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Action at a Distance Works
From The Eponymous Pickle

Action at a Distance Works

An approach that's already being used for some kinds of encrypted transmission.  Here is a largely non technical explanation using Bell's Theorem.  How Bell’s Theorem...

Towards a Battery Free Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards a Battery Free Internet of Things

Some notes about how this might work.  Think its inevitable that we will have many kinds of IOTs  delivering AI.   Further how we can ensure these devices getting...

Better Security Through Obfuscation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Better Security Through Obfuscation

 Have always been told, in essence, that this is a bad way to go.  Better keep everything visible, and open, expose it to as many expert hackers as possible toBetter...

Border Gateway Protocol
From The Eponymous Pickle

Border Gateway Protocol

 New to me, a useful description here.Fixing the Internet  By Keith KirkpatrickVideo description:  https://youtu.be/A1KXPpqlNZ4  Communications of the ACM, August...

More Money Moving into Autonomous Trucking
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Money Moving into Autonomous Trucking

Why?  More directly calculable ROI,  Less regulation. and more specific regulation. Less training of the users.  Leads towards simplification. Trucks Move PastBy...

Origami Comes to Robotic Life
From The Eponymous Pickle

Origami Comes to Robotic Life

Soft animated modeling built in origami.Origami Comes to Life with Shape-Changing MaterialsUniversity of Colorado Boulder, Daniel Strain, July 20, 2021University...

DeepMind Releases Accurate Picture of Human Proteome
From The Eponymous Pickle

DeepMind Releases Accurate Picture of Human Proteome

Was briefly involved in a discussion of protein folding structure prediction, so have an appreciation of the complexity the  Have been told this is a very big deal...

Non Fungible Tokens
From The Eponymous Pickle

Non Fungible Tokens

I heard about NFTs perhaps a year ago.  Someone I know was pushing investment in them.  NFT's are blockchain style encrypted 'tags' for unique digital things. https...

Hiding Malware in Artificial Neurons
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hiding Malware in Artificial Neurons

 My areas of interest have always included machine learning, neural networks, steganography and security.    So I read this in interest. Not sure how it would work...

Real Time  AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Real Time AI

Thinking this. CoCoPIE: Enabling Real-Time AI on Off-the-Shelf Mobile Devices via Compression-Compilation Co-Design   By Hui Guan, Shaoshan Liu, Xiaolong Ma, Wei...

Power Shift to Employees?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Power Shift to Employees?

Tech Pay Survey Shows Power Shift to Employees, By The Information, July 23, 2021The technology-business boom is giving white-collar workers more leverage withAt...

Which Companies are Transforming Work?
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Which Companies are Transforming Work?

Useful thoughts.    What have we really transformed to? Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?   by Kristen Senz  in HBSWKJoseph Fuller answers readers'...

Securing Industrial Operations at Scale
From The Eponymous Pickle

Securing Industrial Operations at Scale

Essential.Now is the time to secure industrial operations at scale!   Internet of Things (IoT)  By Fabien Maisl   in Cisco.Cyber attacks to industrial organizations...

Understanding Behavior and What May Happen Next
From The Eponymous Pickle

Understanding Behavior and What May Happen Next

It is  good to know what is going to happen next.  Prediction though can be hard.Metropolis Spotlight: Viisights Uses AI to Understand Behavior and Predict What...

Total Artificial Heart Implanted
From The Eponymous Pickle

Total Artificial Heart Implanted

 Seems quite a considerable coup. Total Artificial Heart Successfully Transplanted in U.S.By Interesting Engineering, July 23, 2021Duke University Hospital surgeons...

Inside the Industry that Unmasks People at Scale
From The Eponymous Pickle

Inside the Industry that Unmasks People at Scale

Article on this brought to my attention by Bruce Schneier  ... Inside the Industry that Unmasks People at ScaleUnique IDs linked to phones are supposed to be anonymous...

5G Telemedicine and the Military
From The Eponymous Pickle

5G Telemedicine and the Military

Brought to my attention by Walter Riker.  Will ask for more comment from the VA, sure it is being looked at. Telemedicine with 5G could be a gamechanger for military...

Scaling AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Scaling AI

Good thoughts, intro below.Scaling AI and data science – 10 smart ways to move from pilot to productionVB Staff by Venturebeat,  Presented by Intel“Fantastic! How...

Is Programming Theory a Waste of Time?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Is Programming Theory a Waste of Time?

Gave me a reminder of what PT was:  Its the theoretical introduction to coding,  and  not ONLY the specific, in context how-to of using a particular coding method...

Sweat Powering Wearables
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sweat Powering Wearables

 Given current power needs, would be much less than a typical smartphone needs.  Perhaps a small IOT. Your Sweaty Fingertips Could Help Power the Next Generation...
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