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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
Nordic Countries get 900K Smart Speakers
It seems Amazon has only a small part of this market. Google assistant has the advantage of much more translation and localization of language. Important if these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ingestible Medical Devices
Abilities to ingest and then remove devices readily.Ingestible medical devices can be broken down with lightNew light-sensitive material could eliminate some of...
From Putting People First
Why facts don’t change our minds
Humans’ biggest advantage over other species is our ability to coöperate.
From Putting People First
Post-it note city
A visit to the smart-city-in-progress at Sidewalk Toronto prompts questions about what it means to “participate” in civic design.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Replacing Data Scientists With AutoML?
Excerpt from a current KDNuggets article, which links further to a poll that asks the questions of practitioners. My answer is yes. AutoML will replace the current...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extraterrestrial Protein Found
Proteins found in an existential source for the first time. With differences from terrestial proteins.For the first time, scientists found a complete proteinFuturism...
From The Eponymous Pickle
'Autonomous' Translation at Hand?
A number of mobile devices how have instantaneous translation, so we have the promise of using them in any multilingual environment. I have a Google assistant...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Supercomputing Applications Specialist at CSIRO
CSIRO in Australia is seeking a Supercomputing Applications Specialist in our Job of the Week. "Working within the Services team, you will work collaborativelyJob...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technological Advances
Technology Review put out their annual review of tech that will be important in the coming year. Not just the tech areas, but how they will be specifically used...
From insideHPC
HPE to Build Supercomputer for MWA Telescope in Australia
HPE has been selected by the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth to deliver a new $2 million compute cluster that will support one of the Square Kilometre Array...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (February 29th 2020)
No one really understands how planes fly. This puts a dent in the model whereas inventions follows theory. Physician salaries and diagnostic tests account for 4...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Goodbye Freeman Dyson
Physicist, mathematician and well known writer Freeman Dyson has passed away. Followed his work for years. A powerful, widely thinking, iconoclastic mind.Freeman...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Digital Currency and Virus
Origin of this comments makes this interesting, a means of regulating otherwise hard to control financial results coming from less controllable events like epidemics...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Eggs
Cool photo. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...
From Schneier on Security
Humble Bundle's 2020 Cybersecurity Books
For years, Humble Bundle has been selling great books at a "pay what you can afford" model. This month, they're featuring as many as nineteen cybersecurity books...
From Schneier on Security
Deep Learning to Find Malicious Email Attachments
Google presented its system of using deep-learning techniques to identify malicious email attachments: At the RSA security conference in San Francisco on Tuesday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Hutter Prize
Just informed of this work, via a podcast referenced below. Still aiming to make some further sense of this in general. Technical.The Hutter Prize SiteBeing able...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Reductions and Jokes
Plus a teaching idea that’s no joke? Cropped from Maths History source Emil Post was the first to use the formal notion of reduction between problems. We discussed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tackling Flu with Virus Simulations
We worked with the San Diego Supercomputer center. Quite a global challenge is emerging here and the emerging approaches will be good to track for reapplications...
From The Eponymous Pickle