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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
insideHPC Special Report Optimize Your WRF Applications
A popular application that simulates climate change is the Weather and Research Forecasting (WRF) model. This white paper discusses how QCT can work with leading...
From Schneier on Security
More on NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography
Back in July, NIST selected third-round algorithms for its post-quantum cryptography standard. Recently, Daniel Apon of NIST gave a talk detailing the selection...
From Putting People First
Nicolas Nova: we have to learn how to domesticate our smartphones
Sur la base d‘une enquête de terrain menée à Genève, Los Angeles et Tokyo, cet ouvrage aborde la dimension proprement anthropologique du smartphone.
From The Eponymous Pickle
How six Companies are Using Tech and Data to Transform Themselves
Quite a considerable piece and video, had not seen most of the examples.How six companies are using technology and data to transform themselves In the first ofSent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Entering the Era of Private Money?
Short podcast that just starts to position the question, and many implications.Sorry, Governments, We’re Entering the Era of Private MoneyWhether the U.S. government...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Could a Tree Signal if A Corpse is Decaying?
We worked with satellite and other kinds of imaging to determine the growth and health of forests, as we planned their harvest and replanting for CPG products....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Sound to Classify
Have always promoted the idea of using sound sensors, and sound delivery to activate contextual spaces. Here Carnegie Mellon explores this, calibrating it for sounds...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Good students find questions, not answers
It is often believed that learning is a simple matter of collecting answers and replies. I suspect that “learn mechanistically how to answer the questions” isContinue...
From Putting People First
[Book] Engaged: Designing for Behavioral Change
Behavior change design creates entrancing—and effective—products and experiences. Whether you’ve studied psychology or are new to the field, you can incorporate...
From insideHPC
The Future of HPC for Manufacturing
In this sponsored post, our friends over at Lenovo and Intel explain how High-Performance Computing (HPC) has gone mainstream and forever changed the world of engineering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G's Expanded EY Partnership
Good overview of the current work. Reported in ConsumerGoodsTechnology (CGT) P&G Boosting Supply Chain Potential with Expanded EY Partnership | Consumer Goods"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
360 Degree Virtual Tours
Been recently looking at various capabilities of producing 'Virtual tours' of various complexity. And in particular how it can enhance experiences. Most of360...
From Computational Complexity
Two Math Problems of interest (at least to me)
I will give two math problems that are of interest to me.These are not new problems, however you will have more fun if you work on them yourself and leave comments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data and Its World is Getting Bigger
Almost every talk I see starts with some statistics about the growth of data. Here Datanami updates some of this, with related quantifying of related aspects. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Drone Delivery
Wired makes the point that drone deliveries for now will only be for specialized and emergency situations. Agree about the consumer interest point, delivery has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ransomware Attacks more Sophisticated
Continued concern of these, facilitated by the openness of our systems to external manipulation. what is the solution? The ability to detect particular kinds...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Feynman's Advice to a Young Stephen Wolfram
Particularly interesting if you are intrigued by the origin and transmission of ideas. As I am. This blog for example was established to continue communications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NIST Calls for Cloud Forensics
Another example of forensics from patterns. NIST Calls for Standards to Improve Forensic Capabilities in the CloudNextGov.comMariam BakshAugust 27, 2020A report...
From Schneier on Security
Schneier.com is Moving
I'm switching my website software from Movable Type to Wordpress, and moving to a new host. The migration is expected to last from approximately 3 AM EST Monday...
From Schneier on Security