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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (November 28th 2020)
Homework favours kids with wealthier and better educated parents. My own kids have access to two parents with a college education, including a father who is publishing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Cars Delivering Meds in London
More attempts at automated delivery:Autonomous Green Robot Cars to Deliver Medicine Around LondonInteresting Engineering By Chris YoungA fleet of autonomous, electrically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New, Free, MIT Introduction to Machine Learning AI Course
We worked with MIT in a number of ways, with their supply chain group, their Media Laboratory and with a number of their researchers. Impressive group. I still...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coffee Analysis Using Pattern Recognition
Used to be in the coffee blend analysis and optimization space, so this was interesting. Nicely done. We did some similar things with classical optimization and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Zoom Abuse: TurkeyBombing
In the sense that your guard may be down to phishing when you are casually involved in video communication with family and friends.TurkeyBombing Puts New Twist ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rules as Code: White Paper
More on the direction of encoding legal rules and reasoning, like smart contracts, in coding. And their accurate use and manipulation. 'Rules as Code' will let...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Using Boston Robotics Spot
Been following various uses ot the 'Spot' robot. And how it makes its telepresence felt by its new subjects. Here new and different application, working...
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Recorded Future Offers Handbook
From a company we connected with in their early days, have not read this yet, looks to be of general interest.Get Your Handbook for Disrupting Adversaries andOCTOBER...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addiction and Notifications
Intriguing experimental results which might drive other kinds of behavior on the phone.Phone addiction not driven by notifications, study finds By Cristina Criddle...
From insideHPC
Why Developers are Turning to Ultra-powerful Workstations for More Creative Freedom at Less Cost
This white paper, "Why Developers are Turning to Ultra-powerful Workstations for More Creative Freedom at Less Cost," from Dell Technologies discusses why developers...
From My Biased Coin
TCS Connections Questionnaire
I wanted to link to a survey that is up entitled Committee on TCS Connections Questionnaire. They are examining modifying approaches to publishing in the theoretical...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast does interpolation search converge?
When searching in a sorted array, the standard approach is to rely on a binary search. If the input array contains N elements, after log(N) + 1 random queries in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Serious Gamification
Podcast on the evolution of serious gamification. We used it to some extent in the enterprise, but never to my satisfaction. It requires a change in business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Many Shoppers Want Zero in Store Human Interaction?
Not sure I fully agree, some shoppers, for some goods. But now they have now been well trained in the prospect. Having actual quality interaction may be a big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building ROS Robotics Applications
ROS Pointed out to me as instructive .... Building Robotics Applications Using ROS and NVIDIA Isaac SDKBy Sameer Tangade and Cenk Oguz Saglam | November 11, 2020...
From insideHPC
Virtual SC20 Retrospective: Thinkers’ Thoughts on HPC Today and Tomorrow
Check out this assemblages’ reflections on last week’s virtual SC20. Their thoughts range from big-picture insights on how the event reflects the state of HPC to...
From Schneier on Security
Undermining Democracy
Last Thursday, Rudy Giuliani, a Trump campaign lawyer, alleged a widespread voting conspiracy involving Venezuela, Cuba, and China. Another lawyer, Sidney Powell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DISH and Qualcomm 5G RAN
More development of robust network infrastructure planned.DISH and Qualcomm to Collaborate on the Development of the Nation's First O-RAN Compliant 5G NetworkENGLEWOOD...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to HPC/AI for Energy – Part 4
In this technology guide sponsored by our friends over at Dell Technologies, we take a deep dive into how the team of Dell Technologies and AMD is working to provide...
From The Eponymous Pickle