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McD  Drive-Through Efficiency with Voice Recognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

McD Drive-Through Efficiency with Voice Recognition

Have been following the use of drive-through and related efficient consumer interactions in the Pandemic.IBM, McDonald's to serve up automated drive-thru lanesUnder...

Pasqal Launches ML Protocol for Comparing Graph-based Data on Quantum Systems
From insideHPC

Pasqal Launches ML Protocol for Comparing Graph-based Data on Quantum Systems

PARIS, Oct. 28, 2021 – Pasqal, developers of neutral atom-based quantum technology, today announced the publication of a scientific paper in the peer-reviewed APS...

AT&T and H2O.ai Launch AI Feature Store
From insideHPC

AT&T and H2O.ai Launch AI Feature Store

Dallas and Mountain View, Calif. — Oct. 28, 2021 — AT&T and H2O.ai have announced they have jointly built and have made available an artificial intelligence (AI)...

Restaurants Ready for Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Restaurants Ready for Robotics

 Seen lots of evidence for this.   Are robotics ready to take up the slack?  Have yet to see a robot in action at a restaurant.  Inevitable to take up significant...

Ai Modeling Brain Processing Language
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ai Modeling Brain Processing Language

Notable is the statement that AI is not attempting to directly mimic the brain.  But the question is always how closely should we use the brain as a working model...

Committed Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Committed Innovation

Good thought about innovation, intro below.The Committed Innovator: A conversation with Loonshots author Safi BahcallWhy do some ideas fly and others fail, By Erik...

Will We See You at Microsoft Ignite?
From insideHPC

Will We See You at Microsoft Ignite?

[Sponsored Content]  Every year, IT professionals and technology enthusiasts from around the world come together at Microsoft Ignite to learn new skills, network...

IOS Shortcuts For Analytics Management?
From The Eponymous Pickle

IOS Shortcuts For Analytics Management?

Examining the possible use of IOS Shortcuts for the management of data, analytical and ML solutions to be tested on an Iphone.  My specialty. See:  https://support...

From Computational Complexity

Fall 2021 Jobs Post

We're in the midst of a great transformation in computing, one where data takes center stage and I predict this will start to have a larger effect on hiring indrop...

There is no AI without Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

There is no AI without Data

Right, we agree, there is even much data in our brain generated by contextual experience, no?   Read it or learn it.  But always consider the context.     Reading...

SiPearl to Incorporate Intel Ponte Vecchio GPUs for European Exascale
From insideHPC

SiPearl to Incorporate Intel Ponte Vecchio GPUs for European Exascale

SiPearl, designing the microprocessor for European supercomputers, today announced it will incorporate Intel’s forthcoming “Ponte Vecchio” GPU, along with Intel...

Nobelium Cyberattacks Clouds
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nobelium Cyberattacks Clouds

 Note below, attacks on cloud services.  Microsoft comments. Latest Russian Cyberattack Targeting Hundreds of U.S. NetworksReuters, By Susan Heavey. October 25,...

Qualcomm Invests in Quantum Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Qualcomm Invests in Quantum Machines

 More on this move,  has to be serious.Qualcomm Ventures Invests in Quantum Machines to Power the Future of Quantum ComputingTEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire...

TACC Adopts Intel oneAPI for Remote Visual Analysis
From insideHPC

TACC Adopts Intel oneAPI for Remote Visual Analysis

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin reports it is using the Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit for remote analysis capabilities...

In C, how do you know if the dynamic allocation succeeded?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

In C, how do you know if the dynamic allocation succeeded?

In the C programming language, we allocate memory dynamically (on the heap) using the malloc function. You pass malloc a size parameter corresponding to the number...

600 KM Quantum Encryption Transmission
From The Eponymous Pickle

600 KM Quantum Encryption Transmission

Recently studied a company doing something similar, over considerably less distance.  Will this continue to expand?   Implications? Quantum-Encrypted Information...

AWS Announces GA of Habana Labs-powered EC2 DL1 Instances
From insideHPC

AWS Announces GA of Habana Labs-powered EC2 DL1 Instances

SEATTLE– Oct. 26, 2021– AWS has announced general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) DL1 instances designed for training machine learning...

In C++, is empty() faster than comparing the size with zero?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

In C++, is empty() faster than comparing the size with zero?

Most C++ programmers rely on “STL” for their data structures. The most popular data structure is probably vector, which is just a dynamic array. The set and the...

Let’s Talk Exascale: Guiding the Construction of Frontier’s Mechanical Systems
From insideHPC

Let’s Talk Exascale: Guiding the Construction of Frontier’s Mechanical Systems

In this episode of the Let's Talk Exascale podcast, David Grant, high performance computing engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, talks with the lab's Scott...

NATO Releases first ever Strategy for AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

NATO Releases first ever Strategy for AI

Was a bit surprised at this, will review.   Mentioned are related ethics.   Cooperative approaches.   Indicates a level of seriousness.  Have worked with some NATO...
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