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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
Regulators Want more Details of Payment Systems
To be expected, how can the details of this be used to improve security?Regulators demand more info about tech payment systems in TheVergeQuery orders sent out...
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Did IBM Lose the Cloud?
Did IBM Lose the Cloud and was Emphasis on Watson to Blame? Interacted with them during the early Watson days and there was quite an investment in that. How ...
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Argonne Names 5 New Distinguished Fellows
Argonne National Laboratory has named for 2021 five new Argonne Distinguished Fellows, the lab’s highest title: Pete Beckman, Lois Curfman McInnes and Rick Stevens...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Hyperautomation?
My friend Gib Basset authors this piece in Retailwire, including further discussion: Will ‘hyperautomation’ determine retailing success from this point forward?...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Converting binary floating-point numbers to integers
You are given a floating-point number, e.g. a double type in Java or C++. You would like to convert it to an integer type… but only if the conversion is exact.Continue...
From My Biased Coin
Networking+Theory Postdoc at Harvard
The last couple of years one aspect of research I've greatly enjoyed is getting back into networking, which is really due to my excellent (and patient) collaborators...
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Swarm Robotics
The power of the swarm? Collective application to a task? Sharing tasks. Data and path aware solutions? Researchers Successfully Build Four-Legged Swarm Robots...
From insideHPC
$125M in NIH Grants to Study Cellular Aging to Be Coordinated by PSC and Other Pittsburgh Institutions
Oct. 20, 2021 — National Institute of Health grants totaling approximately $125 million over five years to 16 U.S. institutions will fund research to explore the...
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US Commerce Dept Bans Selling Hacking Tools to China, Russia
Not sure this means very much, but the list of tools mentioned within the article is interesting. Commerce Department announces new rule aimed at stemming sale ...
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Qualcomm Smart Cities And Cepton
Cepton Joins Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program, Bringing Expertise in Smart Lidar Technologies for Higher Levels of Safety, Intelligence and Connectivity...
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Robots Sewing
Useful to see examples where robotics have problems with manufacturing steps.Why Robots Can't Sew Your T-ShirtBy Wired, September 28, 2021SoftWear Automation https...
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IBM's Journey to AI Blog
IBM taking a fresh look at AIIBM's Journey to AI BlogData: It’s becoming richer, cheaper, and increasingly open in the post-pandemic world of broad digitalization...
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The Security of Pin Codes
Disconcerting suggestion. Via Schneier, see where there are comments of interest .... Credit card PINs can be guessed even when covering the ATM pad in Bleepingcomputer...
From insideHPC
Exxact Partners with SoftIron on Ceph-based Software Defined Storage
FREMONT, CA, October 19, 2021 — Exxact Corporation, provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and data center solutions, and SoftIron...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Some Statistical Gamma Fun
Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum. — Leonhard Euler Cantor’s Paradise page Kasper Müller is a mathematics and...
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Lucy as a Robot Archaeologist
Archaeologists adapt to the context to make the best use of their time and resources. Is this what is being done or are just doing remote control? Following.Why...
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Small Data Also Crucial, With Tested Transfer Assumption
We tried related ideas but found that the transfer assumption rarely held well enough to be useful. Useful to keep in mind to potentially simplify models, with...
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Quantum Data Link over Chinese Cities
Repeated, was asked for new comment on this: via ACM TECHNEWSQuantum Data Link Established Between 2 Distant Chinese CitiesBy New ScientistResearchers at theThe...
From insideHPC
PRACE Invites Participation in HPC for Industry Survey
Oct. 19, 2021 — PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has issued a survey aimed at assessing difficulties and issues SMEs face when attempting...
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