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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 …
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Schneider Electric Launches Industry’s First Integrated Rack with Immersed, Liquid-Cooled IT for Data Centers
Today Schneider Electric and Iceotope announced the industry’s first commercially-available integrated rack with chassis-based, immersive liquid cooling. Optimized...
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Intel Horse Ridge Chip to Cryogenically Control Quantum Computers
Today Intel Labs unveiled what is believed a first-of-its-kind cryogenic control chip — code-named “Horse Ridge” — that will speed up development of full-stackIntel...
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AMD Readies EPYC for Exascale with ROCm at SC19
In this video from SC19, Derek Bouius from AMD describes how the company's new EPYC processors and Radeon GPUs can speed HPC and Ai applications. With its EPYCAMD...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Transformation
All in? Most importantly to what.Why your next transformation should be ‘all in'from McKinsey By Chris Bradley, Marc de Jong, and Wesley WaldenBusiness transformation...
From Schneier on Security
Failure Modes in Machine Learning
Interesting taxonomy of machine-learning failures (pdf) that encompasses both mistakes and attacks, or -- in their words -- intentional and unintentional failure...
From Computational Complexity
What do you call your ugrad non-algorithms theory course?
I am in the process of reviewing What can be computed: A Practical Guide to the Theory of Computation by John MacCormick and I need YOUR help for the first SENTENCE...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Héctor Garcia-Molina, 1953–2019
We all lost a great person Cropped from Mexican NotiCyTI obit Héctor Garcia-Molina died just before Thanksgiving. He was a computer scientist and Professor in both...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Wants to be Your Pharmacist (In two ways)
I just got an offer to do this. Does not seem to be much different than what the big pharma retailers are doing. No mention at all regarding if there was any...
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Noki Bell Labs Prize for Processor Solving Optimization Problems
Note that the method combines quantum and classical methods in processors to solve discrete optimization problems. These kinds of problems can be computationally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flight Simulator Eye Tracking
More advances in eye tracking and associated uses:Tracking the Eye of the PilotETH ZurichMichael KellerNovember 25, 2019Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute...
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Microway Deployes NVIDIA DGX-1 and NumberSmasher GPU Server to Vyasa Analytics
Today Microway the deployment of an NVIDIA DGX-1 supercomputer and Microway NumberSmasher Tesla GPU Server to deep-learning leader Vyasa Analytics. The new hardware...
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Podcast: SCR Scalable Checkpoint/Restart Paves the Way for Exascale
A software product called the Scalable Checkpoint/Restart (SCR) Framework 2.0 recently won an R&D 100 Award. In this episode, Elsa Gonsiorowski and Kathryn Mohror...![[Book] All the Ghosts in the Machine](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] All the Ghosts in the Machine
What happens to our data when we die? - A fascinating and really well-written book about digital legacy after death.
From Putting People First
Co-design at the BBC
On 5 October Dan Ramsden and Simone Ferraro, resp. creative director and UX architect at the BBC, gave a talk at the 2019 Architecta summit. Simone just published...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Humans Seeing Through Animal Eyes
Applications?Humans Closer to Seeing Through the Eyes of AnimalsUniversity of Exeter (U.K.)December 3, 2019Researchers at Australia's University of Queensland (UQ)...
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P&G Rolls out AI Toothbrush
Overkill or real value and engagement? Good narrow context. The data about use should be interesting.P&G rolls out $220 toothbrush with artificial intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotion Sensing Empathetic Robot in Space
An empath assistant. Will this be a function of all future assistant models as well. Or a dangerous, too close to home idea? Good experiment in a closed context...
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History of Natural Language Processing
Interesting historical piece with hits about how things evolve.Andrey Markov & Claude Shannon Counted Letters to Build the First Language-Generation ModelsBy Oscar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Drops Support for Explorer Version of Google Glass
Like Microsoft, Google seems to be pointing their wearable VR to focused business applications. They are dropping updates for the explorer/consumer version, but...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog