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Secure Petabyte Transportable Storage for the Rugged Edge
From insideHPC

Secure Petabyte Transportable Storage for the Rugged Edge

In this sponsored post, Braden Cooper, Product Marketing Manager at One Stop Systems, discusses how OSS uses the latest in NVMe storage technologies and ruggedSecure...

Oak Ridge Partners with University of Oklahoma
From insideHPC

Oak Ridge Partners with University of Oklahoma

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Oklahoma (OU) recently executed a memorandum of understanding to officially recognize their partnership in pursuing...

Risk Assessment Algorithms Can Unfairly Impact Court Decisions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Risk Assessment Algorithms Can Unfairly Impact Court Decisions

 An aspect hat we examined for potential changes in court standings on regulations.  Well worth following. Risk Assessment Algorithms Can Unfairly Impact Court ...

Creating and Detecting Manipulated Images
From The Eponymous Pickle

Creating and Detecting Manipulated Images

  Creating and human detection of manipulated images.   Including an excellent explanatory video. Expect this to become increasingly common.   Considerable detail...

Los Alamos Names 3 Athena Engineering Scholars
From insideHPC

Los Alamos Names 3 Athena Engineering Scholars

The Athena Engineering Scholars Program is designed to inspire women to achieve their full potential as future leaders in engineering. The Athena Program is open...

AMD to Showcase New EPYC and Instinct Data Center Chips at Nov. 8 Virtual Event
From insideHPC

AMD to Showcase New EPYC and Instinct Data Center Chips at Nov. 8 Virtual Event

AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) will host its Accelerated Data Center premiere on Monday, Nov. 8 at 11 am ET, showcasing the company’s upcoming EPYC CPU processors and Instinct...

How to send a real number using a single bit (and some shared randomness)
From My Biased Coin

How to send a real number using a single bit (and some shared randomness)

In this post, we'll look at the natural problem of how to communicate an estimate of a real value in [0,1], using just 1 bit.  The post is based on this paper (by...

Microsoft Partners with Wolfram for Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Partners with Wolfram for Data

Just noted this, a good direction.  Can see this as useful, especially in filling analyses with meta or test data.  Which we often integrated.    I just also started...

AI and Robotics for Eldercare
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Robotics for Eldercare

We worked with researchers in Japan on related efforts.Collaborators Launch AI-Robotics Initiative to Aid Older Adults in Daily Care  By University of Massachusetts...

Making Pseudo Coffee
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making Pseudo Coffee

 I did technical analysis work for one of the world's largest coffee companies.  So this was interesting.  But I disagree that the environmental issues here are...

Thoughts on Search Result Diversity
From The Noisy Channel

Thoughts on Search Result Diversity

Regular readers know that search is about much more than ranking. If you’re new here, you might want to read this post about ranking vs. relevance.But a topic I...

From CIS: Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law
From The Eponymous Pickle

From CIS: Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law

Very good piece from Stanford Law on technology. Below intro and beyond.From:  The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study...

MFA is Phishable
From The Eponymous Pickle

MFA is Phishable

Multi factor authentication (MFA) is seen as a strong means of security, but can be less so, here some reasons why.Why Is the Majority of Our MFA So Phishable?Published...

Watch Who You Talk to
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watch Who You Talk to

More details about the approach at the linkTwitter accounts linked to cyberattacks against security researchers suspendedNorth Korean hackers are luring professionals...

From Computational Complexity

Squaring the circle is mentioned in a Gilbert and Sullivan comic Opera.

The problem of squaring the circle: Given a circle, construct (with ruler and compass) a square with the same area. While browsing the web for more informationhere...

Is AI Re-Inventing Computers?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Is AI Re-Inventing Computers?

Very interesting piece.  Anything can become a computer?Three key ways artificial intelligence is changing what it means to compute.By Will Douglas Heaven,  October...

Microsoft:  Orbit Database of Objects
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft: Orbit Database of Objects

Microsoft Announces a teachable database of objects.Announcing the ORBIT dataset: Advancing real-world few-shot learning using teachable object recognitionPublished...

Moscow Implements  Metro Facial Recognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Moscow Implements Metro Facial Recognition

Expect parts of the world without these 'fears' to quickly implement many kinds of such  recognition systems, for greater efficiency. Privacy Fears as Moscow Metro...

Science and Technology links (October 23rd 2021)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (October 23rd 2021)

Apple announced new processors for its computers. Here is a table with the transistor count of some recent Apple processors: processor release year transistorsContinue...

Putting Living  Cells on Chips
From The Eponymous Pickle

Putting Living Cells on Chips

Linking biological responses to Computer ChipsPutting Living Cells on ChipsBy University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 21, 2021University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Abhijeet...
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