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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Canadian Common CV and the captured academy
Most Canadian academics have to write their resumes using a government online tool called the Common CV. When it was first introduced, it was described as a time...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
News from Africa
Submitted by Abigail Oppong, Ashesi University ACM-W Student Chapter, GhanaEdited by Jennifer Goodall, ACM-W Connections Newsletter Editor Over the years, the ACM...
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies Interview: Wirth Research Talks (and Walks) HPC for Cutting Carbon Footprints
[Sponsored Content] In this interview, part of our series conducted on behalf of Dell Technologies, UK-based engineering firm Wirth Research talks about usingDell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Laws of Computing
Not so much laws, but rather general indications of past trends that may usefully hold in the future. or not. Here some proposals for mew laws.Good for tracking...
From insideHPC
Intel Unveils Dual-track (Performance/Efficiency) Xeon Roadmap through 2024
At Intel’s investor day event in San Francisco yesterday, the company unveiled a dual-track the roadmap for its Xeon data center chip through 2024 – one track emphasizing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Assistant use on Smart Phones
Less use? Is it a matter of context and environment, or capability? Smartphone Voice Assistant Use Stalls Out But Consumers Want More Voice Features in MobileBRET...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deepspeed Inference and Training for AI Scale, Mixture of Experts.
Considerable Technical Piece from Microsoft. Much like the idea of 'mixture of experts' to broaden contextual results, could have often used it in the day.DeepSpeed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Nuclear Power still Phasing Out?
A long time follower of nuclear, and sometime analyzer of its value, and a believer that its danger was over-hyped. Is it really now over? Or will it survive...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: The 9 – Wait, the 10 – Key Drivers of the Tech-Driven World to Come
The world is increasingly tech-dominated, but what are the major tech drivers? In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin Khan and Doug Black propose a framework...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Learning for Healthcare
Interesting example of the use of reinforcement learning. Using reinforcement learning to identify high-risk states and treatments in healthcarePublished February...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Encoding Time for Machine Learning
Time encoding from NVIDIA. Time is the most valuable component for any model, even if you only gather time that you gathered the data. Three Approaches to Encoding...
From insideHPC
Rigetti Reports 99.5% Fidelities on Quantum-Classical Chip
Berkeley, CA, Feb. 17, 2022 — Quantum-classical systems developer Rigetti Holdings announced today it has achieved entangling gate fidelities as high as 99.5% on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Brain Inspired Computing
Computers taking hints from brain designs? Neuromorphic. Note that Spiking neural networks new to me, will examine. AI Overcomes Stumbling Block on Brain-Inspired...
From insideHPC
Toshiba, JPMorgan Chase, Ciena Announce Quantum-secure Network for Blockchain
Feb. 17, 2022 — JPMorgan Chase, Toshiba and networking systems company Ciena announced today they have demonstrated a viable quantum key distribution (QKD) network...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need for Outside Perspective for Innovative Breakthroughs
Outside and economically relevant.Why Outside Perspectives Are Critical for Innovation BreakthroughsLessons from the story of Dr. Patricia Bath, the inventor of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McDonald's Automating Drive Throughs
Mentioned this previously, and our connection with the project. Long pre Covit. This should heavily influence such automated takeout capabilities. WatsonMcDonald's...
From insideHPC
Edge NVMe Storage for Autonomous Vehicles
In this sponsored post, Braden Cooper, Product Marketing Manager at One Stop Systems, indicates that as new developments and technologies in HPC are introduced,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Troubles with Error Messages
Error messages, in theory, are there to help programmers. Of course there are problems with then in practice. With students, the biggest problem is that they don...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Underground Fashion Maps
Mapping fashion senses, uses in advertising? beyond? 'Underground maps' segment cities using fashion, AIby Cornell University in TechxploreCornell computerHow...
From insideHPC