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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 Eponymous Pickle
Future of Measurement Explored
Kate Niederhoffer on the Future of Measurement a good overview and pointer to the full PDF. Interesting thoughts, worth a look. Personally I think that thereSocial...
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The Risks of Numerical Models
Passed along by a colleague. A short article and podcast that makes a very profound point. No matter how sophisticated and mathematical a model is, if it doesThe...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
We never invent anything new, yet progress is made!
Practical innovation explains how per-capita wealth increased eightfold during the last century. Yet, we are constantly reminded that we never invent anything new...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wisdom of Crowds?
Colleague Sammy Haroon critiques the idea of a wisdom of crowds.
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UPS Remarks on Supply Chains
Global Supply Chains are not ready for challenging times. Many large companies have models of their supply chains. You would assume that it is just a matter of...
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Asking for Too Much Information
It is not only about privacy, it seems that consumes are making some interesting, even logical choices about risk and economics. In ECommerce Times:" ... According...
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Defining Business Intelligence Terms
In the BeyeNetwork Colin White looks at the various implications of the business intelligence terms: Data, Analysis and Visualization. He covers a number of variant...
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Changing Views of Business Intelligence
Continuing my review of alternative views of Business Intelligence, an article by Dave Wells: The Changing Face of Business Intelligence. " ... industry has strayed...
From insideHPC
ORNL
Oak Ridge National Lab’s latest Cray supercomputer installation was recently completed.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starbucks Tree Rings
Junk Charts shows a particularly bizarre misuse of data visualization design by Starbucks. Seems the visual designers would not use something as simple as a bar...
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Semantic Desktop
In Tech Review:People naturally group information by topic and remember relationships between important things, like a person and the company where she works. But...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My (short) activity report for 2008
I heard on radio today that the Christmas break should be used to review the past year, and decide where you want to go. Good idea! What did I do? I published...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My low-tech research tools
I carry a pocketbook and a pen everywhere. At night, my pocketbook is by my bed. All creative workers should carry notebooks. Organizing and collecting ideas are...
From insideHPC
Merry
John, Michael, all the gang at Tabor, and I want to thank you for the tremendous reception you’ve given us this year. Your comments, emails, and hearty hello’s...
From insideHPC
Cilk++ Goes
Ilya Mirman posted an interesting note on the CilkArts blog this morning.
From insideHPC
Sun revs shared visualization
From Sun’s HPC Watercooler: Sun’s Shared Visualization software lets organizations share centralized compute and graphics resources. Applications can run in the...
From insideHPC
Multicoreinfo.com posts its
Multicoreinfo.com posts its 10 best posts of 2008 We started MulticoreInfo.com at the end of April 2008 and published more than 1350 posts linking to useful resources...
From insideHPC
Waiting for the bat signal: the economy and the future of
Doug Eadline posted the results of his Linux Magazine poll, “How has the recent economic events effected your HPC budget plans for 2009?” on the 16th, but somehow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft's Meal Planning Tool
Have downloaded and played with Kraft's Mobile Food Assistant application. Delivers some seven thousand recipes, a smart shopping list and recipe box. A bit slow...
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