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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
Brain Background Noise Useful
Recall this being brought up in some work we did in understanding reactions to stimuli. We theorized that it was always useful to calculate the background, where...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Airlines to Ask Contact Information
Expected, likely useful. A firm requirement? Will it get the usual pushback on privacy?Airlines plan to ask passengers for contact-tracing detailsIn this Thursday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Restoring Notre-Dame with VR
Very impressive imagery on current state and progress of Notre-Dame Damage and restoration. Certainly a model for future work of this kind. Includes video describing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Homomorphic Standards, Sample Efforts
Very useful piece with links to alternate standards and company efforts underway. Much more at the linkHomomorphic Encryption StandardizationAn Open Industry /...
From insideHPC
Summit and Theta Supercomputers Power ML Models for Fusion Energy Research
A team led by C.S. Chang at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) 200-petaflop Summit and Argonne...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fine Tuning Vendor Risk Management
Crucial these days. How to Fine-Tune Vendor Risk Management in a Virtual World in Dark Reading by Ryan Smyth & Spencer MacDonald Managing Director / Director,Without...
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Self Organizing Textiles from Cellular Automata
Always an interest here, rarely applied.Cellular AutomataSelf-Organising Textures in Distill.Neural Cellular Automata Model of Pattern FormationNeural Cellular...
From insideHPC
HPC Buyers Guide
This ebook from our friends over at Rescale, shows that by adopting a platform solution and retiring the fixed capacity, on-premises infrastructure model, companies...
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Releases 2U Server: G262-ZR0 with NVIDIA HGX A100 4-GPU
Taipei, Taiwan, February 19th 2020 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced the G262-ZR0 for HPC...
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Intersect360 Research Announces HPC/AI Technology Trends Webinar
SUNNYVALE, CA—February 18, 2021— HPC and hyperscale analyst firm Intersect360 Research will present its latest research and insights on technology trends in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The ENIAC Turns 75
I used to walk past the site of the ENIAC lab on the way to class at the U of Pa, and even got a tour of the space once. Impressive, ENIAC Turns 75 By Samuel...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Computing’s Role In The Pandemic
How can we help? Joe Biden is the 46th president of the USA. Note is called a centered triangular number. These numbers obey the formula: and start with The previous...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Computing’s Role In The Pandemic
How can we help? Joe Biden is the 46th president of the USA. Note is called a centered triangular number. These numbers obey the formula: and start with The previous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Object Permanence and more
Reinforcement learning problem. Learning like children do.AI Agents Learned Object Permanence by Playing Hide and SeekBy IEEE Spectrum February 17, 2021Researchers...
From Schneier on Security
On Chinese-Owned Technology Platforms
I am a co-author on a report published by the Hoover Institution: “Chinese Technology Platforms Operating in the United States.” From a blog post: The report suggests...
From Schneier on Security
Twelve-Year-Old Vulnerability Found in Windows Defender
Researchers found, and Microsoft has patched, a vulnerability in Windows Defender that has been around for twelve years. There is no evidence that anyone has used...
From Schneier on Security
Dependency Confusion: Another Supply-Chain Vulnerability
Alex Birsan writes about being able to install malware into proprietary corporate software by naming the code files to be identical to internal corporate code files...
From Schneier on Security
GPS Vulnerabilities
Really good op-ed in the New York Times about how vulnerable the GPS system is to interference, spoofing, and jamming — and potential alternatives. The 2018 National...
From Schneier on Security
Router Security
This report is six months old, and I don’t know anything about the organization that produced it, but it has some alarming data about router security. Conclusion...
From insideHPC