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Building in Explainability into ML Models
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Building in Explainability into ML Models

 Key to making them effectively UseableBuilding Explainability into Components of ML ModelsMIT News, Adam Zewe, June 30, 2022Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute...

Micron:  DDR5 Server DRAM Now Available
From insideHPC

Micron: DDR5 Server DRAM Now Available

BOISE, Idaho, July 06, 2022 — Memory and storage company Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced the availability of Micron DDR5 server DRAM in support...

DOE Announces 18 Public-Private Partnership Awards to Advance Fusion Energy
From insideHPC

DOE Announces 18 Public-Private Partnership Awards to Advance Fusion Energy

July 6, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced awards for 18 projects with private industry to enhance collaboration with DOE national laboratories...

Report: US Pressures Netherlands on Exports of ASML Chip Equipment to China
From insideHPC

Report: US Pressures Netherlands on Exports of ASML Chip Equipment to China

Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML’s wunderkind chip manufacturing technology has become embroiled in the technology trade war between the United States and...

Building with Acoustic Levitation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building with Acoustic Levitation

 Thinking the possibilitiesAcoustic Levitation Used to Build Complex Structures in Mid-AirNew Scientist, Matthew Sparkes, June 29, 2022A system developed by researchers...

Smarter Prosthesis via Brain Machine Interface
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smarter Prosthesis via Brain Machine Interface

More Personalized healthcare via RoboticsRobotic Arms Connected to Brain of Partially Paralyzed Man Allow Him to Feed HimselfFrontiers Science NewsPeter Rejcek,...

Predicting Crime
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predicting Crime

 Where have I seen this before? How quickly will it be knocked down? AI Algorithm Predicts Future Crimes One Week in Advance With 90% AccuracyTOPICS:ArtificialBy...

@HPCpodcast: Horst Simon on DOE’s Post-Exascale Vision – More Flexibility, More Vendor Diversity
From insideHPC

@HPCpodcast: Horst Simon on DOE’s Post-Exascale Vision – More Flexibility, More Vendor Diversity

Following DOE's next-gen supercomputing Request for Information (RFI) issued last week, we discussed what it all may mean with Dr. Horst Simon, Special Advisor@HPCpodcast...

China Police Data Hacked
From The Eponymous Pickle

China Police Data Hacked

 This has seen broad reporting.  Implications for China unclear.    Police Database.  Depth and breadth emphasized. Hacker claims they stole police data on a billion...

Deep Fake Job Seekers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Fake Job Seekers

Note how remote working can aid this.Deepfakes Are Interviewing For Tech Jobs  in ExtremetechBy Adrianna Nine on July 5, 2022The tech industry has been rife with...

Quantum Info Encoded into Phase and  Arrival time of Photons
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Quantum Info Encoded into Phase and Arrival time of Photons

Technical results.Abstract computer communication design. The Darmstadt system uses a protocol in which quantum information is encoded in the phase and arrival....

From Computational Complexity

The Highland Park Shooting

This week I should be celebrating Mark Braverman's Abacus Medal and the Fields Medalists. Instead my mind has been focused 25 miles north of Chicago.Mass shootings...

PRACE Council Elects New Chair and Vice-Chair
From insideHPC

PRACE Council Elects New Chair and Vice-Chair

PRACE (the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) today announced that at its 44th PRACE Council Meeting on 8 June 2022 – held in hybrid mode – PRACE members...

Exascale Computing Project Supports Atmospheric Convection Modeling
From insideHPC

Exascale Computing Project Supports Atmospheric Convection Modeling

July 5, 2022 – Researchers supported by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) have integrated the super-parameterization technique...

At ISC: Dion Harris on NVIDIA’S HPC/AI and Quantum Strategies; LANL’s Upcoming ‘Venado’ 10 Exaflops HPC/AI System; and GPU Distinctions
From insideHPC

At ISC: Dion Harris on NVIDIA’S HPC/AI and Quantum Strategies; LANL’s Upcoming ‘Venado’ 10 Exaflops HPC/AI System; and GPU Distinctions

We spoke at ISC 2022 with NVIDIA’s Head of Technical Marketing for HPC/AI and Quantum Dion Harris across a range of topics, including: The 10 exaflop (HPL-AI benchmark)...

Taking a Look at Binge Times
From The Eponymous Pickle

Taking a Look at Binge Times

Reading this book, quite good so far, can it be used as a predictor of future times and Technologies?  Predictably just a 'black swan' event, or more?  More toBinge...

Phase 1 of Pawsey’s Setonix Supercomputer Now Available to Users
From insideHPC

Phase 1 of Pawsey’s Setonix Supercomputer Now Available to Users

Perth, Australia — The first phase of the Pawsey Supercomputing Center‘s Setonix supercomputer is now available, designed to offer a faster, user-friendly interface...

Toward Customizable Timber, Grown in a Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

Toward Customizable Timber, Grown in a Lab

Not sure I would build with Zinnia Elegans, but assume that's a test plant.  Fascinating direction.  Toward Customizable Timber, Grown in a LabMIT News, Adam Zewe...

Era of Borderless Data Is Ending
From The Eponymous Pickle

Era of Borderless Data Is Ending

How will control be applied?  Era of Borderless Data Is EndingThe New York Times, David McCabe; Adam Satariano, May 23, 2022More than 50 countries, including France...

Teaching Computer Science–Moving atoms not pixels
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Teaching Computer Science–Moving atoms not pixels

On my first visit to the Lifelong Kindergarten Group and the MIT Media Lab, I notices a message on the windows. “Some people would rather move atoms than pixels...
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