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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
Status of Autonomous Last-Mile
Had wondered the status of this, after I saw some neighborhood bans reported. have even volunteered to look at the Nuro example and report on it in situ. Risk...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayesian Keyboards
Nice piece of how keyboards are made smart.A Look Inside the Bayesian KeyboardA visual tour of the data-driven features that make modern smartphone keyboards smart...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Communication with Animals
Are we closer to communication with parrots, chimps, dolphins? Will it be a key aspect of AI? On Communication By Vinton G. Cerf in CACM.Communications of the...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Pandemic Lag
In chess ratings and what other measures of cognitive development? src Henri Didon was a French priest and promoter of youth sports in the late 1800s. He coined...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ear Worn eBP Sensor
I had understood that such BP methods were hard to do, my apologies if I was mistaken. Here considerable detail provided at the link.FROM COMMUNICATIONS OF THE...
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale: Optimizing the North American Power Grid for Reliability and Decarbonization
In this episode of Let’s Talk Exascale from the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) the focus is on an ECP application development project called...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and Science
Good intro and positioning. A bit of an overreach perhaps. How will machine learning change science? by Tanya Petersen, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne...
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A New Era for Mechanical CAD
Considerable piece. We actively worked with computer aided design, and used sketchpad too. Had always thought there would be better models for 'assistance' for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is the Dream of Self-Driving Car Over?
Are we slipping on compete autonomy? I don't think so. It may take longer than expected, but it will be here. It has too many long range benefits to ignore....
From insideHPC
DOE Resumes Webinar Series Aug. 4 on HPC Scientific Software Engineering Challenges and Best Practices
The IDEAS Productivity project, in partnership with the DOE Computing Facilities of the ALCF, OLCF, and NERSC and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has resumed...
From Schneier on Security
Storing Encrypted Photos in Google’s Cloud
New paper: “Encrypted Cloud Photo Storage Using Google Photos“: Abstract: Cloud photo services are widely used for persistent, convenient, and often free photo...
From Schneier on Security
I Am Parting With My Crypto Library
The time has come for me to find a new home for my (paper) cryptography library. It’s about 150 linear feet of books, conference proceedings, journals, and monographs...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Measuring memory usage: virtual versus real memory
Software developers are often concerned with the memory usage of their applications, and rightly so. Software that uses too much memory can fail, or be slow. Memory...
From Computational Complexity
Covid Stats
A stat often quoted: About 97% of hospitalized coronavirus patients have not been vaccinated. People take this as proof that once vaccinated no worries. But I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cost of Data Breaches
What it costs to have a Data Breach, useful data.IBM Report: Data-Breach Costs Hit 17-Year High of $4.24MNancy Chenyizhi Liu | Editor in SdxCentralJuly 28, 2021...
From insideHPC
NSF Partnerships Expand National AI Research Institutes to 40 states
WASHINGTON — July 29, 2021 –Today, the U.S. National Science Foundation announced the establishment of 11 new NSF National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes...
From insideHPC
Wavicle Data Solutions Introduces Augment, ML-powered Data Management Platform
CHICAGO (July 29, 2021) – Chicago-based Wavicle Data Solutions, a leading data analytics firm offering cloud migration services and data management consulting,Wavicle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Weather Company Best Weather Forecast
We actively used weather prediction data and programs for supply chain models. I now use IBM's Weather Company almost daily. Quite good, very accurate, not perfect...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Skin Is Naturally Anti-microbial
Often it feels like squid just evolved better than us mammals. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that Ihere...
From The Eponymous Pickle