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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
Drones Taking Your Temperature?
Sounds infeasible, privacy?Connecticut City Testing Drone That Detects Fevers, CoughsThe Hill By Zack BudrykApril 23, 2020A "pandemic drone" being tested by...
From The Noisy Channel
MMM, Search!
This morning, I had the pleasure of being hosted by Grant Ingersoll to talk about search with his team at the Wikimedia Foundation.Wikipedia is an indispensable...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Trish Damkroger on HPC’s Role the fight against COVID-19
In this Chip Chat podcast, Trish Damkroger from Intel describes HPC’s relevance in today’s society, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. "The podcast...
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Kronos Group Releases OpenCL 3.0
Today, the Khronoss Group consortium released the OpenCL 3.0 Provisional Specifications. OpenCL 3.0 realigns the OpenCL roadmap to enable developer-requested functionality...
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Hyperion Research Forecasts Widespread Covid-19 Disruption to HPC Market
Today Hyperion Research released its updated analysis of the potential impact areas of the covid-19 pandemic on the HPC market based on recent discussions withHyperion...
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NVIDIA Completes Acquisition of Mellanox
NVIDIA today announced the completion of its acquisition of Mellanox for a transaction value of $7 billion. “With Mellanox, the new NVIDIA has end-to-end technologies...
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Special Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure – Part 3
Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Critical Role of Human Performance in Software
Software is ultimately a collaboration between people and machines. People still need to be adaptive in critical systems. Which needs to lead to better designing...
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How to Fight Bias in ML Based Experiences
Forrester piece with interesting interview and links:How To Fight Bias In ML-Based Experiences By Andrew Hogan in Forrester BlogRecently, I interviewed Carol Smith...
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P&G Innovate Cooperation Model
Look at CPG innovation for e-commerce. Looking for this.P&G innovate cooperation model in e-commerce livestreamBEIJING and HANGZHOU, China, April 26, 2020 /PRNewswire...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Organs on a Chip
Had seem examples of this some years ago, to what degree has it been predictively accurate?Using “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseasesA new approachAnne...
From Schneier on Security
Automatic Instacart Bots
Instacart is taking legal action against bots that automatically place orders: Before it closed, to use Cartdash users first selected what items they want from...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Time For Some Jokes
Can we still smile? [ Hardy and Littlewood] John Littlewood lived through the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, yet he appears not to have remarked on it in print. Nor can...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Sampling efficiently from groups
Suppose that you have to sample a student at random in a school. However, you cannot go into a classroom and just pick a student. All you are allowed to do is to...
From insideHPC
Agile HPC with VMware Cloud Foundation & UberCloud
Thomas Francis from the UberCloud and Mohan Potheri from VMware gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "In this solution we combine the capabilities ofAgile...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virus vs CPG
IRI report of particular interest:IRI continues to monitor COVID-19 and its impacts on the CPG retail industry.Where consumers could afford to pantry-stock, they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain and Public Health Solutions
How does blockchain technology link with public health data and aid in the future solution of current and future public health care problems like pandemics? ABlockchain...
From insideHPC
Arizona State University becomes Dell Technologies HPC & AI Center of Excellence
Arizona State University has added to its international reputation for innovation, being named a Dell Technologies HPC and AI Center of Excellence. This recognition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Using Contract Tracing App with Employees in India
The general idea seems to be expanding, with resulting data. Systems to date are voluntary. Some details at link about use, data, privacy implications.IBM testing...
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