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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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DOE Selects JLab to Be High Performance Data Facility Lead
Oct. 16, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of the High Performance Data Facility (HPDF) hub, which will create a new scientific...
From insideHPC
Texas Tech HPC Center Chooses CIQ for HPC Infrastructure
RENO, Nev.—October 16, 2023—CIQ, the company building software infrastructure for enterprises running performance-intensive workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise...
From Geeking with Greg
Cory Doctorow on enshittification
Another good piece by Cory on enshittification, with details about Facebook, some on how A/B testing optimizes for enshittification, and updated with how Musk's...
From insideHPC
Phison Introduces Signal Conditioner IC Products, Expands PCIe 5.0 Ecosystem
SAN JOSE – October 16, 2023 – Phison Electronics (8299 TT), a NAND controllers and storage company, announced that the company has expanded its portfolio of PCIe...
From Schneier on Security
Coin Flips Are Biased
Experimental result: Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies of the process. In a preregistered study...
From insideHPC
Federated GPU Infrastructure for AI Workflows
[Sponsored Guest Article] With the explosion of use cases such as Generative AI and ML Ops driving tremendous demand for the most advanced GPUs and accelerated...
From Computational Complexity
Paper is a tech-free way to preserve writing. Is there a tech-free way to preserve sound (e.g., music)
I blogged about ACM going mostly paper-free, and had some PROS and CONS about paper-free, in this blog here. One of my many astute readers named Abigail pointed...
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E4 Computer Engineering Partners with NVIDIA for Launch of Grace Hopper Superchips in Italy
Scandiano, RE (Italy), October 12, 2023 – E4 Computer Engineering announced a partnership with NVIDIA for the Italian launch of NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip, the...
From The Noisy Channel
Critical Thinking and Generative AI
Critical Reasoning and Generative AIOne of the formative experiences in my mathematics education was a time I struggled to compute an integral in a calculus class...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Possible Impossibilities and Impossible Possibilities
A livestreamed talk by Yejin Choi at TTIC on Monday 10/16, 11:30am CT MacArthur Foundation source Yejin Choi is a professor and a MacArthur Fellow at the Paul G...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Intelligence
Article about squid intelligence. 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...
From insideHPC
NTT Reports Increase in Optical Transmission Capacity, Reduced Power Consumption
Tokyo – Oct. 12, 2023 – NTT Corporation (NTT) said it successfully demonstrated technology that expands transmission capacity while reducing energy use by 67 percent...
From Geeking with Greg
To stop disinformation, stop astroturf
(this is a version of an excerpt from my book, if you like it please let me know) There's a lot of discussion of removing disinformation as censorship lately....
From Schneier on Security
Hacking the High School Grading System
Interesting New York Times article about high-school students hacking the grading system. What’s not helping? The policies many school districts are adopting that...
From insideHPC
Harvard University, MIT and QuEra Report 99.5% Two-Qubit Gate Fidelity on 60 Neutral Atom Qubits
BOSTON, October 12, 2023 – Neutral-atom quantum company QuEra Computing today announced that a team of researchers from Harvard, MIT and QuEra successfully demonstrated...
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MEGA International Announces Udpated AI-driven Enterprise Architecture Platform
BOSTON/PARIS, October 12, 2023 – MEGA International, an enterprise architecture SaaS software company, announces the launch of HOPEX Aquila, an AI-driven solution...
From insideHPC
SiFive Announces RISC-V Products for GenAI and ML
Santa Clara, Calif., Oct. 11, 2023 –- RISC-V computing company SiFive, Inc. today announced two products designed to address new requirements for high performance...
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Women in HPC Announces SC23 Travel Fellowship Award Winners
The WHPC Executive Committee, the WHPC SC23 Volunteer Committee and the staff of DoITNow! have announced two Travel Fellows for this year’s Supercomptuing Conference...
From Computational Complexity
Measuring Quantum Progress
In August the Google Quantum AI Team posted a blog post How to compare a noisy quantum processor to a classical computer to measure progress in building quantum...
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