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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
Data Dividend Plan
We worked on a number of projects that linked to 'data as an asset' ideas, and was reminded of this project in Wired. Its value, limitations are and issues worth...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Found on Provincetown Sandbar
Headline: "Dozens of squid found on Provincetown sandbar." Slow news day. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Downloading files faster by tweaking headers
I was given a puzzle recently. Someone was parsing JSON files downloaded from the network from a bioinformatics URI. One JSON library was twice as fast at the other...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japanese Robots Learn Food Prep: Resemble Kangaroos
Note the proposal that at first the food will be prepared by humans remotely, and those motions will be learned. Then the system will use that learning to prepare...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Politeness of Machines
Do we expect the same politeness from machines? Are we polite to them? They can detect some aspects of our demeanor by the words we use. Will we begin to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revamped GMail to Compete
Used GMail since we tested it in the enterprise. Later because we collaborated with universities who got it for free. Always liked it, and the following GSuite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Adds Cortana to Outlook on Android
Been following Microsoft and what they are doing with Cortana. Had always thought they could do more, but perhaps because of some early and recent problems with...
From insideHPC
Argonne Claims Largest Engine Flow Simulation Using Theta Supercomputer
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have conducted what they claim is the largest simulation of flow inside an internal...
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Supercomputing Populist Merle Giles on the Business Realities of Commercial HPC
This interview is with Merle Giles, founder and CEO of Moonshot Research and a tireless advocate for HPC’s role as an accelerator to industrial innovation. While...
From Schneier on Security
Twitter Hackers May Have Bribed an Insider
Motherboard is reporting that this week's Twitter hack involved a bribed insider. Twitter has denied it. I have been taking press calls all day about this. And...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The cost of runtime dispatch
For high-performance software, it is sometimes needed to use different functions, depending on what the hardware supports. You might write different functions,Continue...
From insideHPC
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Goes to Tel Aviv University Graduate
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) today announced that Dor Minzer receives the 2019 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, “On Monotonicity...
From insideHPC
Core Scientific Acquires Atrio, Adds to its AI Capabilities as the Cloud for Data Scientists
Core Scientific, an infrastructure and software solutions provider for AI and blockchain led by CEO Kevin Turner, the former COO of Microsoft, announced the acquisition...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM SIGARCH BLOG: Genesis and Reflections on the Return of Industry Products to ISCA 2020
The following is from CCC Chair Emeritus Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Computing is a field with substantial interaction between academia...
From insideHPC
Chenbro Unveils 2U 8-Bay Rack Mount Server for HPC, Data Center
Chenbro has launched the RB23708, a Level 6, 2U rackmount server barebone designed for mission-critical, storage-focused applications in data center and HPC enterprise...
From Putting People First
Behavioral Covid-19 research in Italy
The Milan-based consumer and health research center EngageMinds HUB of the Università Cattolica has done some timely research on how Covid-19 has influenced the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Spins off Chinese Chatbot
Somewhat surprising, the demos I had seen looked interesting.Microsoft Spins Off Chinese Chatbot Xiaoice by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 14, 2020Microsoft...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BMW Sees Car as Digital Platform
Interesting regards the breadth of integrated technology, but the reaction of consumers to 'microtransactions' or payment/subscription for many elemental features...
From insideHPC
InfiniBand Powers World’s Leading Weather Forecasters’ Supercomputers
In this feature article from our friends over at Mellanox, we discuss how weather and climate models are both compute and data intensive. Forecast quality scales...
From The Eponymous Pickle