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An Arms Race to AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

An Arms Race to AI

An arms race.  Important point, Clouds bring the data, feed the results. Big Tech companies use cloud computing arms to pursue alliances with AI groups  in Arstechnca...

AI for Logistics
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI for Logistics

 Worked in logistics for years, good to see more applications emerging  Tompkins Solutions Partners With Loko AI to Deliver Innovative Automation Technology toMon...

AI with a  Modular Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI with a Modular Future

Intro to Whisper and its architecture, transcribing speech  ... Whispers of A.I.'s Modular Future, By The New Yorker, February 1, 2023      in CACMWhat’s so unusual...

Open Source or Enterprise-grade Containers? How SingularityPRO Adds Value for Mission-critical HPC Workloads
From insideHPC

Open Source or Enterprise-grade Containers? How SingularityPRO Adds Value for Mission-critical HPC Workloads

Sylabs developed SingularityPRO and Singularity Enterprise to deliver an array of important features and capabilities, along with enterprise-grade support, forOpen...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Back From A Vacation

I am just back from a multi-week vacation on the cruise ship the Voyager. My dear wife—Kathryn Farley—and I were on the trip together with her brother. It was wonderful...

Attacking Machine Learning Systems
From Schneier on Security

Attacking Machine Learning Systems

The field of machine learning (ML) security—and corresponding adversarial ML—is rapidly advancing as researchers develop sophisticated techniques to perturb, disrupt...

Design for AI: What should people who design AI know?
From Putting People First

Design for AI: What should people who design AI know?

Hal Wuertz, Adam Cutler and Milena Pribic of IBM Design defined a unique set of five skills for “AI Design.”

Four Themes Shaping the Future of the Stormy European Power Market
From The Eponymous Pickle

Four Themes Shaping the Future of the Stormy European Power Market

Euro Energy details in play  ... Four themes shaping the Future of the Stormy European Power MarketJanuary 27, 2023 | Article    in McKinseyBy Markus Schülde, Demand...

Lucy 4 and Generative AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lucy 4 and Generative AI

 Lucy 4 just brought to my attention in this realm. AI NewsLucy 4 is moving ahead with generative AI for knowledge managementBy James Bourne | February 3, 2023https...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Artificial Intelligence Just Lost a Leader

Roger Schank just passed away. Roger was a top leader of AI. I overlapped with him for my time at Yale. In 1974, he became a professor of computer science and psychology...

Yann LeCun: ChatGPT 'Not Particularly Innovative'
From The Eponymous Pickle

Yann LeCun: ChatGPT 'Not Particularly Innovative'

Surprising from LeCun, but do understand the point,   The pieces of ChatGPT are well understood, and they  have been made very broadly accessible, which makes it...

Need an Artistic Frig?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Need an Artistic Frig?

Too much ART complexity for what needs to be a simple as possible device, would not buy one. Samsung is announcing that its Bespoke line of custom appliance decorations...

Virtual Birkin Bags on Trial in Hermès Case Testing IP Rights
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtual Birkin Bags on Trial in Hermès Case Testing IP Rights

 Virtual property rights examined in NFT's examined.  Assets , virtual versus actual.  Virtual Birkin Bags on Trial in Hermès Case Testing IP RightsBy The WallImage...

Lego Computer Science: Truth Tables
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Lego Computer Science: Truth Tables

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Truth tables are a simple way of reason about logic that were popularised by the 20th century philosopher Ludwig...

China Ships First Quantum Computer
From The Eponymous Pickle

China Ships First Quantum Computer

China moves forward with Commercial Quantum ComputingChina’s Origin Quantum Ships First Quantum ComputerBy Matt Swayne  in QuantumInsider ... Origin Quantum, aAccording...

Escape from Model Land
From The Eponymous Pickle

Escape from Model Land

 True, caution about modeling is always needed.  Worth a look, on order. The limitations of mathematical modelingA new book demonstrates the danger of the perfect...

Interpol Policing the Metaverse
From The Eponymous Pickle

Interpol Policing the Metaverse

Never seen this before,  Interpol involved in this kind of activity.  Has it been common?  Note mentions they are creating their own VR space. Interpol working,...

Programmable Materials
From The Eponymous Pickle

Programmable Materials

Notable methods and applicationsChanging shapes at the push of a button  from Fraunhofer,  Research News / January 02, 2023Programmable materials are true shapeshifters...

Jacquie Lawson: the multi-million pound greeting
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Jacquie Lawson: the multi-million pound greeting

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (from the cs4fn women are here special issue) There is real money to be made out there in the virtual world – if...

Friday Squid Blogging: Studying the Colossal Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Studying the Colossal Squid

A survey of giant squid science. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my bloghere...
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