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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
Is AI Failing to Deliver Expectations .... Again?
Always interesting former IBMer Irving Wladawsky-Berger talks AI hype, cycles, and lots of supporting links and observations. Been through it all, and this second...
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Five Nonobvious Remote Work Techniques
Very interesting piece in Queue and the Communications of the ACM, Nov 2020, pp 108-110. Take the problem beyond the technical and to the collaboratively social...
From insideHPC
AMD’s Su on Xilinx Acquisition: ‘We Can Define the Future of High Performance Computing’
Marking a new phase in in the re-resurrection AMD in its eternal struggle with Intel, and as reported here October 9, AMD has agreed to buy FPGA chip maker Xilinx...
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Deception and Concealment Technology
Worked with MITRE way back. Now it is also about active defense. Not much revealed here, but its interesting. MITRE Shield Matrix Highlights Deception & Concealment...
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AI, the Next Generations
Fairly good, short, non technical piece. I agree with the first item mentioned: 'unsupervised learning', it is the future, and it is hard to do generally. ...
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MonoEye - Human Motion Capture
Most interesting approach. The implications? Note deep neural approach for selection of poses. Accuracy? Gathering information for healthcare, sports, training...
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Singularity Hub Looks at GPT-3
Out of SingularityHub. A look at the writing AI called GPT-3. Scopes some of the possibilities and limitations.OpenAI’s GPT-3 Wrote This Short Film—Even the ...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Assured Autonomy Workshop Report Release
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the release of the Assured Autonomy report, titled Assured Autonomy: Path Toward Living With Autonomous...
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Behold the Openbot Smart Phone
A curious and interesting thing. Strap a smartphone to some wheels and sensors, and you have an OpenBot. Is it a toy, a test platform, an indication where Intel...
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Amazon Made a Mistake with Whole Foods?
In Bob Herbold's blog, a strategic error by Amazon acquiring whole foods? Used to go to these, not much anymore. Yes, can see the 'cultlike' tag for its customers...
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: NERSC’s Jeff Broughton on the End of the Top500 and Exascale Begetting Petaflops in a Rack
NERSC’s Jeff Broughton career extends back to HPC ancient times (1979) when, fresh out of college, he was promoted to a project management role at Lawrence Livermore...
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SC20: IDEAS Productivity Team Announces Software Events
The IDEAS Productivity Team and others in the HPC community are organizing software-related events at SC20, Nov. 9-19. IDEAS is a family of projects supported by...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Vast and Tiny Breakthrough
Christofides bound beaten by an epsilon’s idea of epsilon src1, src2, src3 Anna Karlin, Nathan Klein, and Shayan Oveis Gharan have made a big splash with the number...
From Schneier on Security
Reverse-Engineering the Redactions in the Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition
Slate magazine was able to cleverly read the Ghislaine Maxwell deposition and reverse-engineer many of the redacted names. We’ve long known that redacting is hard...
From insideHPC
RISC-V International Announces Agenda for the 3rd Annual RISC-V Summit
The RISC-V International Association has announced the online program for the RISC-V Summit 2020 to be held Tuesday, Dec. 8 to Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. Here’s a...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Peru Defends Its Waters against Chinese Squid Fishing Boats
Squid geopolitics. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines...
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Zoom Adding End-to-end Encryption
Been following this for some time. I like Zoom, my favorite to date of the half dozen commonly in use methods I know of. Now even free users can turn on advanced...
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Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics Impacting the Bottom Line
Yes, well done, it always has. And further methods like AI, a kind of analytics, does the same. Been doing it for a lifetime. Interesting numbers below.How ...
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Upcoming ACM Talk: Deep Learning and Software Engineering
Plan to attend this ACM talk:VIP Reminder: Nov 2 Talk with fast.ai http://fast.ai/ Co-Founder Jeremy Howard on Applying Software Engineering Practices to Deep....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog