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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 Schneier on Security
Surveillance of the Internet Backbone
Vice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. This is netflow data. It’s useful for cybersecurity forensics, but can also be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Non Fungible Tokens and the Future of Art
A further look at the use of blockchain tech to create unique digital expressions, aka 'Art', and provide proof of ownership. And trade the Art in the real world...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Declining Entrepreneurship not a Concern
Says K@W StudyWhy Declining Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Is Not a Concern in K@WInnovation ContentEntrepreneurship in the U.S. has declined in recent decades because...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA and HPE to Deliver 2,240-GPU Polaris Supercomputer for Argonne
NVIDIA and Argonne National Laboratory this morning announced Polaris, a GPU-based supercomputer, with 2,2240 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs delivering 1.4 exaflops...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Negative Comment on Negations
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation—Michael Jordan (MJ) src Michael I. Jordan of the University of California, Berkeley, is a pioneer of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Waymo Is 99% of the Way to Self-Driving Cars. The Last 1% Is the Hardest
Odd illogical example given. Could such an example be solved by freezing and towing the car away? Can't be that easy. Waymo Is 99% of the Way to Self-Driving ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surrendering to Algorithms
Perhaps instructive, or what might be expected. What I learned surrendering my life to algorithms in Cnet.I outsourced several of my daily decisions to algorithms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey: No Ordinary Disruption
Of interest, brought to my attention.How our 2015 book on disruptive forces set sail againNo Ordinary Disruption, a McKinsey book written in 2015, was chosen for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Writing Assembler
Many of us had our earliest days writing assembler code. The way to manage computing at its lowest level. You can ewally understand what is going on. TrueThe...
From insideHPC
Nvidia Announces GA of AI Enterprise on VMware vSphere and Standard Servers
NVIDIA today announced GA of NVIDIA AI Enterprise, a suite of AI tools and frameworks designed to enable users of VMware vSphere to virtualize AI workloads on NVIDIA...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hexapawn–An Interesting Programming Project
I'm cleaning up and finding interesting things. Well, actually, interesting books. One find is called "A Collection of Programming Problems and Techniques." Copyright...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sentient Disney Robots
Sounds interesting. Have been on engineering tours of Disney Imagineering over the years, when similar things were claimed. Never was there, then, but you could...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Announces Droidlet
Had not heard of this before, but interesting take by Facebook. Still have my doubts about Facebook, they seem to be too intent to get into our brains, but some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Baidu Brain
Baidu is coming back, had looked at some of their earlier offerings and was not impressed, I get the impression they are now more seriously looking at the assistant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Driven Companies, Trends
Tableau Writes, here's the intro:What do data-driven companies have in common? Research reveals five key trends By Ashley Howard, TableauRecent IDC research, sponsored...
From The Noisy Channel
The Free Advice Club
The first rule of the Free Advice Club is: you talk about the Free Advice Club! Not like that other club.But I’m getting ahead of myself. I’ve had an extremelyMedium...
From insideHPC
Bright Helps Life Sciences Customer Make the Cloud a More Economical Choice than On-premise for their HPC Environment
[SPONSORED POST] In this contributed article, Bill Wagner, CEO of Bright Computing, discusses how Bright Computing has provided a proven method for companies on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Shuts Down Android Auto
Perhaps surprising, but folding it into the general assistant may make sense. Google shuts Down Android Auto, Google is shutting down its Android Auto mobile app...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do we Still Need an Ethnic Grocery Aisle?
I have have worked in the area of retail aisle shelf allocation, and noted this phenomenon at all of the grocery venues. Have even seen the confusion and time...
From Computational Complexity