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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
Addressing Space Storms with a Supercomputer
Better known as coronal mass ejections (CME), A long time interest, inevitable this will be a coming problem in years to come. There is no known way to prevent...
From Putting People First
The future of marketing lies in immersive research
It is critical to marry conventional data analytics with a deeper understanding of audience psychology by observing everyday human behavior.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Time to Remove Malware
Two Months to Remove Malware Apps from App Store By New Scientist, August 19, 2021An analysis by researchers at Boston University and the antivirus software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printed Microsoft can Spot Coronavirus in Blood
Impressive if it works well.Inexpensive 3D-Printed Microscope Can Spot Coronavirus in Blood The digital holographic machine, faster than a PCR test, relies on deep...
From The Eponymous Pickle
This Blog
A note and warning about this blog. Google has increasingly been doing less to support Blogger, which is the infrastructure for this blog. Its free and IWordpress...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chip Shortage for Toyota
Toyota to Cut Output as Chip Shortage Finally Catches Up to It By The Wall Street Journal August 20, 2021The global semiconductor shortage has finally started...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Betting on VR Conferencing
Experience is still not complete. But laptops can provide relatively good, portable and convenient alternatives. And the entire workforce is now already trained...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI to Adverts
One of the earliest things we attempted with AI. Too early to work then, but got the right elements. Here again. Why artificial intelligence is being used to...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The big-load anti-pattern
When doing data engineering, it is common for engineers to want to first load all of the data in memory before processing the data. If you have sufficient memory...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Playing With Code–Recursion
Recursion was never a big part of my toolbox but I am starting to appreciate it more recently. Regular readers know that I have been writing about and writing code...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Passes Strict New Data Privacy Law
Intriguing in the details. But data privacy for who? How is it applied legally? How will it be interpreted? China Passes Strict New Data Privacy Law By Alex...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Powering Smart Devices Indoors
We experimented with IOT powered by Solar indoors in retail settings. Common Solar Tech Can Power Smart Devices Indoors, NIST Study Finds By NIST August 20,...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Brains
Interesting National Geographic article. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Readhere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can/Should a Machine Unlearn?
Important point. Remember my experience in maintenance of systems, always considered it a thing to be considered up front. Also, as is pointed out, there are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG Company Innovation Traps
Some useful thoughts in the space: CPG companies can dodge three common innovation trapsImplementing proper checks and balances throughout the innovation process...
From insideHPC
UK Regulator Announces Additional Concern with Nvidia-Arm Deal
Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of UK microprocessor designer Arm has run into more regulatory roadblocks with today’s announcement by a British regulator...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE Spectrum on Skin Display
A means of convenient and changeable skin display. Feasible, but is it broadly acceptable?SKIN DISPLAYS WILL GIVE WEARABLES THEIR INDEPENDENCEWhen the display...
From insideHPC
TACC’s Longhorn GPU Subsystem Helps Researchers Detect Potential COVID-19 Virus Vulnerability
Despite more than a year and a half of research, there are still many unknowns about how the virus that causes COVID-19 infects human cells. A deeper understanding...
From Computational Complexity
Trusting Scientists
A tweet that made me think. If you think you don't trust scientists, you're mistaken. You trust scientists in a million different ways every time you step onJuly...
From Schneier on Security