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Log4 Security Challenge
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Log4 Security Challenge

Good overview and prediction of its incfluenceA Source of Security Challenges for Years to ComeBy David Geer, Commissioned by CACM Staff, February 17, 2022"Log4Shell...

Robots not Coming?
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Robots not Coming?

Takeover no, but they will be here, collaborating. The Robots Are Not Coming  (?) Those predictions of a robot takeover may not come to fruition.By  Efraim Benmelech...

More Laws of Computing
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More Laws of Computing

 Not so much laws, but rather general indications of past trends that may usefully hold in the future. or not.  Here some proposals for mew laws.Good for tracking...

Voice Assistant use on Smart Phones
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Voice Assistant use on Smart Phones

 Less use? Is it a matter of context and environment, or capability? Smartphone Voice Assistant Use Stalls Out But Consumers Want More Voice Features in MobileBRET...

Deepspeed Inference and Training for AI Scale, Mixture of Experts.
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Deepspeed Inference and Training for AI Scale, Mixture of Experts.

 Considerable Technical Piece from Microsoft.  Much like the idea of 'mixture of experts' to broaden contextual results, could have often used it in the day.DeepSpeed...

Is Nuclear Power still Phasing Out?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Is Nuclear Power still Phasing Out?

A long time follower of nuclear, and sometime analyzer of its value, and a believer that its danger was  over-hyped.  Is it really now over?  Or will it survive...

Reinforcement Learning for Healthcare
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reinforcement Learning for Healthcare

Interesting example of the use of reinforcement learning. Using reinforcement learning to identify high-risk states and treatments in healthcarePublished February...

Encoding Time for Machine Learning
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Encoding Time for Machine Learning

Time encoding from NVIDIA.  Time is the most valuable component for any model, even if you only gather time that you gathered the data.  Three Approaches to Encoding...

Advances in Brain Inspired Computing
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Advances in Brain Inspired Computing

Computers taking  hints from brain designs?   Neuromorphic.  Note that Spiking neural networks new to me, will examine.  AI Overcomes Stumbling Block on Brain-Inspired...

Need for Outside Perspective for Innovative Breakthroughs
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Need for Outside Perspective for Innovative Breakthroughs

 Outside and economically relevant.Why Outside Perspectives Are Critical for Innovation BreakthroughsLessons from the story of Dr. Patricia Bath, the inventor of...

McDonald's Automating Drive Throughs
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McDonald's Automating Drive Throughs

 Mentioned this previously,  and our connection with the project.  Long pre Covit.  This should heavily influence such automated takeout capabilities.   WatsonMcDonald's...

Underground Fashion Maps
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Underground Fashion Maps

 Mapping fashion senses, uses in advertising?   beyond? 'Underground maps' segment cities using fashion, AIby Cornell University  in TechxploreCornell computerHow...

Krafton Virtual Beings?
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Krafton Virtual Beings?

 An advance in virtual beings in the Metaverse?Korean Gaming Giant Krafton Introduces AI-Powered Virtual Beings for New Metaverse Platform  by Eric Hal Schwartz...

Examples of AI as Business Imperative
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Examples of AI as Business Imperative

Examples of AI in action:Your AI strategy’s secret ingredient,  by 7wDataAI is increasingly becoming a business imperative. Nine in 10 Fortune 1000 companies are...

Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Claimed
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Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Claimed

More fusion progress reprted.Scientists make breakthrough with nuclear fusion record  in DWEuropean researchers have leaped closer to making nuclear fusion a practical...

Metadata – The Magic Behind Data Fabric
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Metadata – The Magic Behind Data Fabric

Topquadrant talks active metadata.Metadata – The Magic Behind Data Fabricby Irene Polikoff | Feb 7, 2022 | Blog from TopquadrantThe main goal of creating an enterprise...

On the Security of Event Apps
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On the Security of Event Apps

 For the current Olympics it has been  pointed out that participants were required to install an event written and approved  App on their phones to link to activities...

Chips Like the Brain
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Chips Like the Brain

Chips and the BrainResearchers Make Chip That Can Be Rewired Like the Human BrainBy Silicon Republic, February 11, 2022The chip is made from perovskite nickelate...

Google Chrome Vulverability
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Google Chrome Vulverability

Google Chrome Admits Security Zero Day Vulnerability being Utilized Google Chrome—Emergency Security Update For 3.2 Billion, By Forbes, February 15, 2022GoogleThe...

NVIDIA Time Series Forecasting
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NVIDIA Time Series Forecasting

And time series forecasting is a frequently useful need in anaytics.  NVIDIA provides a means, have not examined closely to see how complete this is.  Time Series...
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