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Moving AI Recognized Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Moving AI Recognized Things

Interesting generalization of a set of common tasks using AI identification.Robotics Researchers Propose AI That Locates, Safely Moves Items on ShelvesVenture Beat...

Data Storytelling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Storytelling

'Data Storytelling', never heard it described that way, but when building process maps, we often described it in the form of a flow, or journey, or 'story'  toExploring...

The Art of the Barcode
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Art of the Barcode

Our group was one of the very first users of barcodes in retail, so have followed it and related information and compression techniques for a long time.   Here[eBook]...

In Search of Recall
From The Noisy Channel

In Search of Recall

Search developers tend to focus most of their efforts on the first page of results. As a result, they prioritize investment in ranking models, with the goal ofprecision...

Higher Education HPC Harnesses Increasing Data Sets to Unlock New Discoveries
From insideHPC

Higher Education HPC Harnesses Increasing Data Sets to Unlock New Discoveries

Dell Technologies has long partnered with university-led supercomputing centers, working side-by-side with world-class researchers and scientists to develop, test...

NSFNET 35th Anniversary Celebratory Virtual Event
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSFNET 35th Anniversary Celebratory Virtual Event

The following announcement is from the National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate.  Internet2 and the Internet Society...

From Computational Complexity

In 1974 Planarity was O(V) time and could do 900 node graphs in 12 seconds! Fast then...

In 1974  Hopcroft and Tarjan showed that Planarity is in polynomial time. That is an understatement- they actually have an O(V) algorithm which one can actually...

Digitizing StoryCorps Audio Interviews
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digitizing StoryCorps Audio Interviews

 Also similar to work we did in the enterprise to understand consumer interviews.  We spent some time looking for solutions of this type, but they were not available...

Navigating Business Turbulence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Navigating Business Turbulence

Non-technical points on developing with rapidly changing data and contexts.   Ultimately good requirements for adapting business process. How to use data and analytics...

Light-Based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Light-Based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers

More indications of increases in quantum computing speed,  when applied to particular kinds of problems.  But this does not mean this is available yet,  but inLight...

Driverless Cars Are Still Coming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Driverless Cars Are Still Coming

 More comments on the likely general introduction of driverless vehicles.Driverless Cars Are Coming, But Not Yet to Take OverThe Wall Street Journal, By Stephen...

Last Year in AI, Analytics, Machine Learning and Data Science ....
From The Eponymous Pickle

Last Year in AI, Analytics, Machine Learning and Data Science ....

Good end of the year piece from KDNuggets that was instructive.AI, Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Science, Deep Learning Research Main Developments in 2020 and...

Science and Technology (December 5th 2020)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology (December 5th 2020)

Researchers find that older people can lose weight just as easily as younger people. Google DeepMind claims to have solved the protein folding problem, an important...

Samsung Does New Bixby Interface in Major Update
From The Eponymous Pickle

Samsung Does New Bixby Interface in Major Update

 Been a long time since we had an unimpressed look at Bixby.   Some good details here.Samsung Reveals New Bixby Interface and Features in Major Update By Eric Hal...

Machine Learning Underspecification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning Underspecification

 Yes, often a problem, often  mainly for lack of sufficient data in context.   Seems Google know this too.  Key issue.  Credibility/value is the key.  Note COVID...

Podcasts via RSS Feed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Podcasts via RSS Feed

New way to connect to podcastsGoogle Podcasts lets you add shows using their RSS feedsSubscribe to your favorite niche podcastby Jon Fingas  In Engadget    Google...

Facebook and investing in the long-term
From Geeking with Greg

Facebook and investing in the long-term

Kevin Roose, Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel at the New York Times had a great piece ([1][2]) on the internal debate inside Facebook on removing disinformation:[1]...

‘Let’s Talk Exascale’: Storing and Managing Exa-class Data Volumes
From insideHPC

‘Let’s Talk Exascale’: Storing and Managing Exa-class Data Volumes

In this new edition of “Let’s Talk Exascale” from the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, the ECP’s Scott Gibson talks with Jim Ahrens of Los Alamos...

The Risk and Uncertainty of it All
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Risk and Uncertainty of it All

A space we played in early on, determining measures of uncertainty as we built AI and expert system based models.   Its part of any decision driving system,  That...

Small Sat Launching by Drone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Small Sat Launching by Drone

 Been watching the numerous satellite launches going on, like primarily to improve communications to remote areas. Agree with some of the worries for the future...
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