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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
3D Printing 'Living' Materials
Implications here fascinating, more details at the link.3D Printing Technique Produces 'Living' 4D MaterialsUNSW NewsroomBy Caroline TangNovember 19, 2019Researchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Very Fast PhotoGrammetry for Agriculture
Once again, very fast acquisition of accurate maps, in agriculture could be used to quickly detect changes in plantings by location and predict changes. Our own...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Memory parallelism: AMD Rome versus Intel
When thinking about “parallelism”, most programmers think about having multiple processors. However, even a single core in a modern processor has plenty of parallelism...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automated Program Repair
Not too far off from Machine Programming. Or programming from pre-set templates, which we often did in enterprise. Another argument for the demise of hand programming...
From insideHPC
WekaIO Takes Top Spot on IO500
The Weka File System (WekaFS) running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) set a record on the IO-500 benchmark with an overall number of 938.949—51% better performance...
From insideHPC
SDSC Conducts 50,000+ GPU Cloudburst Experiment with Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center
In all, some 51,500 GPU processors were used during the approximately two-hour experiment conducted on November 16 and funded under a National Science Foundation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automotive Industry Warned Against Hacking
Expect hacking everywhere, especially where it can be effectively leveraged by finance or influence.FBI warns automakers they’re being targeted by hackers By Duncan...
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research HPC Market Briefing Breakfast at SC19
In this video from SC19, Earl Joseph hosts the Hyperion Research HPC Market Briefing Breakfast at SC19. "Our industry experts are the former IDC high performance...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What’s In A Name?
Naming things seems to be a continual problem with programming students. I’ve written about this before (two years ago A Rose By Any Other Name Gives An Error )...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Digital Trust in the Age of Deepfakes
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team catches up with Dave Maher, CTO of internet security company Intertrust, to share with us his deep knowledge of digital...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Explainable AI
Looks to be well done, in Beta, but worth looking at:Explainable AIBETATools and frameworks to deploy interpretable and inclusive machine learning models.Try it...
From The Noisy Channel
When There’s No Conversion Rate
If your business depends on search, it’s critical to track search effectiveness using an evaluation methodology. In my experience, most organizations rely on implicit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones Do the Work of 500 Farmers
Our own work with pulp forests could also have used drones, as well as the idea of AI detecting patterns of growth and harvest planning. And for control ofDrones...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Waves Enterprise Blockchain
Been examining a number of applications of smart contracts recently, including those more closely connected to specific goal oriented and regulatory agreementsWaves...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Cities Based on Good Models
Here energy is the starting point, but other aspects of city resource use, transportation processes, risk analyses and other goal and future predictive models should...
From insideHPC
BSC takes one of top spots in the IO500 10-Node Challenge
The Storage Systems for Extreme Computing team from BSC has taken the number 4 spot in the IO500’s ‘10- Node Challenge’ with GekkoFS. This ephemeral file system...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alphabet X Everyday Robot
Early tasks will have these robots sorting trash. In practice a tough job, with vision and other sensory aspects. Learning also means adapting, so the hardest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Impacts of RPA
Some good thoughts, also some obvious. In our own experience we first tried to model actual process exactly and directly, but soon found it was not possibleRPA...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Launches GPU-Accelerated Reference Design for Arm Servers
At SC19, NVIDIA introduced a reference design platform that enables companies to quickly build GPU-accelerated Arm®-based servers, driving a new era of high performance...
From The Eponymous Pickle