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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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From the Possible Minds Conference
From 'The Edge', a huge amount of information on AI and Minds. Below an intro, full text and video at the link.The Possible Minds ConferenceI am puzzled by the...
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New Alexa Emotions
New complexity in voice expression is announced for Alexa. Need to see this in useful context, but intrigued by possibilities.Use New Alexa Emotions and Speaking...
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Stopping RoboCalls
A very common annoyance for many of us. A new means to address the problem.How Your Phone Company Aims to Stop Robocalls in Spectrum IEEEThe STIR/SHAKEN protocol...
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Towards Better Forecasting: Less Noise
A forecast prediction is key for any business decision. Short intro, then the entire podcast follows at the link.Wharton’s Barbara Mellers and Ville Satopӓӓ from...
From insideHPC
EuroHPC Sets Stage for Pre-Exascale LUMI Supercomputer at CSC in Finland
Today the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking signed today a Hosting Agreement for one of the three pre-exascale supercomputers at CSC's datacenter...
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Google Announces Ambient Mode on Some Phone Devices
What they have called an 'intent based' rather than 'App based' design, for some phones now, and likely to happen on all their devices. I would imagine this would...
From insideHPC
Santos Dumont from Atos is now the Fastest Supercomputer in Latin America
Today Atos announced a major upgrade to the Santos Dumont supercomputer in Brazil, making it the most powerful supercomputer in Latin America. "With this expansion...
From insideHPC
Tyan Showcases Intel Xeon Solutions for HPC, AI, and the Edge
In this video from SC19, Philip Maher from Tyan describes the company's latest lineup of HPC and storage server platforms based on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors...
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Technology and the Future of Utilities
In the Cisco Blog, a good overview of how tech is helping redesign and enable energy utilities. Making them more efficient and secure. Energy - Oil & Gas and...
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Will IOT Reinvent the Supply Chain?
We always thought so, starting with the use of the simplest IOT, RFID tagging. Though it may ultimately require new kinds of ledgers, contracts and modeling that...
From insideHPC
Qumulo Unified File Storage Reduces Administrative Burden While Consolidating HPC Workloads
At SC19, Qumulo showcased its scalable file storage for high-performance computing workloads. The company's technology helps innovative organizations gain real-time...
From insideHPC
DDN Steps up with High Performance Storage at SC19
In this video from SC19, James Coomer from DDN describes the company's latest storage solutions for high performance computing. "At the conference, DDN announced...
From Geeking with Greg
Papers and posting
If you haven't seen it, Adrian Colyer's excellent blog has great reviews and summaries of recent papers. Back when this blog started in 2004, there weren't many...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Better computational complexity does not imply better speed
A recent magazine article presents a theoretical result: Harvey and van der Hoeven have shown that you can multiply two n-bit integers using O(n log n) complexity...
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P-Hacking as Malpractice
In the early days we used to have rooms full of statisticians and economists, and we were trained in the craft as well. Yet I don't ever remember the term 'P-value...
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Taking AI and ML from Research to Production
Good, though too short piece from O'Reilly. I add, its 90% the same as getting any kind of important IT into production.Moving AI and ML from research into production...
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Alexa to be Seen in Much Smaller, Simpler Devices
Will be interested to see where this emerges, with voice, or delivering new kinds of skills?Alexa is coming to low-spec devices like light switches and thermostats...
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Supercomputers at the Exascale
Continued work on faster and better solutions to hard problems. Still think its mostly about designing and delivering better software in context and to scale....
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Deepfakes being Addressed
Continued look at the process of validation.Tech Companies Step Up Fight Against 'Deepfakes'The Wall Street JournalBy Betsy MorrisCompanies such as Facebook, Twitter...
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