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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
Consider AI Worst Case
AI’s 6 Worst-Case Scenarios. Who needs Terminators when you have precision clickbait and ultra-deepfakes? By NATASHA BAJEMA in IEEE Expert HOLLYWOOD’S WORST-CASE...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Brain Rotates Memories
How might we utilize this this? Beyond just tagging memories with a time stamp?The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations By Jordana Cepelewicz...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Writing out large arrays in Go: binary.Write is inefficient for large arrays
Programmers often need to write data structures to disk or to networks. The data structure then needs to be interpreted as a sequence of bytes. Regarding integer...
From insideHPC
Truman and Hruby 2022 Fellows at Sandia Explore Their Possibilities
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Postdoctoral researchers who are designated Truman and Hruby fellows experience Sandia National Laboratories differently from their peers. Appointees...
From insideHPC
DOE: $50M for Fusion Energy Research Opportunities
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide up to $50 million to support U.S. scientists conducting experimental research in fusion energy science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Dogs Join NY Fire Department
I recall they were rejected for any police work, but fighting fires is OK. It seems the same 'Spot' style systems from Boston Dynamics. Would like to see the...
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Algae as Energy Source
Had heard of this some time ago, is it reasonably useful? AI Predicts Algae Potential as Alternative Energy SourceBy AgriLife Today, March 17, 2022Scientists at...
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Advances in Flexible Drone Warefare
It has been been mentioned in a number of press sources that so-called 'Switchblade' drones are now being used and provided by the US, and are being used in the...
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Microsoft and the Topological Qubit
Msoft Says it will arrive, and it will even scale.Microsoft announces progress on a completely new type of qubitTopological qubits don't exist yet, but the company...
From insideHPC
Quantum Announces Smart Video Surveillance Servers
SAN JOSE, March 15, 2022 — Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO), the leader in solutions for video and unstructured data, today announced the Unified Surveillance...
From insideHPC
NEC: First Unit Cell for Scaling up to a Fully-connected Quantum Annealing Architecture
Tokyo, March 17, 2022 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has developed the world’s first LHZ scheme (*1) unit cell facilitating scaling up to a fully-connectedNEC...
From insideHPC
AlmaLinux OS Foundation Announces New Members
PALO ALTO, Calif. — March 17, 2022 — AlmaLinux OS Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the community owned and governed open source CentOS replacement AlmaLinux...
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Catching Falling Satellites with Robots
Good to see such 'mundane', garbage collection type problems being addressed as we continue to fill our local area of space. To Catch a Falling SatelliteBy IEEE...
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Tracking with GPU Fingerprinting
A challenge for privacy online GPU Fingerprinting Can Be Used to Track You Online By Tom's Hardware February 2, 2022An international team of researchers from...
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Drawback of Machine Learning and Self-Driving Cars
Good piece by Lance Eliot.Strict Literal Interpretation Is A Hardheaded Drawback Of Machine Learning And Likewise Bad For AI Self-Driving CarsLance Eliot Contributor...
From Computational Complexity
The War and Math
During the early parts of the cold war of the 20th century, we saw two almost independent developments of computational complexity, in the west and in the thenJuris...
From The Noisy Channel
Content Annotation
Content understanding requires both holistic and reductionist approaches, just like query understanding. The previous post focused on content classification asentity...
From insideHPC
Edge. Retail AI. Digital Twinning. Oh My!
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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Meta Wishes
When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. Neil...
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