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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 CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Pac-Man and Games for Girls
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London In the beginning video games were for boys…and then came Pac-Man. Before mobile games, game consoles and PC based...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Peer review is not the gold standard in science
Peer review as we know it today was introduced very late, over a century after the scientific revolution. It happened after Einstein’s time… arguably the most productive...
From Computational Complexity
What is Closed Form? The Horse Numbers are an illustration
In the book Those Fascinating Numbers by Jean-Marie De Konick they find interesting (or `interesting') things to say about many numbers. I reviewed the book inhere...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Just Jim
James Harris Simons just passed away—he preferred Jim so we will use that here. I know that there will be here articles, posts, and special places to read about...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Mating Strategies
Some squids are “consorts,” others are “sneakers.” The species is healthiest when individuals have different strategies randomly. As usual, you can also use this...
From Schneier on Security
New Attack Against Self-Driving Car AI
This is another attack that convinces the AI to ignore road signs: Due to the way CMOS cameras operate, rapidly changing light from fast flashing diodes can be...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
COMPUTATION, LOGIC, AND INFORMATION
The organizers of a conference on this topic is on July 3-5, 2024 at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland are: Wojciech Szpankowski the Director of the Center...
From Schneier on Security
How Criminals Are Using Generative AI
There’s a new report on how criminals are using generative AI tools: Key Takeaways: Adoption rates of AI technologies among criminals lag behind the rates of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Members Spark Attention at Senate Robotics Showcase and Demo Day
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is excited that three members were exhibitors at the Senate Robotics and Demo Day. Holly Yanco (Chair, Distinguished University...
From insideHPC
Lenovo Is on a Mission to Transform HPC & AI for All
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] High performance computing (HPC) systems run workloads to perform complex calculations to get answers to some of humanity’s toughest...
From insideHPC
CGG Launches AI Cloud Solution with Nvidia for AI and HPC Workloads
Paris, May 9, 2024 — Technology and HPC company CGG has announced the launch of its AI Cloud, designed for data-intensive industries, including life sciences, digital...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $60-70M Quantum Information Science Funding Opportunity
May 9, 2024 — The DOE SC program in High Energy Physics (HEP) announced its interest in receiving interdisciplinary applications for open scientific research on...
From insideHPC
Financial Services Company Optiver Selects AMD for Data Center, AI
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 07, 2024 — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced that Optiver – a market maker trading on 100+ exchanges – is using AMD chips for its newFinancial...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can construct small list of strings in C for Python?
Python is probably the most popular programming language in the world right now. Python is easy to extend using C code. You may want to return from Python a small...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Dichotomy
A constraint satisfaction problem has a group of constraints applied to a set of variables and we want to know if there is a setting of the variables that makeA...
From insideHPC
Preparing for ISC 2024: HPC Luminaries on Sessions, Trends and News to Watch for in Hamburg
The center of the HPC-AI world shifts next week to Hamburg and the ISC 2024 Conference, Sunday, May 12 – Thursday, May 16. The theme of this year’s event is “Reinventing...
From insideHPC
Nvidia NIM Integrated Support on Red Hat OpenShift AI
DENVER – May 7, 2024 — Open source solutions company Red Hat today announced coming integration support for Nvidia NIM microservices on Red Hat OpenShift AI toNvidia...
From insideHPC
Panasas Is Now Vdura for AI and HPC Data Storage
Long-time HPC data storage company Panasas (formed 1999) is now Vdura. The new brand "signifies the company’s shift to a software company operating under a software...
From The Noisy Channel
Is Targeted Advertising Ethical
Is Targeted Advertising Ethical?Targeted advertising is a huge industry with a massive branding problem. On one hand, nearly all of the “free” digital productspromoted...
From The Noisy Channel