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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2020 Conference Online–Day One
Day one of the online CSTA 2020 conference has been today. I’m blogging this as the day goes on and posting it at the end of the day. We started with welcome remarks...
From insideHPC
Entries Open for Hyperion Research HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
Industry analyst firm Hyperion Research announced today that it and the HPC User Forum Steering Committee are accepting submissions for the 16th round of the HPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Food Butchers
The first steps in large scale replacement of human labor?Tyson Turns to Robot Butchers, Spurred by Coronavirus OutbreaksThe Wall Street JournalJacob Bunge; Jesse...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Manipulating Cables
Been at times responsible for cable rooms, and know of the messiness in manipulating cable. Never thought of this being solved by robotics. In fact thought ofLetting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Shifting Terrain of Scientific Inquiry
Scientific inquiry, in The EdgeThe Shifting Terrain of Scientific InquiryA Conversation with David KaiserMost historians of science, certainly these days, consider...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Pushes Text Fragment Links
Taking a look at this as a possible means for capturing contextual insights.Google pushes “text fragment links” with new Chrome extensionNew feature can deep-link...
From insideHPC
Google’s Dr. Patrick Flick Wins ACM SIGHPC Doctoral Dissertation Award
Dr. Patrick Flick, a software engineer at Google who earned his PhD in computational science from Georgia Tech in 2019, has won the Association for Computing Machinery...
From insideHPC
Industrial Servers Ramp Up AI for Robotic Arms
Ramping up AI technology holds the key to deploying robotic arms at-scale. This case study "Industrial Servers Ramp Up AI for Robotic Arms" from our friends over...
From Schneier on Security
A Peek into the Fake Review Marketplace
A personal account of someone who was paid to buy products on Amazon and leave fake reviews. Fake reviews are one of the problems that everyone knows about, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Neuromorphic Computing Leading to Intelligence?
A look at the history of neuromorphic computing. Or the use of some 'forms' of the biological brain to provide 'intelligence'. Artificial Neural Network methods...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever and Alibaba
Followed Unilever for years, an interesting direction for them in technology.Latest Unilever Partnership to Focus on Next-Gen Digital MarketingBy Alarice Rajagopal...
From Computational Complexity
Ronald Graham: A summary of blog Posts We had about his work
To Honor Ronald Graham I summarize the blog posts we had about his work. 1) Blog post New Ramsey Result that will be hard to verify but Ronald Graham thinks its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Voice Coming Back to Life?
Used to be an avid user, then it seemed to start to fail, with fewer updates. Now its coming up with some unique ideas. And perhaps the flurry of interest in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinventing for Speed
McKinsey always does an interesting job looking at these problems.Increase the speed while minimizing the risk of error. reviewing.Ready, set, go: ReinventingJune...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts said Richard Feynman. Feynman had a Nobel prize in physics. He was a remarquable educator: his lecture notes are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Most Valuable AI Companies
Fascinating look from the Singularity Hub. Who are the 32 AI Unicorn Hubs? Useful to see the kinds of things that are being worked on.The World’s Most Valuable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon: Sellers must Identify Themselves
Will this create a major change? As is said, creates half of Amazon's sales.Amazon Is Making a Simple Change that Will Change the Relationship Between SellersBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Agency Curriculum
Still have not seen what I call voice-first strategies in many places. Like businesses. They are still matters of convenience, accessibility or cases where hands...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combining iPhone Videos for 4D Viz
Another example of gathering more data that you would normally with a sensor, then combining the data in order to make it useful for more than normal, purely typical...
From The Eponymous Pickle