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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
Non Reproducible Machine Learning
Always thought this was problematical. How many experiments in papers are ultimately repeated, validated, with the same data? Or ultimately are they just 'experientially'...
From Schneier on Security
Exploiting Spectre Over the Internet
Google has demonstrated exploiting the Spectre CPU attack remotely over the web: Today, we’re sharing proof-of-concept (PoC) code that confirms the practicality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Models for Diagnosing Covid Diagnosis
Was wondering if validated ML models existed, had not heard of any. What is missing? The article suggests lack of data, can that be? Yes, if the needed validated...
From insideHPC
Achronix Ships 10 Millionth Speedcore eFPGA IP Core
Santa Clara, CA – Achronix announces today that 10 million Speedcore eFPGA IP cores have shipped in customers’ ASICs. Achronix said it is the only high-performance...
From insideHPC
FSU Researchers Report Enhanced Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms
Florida State University researchers report they have found a way to automatically infer parameters used in an important quantum Boltzmann machine algorithm for...
From insideHPC
Former Dell Technologies HPC Leader Appointed to GRC Board of Directors
AUSTIN, TX – March 17, 2021 – GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), the leader in single-phase liquid immersion cooling for data centers, announced today the appointment...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC: Milan, Milan, Milan – and… How Will Intel Respond?
This is a breaking news edition of Radio Free HPC, so you should play dramatic music while listening to this episode. Wait, don’t do that, we want you to actually...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming using Text or Blocks? Why not Both?
Continuing my look at papers from the SIGCSE 2021conference. The papers are available for free for a limited time. Get them while you can. In this post, I take...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2021
May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future. Purchased from Etsy Neil L. is a Leprechaun. He has been visiting me or Ken once every year since...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2021
May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future. Purchased from Etsy Neil L. is a Leprechaun. He has been visiting me or Ken once every year since...
From insideHPC
Pure Storage Brings Its Block Storage to Microsoft Azure
Mountain View, Calif. – March 16, 2021 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), which offers storage as-a-service for multicloud environments, announced the general availability...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walgreens Automates Vaccine Scheduling with AI Bot
Interesting example here of integrating basic interactions and more complex data based decisions. Walgreens automates COVID-19 vaccine scheduling By Dan Berthiaume...
From insideHPC
Micron Updates Memory and Storage Strategy – Commits to CXL, Ends Development of 3D XPoint
BOISE, Idaho, March 16, 2021 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced updates to the company’s portfolio strategy to focus on memory and storageMicron...
From insideHPC
Clacc – Open Source OpenACC Compiler and Source Code Translation Project
By Rob Farber, contributing writer for the Exascale Computing Project Clacc is a Software Technology development effort funded by the US Exascale Computing Project...
From insideHPC
Sandia’s Open-access Quantum Computer Is Operational, Available to Scientists
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new Department of Energy open-access quantum computing testbed is ready for the public. Scientists from Indiana University recently became...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accountable Algorithms, Use and Misuse
Useful nontechnical piece, some good thoughtful graphics. Yes a clear and increasing issue that needs to be regulated. But it is not true that such systems and...
From insideHPC
Los Alamos Teams with Fungible for Processing Offloading to Network and Storage for Complex Simulations
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) and Fungible Inc., a data-centric computing company, today announced a collaboration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Contact Tracking Failing
I have read in other places it is not only a failure in the US. Is it merely a measure of trust? Having enough people buy into the capability, without clearContact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Makes a TV Stick
Interesting choice. To control and tailor some of the ads and resulting data? Certainly a possibility. Walmart is making an Android TV stick under its Onn ...
From insideHPC