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Software Assembles Complete Genome Sequences On-Demand
From The Eponymous Pickle

Software Assembles Complete Genome Sequences On-Demand

 Software Assembles Complete Genome Sequences On-DemandNational Human Genome Research InstituteAnna Rogers, February 16, 2023The Verkko software created by U.S....

Banning TikTok
From Schneier on Security

Banning TikTok

Congress is currently debating bills that would ban TikTok in the United States. We are here as technologists to tell you that this is a terrible idea and the side...

Microsoft has some Problems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft has some Problems

 Read now read several articles about Bing Chat misbehaving.    Have not seen the same thing in plain ChatCPG,  Serious stuff to make a mis-statement these days...

Firm Deploys Robots to Speed Online Shopping
From The Eponymous Pickle

Firm Deploys Robots to Speed Online Shopping

Woman operates the 1MRobotic system which has a hatch from which couriers and shoppers can collect online orders. Israeli Firm Deploys Robots to Speed Online Shopping...

Regular Visual Studio versus ClangCL
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Regular Visual Studio versus ClangCL

If you are programming in C++ using Microsoft tools, you can use the traditional Visual Studio compiler. Or you can use LLVM as a front-end (ClangCL). Let us compare...

VR Games Helping Stroke Patients
From The Eponymous Pickle

VR Games Helping Stroke Patients

Noting Neuralink as an example.Can mind-controlled VR games help stroke patients?   By Zoe Kleinman, Technology editorA system which can translate human brain activity...

Battery Metals Scramble
From The Eponymous Pickle

Battery Metals Scramble

 Car makers are going mining. Tesla, GM Among Carmakers Flocking to Mining Events Amid Battery Metals ScrambleFebruary 24, 2023 Bloomberg      in SupplyBrainChain...

Thoughts on Modeling Influencers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thoughts on Modeling Influencers

Fascinating piece,  Have thought about who 'influencers' are and if they could be reasonably modeled.  Twinned?  Virtual?   Is there also a kind  of influencerVirtual...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

STOC 2023

STOC 2023 is the 55th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing. It will be held on June 20-23, 2023 in Orlando, Florida. Perhaps the best paper ever at STOC...

Baidu Says it will Integrate Chatbot Ernie Bot into Multiple Products
From The Eponymous Pickle

Baidu Says it will Integrate Chatbot Ernie Bot into Multiple Products

Latest seen on Baidu's use of AI Chatbots, Baidu seems to be going it alone.  Current accessible versions still only in simplified Chinese.Baidu to integrate ChatGPT...

Too many metrics and the Otis Redding problem
From Geeking with Greg

Too many metrics and the Otis Redding problem

The "Otis Redding problem" is "holding people, groups, or businesses to too many metrics: They can’t satisfy or even think about all of them at once." The problem...

Superhuman AI in the game Go
From Geeking with Greg

Superhuman AI in the game Go

For a few years now, AI achieved superhuman game playing abilities for Go. It was quite a milestone for AI. When I was in graduate school, people used to joke that...

Case for and Against Digital Employees
From The Eponymous Pickle

Case for and Against Digital Employees

Business landscape is changing rapidly .I wonder how much HR typically knows about digital options, especially with the newly integrated chat capabilities.     And...

How Digital Twins Could Protect Manufacturers from Cyberattacks
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Digital Twins Could Protect Manufacturers from Cyberattacks

 More on Twins for Security.How Digital Twins Could Protect Manufacturers from CyberattacksNIST News, February 23, 2023At the U.S. National Institute of Standards...

Killer App for Web 3
From The Eponymous Pickle

Killer App for Web 3

Seeking, for implementation.  As Always Advertising is out to find the money everywhere.  But AI/ML has some points.   Monitize.  Before getting it right?  What...

Map for Innovation.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Map for Innovation.

Useful tale about mapping innovation,  reminding me of  Covey's 'Seven Habits',  Choosing the right map. Map for Innovation?   By Peter J. DenningCommunications...

Securing Supply Chains with Quantum Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Securing Supply Chains with Quantum Computing

These days a very important domain toimprove. Securing Supply Chains with Quantum ComputingBy Sandia National Laboratories, February 15, 2023Researchers are actively...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Processing Facility
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Processing Facility

This video of a modern large squid processing ship is a bit gory, but also interesting. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...

Mercedes-Benz cars to have 'supercomputers', unveils Google Partnership
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mercedes-Benz cars to have 'supercomputers', unveils Google Partnership

Mercedes and Google partner for Supercomputer Cars  Mercedes-Benz cars to have 'supercomputers', unveils Google partnershipBy Victoria Waldersee and Joseph White...

3D Heart Replica
From The Eponymous Pickle

3D Heart Replica

Uses include individual study, for diagnosis and planning care.3D-Printed Heart Replicas Look, Pump Like the Real Thing, By MIT News, February 24, 2023A doctorMIT...
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