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Think of Ransomware as a Data Management Problem
From The Eponymous Pickle

Think of Ransomware as a Data Management Problem

As most things can be thought of.   Just reading work of Turing, Von Neumann et al, and their early work was all about how you effectively stored things and used...

Supply Chain Benchmarking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supply Chain Benchmarking

Important to compare to competitive uses, and changes over time and industry changes.  Why is Supply Chain Benchmarking Important?   By Marisa Brown in APQCSupply...

Example of Medical Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Example of Medical Drones

Using drones for crucial healthcare deliveryU.S. Drone Company Zipline Starts Delivering Medicine in JapanAssociated Press Yuri Kageyama, April 21, 2022  via ACM...

Epidemic Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

Epidemic Research

Simulation and Paradoxes are noted. Researchers Outline Bias in Epidemic Research, Offer Simulation Tool to Guide Future WorkNew York University, March 31, 2022...

Consumer Goods and Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consumer Goods and Data

Lots of companies, like the consumer goods company I worked for, are deeply involved]Coca-Cola, Kraft-Heinz, Unilever: CPG Companies Embracing the Data Revolution...

OCP Global Summit to Be in San Jose, Oct. 18–20, 2022
From insideHPC

OCP Global Summit to Be in San Jose, Oct. 18–20, 2022

The Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit will be held in person on Oct. 18-20 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose. More information can be found here...

Google Talks Ambient Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Talks Ambient Computing

New and old interfaces providing ambient computingIn AI.Googleblog Hidden Interfaces for Ambient ComputingThursday, April 21, 2022Posted by Alex Olwal, Research...

@HPCpodcast: HPC Storage Rock Star Gary Grider Talks How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
From insideHPC

@HPCpodcast: HPC Storage Rock Star Gary Grider Talks How We Got Here and Where We’re Going

http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/021@HPCpodcas_Storage-with-Gary-Grider_20220420.mp3 Shahin and I are in violent agreement: if you’re interested in@HPCpodcast...

Reading Tree Heights from Sat Images
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reading Tree Heights from Sat Images

Also something we could have used in Forestry applications. Neural Network Can Read Tree Heights from Satellite ImagesETH Zurich (Switzerland)Stéphanie Hegelbach...

PSC, NCSA, NCAR in $7.5M NSF Project Allocating Access on NSF Supercomputers
From insideHPC

PSC, NCSA, NCAR in $7.5M NSF Project Allocating Access on NSF Supercomputers

April 22, 2022 — The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $7.5 million over five years to the Resource Allocations Marketplace and Platform Services...

Federated Graph Search from Netflix
From The Eponymous Pickle

Federated Graph Search from Netflix

Netflix has received some well deserved criticism of late.   But there is still Interesting Tech out of Netflix.    How Netflix Content Engineering makes a federated...

Robots for Site Security
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots for Site Security

My guess that we will see many more of these types of robots providing and monitoring security.Four-Legged Robot to Help Manage PompeiiReuters, Angelo Amante, March...

Are we Ready for Drone Delivery?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Are we Ready for Drone Delivery?

 Drone use expandingAmazon, Alphabet, Others Quietly Rolling Out Drone Delivery Across AmericaThe Wall Street Journal, Christopher Mims, April 2, 2022A handful...

Capturing Transparent Objects in Three Dimensions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Capturing Transparent Objects in Three Dimensions

I recall a related problem for the detection of errors in manufacturing process.   Its broad use in this kind of application?Fraunhofer at the Hannover Messe Preview...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

A Paradox

If you can’t solve a problem, it’s because you’re playing by the rules—Paul Arden Dietrich Braess is a professor of mathematics at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany...

Predicting Impact of Earthquakes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predicting Impact of Earthquakes

Not predict occurrence, but predict impact.  Quite useful in preparation.  Addressing during an event.  Recall we had looked at  feasibility of prediction.  More...

Can AI End All Car Crashes?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Can AI End All Car Crashes?

 What safety record does it have to have to make it?  At what level of automation? When? Can AI All but End Car Crashes? The Potential Is ThereThe New York Times...

GRC Releases Guide on Liquid Immersion Cooling for  Data Center Sustainability
From insideHPC

GRC Releases Guide on Liquid Immersion Cooling for Data Center Sustainability

AUSTIN, TX – April 21, 2022 –– GRC (Green Revolution Cooling), the leader in immersion cooling for data centers, has released a special report on sustainability...

Exascale in China? 40 Million Cores Used for  Many-Body Quantum Simulation
From insideHPC

Exascale in China? 40 Million Cores Used for Many-Body Quantum Simulation

For several years, some in the HPC community have suspected China of sandbagging the world on its true supercomputing capabilities. Those suspicions may have been...

Differential Perspectives
From Apophenia

Differential Perspectives

This update is to let you know about a new essay that’s now online in in-press form: “Differential Perspectives: Epistemic Disconnects Surrounding the US Census...
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