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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 insideHPC
Unify Your Analytics, and Keep Your Data Where It Suits You
In this sponsored post, Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing, believes that we need to stop our fixation with “data in one place.” The days...
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RadioFreeHPC: HPC Market Growth; Student Cluster Competition — Winter Classic Invitational
by RadioFreeHPC Podcast HPC Market Projected Growth It’s a few weeks since we recorded this episode so maybe things have changed, but as of the recording the HPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Bricklayer
A great deal of human engineering has been done on bricklaying, that could be used to carefully compare the work involved under varying contexts. Robotic Bricklayer...
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Questions on the Value of Speaking Robotish
What is the meaning behind declaring something a language? We have many computing and many human languages. How much does their form influence the nature of...
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Opinions on State of the Art of Automated Machine Learning
Very useful piece here, the individual comments at the link are most interesting, the key takeaways are mostly obvious. State of the Art in Automated Machine Learning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Suites to be Modified
Have now had to use G-Suites for a number of interactions, especially of university project communications. Always thought they were less logical, especiallyGoogle...
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Inspur NF5488A5 Breaks AI Server Performance Record in Latest MLPerf Benchmarks
San Jose, Aug. 5 – In the results released last week of MLPerf AI benchmark, Inspur NF5488A5 server set a new AI performance record in the Resnet50 training task...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Reversible Classical Computing Workshop – Position Papers Submission Deadline August 7th
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a virtual workshop the week of Oct. 5-9 (with a reception on Fri., Oct. 2) to address the physics & engineering...
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Google-Style Map of the Brain
As suggested brains vary considerably. So its not a map in a true geographic sense. a more probabilistic map. How easy is it to navigate, link to behavior, data...
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Cisco on Post Quantum Security
Full considerable article at the link, a good overview of the direction of quantum Crypto, with predictive time line.It’s Not Too Early to Start Thinking AboutBy...
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Downsizing of Retail
Retailwire does a good job of examining current trends and process in retail.Has retail permanently downsized?By George Anderson in RetailwireThe number of people...
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Panasas Offering Takes on Tiered HPC Storage Headaches, Automatically Adapts to Workload Changes
High performance storage vendor Panasas today released Dynamic Data Acceleration on its new PanFS parallel file system, a software feature designed to overcome...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning Python Part 2: Distracted by a Turtle
I cracked a book and found out that Python supports turtle graphics. I love drawing pictures with graphics. I have since I was in university. So today I played...
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Oxford, Atos in Deal for Nvidia 63-Node DGX System, Said to be UK’s Largest AI Supercomputer
The University of Oxford has signed a £5 million with Atos, provider of hybrid cloud and big data solutions, to deliver what the two organizations say will beOxford...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Projects for Learning or Grading
The purpose of school work is to get good grades. Well, at least that seems to be a common view on the part of students. Most teachers will tell you that the motivation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under the Age of 35 2020
MIT Technology Review publishes an annual list of 35 innovators under the age of 35, and they recently released their list of innovators for 2020. The list features...
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Steve Conway on the Imperative of AI Ethics and Why ‘Hardware Is Easy, Software Is Hard’
Steve Conway of industry analyst firm Hyperion Research is one of those technologists with the rare talent for talking complex technology in a straightforward,The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need for Data Observability
Never called it that in particular, but yes it is important, and is worth the included tag. And I add, the changes and non-changes in data should also be 'observable'...
From Schneier on Security
Cybercrime in the Age of COVID-19
The Cambridge Cybercrime Centre has a series of papers on cybercrime during the coronavirus pandemic....
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