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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
Selling NFT Art in Strange Places
I would be careful about this. An NFT Art ATM? By Reuters, March 4, 2022The first in-person non-fungible token (NFT) vending machine has been installed in NewThe...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Should APCS A Really Be About?
Perhaps my favorite panel of SIGCSE 2022 was debating the question of should the APCS A course switch its language from Java to Python? During the discussion it...
From Putting People First
Do we need to change our behaviour to reach net zero by 2050?
Behavioural changes which affect the way people use energy are an important part of the toolkit for reaching net zero emissions by 2050.
From Putting People First
[Report] Applying Behavioural Science to Advance Environmental Sustainability
Applying behavioural science to environmental challenges can help policymakers better target and redirect unsustainable behaviours. This report draws on published...
From Putting People First
[Report] Consumers and the Climate Crisis: The Key to Unlocking Behavioral Change
For the world to reach net zero, consumers everywhere will have to make fundamental changes to how they travel, heat, cool and power their homes, the food they...
From Putting People First
[Report] Changing our Ways? Behaviour Change and the Climate Crisis
This report of the Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Sustainable Behaviour Change draws on research syntheses about the potential contributions of...
From Computational Complexity
Random thoughts on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
1) My first thought was: Doesn't Putin know that his army (and his society) is corrupt and people are promoted on loyalty rather than talent, hence the invasion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter trying to Reinvent Itself
Can it improve itself? What else will be competing then?Twitter Wants to Reinvent Itself, by Merging the Old With the New By The New York Times, March 4, 2022...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alternate Electrical Flow Routing
Networks and flows for robust systems.Robust Routing Using Electrical Flows in Google ResearchFriday, February 18, 2022Posted by Ali Kemal Sinop and Kostas Kollias...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Final Thoughts on SIGCSE 2022
I had a great time at SIGCSE 2022. As an introvert I probably suffered less from not being with people than many but after two years I really needed to be withLast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rebuilding Wikipedia with Crypto as W3
Been quite interested in how projects like Wikipedia can usefully and safely interact with W3, and in what way. Do not understand the take here, but think it may...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nanotech Revolution
Some aspects of Metalenz and microchip fabrication of nanoscale deices.The Nanotechnology Revolution Is Here—We Just Haven't Noticed YetThe Wall Street Journal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Acquires Nuance for AI
New, more specifically context and outcome based service. Likely results of more direct value. Often in healthcare.Microsoft completes acquisition of Nuance,...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Argonne’s Rick Stevens Surveys Trends and Technologies Driving AI for Science — Part 1
If HPC had a band of rock stars, Rick Stevens might well play lead guitar and do the vocals. The associate lab director and Exascale Computing Initiative leader...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
SIGCSE 2022 Day 3
Saturday at SIGCSE was a short day but there was still plenty to learn. Shaundra Daily. Her talk, based on her own history, was about how their are barriers making...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
I Am Now A Cyberman
Cybermen: You will be upgraded. Cyberman: Upgrading is compulsory. Doctor Who page I am now carrying a full power CPU embedded in my chest. If I could use it directly...
From Yoshua Bengio
Generative Flow Networks
I have rarely been as enthusiastic about a new research direction. We call them GFlowNets, for Generative Flow Networks. They live somewhere at the intersection...
From The Eponymous Pickle
65 Competencies
Not all should be needed for all contexts, but the list is useful for breadth of consideration. Considerable article summarizes their application and evolution65...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Chip Shortage from Ukraine War
New element of our supply chainto consider.Russia's War in Ukraine Could Spur Another Global Chip Shortage By Wired, March 2, 2022Ukraine is just one of a series...
From The Eponymous Pickle