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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
Knowledge Management
Important thoughts, though I think it is still rarely done very well.Lauren Trees identifies trends in enterprise knowledge sharing and collaboration, researches...
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Synthetic Data to Support Research
In a much less complex sense we used a method, connected to real sensors on systems, to construct sample datasets. The resulting ML could then be used as a testbed...
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Misconceptions about the Use of RPA
NIcely put, nontechnical piece. In particular I liked the comments about its difference between BPM modeling models. All users considering its use should follow...
From My Biased Coin
STOC Workshop on "Algorithms with Predictions"
The STOC workshop on Algorithms with Predictions was on Friday, and I thought it went really well! I can't speak for my talk, but the other 3 talks (Tim Roughgarden...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Verified, Intentified Phone Calling is Advancing
Will we soon get the inferred reason for a phone call? Its getting a start already, in IOS I get already get 'likely spam', and who it is likely to be from, but...
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A Way to Consider and Onboard AI
Thoughtful results from a survey from multiple countries. A look at AI in the form of Assistant, Monitor, Coach and Teammate. Reasonable ways to think of their...
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Platt Retail Institute on Robot Adoption in Retail
Some new thoughts about robotics being used a changed context.Via Platt Retail Institute by Northwestern There has been growing interest in robotic automation in...
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Alphabet Buying North Glasses
Somewhat Unexpected perhaps, but some indication of seriousness on the ultimate wearable. Had heard from others that North Glasses were good.Report: Alphabet looking...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
GNU GCC does not round floating-point divisions to the nearest value
I know that floating-point arithmetic is a bit crazy on modern computers. For example, floating-point numbers are not associative: 0.1+(0.2+0.3) == 0.599999999999999978...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Fishing for Jumbo Squid
Interesting article on the rise of the jumbo squid industry as a result of climate change. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Code as Evidence in Contracts, Disputes
A UK piece on the topic of computing and dispute resolutions, code as evidence, which came up with respect to smart contracts. Click through for useful and detailed...
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Talk: Robots as a Service in a Post Pandemic World
I had mentioned this talk, here is the recording:Correspondent Jim Spohrer talks about robot tech in our pandemic futures. ...ISSIP Speaker Series: COVID-19Speaker...
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Rich Brueckner Talks with Jack Collins about the Emergence of ‘HPC Everywhere’ and Its Impact on Science
HPC industry veteran Jack Collins, long-time fixture in the scientific supercomputing community, has seen it all in HPC, from the days when his input/output device...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Your AI Project May Fail
This is true, if you don't have ready understanding/access into the local architecture, its much harder to get the data to train models in context. And certainly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dash Shopping Wand to be Bricked
As predicted, the Dash Wand has gone away. I don't think I ever bought anything with it, just put it on a list to look at or buy later. As noted below, they...
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale: Forecasting Water Resources and Severe Weather with Greater Confidence
In this episode of Let’s Talk Exascale, Mark Taylor of Sandia National Laboratories talks about using exascale supercomputers for severe weather and water resource...
From Schneier on Security
The Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity
Interesting research: "Identifying Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity Countermeasures": Abstract: Well-meaning cybersecurity risk owners will deploy countermeasures...
From insideHPC
Quantum Superiority: How Far Away?
Some technologies, it’s said, are “always 10 years away” – we hear this in reference to autonomous vehicles and quantum computing. Of course, how far away we think...
From insideHPC
Intel, NSF Name Winners of Wireless Machine Learning Research Funding
Intel and the National Science Foundation (NSF), joint funders of the Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (MLWiNS) program, today announced recipients...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog