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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
Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think:
Just Reading, very interesting, will review further as I progress. by a correspondent I have often mentioned here. Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans...
From insideHPC
LLNL and Korea Institute of Science and Technology to collaborate
Livermore, CA — Leaders at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have signed a memorandum of understanding...
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More on Car Security Issues
Schneier points to other vehicle encryption issues, here just a snippit, more at the link. in the Software developer cracks Hyundai car security with Google search...
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Google Tests AI Robotics in a Kitchen
Look forward to seeing this. Kitchen has many tasks that could be automated, but usually not well positioned for broad application and integration. Note hereGoogle...
From Putting People First
A Guide to Using User-Experience Research Methods
Modern day UX research methods answer a wide range of questions. To help you know when to use which user research method, each of 20 methods is mapped across 3...
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Competition Makes Big Datasets Winners
For a number of reasons, big datasets are better. I have used ImageNet, good example, very useful. Also Mechanical Turk. Competition Makes Big Datasets the Winners...
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Surgery Robot on ISS
Clearly needed as distances and times in space grow. A Surgery Robot Will Board the ISS in 2024By Adrianna Nine on August 4, 2022 in ExtremeTechAfter nearly 20...
From Putting People First
“Democracy depends on it”: Carissa Véliz on privacy and ending data surveillance
“There is nothing shocking or radical about ending an economic practice that has too many negative externalities. We have banned certain kinds of economic activity...
From Putting People First
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
Physical buttons are increasingly rare in modern cars. Most manufacturers are switching to touchscreens – which perform far worse in a test carried out by Swedish...
From Computational Complexity
20 Years of the Computational Complexity Weblog
I first posted on this blog twenty years ago today, still the oldest and longest running weblog in theoretical computer science, possibly in all of computer science...
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Bionic Hand Arms Race
Quite interesting developments are at hand at hand. Good overview of the space, linking to more. THE BIONIC-HAND ARMS RACE in IEEE SpectrumThe prosthetics industry...
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The Road beyond 5G, Value?
Have not seen much out of 5GThe Road to 6G By Keith KirkpatrickCommunications of the ACM, September 2022, Vol. 65 No. 9, Pages 14-16 10.1145/3546959Although...
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Integrating Plants into Building Design
Like the integration of plants and buildings. Beyond sustainability. Playing with Dirt Leads to Big Potential for Sustainable BuildingsUVA Today, Karen Walker...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Catching sanitizer errors programmatically
The C and C++ languages offer little protection against programmer errors. Errors do not always show up where you expect. You can silently corrupt the content of...
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Scar Tissue Control for Implants
Design prevents buildup of scar tissue around medical implantsA new device, which doesn’t rely on immunosuppressing drugs, may assist efforts to develop an artificial...
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Siemens on EV Development
Siemens on V DevelopmentDrive vehicle electrification and manage increasing complexity by transforming electric vehicle developmentUntil recently, electric vehicles...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Theoretical Question About UAPs
What should be the Bayesian prior for a new NASA study? Crop from ‘Interstellar’ discussion David Spergel is a physics professor emeritus of Princeton University...
From insideHPC
Frontier Exascale Unveiling: ‘Breathtaking…, a Huge Leap Forward for Science, for Our Country”
It was a day of high pride at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a day to stop and take stock of the successful completion of a project based on an idea – exascaleFrontier...
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China Breaks Memory Entanglement Distance
This came up recently for an application proposal. China Breaks Record for Quantum Memory Entanglement DistanceTom's HardwareFrancisco Pires, August 17, 2022Researchers...
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