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Uses of Digital Twins in the Warehouse
From The Eponymous Pickle

Uses of Digital Twins in the Warehouse

Thoughtful look  at Twin based modeling.  5 Cases.Uses of Digital Twins in the Warehouse   in SupplyChainBrainThe digital twin of a warehouse — a real-time, 3D1...

Bing Chat  Vulnerable to Attacks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bing Chat Vulnerable to Attacks

 Implications unclear, but Bing Chat appears not to be unstable under attacks.  Still just in preview, but needs work.Microsoft's ChatGPT-Powered Bing Reveals Its...

NVIDIA GTC  Developer Conference: Metaverse: AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

NVIDIA GTC Developer Conference: Metaverse: AI

 NVIDIA GTC  Developer Conference March 20-23, 2023Keynote March 21Metaverse/AI Developer sessions.Here are short developer descriptions of developer sessions, ...

Considering Ambient IoT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Considering Ambient IoT

Good intro and discussion, and in particular thoughts about how this finally implements 'smart' cheaply and with easier integration of sensors and low power requirements...

The Promise and Difficulty of Geothermal Energy
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Promise and Difficulty of Geothermal Energy

 Have a long time interest in Geothermal Energy.  I see that Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder has a good state of the technology view of this effort in Youtube at:...

Tech Talk:  The State of Data Mesh
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tech Talk: The State of Data Mesh

New to me, may attend, details below and at the link.ACM TechTalksMarch 7 Talk, "State of Data Mesh" with Data Mesh Creator Zhamak Dehghani, CEO of NextdataRegister...

Microsoft Plans to Bring Ads to AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Plans to Bring Ads to AI

 Lets get it right first.Microsoft is reportedly already planning to bring ads to Bing's AI chatbot   It's early days, but Microsoft is figuring out how to monetize...

What will it Take for Security to be Taken very Seriously?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What will it Take for Security to be Taken very Seriously?

Good considerable piece by Bruce Schneier, aiming at the  Policy Makers.  Intro: What Will It Take?What will it take for policy makers to take cybersecurity seriously...

Labeling Your Retail Shelf Spaces
From The Eponymous Pickle

Labeling Your Retail Shelf Spaces

 Worked this topic  at some length in our lab and with retailers, still evolving.  ... Retail advancements Electronic shelf labels    can significantly transform...

Quantum Breakthrough Could Revolutionise computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Breakthrough Could Revolutionise computing

Multi tasking quantum?Quantum breakthrough could revolutionise computing   in the BBCTwenty years ago Winfried Hensinger was told by other scientists that developing...

Friday Squid Blogging: Thermal Batteries from Squid Proteins
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Thermal Batteries from Squid Proteins

Researchers are making thermal batteries from “a synthetic material that’s derived from squid ring teeth protein.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to...

DOE Funding Opportunity for National Labs and Partners: $80M for Emerging Technologies R&D
From insideHPC

DOE Funding Opportunity for National Labs and Partners: $80M for Emerging Technologies R&D

Feb. 17, 2023 — Washington, DC — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced $80 million, provided by the Office of Science, to support fundamental researchDOE...

Frontier Pushes Boundaries: 86% of Nodes Engaged on Reactor Simulation Runs
From insideHPC

Frontier Pushes Boundaries: 86% of Nodes Engaged on Reactor Simulation Runs

Details have trickled out of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) indicating progress in preparing Frontier, the exascale-class supercomputer ranked...

Putting Limits to Vehicle Tech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Putting Limits to Vehicle Tech

Limits of autonomous vehicle tech?Carmakers Are Pushing Autonomous Tech. This Engineer Wants Limits.   By The New York Times.February 16, 2023Systems like General...

Walking-Flying Spidar
From The Eponymous Pickle

Walking-Flying Spidar

 Complex but very interesting thing out of Tokyo,   Can get you some ware fast and then walk the rest of the way.  The arrival may be scary,  but you then haveOh...

Training Data from Audiobooks?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Training Data from Audiobooks?

 Ultimately its all about training data.  And the quality of that data. Of course a Google gets lots of language data, but its it the right quality and type?   ...

Priorities for Research in ChatGPT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Priorities for Research in ChatGPT

ChatGPT: Five Priorities for Research  (Opinion in CACM) By Nature, February 3, 2023A smartphone trying to connect to ChatGPT has message stating that it is too...

Israeli First Responders in Turkey
From The Eponymous Pickle

Israeli First Responders in Turkey

 Emergency response combining rapid attention and needed data for complex care and communication. Israeli First Responders in Turkey Use Real-Time Tech for Remote...

Defending against AI Lobbyists
From Schneier on Security

Defending against AI Lobbyists

When is it time to start worrying about artificial intelligence interfering in our democracy? Maybe when an AI writes a letter to The New York Times opposing the...

Computing the UTF-8 size of a Latin 1 string quickly (AVX edition)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Computing the UTF-8 size of a Latin 1 string quickly (AVX edition)

Computers represent strings using bytes. Most often, we use the Unicode standard to represent characters in bytes. The universal format to exchange strings online...
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