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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
Evolution of Ransomware and Related Extortion
Thoughtful podcast and transcript from Recorded Future, Telling the evolution of extortion methods and responses.Ransomware and Extortion Evolve More Brazen Tactics...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Summing Up the Primes
Given the millennia that people have contemplated prime numbers, our continuing ignorance concerning the primes is stultifying—Richard Crandall and Carl Pomerance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Multi-Node Quantum Network Paves the Way for the Quantum Internet
Though still a small number of qubits, but the connectivity into a 'quantum internet' appears to be a big step forward. First Multi-Node Quantum Network Paves...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grants for Taming Big Data
Key aspects to manage and manage large unwieldy data from may sourcesDOE Will Spend $10M on Research to Tame Massive Data Sets By U.S. Department of EnergyThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uses of AI for Small Business
Fairly obvious, but the stats show you that small business understands the needs and possibilities.The Growing Importance of AI for Small BusinessesAI has become...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Phonons and Quantum Monte Carlo
More looks at material science.A Successful Phonon Calculation Within the Quantum Monte Carlo Framework By Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ...
From CERIAS Blog
Riffing on the Ph.D. Degree
I recenty was having a discussion with someone about the Ph.D. option for a degree here. The person said “I don’t want a Ph.D. because I don’t ever intend to do...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyber Threats to Supply Chains
Schneier reports on the DNI annual assessment. With lots of interesting comments and other coverage in his blog. Would also like to emphasize supply chain implications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quanta Magazine: Brain Rotates Memories to Save Them
Made me think of how this kind of structure could be used in machine learning to perform a kind of maintenance and change managemebt as new data is acquired. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and AI Company Nuance
A good piece on why Microsoft is squiring Nuance, which also reminded me I had tested and used their package Dragon for speech recognition applications. ButWhy...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 17th 2021)
Moderna built their COVID 19 vaccine without having the virus on site. They viewed it as a software problem. Human and mice with red hair have elevated pain thresholds...
From The Eponymous Pickle
App Calcs Infection Risk in Rooms
Wonder at the broad claims to accuracy here, but the components are interesting. Note the HEADS reference below. App Calculates Corona Infection Risk in Rooms...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Salesforce Builds an AI Platform
Interesting example of the effort and its building ... Building a Successful Enterprise AI Platform By Arpeet KaleIntroductionIn 2016, I started as a fresh grad...
From Schneier on Security
Details on the Unlocking of the San Bernardino Terrorist’s iPhone
The Washington Post has published a long story on the unlocking of the San Bernardino Terrorist’s iPhone 5C in 2016. We all thought it was an Israeli company called...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Next in AI? From Geoffrey Hinton
This sounded interesting, have always read Hinton's pieces. About to read this. Will give some thoughts about it later. Geoffrey Hinton Has a Hunch about What's...
From insideHPC
The Linux Foundation Launches Research Division to Explore Open Source Ecosystems and Impact
The Linux Foundation has announced a research arm whose mission is to broaden understanding of open source projects, ecosystem dynamics and impact, the organization...
From insideHPC
Univ. of Chicago’s Polsky Center Launches Venture Conference for Midwest Deep Tech Startups from Universities and National Labs
CHICAGO– The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the launch of DeepTechU, a venture conference showcasing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Record Gaming Sales
Implications? Increase of spare time? Increase of game hardware sales. Less serious work being done? Opportunities for more gamification? Will this continue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Omnichannel Profitable in Post Pandemic?
Been asked similar questions in recent interactions. What will the change be and should retailers react? Can omnichannel be as profitable for retailers as in-store...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing