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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
Google Maps now Providing Pandemic Warnings
I do wonder about the liability for giving information that leads to transmission? COVID-19 Google Maps updatesIf your area is affected by COVID-19, you can use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Why Users Click on Fraudulent Emails
What seems a useful measurement scale for understanding this. Its still very basic behavior.The Phish Scale: NIST-Developed Method Helps IT Staff See Why Users...
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Exploring World of Smart Contracts with MadMax
A space we have now looked at for some time, a somewhat technical example well worth going through. Note close attention to 'vulnerabilities' which remain at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vulnerability Disclosure in Cryptocurrencies
Very good, piece. Its been difficult to accept the vulnerabilities that have been revealed to expose monetary systems to it. A good review of recent examples...
From Putting People First
Lack of partnership with key community members causes ICT4D projects to fail
The main lesson is that even a nearly imperceptible deviation from the full inclusion of all relevant parties in every aspect of the project can result in large...
From insideHPC
Earth System Modeling: Exascale and Long-Range Forecasting of Storms, Droughts, Sea Level Rise
In this interview, award winning scientist Mark Taylor at Sandia National Laboratories’ Center for Computing Research talks about the use of exascale-class supercomputers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Refreshes Echo Lineup
Amazon Echo Moves forward, looks to be a considerable update.Amazon refreshes Echo lineup with new custom chip By Stephanie Condon for Between the Lines | in ZDNet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Decoding Emotions?
A problem we spent much time on, depends on what you expect from such a classification. Much like: could you hire a human 'expert' to do this? Training and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What Role Can Computing Play in Battling the COVID-19 Pandemic?
How can computing technology impact global health, particularly with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic? Shwetak Patel, 2018 ACM Prize in Computing winner and Computing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What Role Can Computing Play in Battling the COVID-19 Pandemic?
How can computing technology impact global health, particularly with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic? Shwetak Patel, 2018 ACM Prize in Computing winner and Computing...
From insideHPC
Get Your HPC Cluster Productive Faster
In this sponsored post from our friends over at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), we see that by simplifying the deployment process from weeks or longer to days and...
From Computational Complexity
Remembering 2000
FOCS 2000 took place in Redondo Beach, just south of Los Angeles, November 12-14. Certainly some great results such as the Reingold-Vadhan-Wigderson Zig-Zag Graph...
From insideHPC
Fujitsu to Ship 649 TFLOPS System with Fugaku Technology to Canon for ‘No-prototype’ Product Development
Technology from the world’s No. 1 supercomputer, Fugaku, located at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Japan, is making its way into the commercial sphere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bouncing Balls and Quantum Computing
Of interest: Bouncing Balls and Quantum Computing: A lighthearted method for calculating π is analogous to a fundamental algorithm for quantum computing.By Don...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How expensive is integer-overflow trapping in C++?
Integers in programming languages have a valid range but arithmetic operations can result in values that exceed such ranges. For example, adding two large integers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Architecture Innovation Accelerates Artificial Intelligence
As part of the first day of the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) David A. Patterson, who won the 2017 ACM A.M Turing Award “for pioneering a systematic,...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Architecture Innovation Accelerates Artificial Intelligence
As part of the first day of the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) David A. Patterson, who won the 2017 ACM A.M Turing Award “for pioneering a systematic,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Participation Washing?
Stated term was new to me, but a important in any kind of data that is crowd sourced. Should always be a consideration. A fix? Not that either.Participation...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Double Episode, Including: IBM Power10 Chip
We’re finally starting to cut into our product backlog and, as a first, we’re presenting our special road trip double episode where Jessi and Dan traveled to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle