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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cleverer Automata Exist
A breakthrough on the separating words problem Zachary Chase is a graduate student of Ben Green at Oxford. Chase has already solved a number of interesting problems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Wants TikTok
The hot global video and music sharing capability it would seem primarily competes with YouTube and Facebook. Meanwhile Microsoft has largely gotten out of consumer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mouse Co-Creator Dies
In our meeting with the co-creator of the mouse in the 80s, Doug Engelbart, was quick to mention William English as the person to create the first mouse device....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drug Delivery
Once again, its the accurate and efficient delivery problem. Often a key component of process.COMMANDing Drug DeliveryMIT NewsSabbi LallJuly 10, 2020Massachusetts...
From Computational Complexity
The Gauss story is false yet we still tell it. Should we?
When teaching discrete math a while back I told the following story which some had already heard in High School: When Gauss was in 1st grade the class was being...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning Python: Part 1
Python has been on my radar for years but I haven’t really had the motivation to learn it myself. It’s time though for several reasons. Reason number one is that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Tutorial and Presentation on AI and Machine Learning
Link via DSC to a considerable presentation on Machine Learning from Google. Below a quick intro with a clue to some common uses of what we are now calling AI.Google...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Introductory Guide to the Use of the Data Warehouse
Hardy comprehensive, as the title suggests, but a good introductory piece on the data warehouse. A minimum you should know when dealing with corporate data. Non...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Medical Things
From the ACM, Vint Cerf talks about the current and near future state of medicine.On the Internet of Medical ThingsBy Vinton G. CerfCommunications of the ACM, August...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Smart Supermarket Shelf
A space we did lots of work on with startups and big players. Our innovation center tested them all.Smart Supermarket Shelves: A Shopping TransformationYuval...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu and Self Driving
Update on Baudu's involvement in self driving.Baidu completes its computer for self-driving carsIt'll first be used for autonomous valet parking.Jon Fingas, @jonfingas...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (August 1st 2020)
In Japan, a large dam is being constructed almost entirely by robots. Naked mole rats are mammals that do not age in the sense that their fitness and mortalityContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AR Simulation for First Responders
An example of where AR can work best, where the specific examples are not rare, yet are relatively easy to construct in a form of simulation.AR Tool Shown to Help...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergence of Trust Tokens
Google buys in, likely create more acceptance.Google’s ‘trust tokens’ are here to take cookies down a pegThe company plans to eventually phase out third-party cookies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fully Autonomous AI Running a Wall Street Hedge Fund
With a number of implications/ Interesting claim here. The emergence of legitimate DAOs Distributed Autonomous Organizations?No humans required, the fully autonomous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Customization
Thoughtful and considerable piece on product personalization. Psychology at some level, but also linking direct specific need to function as well as a statement...
From Schneier on Security
Twitter Hacker Arrested
A 17-year-old Florida boy was arrested and charged with last week's Twitter hack. News articles. Boing Boing post. Florida state attorney press release. This is...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Proteins for a Better Face Mask
Researchers are synthesizing squid proteins to create a face mask that better survives cleaning. (And you thought there was no connection between squid and COVID...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Backing from Cortana
Microsoft seems to continue to fall back from having Cortana as a general assistant. but has implied they want to tp continue it as a productivity aid for their...
From The Eponymous Pickle