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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
IBM Bullish on Homomorphic Encryption
Yet more interest in this technique by major players.IBM bets homomorphic encryption is ready to deliver stronger data security for early adoptersBy Chris O'Brien...
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WIFI Object Sensing
Schneier reports on Wi-Fi Devices as Physical Object Sensors in the new 802.11bf standard. He mentions this is reported in TheRegister, but also that there is...
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Early Warning Systems for Self Driving
Recognizing situations for warnings. Classic AI application.Early Warning System for Self-Driving CarsTechnical University of Munich (Germany), March 30, 2021An...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Explanations and Contexts
An example of the need for explain-ability. Like in a conversation with a human, we could want the option of getting an explanation of a solution. But the nature...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Relaxing the Primes
Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data—Tim Gowers Finnish Scientific Courage Award source Kaisa Matomäki is...
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A Distributed Quantum Computing Prototype
Although still very small this seems to demonstrate combined bits at a distance, assuming then that each is then operating as an independent computer, with theQuantum...
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Echo has Zoom
Good to see broader, business oriented capabilities.Amazon’s Echo Show 10 now has ZoomFor those pandemic-fueled video callsBy Ashley Carman@ashleyrcarman in TheVerge...
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B to B Machine Learning
Type of companies and their goals and implications.Defensible Machine Learning via O'Reilly in Basecase.vcBy Ankur Goyal, Alana Anderson March 3, 2021B2B machine...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA/CCC Announces CIFellows 2021 Program
The Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) are pleased to announce a new Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) cohort...
From Schneier on Security
Phone Cloning Scam
A newspaper in Malaysia is reporting on a cell phone cloning scam. The scammer convinces the victim to lend them their cell phone, and the scammer quickly clones...
From insideHPC
Silicon’s Successors: 2-D Materials Aim to Carry the Post-Moore’s Law Torch
Even as a flurry of new silicon has been launched recently by AMD and Arm, with more to come this week from Intel, silicon’s five decades of microprocessor dominance...
From insideHPC
NCSA’s Delta Supercomputer to be Allocable by XSEDE this Summer
Delta, a $10 million National Science Foundation-funded advanced computing system housed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University...
From Computational Complexity
Do any NP-reductions use deep mathematics? Non-rhetically
BILL: Lets say we didn't know that FACTORING NPC --> NP=coNP.then what direction would we think Factoring in P or NPC? STUDENT: In P. After all, Number Theory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Albertsons Partners with Google
Interesting out of market play, but I do remember being shown a Google physical store mapped space that digitized the experience of shopping lists. See my tags...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My programming setup
As my GitHub profile indicates, I program almost every single working day of the year. I program in C++, C, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, R, Swift, Rust, C#; even...
From Putting People First
Key lessons from Digital Ethnography Summit
In a year in which Covid-19 has forced researchers to resort to online research, what opportunities for the industry exist in digital ethnography? Liam Kay of ResearchLive...
From Putting People First
New Ars Electronica video series on digital humanism
What does it mean on a practical level to become a digital humanist? 'User Manual for Digital Humanists' is a new Ars Electronica video series that focuses on re...
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VR Brings Joy to Assistive Living Facilities
Perhaps a novel way of using VR. Aims at creating artificial environments for treatment. Seems odd, but perhaps a useful means of improving environments. Manipulative...
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Intro to Bayesian
Good intro to the idea of Bayesian computation and modeling, But ultimately does include math. We successfully used the method for simulating relatively complex...
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