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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
Value of Using Google Assistance for Translation
What we always wanted, a seamless translation mode. That made us completely indifferent to the language in use. Hearing and speaking. Its not quite here yet,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Live Video Trolling on Ring
Just got word of this. Ring Cameras hacked for sheer harassment. Perhaps for a belief that personal protection by surveillance systems are by their nature illegitimate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Computers be Conscious?
Don't absolutely know they cannot compute consciousness unless I know the definition of consciousness being used. With a very bare definition a computer 'knows...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at SecIT by Heise in Hannover, Germany on March 26, 2020. The list is maintained...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Corporate Digital Procurement
A key topic to manage in the enterprise. And managing the components of products you need to procure.Amazon Business brings procurement into the digital era ...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (December 14th 2019)
The computation capacity needed by artificial intelligence doubles every 3.4 months. In parallel, we are making fast progress in hardware and software: what took...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: NRL Research Scientist at SAIC
SAIC in Monterey, California is seeking an NRL Research Scientist in our Job of the Week. "SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Bull
So is Quantum her already, or are we in the midst of a hype storm? Check out the links below and explore. A number of technical big players are participating...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Recaps SC19
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back the “State Fair for Nerds” that was SC19. "At this year’s conference, we not only learned the latest discoveries...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Color-Changing Properties of the Opalescent Inshore Squid
Interesting stuff. 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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Event Meshes
Interesting look at the concept, a way to add some structure around events of importance, an element addressing the context of events.Why Event Meshes Should Be...
From insideHPC
University of Siegen Doubles Down on Bright Computing for HPC Management
Bright Computing recently announced that the University of Siegen has expanded its use of the company's HPC system management software to address the increasingly...
From insideHPC
SC19 Cluster Competition: Students Pack LINs and HPCG’s
In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX.net continues his series of stories on the SC19 Student Cluster Competition. Held as part of the Students@SC...
From insideHPC
Why HPC is no longer just for government labs and academic institutions
In this special guest feature, Trish Damkroger from Intel writes that only HPC can handle the pending wave of Big Data coming to datacenters from Smart Cities.Why...
From insideHPC
Julia Computing and NVIDIA Bring Julia GPU Acceleration to Arm
Julia Computing and NVIDIA have brought Julia to NVIDIA’s new line of GPU-accelerated Arm servers. The Julia programming language is now available as a pre-packaged...
From Schneier on Security
EFF on the Mechanics of Corporate Surveillance
EFF has published a comprehensible and very readable "deep dive" into the technologies of corporate surveillance, both on the Internet and off. Well worth reading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger, Walgreens in Purchasing Alliance
Combining against Amazon's dip into pharma?Kroger and Walgreens are in a purchasing alliance and seeking more partners by George Anderson in RetailwireThe Kroger...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Lightning: Where/When
Skeptical. If we are talking about predicting the likelihood of lighting in an area an hour before it hits, thats done already in weather predictive maps. Using...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are 64-bit random identifiers free from collision?
It is common in software system to map objects to unique identifiers. For example, you might map all web pages on the Internet to a unique identifier. Often, these...
From insideHPC