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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 Noisy Channel
Which Blowhard Are You?
I’m a few weeks late to find this flow chart in Wired to tell you which blowhard you are (I’d only seen a small subset of it before). Find out if you are Chris...
From The Noisy Channel
Which Blowhard Are You?
I’m a few weeks late to find this flow chart in Wired to tell you which blowhard you are (I’d only seen a small subset of it before). Find out if you are Chris...
From The Noisy Channel
Which Blowhard Are You?
I’m a few weeks late to find this flow chart in Wired to tell you which blowhard you are (I’d only seen a small subset of it before). Find out if you are Chris...
From The Noisy Channel
Transparency or FAIL
I’ve long been proponent of transparency in search engines and recommendation systems, on the grounds that transparency cultivates trust even in the face of the...
From The Noisy Channel
Transparency or FAIL
I’ve long been proponent of transparency in search engines and recommendation systems, on the grounds that transparency cultivates trust even in the face of the...
From The Noisy Channel
Transparency or FAIL
I’ve long been proponent of transparency in search engines and recommendation systems, on the grounds that transparency cultivates trust even in the face of the...
From insideHPC
A visual timeline of the rise and sale of
Inspired by the text timeline that Siliconvalley.com (a publication of the Mercury News) put out on 01 April, I’ve created a graphical timeline of the rise and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pharmaceutical Compliance
Compliance in pharma is about determining if people take their medications according to schedule. Efforts like the 'smart' medicine cabinet have been demonstrated...
From insideHPC
CilkArts: The Voodoo that You
Matteo Frigo of CilkArts has posted a very detailed account of why certain idiosyncrasies exist in the Cilk language constructs as well as its C++ parent. For those...
From insideHPC
University of Michigan Scores a
The University of Michigan Center for Arrythmia Research is has announced their use of a SiCortex machine dedicated to the study of heart arrhythmia.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever and Logistics
Good overview of what Unilever is doing in logistics, in Consumer Goods Technology. Nothing very surpirsing here, covers their work with BravoSolution. " ... The...
From insideHPC
Addison Snell remembers
Addison Snell, now of Tabor Research, but once of SGI, remembers his time at SGI and offers his view of what went wrong: Do you know what the saddest part is of...
From insideHPC
Mathematica
My latest features are up at HPCwire. In “Mathematica takes on parallelism” I discuss last November’s announcement of Mathematica 7, and how it bakes parallelism...
From insideHPC
Yahoo! brings in four universities into cloud research
The Yahoo! M45 project (also part of the Open Cirrus cloud effort funded by Yahoo!, HP, and Intel and hosted at facilities around the world) just took a pretty...
From Wild WebMink
The "yes I was on the web over Easter" link selection
Statebook Excellent visualisation of what the government will do with all the data that's being gathered for various reasons. It's not the individual feeds that...
From insideHPC
IBM stream computing prototype achieves big performance boost for TD
In March of last year I began writing about an IBM research effort to develop a new hardware and software architecture for ingesting and analysing large scale streams...
From insideHPC
Mentoring workshop for students seeking careers in high performance
NCSA is announcing a mentoring workshop to be held alongside their upcoming accelerator symposium A FREE mentoring workshop for undergraduate and graduate students...
From insideHPC
There is a right way, and a wrong way, to
Dan Reed reposted an essay on his blog that recently appeared at the CACM blog in which he talks about the shortcuts (my word, not his) we took to get to petascale...
From insideHPC
Nehalem memory cheat
Doug at ClusterMonkey pointed us to a Nehalem memory cheat sheet put together for Dell’s technology wiki by Jeff Layton. The writeup looks like a pretty complete...
From Putting People First