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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (October 17th 2020)
Computer vision (i.e., artificial intelligence) and cameras are used in London to monitor citizens with respect to social distancing. A fecal transplant from old...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Is a Quantum-Safe Hybrid Digital Certificate?
More linking Quantum methods and data and communications security.What Is a Quantum-Safe Hybrid Digital Certificate? Sectigo in CYBER SECURITYSectigo’s Tim...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Singapore Using Facial Recognition Broadly
Note the focused use, and the automatic disposal of the data after 30 days. Is this sufficient to sufficiently suppress misuse? Once again, it is inevitable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards New Kinds of Search
Like the idea of new kinds of search. How about search with business, data or pattern driven context? Lots of possibilities. Google Search gets hum-to-search ...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Interview with a Squid Researcher
Interview with Mike Vecchione, Curator of Cephalopoda — now that’s a job title — at the Smithsonian Museum of National History. One reason they’re so interesting...
From Schneier on Security
Cybersecurity Visuals
The Hewlett Foundation just announced its top five ideas in its Cybersecurity Visuals Challenge. The problem Hewlett is trying to solve is the dearth of good visuals...
From Schneier on Security
Split-Second Phantom Images Fool Autopilots
Researchers are tricking autopilots by inserting split-second images into roadside billboards. Researchers at Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev … previously...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exceptions to the Law of Entropy
More of a Science idea, but we actually found it useful to include in creativity work. And in work that related to the application of AI to process. I post...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Scanning Construction Site Spotting when things are Slipping
I like the integration of relatively cheap cameras looking for key patterns in work progress (and potentially process) to determine missed schedules. A classic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
California Says GM Can Test Fully Driverless Cars
This trend seems to be moving forward faster than expected. Would expect these developments to push reliance in other autonomy efforts.CA Says General Motors Can...
From insideHPC
Practical Hardware Design Strategies for Modern HPC Workloads
This special research report sponsored by Tyan discusses practical hardware design strategies for modern HPC workloads. As hardware continued to develop, technologies...
From insideHPC
EuroHPC: 4 Nvidia-based AI Supercomputers Coming from Atos, HPE; 4 More on Way
Four new supercomputers backed by a pan-European initiative will use Nvidia data center accelerators, networks and software for AI and high-performance computing...
From insideHPC
Where Have You Gone, IBM?
The company that built the world’s nos. 2 and 3 most powerful supercomputers, according to the latest Top500 ranking of such systems, is to all appearances backing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots as Essential Workers
Still have not seen many robots about, will that change?How Robots Became Essential Workers in the COVID-19 ResponseAutonomous machines proved their worth in hospitals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping with YouTube?
Though have used YouTube since its inception, only in the last month have been using all of its capabilities. Have been thinking about how it was a powerful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Experts to Transfer their Knowledge
Some obvious here, but nicely arranged. Spent much time on the premise. Again consider how the knowledge can be re-tested and maintained. How KM Gets Experts...
From insideHPC
Canonical Launches HA MicroK8s, Minimal Kubernetes
Oct. 15, 2020 — Canonical today announced autonomous high availability (HA) clustering in MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes. Already popular for IoT and developer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for the Cloud
Teaching AI to speak code.IBM Research’s Chief Scientist Talks AI for Cloud Migration in InformationweekPart of the future is already here as AI increases its influence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Seismology
An area we consulted on early and continue to follow. Some comment here on why current, otherwise excellent pattern recognition techniques do not predict earthquakes...
From insideHPC