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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 Schneier on Security
Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?
Persuasion is as old as our species. Both democracy and the market economy depend on it. Politicians persuade citizens to vote for them, or to support different...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quest for More Common Sense: Less Thinking?
Nicely put piece that connects with the current state of the technology. And shows some of the challenges. Have been involved in a number of attempts at including...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon's Autonomous Robo Taxi
Have never thought of Amazon in the autonomous vehicle space. But here a reminder of an effort, apparently aimed at taxi service.Amazon's Zoox shows off itsThe...
From insideHPC
AccelerComm Joins The O-RAN Alliance for Interoperability and Spectral Efficiency for Open 5G Networks
Southampton, UK – 14 December 2020: AccelerComm, the 5G spectrum efficiency IP specialist, today announced that it has joined The O-RAN ALLIANCE, an industry association...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Search Not Completely Solved in Context
Indeed it works very well. But we all experience examples where it falls flat. Often because it does not know the context of its use. We cheerfully act as the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating IOT Programming
Automation should in particular address issues of securityTool Will Automate Device Programming in the IOTUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain)By Augustín López...
From insideHPC
Building an Exascale-Class Data Center for ORNL’s Incoming Frontier Supercomputer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following today, an update by staff science writer Coury Turczyn, on progress made in the construction of a data center...
From insideHPC
Telechips Picks Arm IP for Automotive SoC
Cambridge, UK – December 14, 2020 – Arm today announced that Telechips, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in automotive applications, has selected aTelechips...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Dreidel Game–A Chanukah Programming Project
If you’re anything like me, you like to assign projects that have some relationship to what is going on in the world. Holidays are one such thing. December brings...
From insideHPC
University of Stuttgart’s Hawk HPC System to Go CPU-GPU for Deep Learning Workloads
Add the High Performance Computing Center at the University of Stuttgart (HLRS) to the list of supercomputing organizations going from CPU-only to CPU-GPU architectures...
From insideHPC
Deep Learning GPU Cluster
In this whitepaper, "Deep Learning GPU Cluster," our friends over at Lambda walk you through the Lambda Echelon multi-node cluster reference design: a node design...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (online) at Western Washington University on January 20, 2021. Details to come. I...
From Schneier on Security
Authentication Failure
This is a weird story of a building owner commissioning an artist to paint a mural on the side of his building — except that he wasn’t actually the building’s owner...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Salesforce Buying Slack
Salesforce buying Slack. Is this Deeper collaboration? Can see some interesting things coming out of this when combined with Salesforces' work in AI. Salesforce...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
ARM MacBook vs Intel MacBook: a SIMD benchmark
In my previous blog post, I compared the performance of my new ARM-based MacBook Pro with my 2017 Intel-based MacBook Pro. I used a number parsing benchmark. In...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking about Approaching Tidy Data
Below an intro on the concept. We laid out and used similar ideas, this organizes it well. First stated by Hadley Wickham in his paper. Hard to fully achieve...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Traffic LIghts
Some examples of complex systems and data control. A line of green traffic lights on Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile Smarter Traffic Lights, Calmer CommutersPaul Stenquist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netflix is Shelf Selling with AI
When I first saw the long rows of 'content' on a Netflix selection shelf. I immediately thought of a supermarket shelf, which I had much experience with. This...
From Computational Complexity
Quarterly Th. Wksp `at' Northwestern, and thoughts inspired by it
On the Northwestern CS Theory Group there is a set of Quarterly Theory Workshops. There is one coming up on Dec 17-18, 2020, called the Junior Theorists Workshop...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP