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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
CMU’s Jerry Wang Wins 2020 Frederick Howes Award
Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor Gerald “Jerry” Wang has been named the 2020 Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science for his work in nanoscale...
From Yoshua Bengio
Science and innovation in times of a pandemic
Mila’s COVI project has found itself at the centre of a public debate regarding the use of an app in the fight against COVID-19. While… L’article Science and innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Ad Manager
Late to notice this, intriguing approach managed by Google. In the Google Blog. Note there are 4 previous posts on this.Use insights to make better business decisions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knee, Hip Replacement with 3D Printed Artificial Cartilage
Novel approach to a common kind of replacement.People with Damaged Knees, Hips Could Be Treated with 3D-Printed Artificial CartilageDaily Mail (U.K.)Joe Pinkstone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Delivery Drones will be taking the Bus?
Clever proposal for integrating transport, lowering energy costs. Adds complexity to bus capabilities.Stanford Lab Envisions Delivery Drones That Save Energy by...
From Schneier on Security
Another Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability
Remember Spectre and Meltdown? Back in early 2018, I wrote: Spectre and Meltdown are pretty catastrophic vulnerabilities, but they only affect the confidentiality...![[Book] Smartphones: Une enquête anthropologique](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] Smartphones: Une enquête anthropologique
Sur la base d‘une enquête de terrain menée à Genève, Los Angeles et Tokyo, cet ouvrage aborde la dimension proprement anthropologique du smartphone.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking Innovation
Thoughts on innovation:It’s Time to Rethink How You Innovate via K@W: Solutions for Leading InnovationThe fallout from the pandemic has created new opportunities...
From insideHPC
NetApp Deploys Iguazio’s Data Science Platform for Optimized Storage Management
Data science platform specialist Iguazio has announced that hybrid storage and data management vendor NetApp is using Iquazio’s platform to analyze 10 trillionNetApp...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Reusing a thread in C++ for better performance
In a previous post, I measured the time necessary to start a thread, execute a small job and return. auto mythread = std::thread([] { counter++; }); mythread.join...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clarity Langage for Smart Contracts
Brought to my attention as a part of a continuing look at smart contracts for supply chain and related analytic systems.Clarity Language for Smart ContractsClarity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reputation Manipulation with Collusion Networks
Had such a thing mentioned to me some time ago, and I just discovered this ACM study/paper on the topic. How can such 'collusion networks' be effectively detected...
From insideHPC
Podcast: ‘Let’s Talk Exascale’ – Major Update of the MFEM Element Library for Broader GPU Support
In the latest in the Let’s Talk Exascale podcast series, Tzanio Kolev of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory describes the work at the Center for Efficient Exascale...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hiring from the Autism Spectrum
Fascinating piece, with some real world examples. I admit I did not know this was being done. With how tos and cautions.Hiring from the Autism Spectrum By...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is the Pent up Shopping Demand?
To adjust demand in supply chain models.How Much Pent up Shopping Demand?by George Anderson in Retailwire with further expert comment at the link.When retail stores...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking for Ocean Bed Riches
We were involved in early regional estimates of such efforts. This gets better information about the specifics vs high costs. Data for further predictive 'mining'...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alibaba Blockchain Domain Names
Note the similarity to the Cosmos Network. A useful direction.Alibaba Claims Patented Cross-Chain System Is Better Than CosmosJun 1, 2020 at 15:00 UTCAlibabaIn...
From insideHPC
The UK Innovation Corridor: HPC and the Bio-Technology Revolution
Sponsored Content By Spencer Lamb, Vice President, Kao Data The Innovation Corridor is the beating heart of the UK life sciences community, bringing together high...
From Schneier on Security
Availability Attacks against Neural Networks
New research on using specially crafted inputs to slow down machine-learning neural network systems: Sponge Examples: Energy-Latency Attacks on Neural Networks...
From insideHPC