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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 Computational Complexity
Positional Encoding
Given the excitement over ChatGPT, I spent part of the winter recess trying to understand the underlying technology of Transformers. After trying various tutorials...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re a Further Look at BioPhysics
How does life and physics fit together? Just received in an Alumni mailing discussing,THE PHYSICS OF UsPhysicists are studying how living matter works, and find...
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Google Publishes Technique for AI Language Model Self-Improvement
Technical, Reviewing. Google Publishes Technique for AI Language Model Self-Improvementby Anthony Alford Director, Development at Genesys Cloud ServicesResearchers...
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Robux from Roblox,
Virtual Currency desired? Kids Don’t Want Cash Anymore–They Want ‘Robux’Virtual currencies have become many families’ preferred way to pay allowance. And Roblox...
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Seeing the Future Coming
Continuing to read Jane McGonigal's just published: "Imaginable: How to see the Future Coming and feel ready for anything - even things that seem impossible today"...
From insideHPC
TSMC Holds 3nm Chip Ceremony in Taiwan, 2nm on Way
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) held a 3 nanometer (3nm) volume production and capacity expansion ceremony on December 29 at its Fab 18 construction...
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Cambridge Researchers Develop VR Tool for Cancer Treatment
Appears to be of use ..Cambridge Researchers Develop VR Tool for Cancer TreatmentPC MagazineMarco Marcelline, December 29, 2022Video game designers and cancer...
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Qubit Primer
Some useful notes on Quantum Computing by Russ Fine. at https://quantumtech.blogQuantum Computing Modalities – A Qubit Primer Revisited ... In December 2021, in...
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Supercomputer Simulation Animates Evolution of the Universe
Considering all of it and animations are useful too. Supercomputer Simulation of the UniverseScienceNewsJames R. Riordon. December 2, 2022An international team...
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Physna - 3D Data Talk
Perhaps of interest:Unlocking the Full Potential of 3D Data | By PhysnaEvent by Deep -Tech ShowcaseThu, Jan 19, 2023, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (your local time)Asher Radensky...
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Clothing that Makes you Stronger
Strength increasing , ergonomic enhancing, safety. Examined aspects of this for supply chain use. German Bionic debuts its lightest powered exosuit to date at...
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UK Paper Hit by Ransomware
Ransomware hitting many kinds of targets. First I had seen of anewspaper. Guardian newspaper hit by suspected ransomware attackPublished, 21 December 2022, ByThe...
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Big Trouble with Interconnects
Technical issues with transistors in Chip Fabs influence Moore's Law.Big Trouble in Little Interconnects in IEEE Spectrum by Samuel K. Moore / January 02, 2023...
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DeepMind and ML Graphcast Forecasts Weather
Interesting outcome .... Similar in other kinds of forecasting?DeepMind & Google’s ML-Based GraphCast Outperforms the World’s Best Medium-Range Weather Forecasting...![[Book] An anthropology of futures and technology](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] An anthropology of futures and technology
This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Lynn Conway: revolutionising chip design
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London MIT professor and transgender activist, Lynn Conway along with Carver Mead, completely changed the way we thinkContinue...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back and Looking Forward in CS Education 2023
Traditionally I write a year end look back on thee previous yest in CS education. (Last year at Looking Back on Computer Science Education in 2021) Honestly, that...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Sorry to bug you: Grace Hopper
by Peter W McOwan and Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (from the archive) In the 2003 film The Matrix Reloaded, Neo, Morpheus, Trinity and crew continue...
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Empirical Optimization with Divergent Fixed Point Algorithm – When All Else Fails
Thanks to Vincent Granville for sending along his 'Empirical Optimization with Divergent Fixed Point Algorithm – When All Else Fail' Entitled “Empirical Optimization...
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