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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
I2O PostDoc Fellowship- Deadlines February 1st and March 1st, 2021
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is broadening its commitment to young scientists through a new Information Innovation Office (I2O) PostDoc...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Material-Matching for Movies and Video Games
Towards an automation of many kinds of image context.Automating Material-Matching for Movies and Video GamesMIT News by Adam Conner-SimonsMassachusetts Institute...
From insideHPC
Modern HPC and Big Data Design Strategies for Data Centers – Part 2
This insideHPC Special Research Report, “Modern HPC and Big Data Design Strategies for Data Centers,” provides an overview of what to consider when selecting an...
From The Noisy Channel
Recall: Size Isn’t Everything
Recall is a key measure of search quality that doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. But how does a search engine recognize when recall is a problem?Size...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Insights for AI from the Human Mind
Good thoughts by Gary Marcus, aiming at the difficulty of creating intelligence, even though we have very rich models around we can do testing with. Insights for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Can only do so much in the face of a Pandemic
A look at data tech vs Covid, What worked and what didn't. But this, though provocative is a very early look. Before we know exactly what happened. Then...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ulriken Rail Tunnel
An aside interest of mine, rail supply chains. Points to the first tunnel boring machine used in Norway for the Ulriken TunnelUlriken Tunnel –The first TBM Drive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning is Overused
Well put, always consider the simpler analysis that leads to better understanding first. Deep Learning Is Becoming OverusedUnderstanding the data is the firstBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Association Pattern Analysis
Some of the very earliest work we did in the big enterprise used forms of this analysis. A classic pattern analysis. Good basic intro with code. Is applicable...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Recursion–How and When to Teach
I’ll start with a confession. Recursion is one of those concepts that I struggled to understand in the beginning. Was it me or was it how it was taught? An open...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will the FAA’s new Rules Speed Use of drones? Google Responds.
Regulating commercial delivery.Will the FAA’s new rules speed commercialization of drones? In RetailWire by Tom RyanThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
India Bets Big on 5G
Have yet to see any compelling arguments for new business models. My new phone seems to have quietly dropped the option.India Bets Big on 5G Technology Going...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA Catalog is Gone
We used Ikea catalogs as examples of artistically done customer outreach. Worth noting. Ikea Just Quietly Killed Its Famous Catalog. It's a Brilliant Lesson...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Peter M. Neumann, 1940–2020
Memories from Oxford days Mathematical Institute src Peter Neumann, Professor of Mathematics at Queen’s College, Oxford University, passed away two weeks ago. Last...
From Schneier on Security
Amazon Has Trucks Filled with Hard Drives and an Armed Guard
From an interview with an Amazon Web Services security engineer: So when you use AWS, part of what you’re paying for is security. Right; it’s part of what we sell...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Forward to 2021 in CS Education
What a strange year it has been. The pandemic and more took a lot of the steam out of what I had hoped to dig deeply into in 2020. Surviving is success in these...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring
The number of researchers and peer-review publications is growing exponentially. It has been estimated that the number of researchers in the world doubles every...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Dancing, Today
From Boston Dynamics, now part of Hyundai. At the link they outline each of the dancers background. Less scary than some views. Or is it?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Next in Tech
An outline from HPEExploring What’s next in tech – Insights, information, and ideas for today’s IT and business leadersAccelerating the future. The race to stay...
From Putting People First