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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)
Much ado about nothing
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London The nurse types in a dose of 100.1 mg [milligrams] of a powerful drug and presses start. It duly injects 1001 mg...
From insideHPC
NSF: Call for Nominations for $1M Alan T. Waterman Award, Sept. 20 Deadline
Aug. 13, 2024 — The National Science Foundation said it is seeking nominations for candidates that represent the diversity of the U.S. Nominations for the AlanNSF...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Reflection-based JSON in C++ at Gigabytes per Second
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a popular format for storing and transmitting data. It uses human-readable text to represent structured data in the form of...
From The Noisy Channel
Searching for Discovery
Search and DiscoveryIf search has one job, it is to help searchers find what they are looking for. However, many search application developers feel that searchHippocratic...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Guess Which Way?
Math problems get solved from time to time. Today I wonder if they are solved the way we guessed they were going to be solved? For example do most feel that P vs...
From insideHPC
IBM-Developed Algorithms Accepted for Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Aug. 13, 2024 — Two IBM-developed algorithms have been formalized within the world’s first three post-quantum cryptography standards, which...
From Schneier on Security
On the Voynich Manuscript
Really interesting article on the ancient-manuscript scholars who are applying their techniques to the Voynich Manuscript. No one has been able to understand the...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Double or nothing: an extra copy of your software, just in case
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London If you spent billions of dollars on a gadget you’d probably like it to last more than a minute before it blows up...
From insideHPC
EU Launches Cryogenic Quantum Project
Aug. 12, 2024 — The ARCTIC (“Advanced Research on Cryogenic Technologies for Innovative Computing”), an EU project, is intended to establish a European supply chain...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240812: UK Cuts Exascale, Big Round for AI Inference, Llama 3.1 and Open AI, SC24 the Biggest Ever?
A good mid-August morn to you! Here's a rapid (6:30) romp through recent HPC-AI developments, including: the UK government cuts more than £1 billion for an exascale...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces 2024 Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellows
Four scientists have each been awarded $1 million in direct funding via the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellows program...
From Schneier on Security
Taxonomy of Generative AI Misuse
Interesting paper: “Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World Data“: Generative, multimodal artificial intelligence (GenAI) offers...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Navajo Code Talkers
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a...
From Computational Complexity
The combinatorics of Game Shows
(Inspired by Pat Sajak stepping down from Wheel of Fortune)How many different game show are there? Many. How many could there be?1) Based on Knowledge or something...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: SQUID Is a New Computational Tool for Analyzing Genomic AI
Yet another SQUID acronym: SQUID, short for Surrogate Quantitative Interpretability for Deepnets, is a computational tool created by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...
From insideHPC
CoreWeave Adds Managers from Google, Oracle
ROSELAND, N.J., Aug. 8, 2024 — GPU cloud company CoreWeave today announced the appointment of Chen Goldberg as Senior Vice President of Engineering, as well as Sachin...
From insideHPC
TSMC Reports July Revenue up 45% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Aug. 9, 2024 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for July 2024: On a consolidated basis, revenue for July 2024...
From insideHPC
NSF National Quantum Virtual Lab Initiates 5 Pilot Projects
Aug. 9 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced the initial $5 million investment across five pilot projects taking the first steps toward creating...
From insideHPC
Palantir and Microsoft Partner on AI for National Security
Aug. 8, 2024 — Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced a next step in their partnership to bring cloud, AI and...
From Schneier on Security