 85% of US Critical Infrastructure in Private...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building AIs that Feels Emotion, Empathy
Work by Microsoft's 'Human Understanding and Empathy' group. New to me but likely useful as a component of other sensory measures. In context, as always. Building...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are Flexibles the Future?
Samsung seems to think so, but have still not seen the argument made that they are more convenient overall. Samsung teases its next generation of flexible displays...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and AWS Colaboration
Was unaware of the depth of this, especially the connection of SAP, who we worked with extensively. IBM’s and AWS’ five-year anniversary shows maturing relationship...
From insideHPC
Future of Data Visualization and Agile Business Intelligence
The biggest trends we’ve seen in data over the past decade are; the sheer growth of data set sizes, coupled with the increasing complexity of analysis and dataFuture...
From Schneier on Security
Is 85% of US Critical Infrastructure in Private Hands?
Most US critical infrastructure is run by private corporations. This has major security implications, because it’s putting a random power company in — say — Ohio...
From The Eponymous Pickle