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Governance of AI:  Podcast Use and Misuse of AI
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Governance of AI: Podcast Use and Misuse of AI

 Podcast interview with  Miles Brundage head of Policy Research at OpenAI responsible for governance of AI,  See the gradientPub.substack.com.  AI misuse and Trustworthy...

Meet OLCF’s Gina Tourassi, Director of National Center for Computational Sciences
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Meet OLCF’s Gina Tourassi, Director of National Center for Computational Sciences

Since Gina Tourassi began her career, computer science has come a long way. Tourassi learned programming in the 1980s starting with QBasic. It’s a programming environment...

Improving Machine Learning
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Improving Machine Learning

Integrating knowledge Graphs with derived knowledge.  Useful but rarely done.  Our early links with Stanford addressed this.Improving Machine Learning: How Knowledge...

Preparing for Quantum
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Preparing for Quantum

 Good piece out of ACM, prepare for the quantum.   Passing this on for review for usefulness.  Thoughts?Exploring the Promise of Quantum Computing By Leah Hoffmann...

Watch Your Algorithms
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Watch Your Algorithms

Watched this closely, family being involved in the space,  Prices seemed odd, but were they somehow magical?   Always compare algorithm results for reasonableness...

From Computational Complexity

Finding an element with nonadaptive questions

Suppose you have a non-empty subset S of {1,...N} and want to find an element of S. You can ask arbitrary questions of the form "Does S contain an element in A?"...

Third Wave of Biomaterials
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Third Wave of Biomaterials

Clear need in our future.   A kind of biomimicry we have known for a long time.  Now at a much lower  level.  an it be constructed in new ways?  PetrochemicalsThe...

Wearable Tech and Work
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Wearable Tech and Work

 Performance and Commuting, with some prediction of performance from machine learning. Wearable Tech Confirms Wear-and-Tear of Work Commute, By Dartmouth College...

Healthcare AI Models from Microsoft
From The Eponymous Pickle

Healthcare AI Models from Microsoft

Healthcare AI innovation with Zero Trust technologyFacebook Twitter LinkedInPosted on October 26, 2021John Doyle Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Health & Life...

Blue Sky at HCOMP 2021
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Blue Sky at HCOMP 2021

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at The Ninth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing...

Ahead for Augmented Reality
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Ahead for Augmented Reality

Heads up for the road ahead.  Good piece.Home/News/The Road Ahead for Augmented Reality/Full TextThe Road Ahead for Augmented Reality, By Keith KirkpatrickCommunications...

Robots Using Echo location
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Using Echo location

 Recall this being proposed as a solution in navigation, but noise in general being a problem., and the speed needed was not there, now solved?Robots Can Use Their...

Amazon Failing to Protect Your Data?
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Amazon Failing to Protect Your Data?

Implications for future nuse?Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data, By Wired, November 19, 2021  in ACM NewsOn September 26, 2018, a row of tech...

Explosive sensing with insect-based biorobots
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Explosive sensing with insect-based biorobots

Smell again is something we examined in retail interaction,  here much more dramatic.Explosive sensing with insect-based biorobots  in ScienceDirectHighlightsAAbstract...

Moon Oxygen
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Moon Oxygen

But how usable?    Quite a claim.The Moon’s Surface Has Enough Oxygen to Sustain 8 Billion People for 100,000 Years  in SingularityHubBy John Grant -Nov 14, 2021157...

Securing Your Digital Life
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Securing Your Digital Life

Some good thoughts.Securing your digital life, the finale: Debunking worthless “security” practices  in ArsTechnicaWe tear down some infosec conventional wisdom...

Ethereum to Remove Miners?
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Ethereum to Remove Miners?

Had looked at other non-mining approaches, but these had other issues.Bye-Bye, Miners! How Ethereum’s Big Change Will WorkBy The Washington Post, August 19, 2021...

Starbucks and Amazon Go Joint Concept Stores
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Starbucks and Amazon Go Joint Concept Stores

 Seems a novel approach:Starbucks and Amazon open first joint concept store with more to comeby George Anderson  in Retailwire   with expert commentsStarbucks and...

Novartis and Pharma AI
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Novartis and Pharma AI

 Fairly broad look at how drugs can use AI:Novartis empowers scientists with AI to speed the discovery and development of breakthrough medicinesBy Bill BriggsHere...

Imagine if Your Therapist Could Access  Your Smartphone
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Imagine if Your Therapist Could Access Your Smartphone

Very interesting thought, will the contents of our phones provide maps to our psyche in the future?     Useful, but beware of possible uses, privacy?Imagine ifThe...
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