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Programmable Fibers for Textiles
From The Eponymous Pickle

Programmable Fibers for Textiles

Realization of a fabric with the ability to store and process data digitally ... Engineers Create a Programmable FiberMIT News, Becky Ham, June 3, 2021The first...

HPE Reference Architecture for SAS 9.4 on HPE Superdome Flex 280 and HPE Primera Storage
From insideHPC

HPE Reference Architecture for SAS 9.4 on HPE Superdome Flex 280 and HPE Primera Storage

This Reference Architecture highlights the key findings and demonstrated scalability when running SAS® 9.4 using the Mixed Analytics Workload running on HPE Superdome...

China Bid for Chip Supremacy
From The Eponymous Pickle

China Bid for Chip Supremacy

Nice overview of the current  state of silicon chip development and manufacture worldwide. Emphasizing companies currently involved and current moves likely.   Implications...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Happy Mom’s Day

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher—Joan Cusack Interactive version bought from TPT Mary Kay Farley, my dear wife’s mom, and Dorothy Lipton, my mom...

Enzymes Embedded in Plastics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enzymes Embedded in Plastics

Based on a conversation I have had, this is a considerable breakthrough with broad application.Enzymes successfully embedded in plasticsResearch News / June 01,...

From Computational Complexity

When do you use et al. as opposed to listing out the authors? First names? Middle initials? Jr?

 If I was refering to the paper with bibtex entry: @misc{BCDDL-2018,  author    = {Jeffrey Bosboom and               Spencer Congero and               Erik D. Demaine...

Robot Therapy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Therapy

Seems stretched, but the name especially is cute, reminds me of some similar approaches demonstrated to us in Japan.Something Bothering You? Tell It to Woebot.The...

Vinton Cerf Discusses CMEs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Vinton Cerf Discusses CMEs

Vint Cerf Discusses a number of environmental dangers to the earth.   And in particular Coronal Mass Ejections (CME).   I recall that when our enterprise was thinking...

Gamification for Productivity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gamification for Productivity

 Current re-look at gamification.   We did a brief trial of using gamification for crowd sourced problem solving.   Not productivity, but for potential originality...

Typing at Brain Speed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Typing at Brain Speed

 Most interesting advance.   How far will will we get with brain interfaces?  Why should we be typing at all? Brain-Computer Interface Smashes Previous Record for...

Amazon and their Sidewalk Experiment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon and their Sidewalk Experiment

Is this a crowdsourced experiment?  Are we being forced to participate?   A true value to consumers? Dangerous or not?  Amazon provides their considerable technical...

Simpler Attacks Occuring on Operatonal Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simpler Attacks Occuring on Operatonal Technology

We need more and effective protection.Cyberattacks on operational technology are on the rise  in ZDnetCommon techniques are setting a low bar for attacks on control...

Robots Smiling Back
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Smiling Back

Not sure how much this buys you, but it makes sense where creating a android-like image to have emotion matching to group or task. We experimented only slightly...

EU Post Pandemic Wallets
From The Eponymous Pickle

EU Post Pandemic Wallets

Wondering how far this will go, likely as good as the number of times it is asked for.  I note its use is not mandatory. EU Plans Digital ID Wallet for Post-Pandemic...

Emergence of Central Bank Digital Currencies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emergence of Central Bank Digital Currencies

 As usual, an interesting piece from Irving's Blog (Below an intro, details and much more at the link) The Emergence of Central Bank Digital Currencies   By Irving...

Thinking Federated AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinking Federated AI

Good general idea,  further detailed at the link.Changing How Data is Used  By Samuel Greengard,  Commissioned by CACM Staff, June 1, 2021The ability to examine...

IOT Security from CyLab
From The Eponymous Pickle

IOT Security from CyLab

Looks to be a good effort underway.   In general IOT devices have high levels of security danger, because they are minimally protected to begin with, are oftenCyLab's...

Free Will an Illusion?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Free Will an Illusion?

No I don't think so, but we should also consider the alternative.    Free will drives action towards goals, and we should expect that of people and systems.   'Free'...

The New Frontier for Data Management: Edge-Core-Cloud
From insideHPC

The New Frontier for Data Management: Edge-Core-Cloud

By Eric Bassier, Quantum Corp. With the proliferation of IoT devices, sensors and robots spanning industries such as autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, surveillance...

IBM and UK Research Quantum
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM and UK Research Quantum

 Many big players are inventing in quantum.  Watch it.   And the implications for things like optimization, crypto and analytics in general.   IBM partners with...
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