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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
Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning
On the safety of Reinforcement Learning. Considerable,largely technical piece.Physically Realistic Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning Bair Berkeley By Adam...
From insideHPC
LLNL Researchers aid COVID-19 response in anti-viral research
Backed by five high performance computing (HPC) clusters and years of expertise in vaccine and countermeasure development, a COVID-19 response team of LLNL researchers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 10–When Remote is Really Remote
For the last several years I have had international students in some of my classes. Most from China but also South Korea, Viet Nam, and Cambodia. This year I have...
From Schneier on Security
Story of Gus Weiss
This is a long and fascinating article about Gus Weiss, who masterminded a long campaign to feed technical disinformation to the Soviet Union, which may or may...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Joins Hyperledger
Wal-Mart's early looks at this seem to be identification and tracking related supply chain applications. Is this an indication of further dives into the space...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Welcomes Maddy Hunter!
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is delighted to welcome Maddy Hunter! The Computing Research Association (CRA) recently hired Maddy as a Program Associate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Positive Tools for Challenging Times
I see that long-time correspondent Sunnie Southern of ViableSynergy has a newsletter about 'Positive Tools for Challenging Times'. Check it out:Positive Tools...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Tracks Virus 'Weather'
A nicely done Covid-19 tracking app is part of the IBM 'Weather Channel' App. Shows location and trends continually updated, based on your location. Nicely shown...
From insideHPC
DARPA Grant to Foster Practical Quantum Computing with Rigetti
Today Rigetti Computing announced the company has been awarded up to $8.6 million from DARPA to develop a full-stack system with proven quantum advantage for solving...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 9–Students Backchanneling
My good friend and peer teacher, Tom Indelicato and I share a morning homeroom. It’s online now of course but we join early and stay late to touch base with each...
From insideHPC
New AI Solutions from Dell Technologies
In this special guest feature, Dave Frattura from Dell Technologies writes that the company is helping customers simplify and drive data science and AI initiatives...
From insideHPC
Fast Track your AI Workflows
In this special guest feature, our friends over at Inspur write that for new workloads that are highly compute intensive, accelerators are often required. Accelerators...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Networks Search for New Materials
Mentioned previously here. Novel use of 'creativity' to search among possible solutions.Neural networks facilitate optimization in the search for new materials...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Analytics
For now not replacing but rather augmenting people. Unlike the article I would say this has been around for a long time. Augmented Analytics Drives Next Wave...
From Schneier on Security
On Cyber Warranties
Interesting article discussing cyber-warranties, and whether they are an effective way to transfer risk (as envisioned by Ackerlof's "market for lemons") or a marketing...
From insideHPC
University of Birmingham joins COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium
The UK government has backed their leading clinicians and scientists this week with new resources to map how COVID-19 spreads and evolves using whole-genome sequencing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Timing is the Thing for Modeling the Risk
Forecasting once again is essential for knowing how to react.Supply chain outlook: The timing of the slowdownMIT Professor David Simchi-Levi forecast the mid-March...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsource the Problem, Distribute Solutions.
Lots of Possibilities Here, find ways to find themFolding@Home Network More Powerful Than World's Top 7 Supercomputers CombinedTom's Hardwareby Paul AlcornThe Folding...
From insideHPC
Ayar Labs, DARPA and Intel Replace Electronic I/O with Efficient Optical Signaling
Researchers from Intel and Ayar Labs working on PIPES have successfully replaced the traditional electrical input/output (I/O) of a state-of-the-art field programmable...
From The Eponymous Pickle