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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
A Look at Companies in the Autonomous Race
Good overview of companies and efforts underwayThe Autonomous Vehicle Companies in the Self-Driving Race in nanalyze" ... While we’ve covered some of the most...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone for Exploring Caves, and other Tight Spaces and Situations
Drones that fold and unfold to enter and explore. Remember having to deal with that in one of my few caving efforts. Also includes discussion of their actingRidley...
From The Eponymous Pickle
State of Data Onboarding
Newly brought to my attention, surveys and analysis, of data use. FlatfileOur vision could be summed up no better than by the great poet, D.H. Lawrence:For God...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Updates on Echo Auto
Have been a user of Echo Auto in the car for some time. There were early glitches, but it is working well now. They are just announcing some new capabilities...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
ARM MacBook vs Intel MacBook
Up to yesterday, my laptop was a large 15-inch MacBook Pro. It contains an Intel Kaby Lake processor (3.8 GHz). I just got a brand-new 13-inch 2020 MacBook ProContinue...
From insideHPC
HPC-AI Advisory Council Announces Student Teams Competing in the 11th Annual ISC-HPCAIAC Student Cluster Competition
Sunnywale, CA — The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC), in collaboration with the ISC Group, organizers of Europe’s premier HPC forum, today announced the annual...
From insideHPC
AWS and Arm Demonstrate Electronic Design Automation in the Cloud
Seattle – Amazon Web Services has announced that Arm, a global leader in semiconductor design and silicon intellectual property development and licensing, willAWS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NIST: Quantum Bits Can be Self Correcting?
Could be a really big thing, depending on the context and consequences. Error-Prone Quantum Bits Could Correct Themselves, NIST Physicists ShowNational Institute...
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Says ActiveScale Meets Consistency Requirements for Amazon S3 Compatibility
San Jose — Dec. 10, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced that its ActiveScale object storage platform automatically complies with the new strongQuantum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TaintDroid: Information Flow on Smartphones
Brought to my attention as part of a broader study: TaintDroid: an information-flow tracking system for realtime privacy monitoring on smartphonesAuthors: William...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Newly Identified Ichthyosaur Species Probably Ate Squid
This is a deep-diving species that “fed on small prey items such as squid.” Academic paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training AI in Four Bits
Its happening now. Consider too that smartphones can be the source of much data that will be used to train such systems.Tiny four-bit computers are now all you...
From insideHPC
8 European Associations Commit to TransContinuum Initiative for EU R&D Cross-domain Collaboration
December 11, 2020 – Coordinated by the ETP4HPC, the TransContinuum Initiative (TCI) is the union of related digital technologies which offers solutions for the8...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mechanical Turk and AI: Invisible Workers
We used Mechanical Turk for a number of small projects, especially for getting initial data that was reasonable for first order testing. Never for later predictive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Railway Delays
Interesting application. Consider data availability, accuracy and variability of prediction.Predicting British railway delays using artificial intelligence by...
From insideHPC
Cobham Gaisler and fentISS Deepen Collaboration around RISC-V
Valencia, Spain — Cobham Gaisler, a leading space design center of Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES), announced that fent Innovative Software Solutions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google AI Describes AutoML for Time Series
Most our careers in the big enterprise involved working with time series. Sales, Shipments delivered, Advertising Dollars, marketing spends ... forecast plans...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Softbank Sells Controlling Stake in Boston Dynamics to Hyundai
Interesting development. In TechExplore. Had not recalled their connection with Google.SoftBank sells controlling stake in Boston Dynamics to HyundaiJapan'sBoston...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads – Part 3
In this insideHPC technology guide, “insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads,”as we’ll see, by relying on open source software...
From Schneier on Security