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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
Amex Uses Synthetic Data for Rare Fraud Patterns
Something we modeled even before machine learning to test 'nearness' to rare, or even nonexistent patterns. Companies Beef Up AI Models with Synthetic Data By...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Playing with Bacon's Cipher
Bacon's cipher is a fairly well-known and simple cipher. Its considered a form of steganography. Unlike most steganography, the code is hidden in the text and not...
From insideHPC
Verifying the Universe with Exascale Supercomputers
The ExaSky project, one of the critical Earth and Space Science applications being solved by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP)...
From insideHPC
Putting Data in The Driver Seat Can Change Everything
[Sponsored Post] When you have data in the driver’s seat, it’s a smooth ride. Any other operator, you risk a bumpy experience. The explosion of Digital Transformation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What3Words Location Database
And we continue to follow up the complexity, security and implications of determining location. With a system called What3Words, which I had not heard of before...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Concerns about QR Codes
Good points. I had not known that some of this data was always gathered. We did formally tesgrt the use of QR codes in store to get information about products...
From insideHPC
Chenbro Launches RM252/RM352 Short Depth Edge Computing Server Chassis Series for 5G
Taipei, Taiwan, July 27, 2021 – Chenbro (TWSE: 8210), a maker of own-brand rackmount system, announced the RM252 and RM352 series, its latest short depth 2U and...
From insideHPC
NTT Research Launches Joint Research on Neuro-Computing with The Univ. of Tokyo
Sunnyvale, Calif. – July 28, 2021 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that it has entered a joint research agreement with The University...
From insideHPC
Authors of AI/ML White Paper Win Annual Si2 Power of Partnerships Award
AUSTIN – July 28, 2021 – Authors of a groundbreaking Silicon Integration Initiative white paper identifying a common data model as the most critical need to accelerate...
From insideHPC
DOE Funding $7.7M for 11 Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling Studies
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $7.7 million in funding for 11 studies to improve understanding of earth system predictability and DOE’s Energy...
From insideHPC
NSF Names Karen Marrongelle COO
Washington, DC, July 28, 2021 — The U.S. National Science Foundation has officially appointed Karen Marrongelle to serve as chief operating officer. Since 2018,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How are those Drone Swarms Done?
I mentioned that we proposed drone and robotic swarms for industrial trials way back, Now we are seeing the same kind of thing in shows that replace fireworks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thermal Sensor on a Smartphone
Always looking for data, and thus for good sensors. We often used these for plant systems. Now smartphones give the opportunity for better portable applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Process Hacker Detects Intrusions
Some of my work now examines systems security and related issues. The system mentioned below covers 'Process Hacker', a system that detects and notifies you when...
From Schneier on Security
AirDropped Gun Photo Causes Terrorist Scare
A teenager on an airplane sent a photo of a replica gun via AirDrop to everyone who had their settings configured to receive unsolicited photos from strangers.these...
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Picks Fran Hill Co-chair of Industry and Agency Council
Juny 28, 2021 — The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has announced the selection of Dr. Frances (Fran) Hill as co-chair of the ECP Industry and Agency Council (IAC)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training as Maintenance
Much of my early work in the enterprise dealt with predicting maintenance in plant systems. So this article is of interest. Mckinsey's take, reasonable. Can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bamboo Children's Learning Skill
Taking a look at this, Alexa has not had enough children's voice learning skillsBamboo Learning Launches Comprehensive Educational Alexa Skill By Eric Hal Schwartz...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Deception with Machine Leaning
Quite interesting, but my guess, if something like this sees much use, will be heavily regulated. Below intro, more at the link. Detecting DeceptionBy Sandrine...
From Schneier on Security