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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 insideHPC
Reports: TSMC May Commercialize Production of Cerebras-style AI Supercomputing Chips
Published reports state that TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) may begin commercial production within two years of specialized supercomputer AIReports...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Challenge and Workshop for Open Domain Question Answering
Answer questions based on open domain Knowledge. Good general statement of the most important part of useful AI. Details at the link.Presenting a Challenge and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
VR System to Turn Smells into Temperatures
Here is quite an interesting play, hacking your nose to get a temperature experience? Skiing VR experiences? Thinking about the reality of this. Temperature...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microphone Signature Tracking of Covid Exposure
Interesting approach, with approval of the phone owner I assume, they could the release of such 'random tokens', and another phone within some radius, would pick...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 26 – Science and Technology for National Intelligence with John Beieler (Live from AAAS 2020)
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This episode of the podcast was recorded live at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognixion: Unlocking Speech
Was reminded today of Cognixion, formerly Smartstones, and founder Andreas Forsland, which I have a connection with. Their site features a system called: Speakprose...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McDonald's Adapts Menus to Consumers
Been observing McDonald's operational marketing for some years, after making a short analysis of their data and how it interacted with how they did in-store, real...
From insideHPC
GigaOm Radar for Evaluating Data Warehouse Platforms
This new GigaOm Radar Report "GigaOm Radar for Evaluating Data Warehouse Platforms" provided by our friends over at Vertica, examines the leading platforms in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sweat Powering Wearables
Have heard this being proposed from time to time over the years, but it never happened. The power involved was always too low and the electricity too cheap. ...
From Schneier on Security
ThiefQuest Ransomware for the Mac
There's a new ransomware for the Mac called ThiefQuest or EvilQuest. It's hard to get infected: For your Mac to become infected, you would need to torrent a compromised...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Mental Health from Microsoft
Mental health likely a more useful direction using voice.Microsoft Pilots Voice AI-Based Senior Mental Healthcare Program in South Korea Eric Hal Schartz on July...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Something Missing in Remote Work?
Nice view of the very nature of remote work. What is essential, what is a waste of time?Remote Work is Surprisingly Productive, But For Many… Something Is Missing...
From Computational Complexity
A table for Matrix Mortality- what I wanted for Hilbert's 10th problem
In this post I speculated on why I could not find anywhere a table of which cases of Hilbert's 10th problem were solvable, unsolvable, and unknown. (I then made...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advance of Automated Trucking
Looked at this topic last year, it continues to advance.Are automated freight trucks ready to carry retail’s heavy load? in Retailwire by George AndersonTuSimple...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Safety and Leadership in a Time of Change
Good overview of current and future considerations.Psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and leadership in a time of fluxTwo renowned scholars and two McKinsey...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Covid Changing the Way we Eat?
Implications for food related industries.How COVID-19 has changed the way we eat, according to five expertsTop executives from General Mills, Impossible Foods, ...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Intellectual Fireworks?
Some different ideas for marking the Fourth “Founding Frenemies” source John Adams and Thomas Jefferson did not use Zoom. Their correspondence, from 1777 up to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone Deployed Sterile Mosquitoes
My son Steve is an expert at drone deployment and photography, Need any help in that domain, let me know and I will introduce you.Drone-Deployed Sterile Mosquitoes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NBA Uses Smart Tech Wearables
Expect continued use of wearable sensors. Here another example. Brings to mind the question of who owns the captured and derived data. Similar agreements...
From Schneier on Security