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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
Phones Create Earthquake Monitor
Saw similar applications suggested for some time. I am still a member of a CA based system that in part combines sensors and crowd sourcing monitors. I get alerts...
From Schneier on Security
Collecting and Selling Mobile Phone Location Data
The Wall Street Journal has an article about a company called Anomaly Six LLC that has an SDK that's used by "more than 500 mobile applications." Through that SDK...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NReal Korean Mixed Reality Glasses
Another attempt at more generalized smart glasses, here aimed at mixed reality in particular. Casual everyday wearable, or context specific wearable for the job...
From insideHPC
ORNL Offers Virtual Tour of Summit’s Supercomputer Center
Oak Ridge National Lab has released a virtual tour of the facility that houses Summit, the world’s second most power supercomputer. The tour is offered by the National...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Net Model Finds Small Objects in Dense Images
This sounds like a very interesting problem in general. Say looking for tiny errors in manufacturing. And a number of others.NIST Neural Network Model Finds Small...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New National Q-12 Education Partnership with Industry and Academic Leaders
The following is a press release from The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Recently, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy...
From insideHPC
Prying an Integrated HPC Cluster from Vendors’ Hands: ‘We Had to Force Them to Get into the Same Room’
Sometimes, vendors just won’t take customers’ money for a cluster no matter how hard the customer pleads. Last month, HPC technology strategist Ryan Quick, co-founder...
From The Noisy Channel
I’ve written a few posts that at least touch on voice interfaces:
I’ve written a few posts that at least touch on voice interfaces: Query Understanding and Voice Interfaces Why Voice isn’t Selling…Yet Query Understanding and Chatbots...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imperatives for Intelligent Organizations
Reading, not sure I completely agree with the premise. What rules really? OK, Our better understanding of the patterns in business we can leverage. Still aHow...
From The Noisy Channel
Search Queries and Search Intent
Mapping Search Queries To Search IntentsEvaluating and improving search experience starts with analyzing the queries searchers are making. But search queries are...
From Schneier on Security
Smart Lock Vulnerability
Yet another Internet-connected door lock is insecure: Sold by retailers including Amazon, Walmart, and Home Depot, U-Tec's $139.99 UltraLoq is marketed as a "secure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zagat Future of Dining
How much will people be comfortable with this future, and what will that imply?Small Business Labs looks at Zagata Future of Dining Study.Zagat's Future of Dining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Brand can Have a Voice
Way back experimented with the Mr Clean Brand using talk, voice and chat.. But the tech was not there to deliver voice and value. Much closer now. Will it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Neural Networks on a Brain-Inspired Computer
Considerable challenge. Will the biomimicry provide enough value to adjust our methods to what we now know about the brain?How to Optimize Neural Networks onHPCwire...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reimagining Marketing
McKinsey does some of their innovative thinking. Still I think that what we have seen has been so unexpected, we will be pressed to predict the future context....
From Computational Complexity
Random Thoughts on the Pandemic
1) Contrast the following two points and, if you have an intelligent way to fill-in-the-blank for the second one, please comment.a) When Trump says `open the schools...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Limiting Location Data Exposure
Basic cautions/mitigations on releasing location data. From the NSA, a considerable recent update. Instructive, but not meant to prevent data loss. Via Schneier...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at the Booming RPA Market
Very detailed piece, below the introduction. Probably the most common question I get asked: What is it, how is it different than AI? People should also ask:Note...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (August 9th 2020)
The BBC reports that diversity and anti-bias training is of little use and may even be counterproductive if the goal is reduce biases: “The effect of bias training...
From The Eponymous Pickle