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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
Thoughts to Text
Continued advances in this space, in this case primarily for patients with inability to to control devices with their limbs. Detailed article.Neural implants...
From Schneier on Security
Dark Web Hosting Provider Hacked
Daniel's Hosting, which hosts about 7,600 dark web portals for free, has been hacked and is down. It's unclear when, or if, it will be back up....
From insideHPC
Podcast: A Look inside the El Capitan Supercomputer coming to LLNL
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some of the more interesting configuration aspects of the pending El Capitan exascale supercomputer coming toPodcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dark Malicious Patterns
A term I had not seen before, but its wide use for malicious activities in smartphones is described here. Considerable detail below.A Vector for Skulduggery Paul...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Detective: Analyze and Visualize Security
Interesting capability released by Amazon in AWS. Intriguing capability needs a deeper look.Amazon Detective in AWS.amazon.comAnalyze and visualize security...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Research at Home
An idea for human-interest interviews Pixabay free src Dr. Lofa Polir is, like many of us, working from home. When we last wrote about her two years ago, she had...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
We released simdjson 0.3: the fastest JSON parser in the world is even better!
Last year (2019), we released the simjson library. It is a C++ library available under a liberal license (Apache) that can parse JSON documents very fast. How fast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Webinar from iRobot, IFTTT on the Smart Home
Recently signed up for this and missed it, of interest: Checking in to see if you watched the replay of our smart home webinar featuring iRobot.It features iRobot's...
From Computational Complexity
Length of Descriptions for DFA, NFA, CFG
We will be looking at the size of descriptions For DFAs and NFAs this is the number of states. For CFG's we will assume they are in Chomsky Normal Form. Sohere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Donates Face Masks, Hand Sanitizer
UPDATE: P&G to make and donate face masks, hand sanitizer in response to coronavirus By Barrett J. Brunsman – Staff reporter, Cincinnati Business CourierMar 26...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2020 – New Approaches to Fairness in Automated Decision Making
The last decade has seen the increased use of machine learning and data science to make decisions—from figuring out which YouTube video to recommend to deciding...
From insideHPC
SIAM Announces Class of 2020 Fellows
Today the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) announced the 2020 Class of SIAM Fellows. These distinguished members were nominated for their exemplary...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Open Access to ACM Digital Library During Coronavirus Pandemic
By Cherri Pancake, ACM President As the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic continues, we at ACM would like to do what we can to help support the computing community....
From insideHPC
Russian Supercomputer Joins the Fight Against COVID-19
An international research team of scientists – from Russia, Finland, Italy, China, Japan and Canada is using a recently upgraded HPC system at the Joint Supercomputer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Changing How We Think About School
What my school is doing is trying to replicate the brick-and-mortar model in the online world. Other schools are doing something more like “correspondence school...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Spread of Contagions on Airplanes
Researchers are using supercomputers to model how contagions can spread onboard aircraft. Using Frontera's GPU subsystem, the researchers were able to get the computation...
From insideHPC
Video: NVIDIA to Accelerate the HPC-AI Convergence
Gunter Roeth from NVIDIA gave this talk at ML4HPC 2020. "The growing adoption of NVIDIA Volta GPU by the Top500 Supercomputers highlights the need of computingVideo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards a Taxonomy for Automated Assistants
Like the idea of identifying and constructing tasks for assistants so they can be more readily be challenged and compared. This article suggests this be doneA...
From Schneier on Security
Clarifying the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
A federal court has ruled that violating a website's tems of service is not "hacking" under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The plaintiffs wanted to investigate...
From insideHPC