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Pawsey Offers 1st Look at ‘Setonix’ $48M HPE Cray EX Supercomputer
From insideHPC

Pawsey Offers 1st Look at ‘Setonix’ $48M HPE Cray EX Supercomputer

Perth, Australia — The first phase of what the Pawsey Supcomputer Centre said will be the fastest public research supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere has been...

City Wide Quantum Data Network
From The Eponymous Pickle

City Wide Quantum Data Network

 China and Quantum Data NetworksCity-Wide Quantum Data Network in China Is Largest Ever Built  By New Scientist, September 20, 2021China has been running a city...

Sandia Materials and Computer Scientists Help Create Alloys for Hydrogen Energy Storage, Transmission
From insideHPC

Sandia Materials and Computer Scientists Help Create Alloys for Hydrogen Energy Storage, Transmission

LIVERMORE, Calif., Sept. 20, 2021 — A Sandia National Laboratories team of materials scientists and computer scientists, with some international collaborators,Sandia...

Next Generation Brain-Computer Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Next Generation Brain-Computer Systems

Has been kicked around for a long time, how ready is it? Researchers Take Step Toward Next-Generation Brain-Computer Interface SystemBrown University, August 12...

On Search Leadership
From The Noisy Channel

On Search Leadership

As a high-class consultant, I don’t just talk to companies about the technical aspects of search. I also help them them address organizational challenges.For example...

Removing Location Tracking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Removing Location Tracking

Thwarting cellphone tracking.Is Your Mobile Provider Tracking Your Location? This Technology Could Stop It.By USC Viterbi School of Engineering, August 16, 2021...

Taking Altair Structural & CFD Analysis to New Heights with the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors
From insideHPC

Taking Altair Structural & CFD Analysis to New Heights with the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors

At the recent ISC 2021 virtual event in June, I sat down with Kevin Mayo of AMD and InsideHPC’s Doug Black. We discussed how the latest AMD EPYC™ processors are...

Book Review–System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Book Review–System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot is what you get when a top philosopher, a top political scientist, and a top computer scientist get...

From Computational Complexity

The New Jeopardy Champion is a `A CS grad student from a school in New Haven'

 As of Sept 17, Matt Amodio has won 23 straight games in a row on Jeopardy and won over $800,000 in regular play. The following website is not quite up to date,...

Finding Unexpected Training Data?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Finding Unexpected Training Data?

Can we find data that will ultimately lead to novel results.   Like the idea of fitting it to possible . In a  primitive way we looked at means to learn from huge...

Pitfalls of Binary Decisions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pitfalls of Binary Decisions

Good thoughts, but simple is also good. Five ways to avoid the pitfalls of binary decisionsBefore you decide, check how the question is framed to ensure you have...

Ajit Joakar on Digital Twins
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ajit Joakar on Digital Twins

Nicely placed background on analytical method and design based on physical models.The significance of Digital Twins in design and simulation  By Ajit JaokarOpen...

Science and Technology links (September 18th 2021)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (September 18th 2021)

4.5% of us are psychopaths. U.S. per capita CO2 emissions are lower than they were in 1918. 9/10 of People With Alzheimer’s Lose Some of Their Sense of Smell. Graphene...

Biases in AI Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Biases in AI Systems

Excellent piece, broadly useful beyond AI applications.  May 12, 2021, Volume 19, issue 2Download PDF version of this article PDF  Biases in AI Systems     A survey...

The Hacking of McD's Ice Cream Machine
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Hacking of McD's Ice Cream Machine

 A little surreal, but a reminder that anything can be hacked.  I had heard of the problem from McDonalds,  Had been unaware of some of the details involved.  Just...

Machine Learning Developed in Space
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning Developed in Space

We have used computers in space for a long term, now a continuation of developing code there.Raspberry Pi Heading into Space for Python Programming ChallengeZDNet...

Wal-Mart Testing Self Driving Cars with Ford
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Testing Self Driving Cars with Ford

Unexpected thing.  With a delivery angle too.. Walmart to Test Self-Driving Cars with Ford, Argo AICNBC, Michael Wayland, September 15, 2021Walmart, the world’s...

Debugging–Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Debugging–Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast

Mike Zamansky had an interesting post called  What They Used To Know that got me thinking about the old days. Now Mike is a youngster and didn’t really start in...

Visirule Business Risk Advisor
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visirule Business Risk Advisor

Have never stopped looking at simplified rule based systems to examine model decisions.  Some time ago we looked at some of Clive Spenser's work in this area. Clive...

HBR IdeaCast on AI and Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

HBR IdeaCast on AI and Marketing

Brought to my attention, the podcast below, and ongoing ...HBR IdeaCastA weekly podcast featuring the leading thinkers in business and management.... What We Still...
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