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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 insideHPC
UK Antitrust Agency to Probe Nvidia Acquisition of Arm
Nvidia’s intended acquisition of chip maker Arm from SoftBank, the biggest tech deal of 2020 and one with major implications for HPC and AI, is now under investigation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research...
From Schneier on Security
Changes in WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy
If you’re a WhatsApp user, pay attention to the changes in the privacy policy that you’re being forced to agree with. In 2016, WhatsApp gave users a one-time ability...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generating Visual Images from Text Descriptions
Something we could have used to test visual understanding of products and their use. OpenAI’s latest neural network creates images from written descriptions By...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Private Data: Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
Schneier has mentioned this as a privacy issue: Just reading the Berkeley BAIR paper that develops this (see short excerpt below) And the source technical paper...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Product Development from Visualization
And forward to product design and development, from visualization. Visualization Adds Transparency to Digital Product DevelopmentFraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Germany)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inferring Design Plans from Short Clips
Currently examining this kind of approach. Phones are getting these kinds of abilities. Researchers design AI that can infer whole floor plans from short video...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dream Manipulation
Now here is some scary. Or a means of entertainment? Or creativity enhancement? An MIT Lab Is Building Devices to Hack Your DreamsFrom improving your mood to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Invite: Walmart+ Starts up to Compete with Amazon Prime
Received invite today: Meet Walmart+ FAQThe membership that helps you save more time & money.Only $12.95/month or $98/yearStart 15-day free trial ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Learning on SolarWinds
Schneier summarizes the NYT detailed article on the SolarWinds hack. The NYT article is firewalled, and the Schneier article also includes a number of usefulLatest...
From insideHPC
GlobusWorld to Be Held Online May 12-14
GlobusWorld, a non-profit organization that brings together researchers, systems administrators, developers and IT leaders from top research computing centers,GlobusWorld...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Code Comeback?
We were very early experimenters and appliers, so this caught my eye. Good story in current context, With further expert opinion in retail. Will it last post...
From Schneier on Security
Russia’s SolarWinds Attack and Software Security
The information that is emerging about Russia’s extensive cyberintelligence operation against the United States and other countries should be increasingly alarming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monitoring in-production ML models
Useful and detailed look at real world problems with Sagemaker Model Monitor. Good graphical views. Somewhat but practically technical.Monitoring in-production...
From insideHPC
SingleStore Adds AWS Glue for Simpler Cloud Data Integration
San Francisco – Jan. 6, 2021 – Database company SingleStore, for operational analytics and modern applications, today unveiled native support for AWS Glue, expanding...
From Schneier on Security
APT Horoscope
This delightful essay matches APT hacker groups up with astrological signs. This is me: Capricorn is renowned for its discipline, skilled navigation, and steadfastness...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Memory access on the Apple M1 processor
When a program is mostly just accessing memory randomly, a standard cost model is to count the number of distinct random accesses. The general idea is that memory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Solves Quantum Chemistry Problem
Heard this posed an an early 'monte carlo' simulation problem which had potential for solutions with quantum.AI Solves Schrödinger's Equation, a Fundamental Problem...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Small Data, Short Term Global Risks, GRR
Nicely put, perhaps on every risk analysis we should list these calculate how they might be of threat to our contexts. At the link below some good charts and...
From Putting People First