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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 Putting People First
Humans are imperfect, inconsistent decision-makers
In their new book, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein offer strategies for improvement | An Economist book review
From Putting People First
The human error of Artificial Intelligence
Rather than trying to fix the biases of AI systems and their human error, we need to find ways to coexist with it. Anthropology can help us a lot here.
From Putting People First
The end of privacy? Central banks plan to launch digital coins
The great irony is that the revolution that bitcoin set off could be the end of [financial] privacy with the launch of central bank-backed digital coins.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A World of Holograms and Avatars Next?
Would like to see Avatar Holograms again, in fact have seen in many forms over the years. Even formally tested it in the large enterprise. Its got some goodTech...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows Update Coming Up: New and Improved?
I was handed a test copy of the first windows OS by Bill Gates, when we represented our enterprises' test of the idea. It was not fully installed at our company...
From The Eponymous Pickle
USAF Autonomous Drone Skyborg Completes First Flight
Will continue to see more of this effort. US Air Force autonomous Drone Skyborg completes first flight, by Sarah Katz , Tech XploreLast month, the United States...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Decisions
Good, colorful piece on the who idea of designing decisions. I like the point made especially that 'most decisions are not binary', noting that it is rarely just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AWS Provides Advanced Location Services
Considerable detail here on the services involved. Makes sense, they are the practitioners now.Amazon Location Service Generally Available With Routing and Satellite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Automation
More on business automation. How Businesses Are Perfecting With Artificial Intelligence by 7wDataHave you heard automation is the new black? And what better automation...
From insideHPC
Tear Down These Walls: How CXL Could Reinvent the Data Center
The move to heterogenous computing will require shifting some ... interconnects to a more performant industry standard interface enabling new capabilities likeTear...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 12th 2021)
We completed the sequencing of the human genome. AstraZeneca’s drug Lynparza cut combined risk of recurrence of breast cancer or death by 42% among women in study...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploring Under the Sea with Google Earth
Always appreciated how Google maps has opened Geo exploration and analysis at a remarkable level of detail, to anyone . And below is a reminder that you can do...
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Mining Digitization
Studied mining efforts for a potential application, and can see the direction, especially regards patterns of detection.Where digitalization is a goldmine, for ...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Tardos Is Off With Good Behavior
A call for nominations for her successor In her original orange Éva Tardos’s sentence as Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the Journal of the ACM (JACM) is coming to an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Darktrace Attacks Back with AI Methods.
Recently sent to me DarkTrace. Apparently a means to attack back with AI methods. AI-powered cyber-attacks: It’s not a fair gameAI and machine learning will...
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Google Reconstructs the Human Cortex
Quite remarkable. Impressive build. Images at the link. A way to connect brain and computer. Browsing is a way to learn about structure, now take it out toNeuroglancer...
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Criticism of Blockchains and Trust
Here's a 2019 paper/blog post by Bruce Schneier that I read then. Now revisiting the idea of trust and blockchain. Article is usefully critical of blockchain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Material Science Continues an Expansion
Consider the value and complexity of multifunctional materials, and how much we are getting from understanding them in detail for design, manufacturing and delivery...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Secure Cloud Computing
Don't know this method, provably it says, reviewing later. Much more technical at the link.SeKVM Makes Cloud Computing Provably SecureIEEE Spectrum,Charles Q.Columbia...
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