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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
Lopsided Digital Transformations
Can confirm this in the large enterprise. Broadly done in supply chain world, uncommon in marketing. Depends on things like data access, expectations around automation...
From insideHPC
FPGA Maker Achronix to List on Nasdaq Through Merger With ACE Convergence
Jan. 7, 2021, Santa Clara, CA – Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, maker of high-performance field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP...
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Portable Device Can Quickly Detect Plant Stress
Powerful idea. Here wondering how well the measure of stress works for various crops.Portable Device Can Quickly Detect Plant StressMIT News, January 4, 2021...
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Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation
Quantum Internet is quickly approaching. Implications?Fermilab and Partners Achieve Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation University of Chicago News...
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Limitations of a Fremium Approach to Marketing
Thoughtful examination of the approach of free ... and the idea of freemium. Don’t Count on Free Trials to Win You Customers in HBR, by Sadat Reza, Dixon Ho, Rich...
From insideHPC
UK Antitrust Agency to Probe Nvidia Acquisition of Arm
Nvidia’s intended acquisition of chip maker Arm from SoftBank, the biggest tech deal of 2020 and one with major implications for HPC and AI, is now under investigation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research...
From Schneier on Security
Changes in WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy
If you’re a WhatsApp user, pay attention to the changes in the privacy policy that you’re being forced to agree with. In 2016, WhatsApp gave users a one-time ability...
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Generating Visual Images from Text Descriptions
Something we could have used to test visual understanding of products and their use. OpenAI’s latest neural network creates images from written descriptions By...
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Mining Private Data: Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
Schneier has mentioned this as a privacy issue: Just reading the Berkeley BAIR paper that develops this (see short excerpt below) And the source technical paper...
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Digital Product Development from Visualization
And forward to product design and development, from visualization. Visualization Adds Transparency to Digital Product DevelopmentFraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Germany)...
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Inferring Design Plans from Short Clips
Currently examining this kind of approach. Phones are getting these kinds of abilities. Researchers design AI that can infer whole floor plans from short video...
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Dream Manipulation
Now here is some scary. Or a means of entertainment? Or creativity enhancement? An MIT Lab Is Building Devices to Hack Your DreamsFrom improving your mood to...
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Invite: Walmart+ Starts up to Compete with Amazon Prime
Received invite today: Meet Walmart+ FAQThe membership that helps you save more time & money.Only $12.95/month or $98/yearStart 15-day free trial ....
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New Learning on SolarWinds
Schneier summarizes the NYT detailed article on the SolarWinds hack. The NYT article is firewalled, and the Schneier article also includes a number of usefulLatest...
From insideHPC
GlobusWorld to Be Held Online May 12-14
GlobusWorld, a non-profit organization that brings together researchers, systems administrators, developers and IT leaders from top research computing centers,GlobusWorld...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Code Comeback?
We were very early experimenters and appliers, so this caught my eye. Good story in current context, With further expert opinion in retail. Will it last post...
From Schneier on Security
Russia’s SolarWinds Attack and Software Security
The information that is emerging about Russia’s extensive cyberintelligence operation against the United States and other countries should be increasingly alarming...
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Monitoring in-production ML models
Useful and detailed look at real world problems with Sagemaker Model Monitor. Good graphical views. Somewhat but practically technical.Monitoring in-production...
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