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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 …
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Addressing Information Overload from Polarization
Although mostly we had too little data to address a problem, the idea of finding data, determining its value in context and then prepping for sub tasks involved...
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State and Future of IBM
Former exec and colleague Bob Herbold talks IBM in his blog: IBM: Finally, A Bold Move Provides Some HopePosted on August 6, 2020 by Bob HerboldOne financialIBM...
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Voice Assistant for Doctors
Podcast of interest: Patient engagement,Voice AssistantHarjinder Sandhu Founder and CEO of Saykara a Voice Assistant for Doctors – Voicebot Podcast Ep 161Harjinder...
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More Intelligent Retail Clouds
More data, more interactions with parts of the business, new patterns to leverage in a changing world.How is Artificial Intelligence Changing the Retail Landscape...
From insideHPC
1st Student Cluster Competition Focusing on Racial Inclusion Slated for January
The inaugural Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition to include historically black and minority universities in the supercomputing challenge arena...
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Huma-Like too Low a Bar
Good cautious point is made here. But I respond that in most cases we are assisting a human, or doing something rather narrow that a human does today. ButWhy...
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Ethical Questions about AI Surgery
Wondered at first where the ethical questions were coming from. Access to advanced methods? No, it seems privacy was once again involved.Researchers examine the...
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Invites Submissions for HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
Hyperion Research is accepting submissions for the 16th round of the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards, to be announced at the SC20 (virtual) conference in November...
From Computational Complexity
Do Senators have an Advantage for being Dem VP Nominee?
This is a non-partisan post. Even so: I plan to vote for Joe Biden.(Lance says that whenever I write `this is a non-partisan post' its partisan anyway.)I've had...
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Testing Self Driving in Germany
The idea of autonomous vehicles moves on.Mobileye wins permit to test autonomous vehicles in Germany By Kyle Wiggers in VenturebeatMobileye, Intel’s driverless...
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Google Updates Audio Settings
Had noticed that that Google assistant seemed to better understand. Via Google:' .... We recently updated the setting for voice and audio recordings in yourThe...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA on the Risks of Exposing Location Data
The NSA has issued an advisory on the risks of location data. Mitigations reduce, but do not eliminate, location tracking risks in mobile devices. Most users rely...
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The Many Sat Nav Systems in Orbit
The continued increase of GPS systems. Will the data from multiple systems be commonly be shared? Or more likely withdrawn in conflict?China Celebrates Completion...
From insideHPC
Summit Takes Center Stage in GE Wind Power Study
Scientists at GE Research have been authorized by the U.S. Department of Energy to access Oak Ridge National Lab’s (ORNL) Summit supercomputer, the world second...
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Unify Your Analytics, and Keep Your Data Where It Suits You
In this sponsored post, Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing, believes that we need to stop our fixation with “data in one place.” The days...
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RadioFreeHPC: HPC Market Growth; Student Cluster Competition — Winter Classic Invitational
by RadioFreeHPC Podcast HPC Market Projected Growth It’s a few weeks since we recorded this episode so maybe things have changed, but as of the recording the HPC...
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Robotic Bricklayer
A great deal of human engineering has been done on bricklaying, that could be used to carefully compare the work involved under varying contexts. Robotic Bricklayer...
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Questions on the Value of Speaking Robotish
What is the meaning behind declaring something a language? We have many computing and many human languages. How much does their form influence the nature of...
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Opinions on State of the Art of Automated Machine Learning
Very useful piece here, the individual comments at the link are most interesting, the key takeaways are mostly obvious. State of the Art in Automated Machine Learning...
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