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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Virtualizing Nuclear War?
Happy thoughts here, not sure talking or virtualizing does much. But consider all the war games that have been played, Including civilians. Serious stuff....
From The Eponymous Pickle
ESnet Launches Next-Generation Network to Enhance Collaborative Science
Better Networks Built for Research.ACM TECHNEWSESnet Launches Next-Generation Network to Enhance Collaborative ScienceBy Berkeley Lab News Center, October 18, 2022...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Wearable Reasoner
Reasonable thought, but how well does it work in varying contexts. Need to be wearable? Good demo included.Wearable Reasoner: Towards Enhanced Human Rationality...
From Schneier on Security
Apple Is Finally Encrypting iCloud Backups
After way too many years, Apple is finally encrypting iCloud backups: Based on a screenshot from Apple, these categories are covered when you flip on Advanced Data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Machine Learns with ML for Sheets (ML forSpreadsheet?)
Very interesting update ... like the idea, will look at it. Click through for more. Google brings machine learning to online spreadsheets with Simple ML forSean...
From Computational Complexity
Commercials are not logical. FTX edition.
Some people asked me to comment on FTX since I teach Crypto. My insights are no better than anyone else; however, I have wanted to do a blog post about the illogic...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (December 11 2022)
As we focus on some types of unfortunate discrimination (race, gender), we may become blind to other types of discrimination. For example, tend to discrimate against...
From The Eponymous Pickle
San Francisco Now Says No to Armed Robots
Mentioned the earlier decision here a week ago, and predicted it would NOT last in SF's policing environment. It has now quickly been reversed. San FranciscoExplosive...
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Dealing with Tsunami of Data
Continues.RisingWave Emerges to Tackle Tsunami of Real-Time DataAlex Woodie in DatanamiOnly the most advanced companies have overcome the technical complexity involved...
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Concerns about TikTok
And it continuesFBI Director Raises National Security Concerns About TikTokBy Associated Press on December 03, 2022FBI concerns over TikTokFBI Director Chris Wray...
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Social Commerce: The f\Buture of How Consumers Interact with Brands
McKinsey: Social commerce: The Future of how Consumers Interact with BrandsAuthors: Camilo Becdach is a partner in McKinsey’s Southern California office, where...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Photonic Chips
New developments in Photonic ChipsCaltech's Nanophotonic Chip 'Squeezes' More Out of LightBy Caltech, October 18, 2022The photonic chip can generate and measure...
From Geeking with Greg
ML and flooding the zone with crap
Wisdom of the few is often better than wisdom of the crowds. If the crowd is shilled and fake, most of the data isn't useful for machine learning. To be useful,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Synthetic Data Is Key to Paving the Way for Smart Cities
Good thoughts here for other applications as wellWhy Synthetic Data Is Key to Paving the Way for Smart CitiesBy Spiceworks, November 18, 2022Illustration of a futuristic...
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MIT Is Working on Self-Assembling Robots
We Met in the past at MIT with Neil Gershenfeld. MIT Is Working on Self-Assembling RobotsBy Ryan Whitwam on November 28, 2022 at 7:00 amToday, humans build robots...
From The Eponymous Pickle
All about EVs and their Needs
Is much of the things I have thought about. The EV Transition Explained: Charger Infrastructure How many, where, and who pays? By Robert N. Charette in Spectrum...
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Longtermism
Also been following: Longtermism is an ethical stance which gives priority to improving the long-term future. It is an important concept in effective altruism and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hard to Crack Hardware
Fascinating development using Logic locks and Spin alignment. Hard-to-Crack HardwareKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia)November 14...
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Researchers Develop Scaled-up Spintronic Probabilistic Computer
OK, technically new to me, but worth a tag here. I note mention of 'Simulated Quantum Annealing Algorithm' which was demonstrated to us. Will follow withResearchers...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP