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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Converting binary integers to ASCII characters: Apple M1 vs AMD Zen2
Programmers often need to write integers as characters. Thus given the 32-bit value 1234, you might need a function that writes the characters 1234. We can useContinue...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming NSF CISE Deadlines
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has some upcoming solicitation deadlines. Check them out...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Teams now for Friends, Family, Fun, Slack .... and Free too
Players have decided that free group software in all contexts is the way to win big and broadly post pandemic.Microsoft Teams is ready for 'friends and family'After...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Critical US Infrastructure and Fair Fights
Recent direct attacks on critical US infrastructure lead us to ask: How much of that is there?Bruce Schneier asks:Is 85% of US Critical Infrastructure in Private...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building AIs that Feels Emotion, Empathy
Work by Microsoft's 'Human Understanding and Empathy' group. New to me but likely useful as a component of other sensory measures. In context, as always. Building...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Are Flexibles the Future?
Samsung seems to think so, but have still not seen the argument made that they are more convenient overall. Samsung teases its next generation of flexible displays...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and AWS Colaboration
Was unaware of the depth of this, especially the connection of SAP, who we worked with extensively. IBM’s and AWS’ five-year anniversary shows maturing relationship...
From insideHPC
Future of Data Visualization and Agile Business Intelligence
The biggest trends we’ve seen in data over the past decade are; the sheer growth of data set sizes, coupled with the increasing complexity of analysis and dataFuture...
From Schneier on Security
Is 85% of US Critical Infrastructure in Private Hands?
Most US critical infrastructure is run by private corporations. This has major security implications, because it’s putting a random power company in — say — Ohio...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Digital Images with Machine Learning
Akin to somethings we experimented with in a startup years ago. Taking it much farther, it seems. Need to see more about this! A sort of knowledge extraction...
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On TAB Overloads in Chrome
Well yes, will give this a try.Overcoming Tab Overload By Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer ScienceIn a study of Internet browser tab usage, computer...
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Cleaning Messy Data Tables
Looks to be efficient at least. Check out the code. Note the use of Bayesian reasoning.Home/News/System Cleans Messy Data Tables Automatically/Full TextACM TECHNEWS...
From Computational Complexity
Why do countries and companies invest their own money (or is it?) in Quantum Computing (Non-Rhetorical)
There have been some recent blog posts by Scott (see here) and Lance (see here) about the hype for SHORT TERM APPLICATIONS of Quantum Computing, which they both...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Local Company to do Automated Welding
some intriguing aspects to the overall task. Path Robotics raises $56M Series B for automated welding in TechcrunchBrian Heater@bheater / 8:00 AM EDT•May 3,Factory_Scenario_Perspective...
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Voice for any IOT
New idea. Easier voice for any IOT. Secure? Ambiq Debuts Voice-on-SPOT Kit to Bring Voice Controls to Battery-Operated Devices By Eric Hal Schwartz in Voicebot...
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Leveraging Magnonic Devices
New word to me : Magnonic. The quanta of spin waves. Based on the article, seems to be a useful thing. Feedback Algorithm Boosts Design of Magnonic Devices...
From The Eponymous Pickle
About the Colossus Computer
Am a long time follower of the history of computing since I worked with one of the people who had a part in maintaining the ENIAC computer at the U of P. This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Diagnosing Windows Internet Connections
I am sure you have all run into this. Just did and played with the router and wifi box for some time. Then found it very helpful. But the internet diagnosis capability...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 15th 2021)
There were rainforests near the south pole 90 million years ago. Though commercial exchanges are typically win-win for both the buyer and the seller, people tend...
From The Eponymous Pickle