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Sustainable, Efficient Use Plastics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sustainable, Efficient Use Plastics

Use of plastics is a big deal in petroleum use. Sustainable and efficient innovations for the plastics industryPress release / October 06, 2022At the world’s largest...

Metaverse in Healthcare
From The Eponymous Pickle

Metaverse in Healthcare

 Interesting directions outlined.3 ways the metaverse will change healthcare      in VentureBeat by Taryn PlumbDr. Justin Barad recalls times when he or colleagues...

Freddie Figgers – the abandoned baby who became a runaway telecom tech star
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Freddie Figgers – the abandoned baby who became a runaway telecom tech star

Freddie Figgers' parents encouraged him to fix things - he now owns the first Black-owned telecommunications company in the US. #BlackHistoryMonth

The number of comparisons needed to sort a shuffled array: qsort  versus std::sort
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

The number of comparisons needed to sort a shuffled array: qsort versus std::sort

Given an array of N numbers of type double, the standard way to sort it in C is to invoke the qsort function qsort(array, N, sizeof(double), compare); where compare...

AWS Announces GA of EC2 Trn1 Instances for ML Model Training 
From insideHPC

AWS Announces GA of EC2 Trn1 Instances for ML Model Training 

SEATTLE — Oct. 10, 2022 — Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1 instances powered by AWS...

AMD Collaborates with Energy Sciences Network
From insideHPC

AMD Collaborates with Energy Sciences Network

SANTA CLARA, Calif. 10/11/2022 – Today AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced its collaboration with the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) on the launch of ESnet6, the newest...

UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI to Acquire NVIDIA-AMD-driven HPC System from HPE
From insideHPC

UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI to Acquire NVIDIA-AMD-driven HPC System from HPE

October 11, 2022 — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced it is building a supercomputer for Mohamed bin Zayed University...

Crypto Declared a Risk
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crypto Declared a Risk

Crypto is Possible Systemic RiskACM NEWSFSOC Warns Crypto is Possible Systemic RiskBy Politico, October 4, 2022Said U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, “We've...

McKinsey Talks Digital Twins
From The Eponymous Pickle

McKinsey Talks Digital Twins

A reasonable simplified introductionDigital twins: What could they do for your business?October 3, 2022 | PodcastBy Kimberly Borden and Anna HerltLess waste, shorter...

Veego: Amazon Shipping
From The Eponymous Pickle

Veego: Amazon Shipping

Multi channel shipping. Amazon wants to make your company's shipping a whole lot cheaper By Will McCurdy published 1 day ago in TechRadarEcommerce businesses can...

LeCun on True Intelligence from AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

LeCun on True Intelligence from AI

New approaches needed. Meta's LeCun: Most of Today's AI Approaches Will Never Lead to True Intelligence  By ZDNet"We see a lot of claims as to what should we do...

The Metaverse and the AI-Driven Compute Resources That Will Make It Happen
From insideHPC

The Metaverse and the AI-Driven Compute Resources That Will Make It Happen

By Liu Jun, Vice President, Inspur Information and General Manager of AI and HPC Truly understanding the metaverse requires some imagination. The digital worldThe...

Walmart Seeks the Last Mile
From The Eponymous Pickle

Walmart Seeks the Last Mile

 Does it want it? Walmart makes a deal to automate and own the last mile    by George AndersonWalmart’s strategy for owning the last mile has come into clearerThe...

Deep Learning Could Bring 3D Concert Experience Home
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Learning Could Bring 3D Concert Experience Home

 New Realism in concertsDEEP LEARNING COULD BRING THE CONCERT EXPERIENCE HOME  in IEEE The century-old quest for truly realistic sound production is finally paying...

SRI Seminar Series Oct 12: Barbara Grosz, “Fostering responsible computing research”
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

SRI Seminar Series Oct 12: Barbara Grosz, “Fostering responsible computing research”

This Wednesday, Oct 12, from 3:10pmET-4:30pmET, Barbara Grosz is giving a Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI) Seminar Series talk. Her talk...

Worlds First Fusion Reactor in 2040?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Worlds First Fusion Reactor in 2040?

 Although I read otherwise there are considerable issue to start.   But that is long time to work at it.The UK Government has unveiled ambitious plans to buildBy...

Sensory Trick for VR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sensory Trick for VR

Another sense covered?Sensory Trick Makes Objects Seem Heavy or Light in VRBy New Scientist, September 13, 2022Vibrating pads on people's arms can support a more...

Supercharging Modern Data Centers with NVIDIA Networking Solutions
From insideHPC

Supercharging Modern Data Centers with NVIDIA Networking Solutions

In this webinar sponsored by PNY Technologies, you will learn the benefits, functionalities, and key features of Accelerated Ethernet technology by NVIDIA Spectrum...

Gladys West: Where’s my satellite? Where’s my child? #BlackHistoryMonth
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Gladys West: Where’s my satellite? Where’s my child? #BlackHistoryMonth

Gladys West solved the maths problems behind the positioning of satellites. She worked closely with programmers to write the code to do calculations based on her...

From Computational Complexity

Will Strassen's Matrix Mult Alg ever be practical?

All time bounds are asymptotic and really O-of.Recall that Strassen found a clever way to multiple two 2x2 matrices with 7 mults (and lots of adds)  leading tohere...
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