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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
P=NP: A Story
The P=NP story without symbols. [ The Movie ] Dr. Strangelove is the classic 1964 movie about the potential for nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Cars and the Drive Thru
A considerable discussion and walk-through example of the potential interactions of drive thrus and autonomous cars. With detailed consideration of the business...
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HLRS Inaugurates Hawk Supercomputer from HPE
HLRS officially dedicated their new Hawk supercomputer computer this week at a ceremony in Stuttgart, Germany. With a peak performance of approximately 26 Petaflops...
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Podcast: Preparing for HPC & AI Convergence in the Enterprise
In this interview, Dr. Meyer discusses AMAX’s focus on appliances for storage, cloud, and hyper-scale integration. Dr. Meyer goes into more depth about why training...
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CUDA-Python and RAPIDS for blazing fast scientific computing
Abe Stern from NVIDIA gave this talk at the ECSS Symposium. "We will introduce Numba and RAPIDS for GPU programming in Python. Numba allows us to write just-in-time...
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Cooling unit saves water at Sandia supercomputing center
A new high efficiency cooling unit installed on the roof of Sandia National Laboratories’ supercomputer center saved 554,000 gallons of water during its first six...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Checkout is Harder than it Should be
More on the use of the automated checkout process and related issues, with links to a survey and review:Shoppers have a love/hate relationship with self-checkouts...
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Faster Lab Results with Phone to Lab Chip Connect
Faster lab test results for infectious diseases.UC Smartphone Lab Delivers Test Results in 'Spit' SecondUniversity of CincinnatiMichael MillerResearchers at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Combinatorial Optimization Algorithm
Combinatorics are of particular interest to me, are part of any kind of complex process choice problem. Note the use of annealing, being used in some quantum methods...
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HPC User Forum to Explore AI-HPDA Use In Banking and Investment Firms
Today Hyperion Research announced high-profile speakers from major banking and investment firms will highlight the agenda at the next HPC User Forum. Thomas Thurston...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Towards Geocoding Spatial Expressions
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Hussein S. Al-Olimat from The Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) at the Wright State...
From The Eponymous Pickle
EU Rules for AI
Will be interesting to see how such regulations evolve.Fear of Big Brother Guides EU Rules on AIAgence France-PresseFebruary 17, 2020The artificial intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Classification with Naive Bayes
Good piece, behind a paywall but worth a look. Technical.Comparing a variety of Naive Bayes classification algorithmsComprehensive list of formulas for text classification...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Tracking the Coronavirus with HPC
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at how supercomputing can help predict and track the progress of the Covid-19 virus. "Shahin also wonders about the...
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LBNL Breaks New Ground in Data Center Optimization
Berkeley Lab has been at the forefront of efforts to design, build, and optimize energy-efficient hyperscale data centers. “In the march to exascale computing,LBNL...
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GE Research Leverages World’s Top Supercomputer to Boost Jet Engine Efficiency
GE Research has been awarded access to the world’s #1-ranked supercomputer to discover new ways to optimize the efficiency of jet engines and power generation equipment...
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Video: From Brains to Agents and Back
Jane Wang from DeepMind gave this talk NeurIPS 2019. "Building on the connection between biological and artificial reinforcement learning, our workshop will bring...
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Intel Horse Ridge Chip Addresses Key Barriers to Quantum Scalability
At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week, Intel presented a research paper demonstrating the technical details and experimental results of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Learning Improvements
Very interesting item. Quite technical. I like the hint of using pools or teams of agents to solve reinforcement problems. Brings to mind the idea of process...
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