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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
Custom Live Data Drama in Excel
Though its now quite outdated, we used to do lots of things in spreadsheets, remember this could have been very useful. Drama? Well maybe. Microsoft Excel spreadsheets...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Ram’s Horn Squid Video
This is the first video footage of a ram’s horn squid (Spirula spirula) . As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From Schneier on Security
Tracking Users on Waze
A security researcher discovered a wulnerability in Waze that breaks the anonymity of users: I found out that I can visit Waze from any web browser at waze.com/livemap...
From insideHPC
PRACE Opens Nominations for Ada Lovelace Award for HPC – Deadline: Nov. 26
From 22 to 26 March 2021, PRACE will organise the eighth edition of its Scientific and Industrial Conference – PRACEdays21 – as part of the EuroHPC Summit Week in...
From insideHPC
CoEC Targets Combustion Breakthroughs with Exascale Computing
Barcelona, 29 October 2020 – The European Union is committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. To reach this goal, there is a need for coordinated...
From insideHPC
Zero to an ExaFLOP in Under a Second
In this sponsored post, Matthew Ziegler at Lenovo discusses today's metric for raw speed of compute. Much like racing cars, servers do “time trials” to gauge their...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Making Global Progress Towards an #Internet4All | Universal Acceptance Local Initiatives
By Ajay Data, UASG Chair - 29 October 2020 Throughout the year, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) spearheads global projects that raise awarenessMaking...
From Computational Complexity
2020 Fall Jobs Post
My annual fall jobs posts, giving advice to PhDs looking for faculty positions, were getting repetitive. See last year's post for the usual stuff and feel freeTaulbee...
From insideHPC
PNNL’S CENATE Taps ML to Guard DOE Supercomputers from Illegitimate Workloads
Pacific Northwest National Lab sent along this article today by PNNL’s Allan Brettman, who writes about the advanced techniques used by the lab’s Center for Advanced...
From Putting People First
Videos online of the anthropology and technology conference
Videos are now available of last month's Anthropology and Technology conference, dedicated to socially-responsible AI.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Estimation Theory at Work
Rarely hear about this, we used it for retail analysis, it is useful to understand. Link to it below and a Wikipedia article definition. What makes a good estimator...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Replaying Memory to Retain it
Fascinating play. Remember this similarity being brought up in a talk about short vs long term memories. Now being brought into play?How a Memory Quirk of ...
From insideHPC
Schneider Electric Partners with EdgePresence and Accu-Tech to Deploy Edge Data Centers
Boston – Oct. 28, 2020 – Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced its partnership with EdgePresence...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Uncertain Times
This article has been adapted from one that appeared in Aeon, aeon.co. Our society is a complex system, “a system with many interacting agents, whose collective...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What the heck is the value of “-n % n” in programming languages?
When coding efficient algorithms having to do with hashing, random number generations or even cryptography, a common construction is the expression “-n%n“. My experience...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Underwater Robot Uses Squid-Like Propulsion
This is neat: By generating powerful streams of water, UCSD’s squid-like robot can swim untethered. The “squidbot” carries its own power source, and has the room...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA is Refusing to Disclose its Policy on Backdooring Commercial Products
Senator Ron Wyden asked, and the NSA didn’t answer: The NSA has long sought agreements with technology companies under which they would build special access for...
From insideHPC
WekaIO Announces Cloud-Native, Unified Storage Solutions for Data Lifecycle
CAMPBELL, Calif. – October 27, 2020 – WekaIO (Weka), the leader in high-performance, scalable file storage for data-intensive applications, today announced a transformative...
From insideHPC
Sellafield Nuclear Site Extends Atos Contract
London, 28 October 2020 — Sellafield Ltd has signed a contract extension with Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, for a further two years, extending...
From The Eponymous Pickle