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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Topping the Hat

An “einstein” that doesn’t need flipping Siobhan Roberts is a Canadian science journalist, biographer, and historian of mathematics. She has an article that appeared...

Google:    Search General Experience (SGE)
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google: Search General Experience (SGE)

Google Labs writes (Click through for detail), had been brought  to to my attention) 3 new ways generative AI can help you searchThis week, we began opening upRead...

Making of a Mona Lisa Hologram (With pictures)
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making of a Mona Lisa Hologram (With pictures)

The Making of a Mona Lisa Hologram  (With pictures) By AIP Publishing, June 2, 2023While the Mona Lisa hologram is two-dimensional, the technique can be extended...

Priomise of Holographic Displays
From The Eponymous Pickle

Priomise of Holographic Displays

 ACM NEWSTalked these in terms of advertisingThe Promise of Holographic DisplaysBy Sandrine CeurstemontCommissioned by CACM Staff, June 1, 2023Unlike today's two...

Creating high-yielding Hybrid Crops that can be Propagated indefinitely
From The Eponymous Pickle

Creating high-yielding Hybrid Crops that can be Propagated indefinitely

Unmixed Blessing?Researchers are Closing in on the long-sought goal of creating high-yielding hybrid crops that can be Propagated Indefinitely 18 MAY 2023  BYERIK...

Fruit Picking Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fruit Picking Robotics

 Fruit-Picking Robot Eve Ready to Harvest Apples Commercially, as Shortage of Workers PersistsBy ABC News (Australia), May 25, 2023Eve, the fruit-picking robot....

Follow those ants
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Follow those ants

Ant colonies are really good at adapting to changing situations: far better than humans. Sameena Shah wondered if Artificial Intelligence agents might do better...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Chromolithographs
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Chromolithographs

Beautiful illustrations. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog postinghere...

Report: CoreWeave Wins Miscrosoft Deal for GPU Cloud Services Worth Billions
From insideHPC

Report: CoreWeave Wins Miscrosoft Deal for GPU Cloud Services Worth Billions

Suddenly, GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is one of the hot tech companies of the week and likely longer. No sooner did the Roseland, NY, startup announce on Wednesday...

Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply To AI Training
From The Eponymous Pickle

Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply To AI Training

 Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply To AI TrainingBy Technomancers.aiJune 1, 2023.Not everyone in Japan is on board with this decision. Many anime and graphic...

Open-Source LLMs
From Schneier on Security

Open-Source LLMs

In February, Meta released its large language model: LLaMA. Unlike OpenAI and its ChatGPT, Meta didn’t just give the world a chat window to play with. Instead,...

The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing

Security hole potential  in most everything.   Fix it.The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and BingBy Wired, May 26, 2023Security experts warn that not enough...

Peripheral Vision for Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Peripheral Vision for Machines

Beyond roboticsThe Benefits of Peripheral Vision for MachinesResearchers find similarities between how some computer-vision systems process images and how humans...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Combinatorics or Logic?

Or is it number theory? Julius Büchi was a Swiss mathematician who taught at Purdue University for many years. His is arguably a case of influence—in multiple fields...

The first computer wizard
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

The first computer wizard

Christopher Strachey did a series of firsts in computer programming, and that was just when he was playing.

Power Grid Modeling Tool Launched on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
From insideHPC

Power Grid Modeling Tool Launched on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer

Exascale Grid Optimization (ExaGO), a power grid simulation and optimization platform developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is the first of...

China Advances in AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

China Advances in AI

Excerpt from ChatGPT,  General Statement,   China Status and  AdvancesChina has made significant advancements in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent...

Photonics Compute and Interconnect Startup Lightmatter Raises $154M Series C Funding, Targets HPC and AI Workloads
From insideHPC

Photonics Compute and Interconnect Startup Lightmatter Raises $154M Series C Funding, Targets HPC and AI Workloads

BOSTON – Photonics computing company Lightmatter announced it has raised $154 million in a Series C investment round, bringing to $270 million that the companyPhotonics...

With Electronics in His Brain, Spine, Paralyzed Man Takes a Stride
From The Eponymous Pickle

With Electronics in His Brain, Spine, Paralyzed Man Takes a Stride

 With Electronics in His Brain, Spine, Paralyzed Man Takes a StrideThe Washington PostDaniel Gilbert, May 24, 2023An international team of scientists and neurosurgeons...

Peak credentialism
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Peak credentialism

How much is a degree from a prestigious university worth? The answer is a bit difficult to answer because there are many cofounding factors: people from the connected...
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