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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
Novel 3D Printing Method to Fabricate Metal-Plastic Composite Structures
Metal-Plastic composites ...Novel 3D Printing Method to Fabricate Metal-Plastic Composite StructuresWaseda University (Japan), November 30, 2022A new multimaterial...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG and ICANN Announce Inaugural UA Day and Call for Proposals
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...
From insideHPC
An AI-Flavored Set of HPC Predictions for 2023
Many predictions for HPC-AI in 2023 came over our transom in recent weeks, here are excerpts from the ones we found most interesting, fresh, insightful — even contrarian...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ukraine Has Digitized Its Fighting Forces on a Shoestring
Ukraine Has Digitized Its Fighting Forces on a Shoestring By The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2023Ukrainian troops operated a telescopic tower with a remote...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CSET Seminar: The Multinational Artificial Intelligence Landscape
The Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) will hold their first session in the Security and Emerging Technology Seminar Series of 2023 on Wednesday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Wide is Computing Divided?
Short review extract:Computing Divided: How Wide the Chasm? By Andrew A. ChienCommunications of the ACM, January 2023, Vol. 66 No. 1, Page 5 10.1145/3572994...
From insideHPC
Argonne: ATPESC 2023 Applications Due March 1
Jan. 4, 2023 — Applications are due Wednesday, March 1 for the annual Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), which will take place July 30...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Slip Robotics
Brought to my attention, classic problems in supply chain.Slip RoboticsLoad and unload trucks in <5 minutesRobots that use the dock you already haveOur trailerMove...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Simpler Path to Better Computer Vision
Improving vision and modeling. A Simpler Path to Better Computer VisionMIT News, Adam Zewe, November 23, 2022A team led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
From insideHPC
atNorth Acquires 2 Data Centers in Finland
Stockholm – January 4, 2023 – atNorth Holding AB, a pan-Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has announced...
From Schneier on Security
Decarbonizing Cryptocurrencies through Taxation
Maintaining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies causes about 0.3 percent of global CO2 emissions. That may not sound like a lot, but it’s more than the emissions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alert! Very Serious LastPass Security Glitch:
Am a week or so late to this, just now exploring implied severity, and if the previous admissions properly provided enough information to LastPass users to minimize...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Logicians are Everywhere
So where were they between 1720 and 1820? Helena Rasiowa was a famous logician from Poland. She visited Case Western Reserve University when I was an undergraduate...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Emojis in domain names, punycode and performance
Most domain names are encoded using ASCII (e.g., yahoo.com). However, you can register domain names with almost any character in them. For example, there is a web...
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Spins off Server Business Unit
January 3, 2023 ─ High-performance server and workstation vendor GIGABYTE Technology today announced its enterprise solutions division has officially been spunGIGABYTE...
From Schneier on Security
Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Particles of Light and Fluid Flow
Not quite grokking this, or its value, but considering it.Particles of Light May Create Fluid Flow, Data-Theory Comparison SuggestsBy Brookhaven National Laboratory...
From Computational Complexity
Positional Encoding
Given the excitement over ChatGPT, I spent part of the winter recess trying to understand the underlying technology of Transformers. After trying various tutorials...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re a Further Look at BioPhysics
How does life and physics fit together? Just received in an Alumni mailing discussing,THE PHYSICS OF UsPhysicists are studying how living matter works, and find...
From The Eponymous Pickle