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Insider Attack on the Carnegie Library
From Schneier on Security

Insider Attack on the Carnegie Library

Greg Priore, the person in charge of the rare book room at the Carnegie Library, stole from it for almost two decades before getting caught. It’s a perennial problem...

Insider Attack on the Carnegie Library
From Schneier on Security

Insider Attack on the Carnegie Library

Greg Priore, the person in charge of the rare book room at the Carnegie Library, stole from it for almost two decades before getting caught. It’s a perennial problem...

Does Boredom Separate us from Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Does Boredom Separate us from Machines

Pondering the proposition.   Attention span and creativity.Boredom is what separates us from machines   In TheNextWebHumans can't match the attention spans of bots...

More Small Robots, Exploring
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Small Robots, Exploring

They get smaller yet.Army of a Million Microscopic Robots Created to Explore on Tiny ScaleNew ScientistLayal LiverpoolAugust 26, 2020University of Pennsylvania...

Wal-Mart and TikTok
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart and TikTok

Just recently have been exposed to TikTok as a marketing channel, and wondered too what Wal-Mart was up to, here a look at the possibilities with Microsoft..Walmart...

The Need to become an Adaptive Expert
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Need to become an Adaptive Expert

Been known for a long time, soft skills are important.  Expertise is by definition a means of changing to meet the context. Becoming an 'Adaptive' ExpertBy Quinn...

Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: National Health Symposium- Operationalizing AI in Health
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: National Health Symposium- Operationalizing AI in Health

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) is hosting the 2nd Annual National Health Symposium, Sept. 14 & 15, 2020 (1:00 – 4:30 p.m. ET daily)...

IDC: Led by U.S., Global AI Spending Will More than Double by 2024
From insideHPC

IDC: Led by U.S., Global AI Spending Will More than Double by 2024

Those predicting another “AI winter” have a quarrel on their hands with industry analyst firm International Data Corp., which forecasts global spending on AI will...

Radio Free HPC:  MLperf Wars and AMD’s Gawdy Earnings
From insideHPC

Radio Free HPC:  MLperf Wars and AMD’s Gawdy Earnings

Summer inventory clearance days for Radio Free HPC! In this episode, we talk about the spate of MLperf benchmarks and how AMD hit it out of the park on their most...

From Computational Complexity

A well known theorem that has not been written down- so I wrote it down- CLIQ is #P-complete

(The two proofs that CLIQ is #P-complete that I wrote up and talk about in this post are here. I think both are well known but I have not been able to find a writeup...

North Korea ATM Hack
From Schneier on Security

North Korea ATM Hack

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a long and technical alert describing a North Korea hacking scheme against ATMs in a bunch...

North Korea ATM Hack
From Schneier on Security

North Korea ATM Hack

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a long and technical alert describing a North Korea hacking scheme against ATMs in a bunch...

North Korea ATM Hack
From Schneier on Security

North Korea ATM Hack

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a long and technical alert describing a North Korea hacking scheme against ATMs in a bunch...

Taking a Virtual Turn, ModSim 2020 Focuses on the AI Era
From insideHPC

Taking a Virtual Turn, ModSim 2020 Focuses on the AI Era

From the front lines of this year’s ModSim conference, Charity Plata, Computational Science Initiative, Communications, Brookhaven National Laboratory, send this...

Platforms for Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Platforms for Data Science

Good piece in O'Reilly about this question,  largely-non technical and useful thoughts. Passing it on ...Why Best-of-Breed is a Better Choice than All-in-One Platforms...

Doorbell Cameras Used by Criminals too
From The Eponymous Pickle

Doorbell Cameras Used by Criminals too

I have recently been asked about security issues with doorbell and other smart home camera systems.  The following excerpt from The Verge shows a perhaps less than...

Amazon Prime Air Approved for Trials
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Prime Air Approved for Trials

Promised some time ago.  Now FAA approved.   In specifically what parts of the supply chain is this expected to be useful?   Some years away?Amazon's Prime AirThe...

Ikea Tries Virtual Influence, Happiness and More
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ikea Tries Virtual Influence, Happiness and More

So what is this?   An assistant?  An influencer in what sense?   Just to engage us?  An Android?  To do what for whom?  Assemble furniture or prepare meatballs?...

Knowledge Graphs vs Property Graphs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Knowledge Graphs vs Property Graphs

Robert Coyne Writes and points to a number of their resources on this topic:Thank you for attending our webinar: "Knowledge Graphs vs. Property Graphs --a brief...

Quantum Accelerated Computation as Disruption
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Accelerated Computation as Disruption

Some bits of thoughts on the topic.   And new form of high performance computing (HPC)?  Ultimately what are the limits of capabilities here, versus more standard...
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