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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Leprechauns Stay Home
Stay safe, everyone Cropped from Floss Dance source Neil L. is a Leprechaun. He has visited me once every year since I started GLL. I had never seen a leprechaun...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 2
My advisory (homeroom) was interesting. For one thing I realized that thee isn’t the chatter between students in the room. I’m pretty sure they are texting and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Research at AAAS
The following blog is from Ann Schwartz Drobnis, CCC Director. Every February brings an exciting event for scientists – the AAAS Annual Meeting. AAAS is the American...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Creates Transcribe
Had seen and noted this before, likely quite helpful for business applications. I remember noting its need to be embedded in the enterprise Looking forward toGoogle...
From Computational Complexity
Richard Guy passed away at the age of 103
Richard Guy passed away on March 9, 2020 at the age of 103. Before he died he was the worlds oldest living mathematician (see here for a list of centenarians who...
From insideHPC
GigaIO Brings FabreX to vScaler Cloud Platform
Today GigaIO announced availability of FabreX for vScaler's management interface. As the industry's first in-memory network, FabreX will bolster vScaler's cloud...
From insideHPC
Podcast: One Big Debate over OneAPI
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Intel's oneAPI project. "The OneAPI project is a highly ambitious initiative; trying to design a single API to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Accelerator
Amazon seeks more startups for Alexa:Alexa Fund Opens Virtual Startup Accelerator ApplicationsEric HAL SCHWARTZ in VoicebotAmazon announced a new startup accelerator...
From insideHPC
Benchmarking CPUs at Shell
Ronald Cogswell from Shell gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas Conference. "In this presentation we will compare the benchmarking results from the latest 2 generations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IRI Offers Updating Retail Oriented Virus Information
IRI Market Research offers resources (via Retailwire)The coronavirus is top of mind for all right now, and understandably so. There remain a lot of unanswered questions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reproducibility on Machine Learning
In The Gradient ....Reproducibility and Machine LearningPeer review has been an integral part of scientific research for more than 300 years. But even before peer...
From insideHPC
Case Study: Magseis Fairfield Uses a Sea of Data to Support Environmentally Responsible Energy Exploration
This whitepaper contains a compelling HPC data storage solution case study highlighting the use of Panasas ActiveStor® by Magseis Fairfield, a geophysics firm that...
From insideHPC
ICHEC to Bring European Quantum Technologies Conference to Dublin
Over 500 global experts in quantum technologies will descend on Dublin in November this year for the European Quantum Technologies Conference (EQTC). Taking place...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and NanoIndentation
What appears to be a novel application of machine learning which uses the sensory gathering of large numbers of inputs.Deep learning for mechanical property evaluation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NEWS: Call to Action to the Tech Community on New Machine Readable COVID-19 Dataset
From the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for immediate release. Today, researchers and leaders from the Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg...
From The Eponymous Pickle
D-Wave Announces Leap-2 and Discusses it and Matching with Machine Learning
Fascinating progress here. We have followed D-Wave Quantum computing here since our original conversations with them. Excellent update here.D-Wave: Quantum computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ideal Glass
For the material scientist in me, a fascinating piece in Quanta MagazineIdeal Glass Would Explain Why Glass Exists at AllGlass is anything that’s rigid like a crystal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monitoring Virus Patients by Phone
With an expectation of a certain degree of violation of privacy and the need for regulating that.Israel Takes Step Toward Monitoring Phones of Virus PatientsAssociated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning New Ways to Continually Learn
Not quite I think of when I think of AGI (Artficial General Intelligence). But sequences of useful tasks/learning can be seen as what humans do, provided they...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson