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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
TODAY: Computer Science and Law
TODAY, of interest:Watch Livestream of ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Lawhttps://computersciencelaw.org/To view image click on Watch a livestream of theClick...
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A Talk on Communal Intelligence
We have not even gotten modeling individual intelligence right yet. And it is that intelligence that has provided so much striking value. So do we want to beCommunal...
From insideHPC
Convergence for Scientific Method: HPC, AI, Simulation and Experiment
Alan Real from Durham University gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "This talk will discuss how advances in instrumentation have caused many new areas toConvergence...
From insideHPC
NSF Invests in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
“The promise of multi-messenger astrophysics, however, can be realized only if sufficient cyberinfrastructure is available to rapidly handle, combine and analyze...
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Podcast: When a Different OS Gets Different Results
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at problems in the scientific software world. "There’s a bug in Python scripts that caused different results in identical...
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Vehicles Seeing Around Corners
Interesting advances continue in the sensor space. Another example of sensors inferring related information.Helping autonomous vehicles see around cornersBy sensing...
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Contract Management with AI and RPA
Have seen a number of contract management approaches now, from the very simple to the complex. Make sense to start simple and progress based on goals, needs, and...
From Schneier on Security
Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Chooses Encryption Over Backdoors
In an extraordinary essay, the former FBI general counsel Jim Baker makes the case for strong encryption over government-mandated backdoors: In the face of congressional...
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Data Management for Data Science
In Kdnuggets a good description and visualization of data management needed for data science.Everything a Data Scientist Should Know About Data ManagementFor full...
From insideHPC
Flexential Data Center hosts ONTAP AI Test Drive Platform
Today Flexential announced it is the first data center globally to host ONTAP AI Test Drive, a fully optimized and tested infrastructure solution for AI workloads...
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HPC Framework Blocks to Ease Programming of Exascale Supercomputers
Researchers are beginning a three-year cross-institute project that aims to lower the barrier to entry for software engineers developing new high-performance applications...
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Tiny Drones for Unknown Environments
We explored the approach of using small swarms of drones. In industrial and outdoor forestry and logging spaces.....Swarm of Tiny Drones Explores Unknown Environments...
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Giant Food for Frictionless Checkouts
There has been some suggestion that Amazon is backing off the idea, except in narrow contexts. But recently there has been a newly opened store. Here new word...
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Decade's end: On Future Developments
Gizmodo does a reasonable look at what to expect:The Most Futuristic Developments We Can Expect in the Next 10 YearsBy George Dvorsky in Gizmodo via Walter Riker...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Quantum Supremacy At Last?
What it takes to understand and verify the claim Cropped from 2014 Wired source John Martinis of U.C. Santa Barbara and Google is the last author of a paper published...
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China Passes Cryptography Law
Broad implications unclear, especially how it might relate to Blockchain or other uses of cryptography that relate to regulatory access. Apparently quotes theChina...
From insideHPC
Nortek Unveils World’s Most Powerful CDU for Data Center Liquid Cooling
Today Nortek Air Solutions rolled out its new CDU1200, a 1,200-kW coolant distribution unit (CDU). As the single most powerful, compact CDU on the planet, the CDU1200...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Operations Manager at Ohio Supercomputer Center
"OSC is seeking an HPC Operations Manager, a new position inside the HPC Systems Team. The operations manager will manage a team of three systems administrators...
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Decision Trees for Shopping
Perhaps simplistic, but interesting. Even if you have to ultimately complicate such a model, its useful to start with something this simple and see how well it...
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