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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
How expensive is it to parse numbers from a string in C++?
In software, we frequently have to parse numbers from strings. Numbers are typically represented in computers as 32-bit or 64-bit words whereas strings are variable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cross Entropy
What is this? New to me as a term. I record here for my own refernce and pass it out to others. In particular the suggestion here is that classification may...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Loop By Any Other Name
My first programming language was FORTRAN IV. As I recall we had Do loops. They worked pretty much the same as what we call For loops in most languages today. We...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Researchers Investigating Using Squid Propulsion for Underwater Robots
Interesting article and paper. 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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Creates Fund for 5G Use Beyond Phones
Being speed, what are the applications in play? Where can we predict particular useful ventures that we should support?Qualcomm creates $200 million fund for 5G...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wozniak: No Self-Driving Cars in My Lifetime
A contrary look to be considered.Steve Wozniak: No Self-Driving Cars in My Lifetime By Bill Howard in ExtremetechLAS VEGAS — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak believes...
From insideHPC
D-Wave Announces First European Leap Quantum Cloud Site at JÜlich
Today D-Wave Systems announced that it will house its first European Leap quantum cloud-based system outside of North America at the Jülich Supercomputing Center...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Databricks with Tableau
Intriguing update for Tableau.Visualize your data lake with the new Tableau Databricks ConnectorTableau 2019.3 was a momentous release for a number of reasons.At...
From insideHPC
Micron Unveils World’s Fastest Datacenter SSD
Today Micron Technology announced a breakthrough in nonvolatile memory technology with the introduction of the world’s fastest SSD, the Micron X100 SSD. "Micron...
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Growth Spurs Search for New Hires
Hyperion Research report that their business tracking the worldwide HPC market has grown rapidly since the company was spun out of IDC in 2017, and the companyHyperion...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Viviana Bono
Chair — ACM-W Scholarship Committee Dr. Viviana Bono is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Torino...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Future Path of Wlldfires
In this KPBS video, firefighters in the field tap an SDSC supercomputer to battle wild fires. Fire officials started using the supercomputer's WIFIRE tool in September...
From insideHPC
How Data and Computing Can Change Medicine in the Exascale Era
In this video, Gina Tourassi from ORNL explains how data and computing is changing medicine. "Exascale computing infrastructure such as Frontier will be the paradigm...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Phone Made of Paper
A cute and interesting idea. Its best understood by looking at the very short video at the Fastcompany article below. Makes you think about how we are processing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Conversational Search
Here a long time interest in intelligent conversation, and one of the most used uses of conversation on line these days is search. Intelligent conversation gets...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recovering “Lost Dimensions” of Images, Video
Fascinating idea I could have used long ago. Projections, for example, from advertising copy, archived and needed for reapplication. Recovering “Lost Dimensions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Connecton Science and Human Dynamics Lab
These efforts well worth following. AI, Data, Human Dynamics, PrivacyMIT’s Pentland Outlines Rules For Data And AIOctober 25, 201979MIT Connection Science and...
From Schneier on Security
Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption
The US Department of Justice unraveled a dark web child-porn website, leading to the arrest of 337 people in at least 18 countries. This was all accomplished not...
From The Eponymous Pickle