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Up Tempo Music for Sales
From The Eponymous Pickle

Up Tempo Music for Sales

Creating sales environments.  Experimented with. Can up-tempo music move shoppers to buy more green goods?by Tom Ryan  in RetailwireNew university research finds...

Textiles Sense User Motion
From The Eponymous Pickle

Textiles Sense User Motion

 Mentioned previously,  more details.Smart Textiles Sense How Their Users Are MovingMIT NewsAdam Zewe, July 7, 2022Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute...

Wal-Mart Pushing Cord Cutting
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Pushing Cord Cutting

 Leveraging infrastructure at play. Will Walmart become the go-to shopping destination for cord cutters?17 EXPERT COMMENTSCONSUMER ADVERTISING CONSUMER MARKETING...

Quantifying Computing Power and Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantifying Computing Power and Innovation

Powerful computers,  better innovation? Quantifying Computing Power and InnovationBy MIT News., June 29, 2022Futuristic image of a microprocessor in a circuit."By...

Regional Activities Co-Chair – Apply by July 31
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Regional Activities Co-Chair – Apply by July 31

ACM-W is seeking applicants for the next Regional Activities Co-Chair. Come join us and be part of an energetic team of leaders for an organization supporting,...

IWB Discusses AI Foundation Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

IWB Discusses AI Foundation Models

 Nicely done intro from IWB's blog.  Irving Wladawsky-BergerA collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology, leadership...

NVIDIA Launches Hybrid Quantum-Classical HPC Computing Platform
From insideHPC

NVIDIA Launches Hybrid Quantum-Classical HPC Computing Platform

NVIDIA has been moving into quantum computing for some time — last November, the company announced the cuQuantum software development kit designed to accelerate...

At ISC 2022: DDN’s James Coomer Talks Storage and Data Management That Simplifies HPC/AI at Scale
From insideHPC

At ISC 2022: DDN’s James Coomer Talks Storage and Data Management That Simplifies HPC/AI at Scale

At ISC 2022 in Hamburg, we sat down with DDN Senior Vice President Products James Coomer to discuss the company’s evolving mission as more customers move toward...

Cadence to Acquire Data Center Digital Twins Company Future Facilities
From insideHPC

Cadence to Acquire Data Center Digital Twins Company Future Facilities

SAN JOSE — Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced today it has agreed to acquire Future Facilities, a provider of electronics cooling analysis and energy performance...

Copying the Elgin Marbles
From The Eponymous Pickle

Copying the Elgin Marbles

 Have seen the Elgin Marbles, this is impressive effortThe Robot Guerrilla Campaign to Recreate the Elgin MarblesThe New York Times   Franz Lidz, July 8, 2022Roger...

Thinking Crisis Quotients
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinking Crisis Quotients

Worthwhile considerations.  Useful examples.What is your crisis quotient?   in Strategy-Business A new metric can help identify potential leaders who have whatby...

Shuold Machines Replace Mathematicians
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shuold Machines Replace Mathematicians

Don't see it yet more likely an augmentation for now. Should Machines Replace Mathematicians?By Scientific American, July 11, 2022Mathematics in the future might...

Same Symptom—Different Cause?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Same Symptom—Different Cause?

 Extracting subtypes of illness from Molecular dataSame Symptom—Different Cause?Technical University of Munich (Germany),  May 27, 2022Scientists at Germany's Technical...

Dice, Simulations, and Math
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Dice, Simulations, and Math

My friend Andrew Parsons send me this link to an interesting video The unexpected logic behind rolling multiple dice and picking the highest. Now I love simulating...

From Computational Complexity

Review of The Engines of Cognition: Essays From the LessWrong Forum/Meta question about posts

 A while back I reviewed A Map that Reflects the Territory which is a collection of essays posted on the lesswrong forum. My review is here. I posted it to both...

GDIT Begins Running Twin HPE-Cray Supercompuers for NOAA Forecast Modeling
From insideHPC

GDIT Begins Running Twin HPE-Cray Supercompuers for NOAA Forecast Modeling

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD), announced today that NOAA’s National WeatherGDIT...

AI Threatened by Too Little Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Threatened by Too Little Data

Some good points made.  Is AI threatened by too little data?  by Mary Shacklett in Artificial Intelligence  in TechRepublic Knowing when to limit your data dramatically...

On the Cradle of the Computer
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Cradle of the Computer

Nicely done short piece on the history of  the computer by Herbert Bruderer in the ACM. Where is the Cradle of the Computer?  By Herbert Bruderer, June 20, 2022...

Intro to Edge Computing from NVIDIA
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intro to Edge Computing from NVIDIA

 Looks to be useful.  An Introduction to Edge Computing: Common Questions and Resources for SuccessBy Troy Estes    Nvidia  Vision / Video Analytics, edge computing...

Captions Everywhere
From The Eponymous Pickle

Captions Everywhere

Useful to see capabilities listed.Why Captions Are Suddenly Everywhere and How They Got ThereBy Associated Press, June 30, 2022Captions are becoming more widely...
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