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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 Schneier on Security
Computer Repair Technicians Are Stealing Your Data
Laptop technicians routinely violate the privacy of the people whose computers they repair: Researchers at University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, recovered logs...
From insideHPC
AWS Announces Water Positive Commitment by 2030
Nov. 28, 2022 — LAS VEGAS– Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced it will be water positive...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Pepper’s Ghost: an 1860s illusion used in ‘head-up displays’ ^JB
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (first published in 2007) When Pepper’s Ghost first appeared on the stage as part of one of Professor Pepper’s shows...
From The Noisy Channel
Attention, Expertise, Trust
I’m old enough to remember when the web was new, and honest enough to admit that I was a skeptic at the time. Fortunately, I was wrong, and I owe my career to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tiny, Private Houses
Noted change ... Pallet is making $7,500 prefab tiny homes that can be setup in 1 hour to help solve the homelessness crisis — see inside a unit at a Washington...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI is Solving Classical Computing's Quantum Problem
Intriguing mix of domains.AI is Solving Classical Computing's Quantum ProblemBy R. Colin Johnson, Commissioned by CACM StaffNovember 22, 2022The number of equations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Protests at IPhone Factory
Leading to some phone outages.China Covid: Angry protests at giant iPhone factory in Zhengzhou in the BBCPublished, 4 days agoProtests have erupted at the world's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lost Something? Search 91.7 Million Files from the '80s, '90s, 2000s
Seeing it all?Lost Something? Search 91.7 Million Files from the '80s, '90s, 2000s By Ars Technica, October 21, 2022The files on Discmaster come from the Internet...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (November 26 2022)
Molière’s famous play, Tartuffe, the main characters is outwardly pious but fundamentally deceitful. Are people who insist on broadcasting their high virtue better...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TikTok Eating the Internet
Evolution. Does it deliver customers online?How TikTok Ate the InternetBy The Washington Post, October 18, 2022In five years, TikTok, once written off as a silly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How the First Transistor Worked
How far we have come.HOW THE FIRST TRANSISTOR WORKEDEven its inventors didn’t fully understand the point-contact transistorBy GLENN ZORPETTE in Spectrum.ieee A...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Regarding an NFT Bubble
This surprised me, below is an outline, and then beyond. Legit? Following up. I will remove if I find this invalid. From DSHR Blog: https://blog.dshr.org/...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chinese Drones in Restricted Spaces
Of course there are now many drones in that area, many Chinese built. But still a valid concern. In American Military News: Hundreds of Chinese-made drones have...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Making all your integers positive with zigzag encoding
You sometimes feel the need to make all of your integers positive, without losing any information. That is, you want to map all of your integers from ‘signed’ integers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimal Decision Making
Technical, but quite interesting point being made. Optimality may be a good thing, but how do I embed it in useful real time decisions? Notably too the consideration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What authors want from AI ‘ghostwriters’
I was recently introduced to some examples of this, quite impressive.What authors want from AI ‘ghostwriters’Compute me a storyOctober 7, 2022 - 12:09 pmIn Sept...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: An SC22 Retrospective
https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/044@HPCpodcast_SC22-Postview_20221123.mp3 In this SC22 post-view, Shahin and Doug go over what happened at the supercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Microscope
Intro, see also in Sabine Hossenfelder's Youtube here: https://youtu.be/fkXSCNDfj14 The quantum microscope revolution is here in CosmosMagazine By Lauren...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MITRE Attack Framework
When I worked with the Govt in the past, worked with MITRE, impressive overall. I noted this recent introduction to their 'Threat actors' capability. (whichIntroduction...
From The Eponymous Pickle