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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
On TAB Overloads in Chrome
Well yes, will give this a try.Overcoming Tab Overload By Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer ScienceIn a study of Internet browser tab usage, computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cleaning Messy Data Tables
Looks to be efficient at least. Check out the code. Note the use of Bayesian reasoning.Home/News/System Cleans Messy Data Tables Automatically/Full TextACM TECHNEWS...
From Computational Complexity
Why do countries and companies invest their own money (or is it?) in Quantum Computing (Non-Rhetorical)
There have been some recent blog posts by Scott (see here) and Lance (see here) about the hype for SHORT TERM APPLICATIONS of Quantum Computing, which they both...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Local Company to do Automated Welding
some intriguing aspects to the overall task. Path Robotics raises $56M Series B for automated welding in TechcrunchBrian Heater@bheater / 8:00 AM EDT•May 3,Factory_Scenario_Perspective...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice for any IOT
New idea. Easier voice for any IOT. Secure? Ambiq Debuts Voice-on-SPOT Kit to Bring Voice Controls to Battery-Operated Devices By Eric Hal Schwartz in Voicebot...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leveraging Magnonic Devices
New word to me : Magnonic. The quanta of spin waves. Based on the article, seems to be a useful thing. Feedback Algorithm Boosts Design of Magnonic Devices...
From The Eponymous Pickle
About the Colossus Computer
Am a long time follower of the history of computing since I worked with one of the people who had a part in maintaining the ENIAC computer at the U of P. This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Diagnosing Windows Internet Connections
I am sure you have all run into this. Just did and played with the router and wifi box for some time. Then found it very helpful. But the internet diagnosis capability...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 15th 2021)
There were rainforests near the south pole 90 million years ago. Though commercial exchanges are typically win-win for both the buyer and the seller, people tend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Topology and Homology Address the Form of Data.
Nice short piece on Topology. I was introduced to it at an early age, and liked aspects of how it linked to the real world in a special ways. But I never saw...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The French Army Tests the Spot for Recon
Unexpected, but real uses in reconnaissance and supply applications. And just exposure of the French army and command to future, possibly more autonomous means...
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Amazon Assistant to Roll on 700K Ford Vehicles
Pretty impressive rollout here. Like to see additional novel uses as well. My own Echo Auto continues to run well. Amazon’s Alexa Gets Biggest Auto Rollout By...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Smart Neighborhoods to Emerge
I know this has created some stir about privacy and invasiveness, but it seems most of the privacy gurus that have taken a closer look are seeing it as benign...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Explosive materials
Can think of several projects we connected with that would have benefitted by this effort. Depending on its efficacy. Is supported in part by the DHS. Department...
From insideHPC
IBM Doubles Down on 1000+-Qubit Quantum in 2023
As expectation-setting goes in the technology, this is one of the boldest we’ve ever seen. At IBM’s annual Think conference, a senior systems executive reiterated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulations Beat Quantum Computing
Toshiba work of interest. Linking to Microsoft Cloud. Would you expect a simulation to beat out an actual implementation? Depends. But a simulation usuallyCommissioned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teeth Tapping Control
An unexpected direction.The Next Frontier for Gesture Control: TeethIEEE Spectrum, Evan Ackerman, May 5, 2021Researchers at Cornell University's Smart Computer...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Letter to ACM-W Chapters
Whew. What a year it has been. And you survived. Or maybe, even found a way to thrive. I want to let you know that we see the work you are doing, and we appreciate...
From insideHPC
ALCF Webinar May 26: NVIDIA Profiling Tools Ecosystem for HPC and AI
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) on May 26 will host a webinar in which NVIDIA will present their profiling tools, Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute...
From insideHPC