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Thanks. And sorry that slide was cryptically brief.
From The Noisy Channel

Thanks. And sorry that slide was cryptically brief.

Thanks. And sorry that slide was cryptically brief. What I mean is that spelling correction should not restrict itself to correcting each token separately. Many...

Robotic Smartphone Cases
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robotic Smartphone Cases

Clever idea,but for what purpose?  To test some interactive interaction with people or things?CaseCrawler Adds Tiny Robotic Legs to Your PhoneA phone case withBy...

Pandemic Will Change Uncertainty
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pandemic Will Change Uncertainty

We have never looked at uncertainty enough, but has the pandemic made us more sensitive.  Also how much risk is associated with the uncertainty.  Good piece:AnA...

DOE, White House Announce Members of U.S. Quantum Advisory Committee
From insideHPC

DOE, White House Announce Members of U.S. Quantum Advisory Committee

Technologists from the national labs, universities, federal agencies and industry have been named by the U.S. Department of Energy and the White House Office of...

US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent
From Schneier on Security

US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent

The US Postal Service has filed a patent on a blockchain voting method: Abstract: A voting system can use the security of blockchain and the mail to provide a reliable...

US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent
From Schneier on Security

US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent

The US Postal Service has filed a patent on a blockchain voting method: Abstract: A voting system can use the security of blockchain and the mail to provide a reliable...

US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent
From Schneier on Security

US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent

The US Postal Service has filed a patent on a blockchain voting method: Abstract: A voting system can use the security of blockchain and the mail to provide a reliable...

In this case, I’m imagining that the only match of the string “black” against one of the attributes…
From The Noisy Channel

In this case, I’m imagining that the only match of the string “black” against one of the attributes…

In this case, I’m imagining that the only match of the string “black” against one of the attributes is for the “color” attribute. If the string matches multiple...

The typical integration approach I’ve seen is to use a separate query rewriting service that then…
From The Noisy Channel

The typical integration approach I’ve seen is to use a separate query rewriting service that then…

The typical integration approach I’ve seen is to use a separate query rewriting service that then either filter the Solr query to the preferred categories / attributes...

NERSC Supercomputers Targeted by Hacker: Guilty Plea in Attempted Sale of Access
From insideHPC

NERSC Supercomputers Targeted by Hacker: Guilty Plea in Attempted Sale of Access

A guilty plea was entered today by a hacker, allegedly a member of the hacking group Underground Intelligence Agency, for tying to sell access to supercomputers...

Valuing Spatio-Temporal Information
From The Eponymous Pickle

Valuing Spatio-Temporal Information

The valuation of data is a long time interest, have consulted with large companies on the topic.  Lately about automotive connections.  Technical detail on theComputing...

Automated Math Reasoning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Automated Math Reasoning

In our earliest AI courses,we learned about theorem proving using AI. And yes, it was not automated math reasoning.  But it gave you the hope that it could be done...

Virtana Integrates with Pure Storage for Real-Time IT Intelligence  
From insideHPC

Virtana Integrates with Pure Storage for Real-Time IT Intelligence  

San Jose – August 27, 2020 – Enterprises are struggling with their IT performance, as almost half (47%) admitted they lack visibility and insight into their systems...

Update on Fusion Power
From The Eponymous Pickle

Update on Fusion Power

Following this for years.  Another decade needed?   In IEEE Spectrum, an update on progress.ITER Celebrates Milestone, Still at Least a Decade Away From FusingMachine...

Robo Teammates in their Context
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robo Teammates in their Context

A kind of digital twin and context interaction with sensors and updates. U.S. Army Robo-Teammate Can Detect, Share 3D Changes in Real TimeU.S. Army Research Laboratory...

Cory Doctorow on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
From Schneier on Security

Cory Doctorow on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Cory Doctorow has writtten an extended rebuttal of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. He summarized the argument on Twitter. Shorter summary...

And Smaller Robots Yet
From The Eponymous Pickle

And Smaller Robots Yet

Only 5 microns in size, paramecium sized.    Likely applications in healthcare.  And?Microscopic robots 'walk' thanks to laser tech  in TechXPloreby Cornell University...

RIKEN’s Fugaku to Connect via Oracle Cloud
From insideHPC

RIKEN’s Fugaku to Connect via Oracle Cloud

The RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Japan, owner of the world’s no. 1-ranked supercomputer, Fugaku, has chosen Oracle Cloud as the public cloud provider...

Virtual Collaboration in the Pandemic
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtual Collaboration in the Pandemic

Nice look at how the pandemic has changed collaboration among computer science students and faculty.  Very similar to the experiences we have had.    In the past...

DOE Launches $115M/5-Year Effort to Create 5 Quantum Research Centers
From insideHPC

DOE Launches $115M/5-Year Effort to Create 5 Quantum Research Centers

Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the creation of five new Quantum Information Science...
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