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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 insideHPC
Express Parallelism, Don
Provocative title from an article at DevX.com For example, it’s very tempting to use the operating system’s native threading library directly on a multicore platform...
From insideHPC
Comparing Cilk++ and
Multicoreinfo.com points us to an article at Cilk Arts comparing some of the differences between their parallel environment, Cilk++, and OpenMP If your code looks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Think Like a Startup
I have heard this suggestion many times in the large enterprise. Usually more like: 'What would you invest in if this was your own money?'. Though that was directed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alice Sells Toilet Paper
Was just pointed to a private beta called Alice. The site appears to want to sell common CPG products at some discount via subscription with free delivery. Using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finding Your Customers
Good basic outline about how to find your customers while social networking.
From Wild WebMink
See you at CeBIT?
Next week is CeBIT, the monster IT trade show that has outlived COMDEX and all the others. Held in Hannover in Germany, it is an exhibition of staggering proportions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Application Store Analysis
An interesting view of the IPhone application store. Overall sales are increasing, but few apps are used long after purchase. " ... users who download free applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter's Fiscal Fate?
Short piece on the state of Twitter. Still attracting lots of people. Collecting eyeballs. It reflects the two minds I have about it. It is a collection of...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Students using podcasting and skipping class
According to a recent study, students do better if they skip class and listen to the podcasts. The article has been discussed in the New Scientist and the New York...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are solo authors less cited?
Sylvie Noël submits to us the following fallacy—which appears in the editorial of a peer-reviewed journal. The editor-in-chief makes the following observation:...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethnography and the In-Home Interview.
Fascinating piece on the the use of in-home interviews by Tesco's Fresh&Easy. " ... did Tesco grasp the method they were using? There is a distressing habit these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gut Feelings: Intelligence of the Unconscious
Gerd Gigerenzer is the director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute. I have been reading his 2007 book: Gut Feelings:...
From insideHPC
The word of the day is
I freaking love this story, from the UK’s Webuser site. A supercomputer used to predict which words may soon fall out of common use in the English language. The...
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Asian
The Top500 list started it all, and then came the Russian Top50. Now there is an Asian Top500. Why the new list? ince 1993, www.TOP500.org has taken the initiative...
From insideHPC
One million for the
CPU hours, that is. From a release posted at HPCwire earlier this week: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in collaboration with the Institute...
From insideHPC
Fusion-IO: a little bit of Woz and a lot of
CNet News ran a feature yesterday about Fusion-IO, about whom we have previously written. Steve Wozniak joined Fusion-IO as its chief scientist recently, at least...
From insideHPC
ISC
Found at HPCwire this am, news that the 2009 program for ISC (in Hamburg this time, a lovely city) is set: In addition to world-renowned keynote speakers, ISC’09...
From insideHPC
Dan Reed on why he joined
The day before yesterday the always interesting Dan Reed spent a few minutes writing on his blog about what motivated his most recent career choice What I have...
From insideHPC
Chippewa Falls Seymour Cray
The Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology has opened an exhibit entitled: “Seymour Cray Supercomputers.”
From Wild WebMink