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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
CoolIT Systems Names New CFO
Calgary, Alberta. September 13, 2021 – CoolIT Systems, maker of scalable liquid cooling technology for desktop and data centers systems, announced that Adam Schader...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast: Portrait of the Post-Pandemic Grocery Shopper
I still shop in store, not sure I have noticed a real difference. Worth a listen.Podcast | A Portrait of the Post-Pandemic Grocery ShopperIn SupplyChainBrain ...
From insideHPC
Delivering on the Promise of Hybrid Multi Cloud for HPC
[Sponsored Post] HPC cloud usage is expanding across all industry sectors with a strong desire from customers for a flexible hybrid model that can be deployed in...
From Schneier on Security
Designing Contact-Tracing Apps
Susan Landau wrote an essay on the privacy, efficacy, and equity of contract-tracing smartphone apps. Also see her excellent book on the topic.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Remote Cafe
New approaches for remote work. At Japanese Robot Cafe, Staff Serve Customers While Working From HomeSouth China Morning Post, August 20, 2021The Dawn Cafe in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GRAND Decodes Data Universally?
Implications for general cryptography? Trying to get a reading. Universal System Decodes Any Type of Data Sent Across a Network, By MIT News, SeptemberScientists...
From Computational Complexity
Review of A Blog Book based on the Less Wrong Blog
There is a blog called lesswrong. Many people contribute to it (how many people must contribute to a website before it stops being called a blog and starts being...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fusion Energy Closer
Followed the basic concepts for years, are we closer? Fusion energy nears reality thanks to an ultra-powerful magnetThe technology could be key to practical fusion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Writing its own Code: Codex
More on the Codex approach. How long until such methods take over most coding? Sooner than we think I believe Most useful to make sure coding approaches are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Regulator says Yes to Drones
Broadening use of drones for delivery. U.K. Regulator Gives Green Light to Delivery Drone TrialsFinancial Times, Philip Georgiadis, April 19, 2021The U.K. Civil...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Future Quote on Russian State Connections
Recorded Future WritesInsikt GroupEditor’s Note: The following post is an excerpt of a full report. To read the entire analysis, click here to download the report...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Financial Data Without Actually Seeing It Can Detect Fraud
Quite interesting. Mining Financial Data Without Actually Seeing It Can Detect Fraud By Arnout Jaspers, Commissioned by CACM Staff, September 9, 2021Large-scale...
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Triple Qubit Entanglement
Enticing piece ... implications? Had only heard of two bit entanglements. examining. Quantum Computing: Triple Qubit Entanglement Achieved in Research Breakthrough...
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Container Shipping as an IOT
A look at container shipping. Not too different than we did a decade ago, except in the specific use of the data generated and logged. Container shipping goes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
LIDAR and Digital Twins
Good thoughts on this aspect of constructing a model.Using Drone LiDAR and Photogrammetry to Create a Digital Twin Thompson Engineering used the mdLiDAR1000HR and...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Random identifiers are poorly compressible
It is common in data engineering to find that we have too much data. Thus engineers commonly seek compression routines. At the same time, random identifiers are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Watson, on Again
It would seem that IBM has been talking less about Watson/AI of late, especially in the business space. But here indications of new features and emphasis. HadIBM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Takes Stance in Patents by an Computer Using AI
In a previous effort I took a look at intellectual property law as used by the USAF. What is noted here are initial rulings by US courts. These, as it mentions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Immersive Drug Design with VR
In the much earlier days of VR we did something similar. Key is what insight you get from the VR and how do you put it to real value in a design effort? What...
From The Eponymous Pickle