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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
Double-blind peer review is a bad idea
When you submit a manuscript to a journal or to a conference, you do not know who reviews your manuscript. Increasingly, due to concerns with biases and homophily...
From Computational Complexity
Vaughan Jones and Kaikoura
Vaughan Jones, one of the greatest mathematicians from New Zealand, passed away on September 6 at 67. Jones is an expert in knot theory among other areas and received...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Announces 3D Object Detection
Could lead to very interesting applications. More phone based marketing and location possibilities? And another round of complaints like we have seen from face...
From Schneier on Security
Symantec Reports on Cicada APT Attacks against Japan
Symantec is reporting on an APT group linked to China, named Cicada. They have been attacking organizations in Japan and elsewhere. Cicada has historically been...
From Schneier on Security
The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data
Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On IOT Security: Guidelines for Improvement
As we depend on many new communicating 'things' in our environment, their design and management over time and context must be done better.IoT Security Is a Mess...
From insideHPC
Making AI Accessible to Any Size Enterprise
In this sponsored post, our friends over at Lenovo and NetApp have teamed up with NVIDIA to discuss how the companies are helping to drive Artificial Intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing the Echo
Fast Company looks at the design and redesign of the Amazon Echo since 2014. Thoughtful examination of how complex consumer design works.Why Amazon radicallyYou...
From Putting People First
Experientia speaks at EFUS webinar on insecurity at night
On 24 November Elena Guidorzi, research unit coordinator of Experientia will speak at the EFUS web conference entitled "Reducing and preventing the feeling of insecurity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modeling Multi Agent Interacting Systems
Fascinating piece. Aren't we all multi agent interacting systems? Can we effectively model that to understand it in context? Berkeley Bair takes a took. Its...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Traveling Salesman Problem Meets Complexity Theory
Crazy ideas meet crazed audience Merrill Flood was a mathematician who publicized the Traveling salesman problem TSP back in the 1940s. He says that he found the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain: Its Now about Risk
Now even more so, its about risk. Measuring, predicting and addressing.Supply Chain Risk Management - Reach the Next Level of Supply Chain Maturity Marcus Evans...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Buys Observability
The broader concept of 'observability' was new to me, but as described very useful. Performance and beyond. Clearly applicable to AI applications. Now thinking...
From insideHPC
At SC20: Intel Provides Aurora Update as Argonne Developers Use Intel Xe-HP GPUs in Lieu of ‘Ponte Vecchio’
In an update to our "Bridge to 'Ponte Vecchio' story yesterday, today we interviewed, Jeff McVeigh, Intel VP/GM of data center XPU products and solutions, who updated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Blockchain Could Mean for Your Health Data
Thoughts about blockchain and health dataWhat Blockchain Could Mean for Your Health Databy Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott in HBRBig data is perhaps the most powerful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enhancing Learning with Praise
Praise should work, but how do you deliver it, and best understand its behavioral implications? Contextual influence? This is an example I want to see more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Pharmacy Launches
Long awaited, implications will be interesting. Supply chain in the era of epidemic should be good. Linked to Prime.Will Amazon’s new online pharmacy disruptBy...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSTC Subcommittee Report: Pioneering The Future Advanced Computing Ecosystem
The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) subcommittee on Future Advanced Computing Ecosystems just released a new report on Pioneering The Future Advanced...
From insideHPC
CINECA Partners with Atos for 240PFLOPS ‘Leonardo’ Supercomputer
The CINECA supercomputing center in Bologna, Italy, has selected Atos’ BullSequana XH2000 supercomputing platform integrated with ParTec’s ParaStation Modulo software...
From insideHPC