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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
Concept Mapping-based Platform for Learning and Knowledge Assessment.
Re connecting with Sero!, here is a repeat of a previous post:Brought my attention by Brian Moon, a knowledge design practitioner we have worked with. I am aIntroducing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Proposal Writing Workshop for the CISE Community
By Thyagarajan Nandagopal, NSF You are invited to participate in the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Proposal Writing Workshop, to be held as an interactive online...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Physics: All the Way Down?
Descriptive. But will it show us something really predictively new?THE THIRD CULTUREComputation All the Way Down In the EdgeA Conversation with Stephen Wolfram...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Money Reimagined?
Are we there yet? Still I think major regulatory issues ahead. Good piece:Money Reimagined: Ethereum’s Renaissance Creates an Opportunity – And a Major Test ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Do We Know Who Is Struggling In Learning CS
One of the interesting points Amy Ko makes in her presentation to Microsoft (CS education in higher education) is that “Most faculty have little insight into who...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Computational overhead due to Docker under macOS
For my programming work, I tend to assume that I have a Linux environnement. That is true whether I am under Windows, under macOS or under a genuine Linux. HowContinue...
From insideHPC
‘Rocky Year’ – Hyperion’s HPC Market Update: COVID-19 Hits Q1 Revenues, Cloud HPC Boom, Shift in Server Vendor Standings
COVID-19’s impact on the industry will come in at a net first quarter decline of 15-18 percent, Hyperion predicted, due to delayed product shipments caused by worker...
From insideHPC
HPC Guru Speaketh! Kind of…
In this extraordinary episode of Radio Free HPC, the crew interviews the industry icon that is @HPC_Guru. This is the first time that anyone has been granted an...
From Schneier on Security
New Hacking-for-Hire Company in India
Citizen Lab has a new report on Dark Basin, a large hacking-for-hire company in India. Key Findings: Dark Basin is a hack-for-hire group that has targeted thousands...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Acquires Mapillary, Competes with Street View
First I had seen this. Generalized tool for looking at location. Commercial users for now.Facebook acquires Google Street View competitor MapillaryThe streetBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps Add New COVID-19 Alerts
Useful updates regarding changes in status of Pandemic.Google Maps adds new COVID-19 alerts as more cities reopenMaps will remind you to wear a face covering on...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Episodes ….In Case You Missed It
There are fresh episodes of Radio Free HPC out in the wild and, in case you missed them, here’s what’s new: ColdQuanta Serves Up Some Bose-Einstein Condensate May...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consider the Flow, Tempo and Rhythm of Process
Had been looking at how different streams of work and delivery could be combined and transferred between flows and tasks? And had some time ago thought of the...
From insideHPC
SC20 General Chair: We’re Planning for In-Person and Virtual Conference
SC20, scheduled for November 15-20 in Atlanta, is in the throes of planning for this year’s conference amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic – and conference General...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and Spotify, Why?
Was exploring this and discovered one answer in Inc.Walmart Just Made a Surprising Announcement and It's Very Bad News for Amazon. Watch out, Amazon: Small businesses...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Wide-Area Data Analytics Workshop Report Released
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released the Wide-Area Data Analytics workshop report. The workshop was organized by Rachit Agarwal (Cornell University)...
From Computational Complexity
On Chain Letters and Pandemics
Guest post by Varsha Dani.My 11-year-old child received a letter in the mail. "Send a book to the first person named," it said, "then move everyone's name up the...
From insideHPC
Lenovo Launches ThinkSystem Servers with GPU Support, Increased NVMe Storage
Lenovo this morning launched two new ThinkSystem servers, the SR860 V2 and SR850 V2, utilizing 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel Deep Learning Boost...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reopening Businesses Safely
Important look by McKinsey on the topic.Reopening safely: Sample practices from essential businessesAfter weeks of shutdowns and remote working, businesses around...
From The Eponymous Pickle