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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
The Army Studies Real Time Conversation
Considerable, interesting piece on the topic. Leads to the open question about how we converse with our robot assistants. And leads on to other kinds of hybrid...
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Hybrid Work Disrupting
Microsoft writes on the Next Great Disruption, interesting stats and more, at the link;The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work—Are We Ready?Over the past year,...
From insideHPC
UK Intervenes in Nvidia Acquisition of Arm Ltd.
Even as Nvidia announced its new “Grace” Arm CPU for AI and HPC last week, the UK government this morning issued a “public interest intervention” notice that targets...
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Laugh More, Lead Better
Recall some of our own experiments in humor-augmented management. Laugh more, lead better in McKinseyNaomi Bagdonas and Connor Diemand-Yauman, lecturers at Stanford...
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Investing in Eco
How can more people become involved in Crypto?Investing in Eco, Cryptoby Katie Haun and Arianna Simpson in Andreessen HorowitzOne of the challenges in any new...
From Computational Complexity
An Investment Puzzle and Speculation as to Why Some Think it's Hard
This is a Guest Post by David Marcus. He gives a puzzle and its solution, which is interesting, and then speculates as to why some people get it wrong. ---...
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Building 3D Earth Models
For those with interest in the recent eruptions in Iceland and also those with interest in Photogrammetry 3D models of the earth, here is a 3D model of the eruptions...
From Apophenia
Behind every algorithm, there be politics.
In my first class in computer science, I was taught that an algorithm is simply a way of expressing formal rules given to a computer. Computers like rules. They...
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Evolution of Ransomware and Related Extortion
Thoughtful podcast and transcript from Recorded Future, Telling the evolution of extortion methods and responses.Ransomware and Extortion Evolve More Brazen Tactics...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Summing Up the Primes
Given the millennia that people have contemplated prime numbers, our continuing ignorance concerning the primes is stultifying—Richard Crandall and Carl Pomerance...
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First Multi-Node Quantum Network Paves the Way for the Quantum Internet
Though still a small number of qubits, but the connectivity into a 'quantum internet' appears to be a big step forward. First Multi-Node Quantum Network Paves...
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Grants for Taming Big Data
Key aspects to manage and manage large unwieldy data from may sourcesDOE Will Spend $10M on Research to Tame Massive Data Sets By U.S. Department of EnergyThe...
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Uses of AI for Small Business
Fairly obvious, but the stats show you that small business understands the needs and possibilities.The Growing Importance of AI for Small BusinessesAI has become...
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Phonons and Quantum Monte Carlo
More looks at material science.A Successful Phonon Calculation Within the Quantum Monte Carlo Framework By Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ...
From CERIAS Blog
Riffing on the Ph.D. Degree
I recenty was having a discussion with someone about the Ph.D. option for a degree here. The person said “I don’t want a Ph.D. because I don’t ever intend to do...
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Cyber Threats to Supply Chains
Schneier reports on the DNI annual assessment. With lots of interesting comments and other coverage in his blog. Would also like to emphasize supply chain implications...
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Quanta Magazine: Brain Rotates Memories to Save Them
Made me think of how this kind of structure could be used in machine learning to perform a kind of maintenance and change managemebt as new data is acquired. ...
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Microsoft and AI Company Nuance
A good piece on why Microsoft is squiring Nuance, which also reminded me I had tested and used their package Dragon for speech recognition applications. ButWhy...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 17th 2021)
Moderna built their COVID 19 vaccine without having the virus on site. They viewed it as a software problem. Human and mice with red hair have elevated pain thresholds...
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