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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
Miniature Spectrometer for a Smartphone
A description and a number of potential application from Fraunhofer, including but not limited to detecting counterfeit drugs and other products. We performed...
From insideHPC
Honeywell and Cambridge Quantum Claim 3 Milestones
BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 20, 2021 — Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON) and Cambridge Quantum today announced three scientific and technical milestones that they say demonstrate...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Pluses and Minuses of the Unary increment Operator
There has been a conversation on Twitter about the unary increment operator (++) and related (+=, –, etc.). I tend to gloss over these when teaching beginners....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hubble Fixed!
Consider the amount of knowledge and data involved! Great if this comes through. Also to the fact that such hardware and software can be remotely changed. ...
From insideHPC
Duality Quantum Accelerator Accepts 6 into Inaugural Cohort
Duality, the nation’s first accelerator exclusively for quantum companies, has accepted six startups for Cohort 1. Duality is led by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship...
From insideHPC
DOE Awards $3.7M for National Lab HPC Research for Energy Spplications
July 19, 2021 — The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded $3.7 million for high performance computing (HPC) projects that address key challenges in USDOE...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Happened to Watson? Still here.
We were invited early on to work with Watson's prototype. But then it did clearly slow behind its stated expectations. Yet a number of things also came out...
From insideHPC
ALCF Developer Session: Inside the NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPU in ThetaGPU and Perlmutter
On Wednesday, July 28 at 11 am CT, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will present a developer session focused on utilization of the Nvidia Ampere A100 GPU...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Serialized Story Platform
Interesting. Am a user of a number of ways to consume text, including Amazon, Kindle and Audible. Now we can consume these in new ways? Mined from existing text...
From Schneier on Security
Candiru: Another Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer
Citizen Lab has identified yet another Israeli company that sells spyware to governments around the world: Candiru. From the report: Summary: Candiru is a secretive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Train Adapt, Optimize: TAO
More of interest on the NVIDIA TAO effort:Fast Track AI Model Adaptation with TAOBuilding a state-of-the-art deep learning model is a complex and time-consuming...
From insideHPC
Spend Less on HPC/AI Storage (and more on CPU/GPU compute)
[SPONSORED POST] In this whitepaper courtesy of HPE, you'll learn about the three approaches that can help you to feed your CPU- and GPU-accelerated compute nodes...
From Computational Complexity
Political Intersections: Trump honors Antifa member who was shot dead by police
1) Trump and other reps have said the following about the Jan 6 event at various times:a) The Jan 6 event was freedom fighters who were fighting the noble fight...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Adapt to Challenging Terrain in Real Time
Terrain-able robotics have been very impressive in recent years. Here yet more advances by some relatively unexpected parties. Ultimately will it become rare...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On-Demand Session: Deploying Edge AI in Manufacturing
Useful piece with examples:Deploying Edge AI for manufacturing Supply Chains In NVIDIA DeveloperOn-Demand Session: Deploying Edge AI in Manufacturing By Amanda...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cybercrime Intervention
A considerable, interesting piece on some of the work being done on getting inside cybercrime gangs.How Does One Get Hired by a Top Cybercrime Gang? in KrebsOnsecurity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Image Improvement Synthesis Models
From the Google AI blog. Interesting ways to improve images based on AI models. Illustrative images at the link.High Fidelity Image Generation Using Diffusion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is the U.S. Labor Shortage the Big Break AI Needs?
Labor needs and process are being re thought.too.Is the U.S. Labor Shortage the Big Break AI Needs?AI May Be the Big Break Labor NeedsHesitancy and misconceptions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Warm AI is Better
Would agree, but being right is better yet. .... in many cases we got AI to be engaging with our brands ... but like in any assistance style interaction, we want...
From The Eponymous Pickle