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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 Computational Complexity
Complexity Year in Review 2020
For the result of the year we go to all they way back to the "before times". MIP*=RE by Zhengfeng Ji, Anand Natarajan, Thomas Vidick, John Wright and Henry YuenA...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC: High Performance Christmas Episode
After a late fall hiatus, Radio Free HPC is back, baby. This is our holiday episode and we start by pledging to be 29 percent more scintillating in the new year...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back on Computer Science Education in 2020
What a year it has been. I was reading my start of the year post from January. The closing was “2019 has some serious potential.” I had no idea what was to come...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Buys Wondery for?
Though most recently have been looking through podcast offerings, had not heard of Wondery. Note too that Amazon now also has the talking book system Audible...
From Schneier on Security
Brexit Deal Mandates Old Insecure Crypto Algorithms
In what is surely an unthinking cut-and-paste issue, page 921 of the Brexit deal mandates the use of SHA-1 and 1024-bit RSA: The open standard s/MIME as extension...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Review Manipulation in Amazon
Had only just recently directly noticed fake or manipulated reviews on Amazon. Had thought that Amazon was controlling these, but then alterted to it by an ArsTechnica...
From Putting People First
Social science perspectives on artificial intelligence. A special issue.
This special issue collects six articles tackling artificial intelligence (AI) from a social science perspective.
From The Eponymous Pickle
City Researchers Reveal Link
Seems there would be a link, but what kind of behavior is indicated? Always looking for predictive behavior we can leverage.City Researchers Reveal Link Between...
From insideHPC
‘Let’s Talk Exascale’: How Supercomputing Is Shaking Up Earthquake Science
Supercomputing is bringing seismic change to earthquake science. A field that historically has predicted by looking back now is moving forward with HPC and physics...
From Schneier on Security
On the Evolution of Ransomware
Good article on the evolution of ransomware: Though some researchers say that the scale and severity of ransomware attacks crossed a bright line in 2020, others...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Schneier on SolarWinds
A considerable piece, with much supporting general and technical information and links, on the SolarWinds attack. Also includes many comments I am working my way...
From The Eponymous Pickle
737: Management and Technology
My daughter in law flies for American Airlines, has been in furlough for awhile now. The most recent issue of the ACM outlines elements of how 737 technologyBoeing's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Networks are Bayesian
Just reading this, worth thinking about. Technical.Neural networks are fundamentally Bayesian in TowardsDataScience By Chris MingardStochastic Gradient Descent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice AI Trends in Europe
Podcast and more of work being done in and for Europe. From VoicebotVoice AI in Europe Year-in-Review 2020 with 169 Labs, Soapbox Labs, and Voxalyze – Voicebot...
From insideHPC
Holiday Week Update: HPC Community Funds Rich Brueckner Scholarship Awards to Goal – and Beyond
Last week, we issued an update on a fund drive in memory of one of the HPC community’s most beloved figures, the late Rich Brueckner. We’re happy to report that...
From Putting People First
[Book] Creating a Culture of Innovation
Innovation can only occur in the right environment. While organizations can attempt to hire for innovation, there is little that can blossom in a restrictive and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Sarcasm
Even in the early days of reading consumer reactions to product communications we knew it was useful to have an idea of how much sarcasm was being used. To determine...
From insideHPC
Modern HPC and Big Data Design Strategies for Data Centers
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 Eponymous Pickle
Making Smart Thermostats More Efficient
Beyond the simplest adaptable method.Making Smart Thermostats More EfficientMIT NewsResearchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Russia's...
From The Eponymous Pickle