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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 …
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Overcome Form Factor and Field Limitations with AI/HPC Workloads on the Edge
In this sponsored post, our friends over at Silicon Mechanics discuss how form factor, latency, and power can all be key limitations, but find out how key advancements...
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Can Computers Understand Complex Words, Concepts?
Provocative questions on understanding concepts.Can Computers Understand Complex Words, Concepts?UCLA NewsroomStuart Wolpert, June 16, 2022Researchers at the University...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Ready for #CSTA2022
The CSTA Annua Conference is only days away. I’m pretty excited about it. It’s my first plane ride since CSTA in Phoenix in 2019. That’s a long time for me. OrJacdac...
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On Quantum Metrology
Admit had not heard of this application. Sabine Hossenfelder Quantum MetrologyQuantum mechanics is famous for its uncertainty principle that limits what you can...
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Three Dimensional Digital Knitting
Interesting application for mundane and health care applications. 3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition...
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Thoughts on the Future of Information Work
Important in many ways.The Future of Information WorkBy Longqi Yang, David Holtz, Sonia Jaffe, Siddharth SuriCommunications of the ACM, July 2022, Vol. 65 No.COVID...
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Max Planck on Mimicking Brain Cortex
Intriguing idea of mimicking brains. Technical. Advanced 'mini brains' in a dish: Organoids that mimic human brain cortex in development and disease by Max"Outer...
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Course the Military is on it
Also worked with an an example in this space:The U.S. Military Is Building Its Own Metaverse, By Wired, July 6, 2022On May 10, two fighter pilots performed aIt...
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More Mckinsey on the MetaVerse
Another piece by McKinsey on the Metaverse. They seem to be obsessed by it. It again is worth taking a look at it, but there are no guarantee it will be the"...
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Supply Chain Networks are Changing Shoud We Change organizations?
Some useful thoughts are presented.Supply Chain Networks are changing, Should Supply Chain Organization Design Follow? By Alan O’Keeffe from GartnerSupply chain...
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Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder
Technical and intriguingThe second law of thermodynamics is among the most sacred in all of science, but it has always rested on 19th century arguments about probability...
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Go generics are not bad
When programming, we often need to write ‘generic’ functions where the exact data type is not important. For example, you might want to write a simple functionContinue...
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Lettting Drones Fly Out of Sight
This came to mind in an efficiency/cost vs safety analysis of late. Will see an increase of commercial use.The Next Frontier for Drones: Letting Them Fly Out...
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DOE Announces $18.3M for Chemical Sciences Simulation and Modeling Research
July 8, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $18.3 million in funding for eight research projects to advance the development of sophisticated...
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3D Printing Advances
Brief look at updates in 3d Printing. 3D Printing Grows Beyond Its Novelty RootsThe New York Times, Steve Lohr, July 3, 2022Companies like Massachusetts Institute...
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Bitcoin Blockchain Activity Plummets
'Tourism' in the space a new term to me. Bitcoin blockchain activity has plummeted in recent months in Techradar By Sead Fadilpašić published about 1 hour agoBitcoin...
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OpenACC and Hackathons Summit 2022 Aug. 2-4
July 8, 2022 — OpenACC will hold its annual summit from Tuesday, Aug. 2 to Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022 from 7-11 am Pacific Time. It will be a digital event. The event...
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Fewer Foreign Students. Implications?
Taught a course at Columbia that showed me the considerable dominance of foreign students. How much will this change things for universities?Fading Beacon ...
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TSMC Issues Monthly Revenue Report
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Jul. 8, 2022 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for June 2022: On a consolidated basis, revenue for June 2022...
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