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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
SWAR explained: parsing eight digits
It is common to want to parse long strings of digits into integer values. Because it is a common task, we want to optimize it as much as possible. In the blog post...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reliability of Contract Tracing
Related to above, considerable piece brief intro below.How Reliable Is Smartphone-Based Electronic Contact Tracing for COVID-19?By Philipp H. Kindt, Trinad Chakraborty...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clip Detects COVID
Intriguing concept, Complete capabilities and how it is meant to integrate with consumer's behavior and status is unclear.Yale researcher teams develops wearable...
From insideHPC
Quantum: Atom Computing Raises $60M Series B Funding
January 20, 2022 — Berkeley, CA — Atom Computing, maker of a quantum computer made of nuclear-spin qubits from optically-trapped neutral atoms, today announcedQuantum...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Zettascale Is Coming – But What About Exascale?
After SC21, Patrick Kennedy at Serve the Home got a scoop when he met with Raja Koduri, SVP/GM of Intel’s Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meta Jumps into NFTs
NFTs getting a further indication of reality. A deepening of generalized asset fungification?Meta reportedly plans to bring NFTs into Facebook and Instagram, BY...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Opening Genomics Data to All
Boon to future research by opening data. Cloud-Based Platform Opens Genomics Data to AllBy Johns Hopkins University, January 19, 2022A team co-led by a Johns Hopkins...
From insideHPC
ORNL: Updated Exascale Earth Simulation Model Delivers 2X Speed
Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced today that a new version of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model, or E3SM, is two times faster than an earlier version...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fully Autonomous Tractors
More examples of autonomy in use.John Deere debuts fully autonomous tractor at CESBY DUNCAN RILEY in SiliconAngleAgricultural hardware maker John Deere today debuted...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Dinner! Drinks! Denominators!
Mathematics is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature—Shakuntala Devi. source—note MoMath cap Peter Winkler is featured in the current issue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the EU Digital Services Act
What will it cover and what are the implications?EXPLAINER: How sweeping EU rules would curb tech companies in TechExplore by Kelvin ChanOnline companies would...
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How Fast Can Quantum Computers Process Information?
Fundamental question. Always thinking back to the complexity question being posed. How Fast Can Quantum Computers Process Information?By The Jerusalem Post, ...
From insideHPC
Quantum in the News: IBM Touts ‘Entanglement Forging’ Simulation; Multiverse Launches Quantum-based Stock Valuations
Quantum is in the news this week, with IBM today announcing new research on its “entanglement forging” simulation method and Multiverse Computing launching a quantum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generating Good Random Numbers for Encryption
Ultimately having good unpredictable randomness is essential for encoding and thus security.Overloaded Memory Chips Generate Truly Random Numbers for Encryption...
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AI Turns Rembrandt into Data
Interesting look into the information in a complex image.AI Turned a Rembrandt Masterpiece into 5.6 Terabytes of DataPopular Science, Purbita Saha, January 11,The...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Announces Release 1.1 of AI Enterprise Suite
NVIDIA has announced release 1.1 of its AI Enterprise software suite. It includes production support for containerized AI with the NVIDIA software on VMware vSphere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Not Ready of Web 3.0 and Why
Good piece by Tim O'Reilly, intro below, more at the link.Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3 By Tim O’ReillyThere’s been a lot of talk about Web3 lately...
From insideHPC
Quantum Brilliance in $22.5M Quantum Chips Project
STUTTGART, Germany, January 19, 2022 — Quantum Brilliance, a German-Australian manufacturer of innovative quantum computing hardware, today announced a joint research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Russian Hypermarket Tour
As someone who has toured European and Asian grocery/hypermarkets in past years for a major US retailer, found this fascinating. Prices in Russia, especially...
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