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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 …
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WekaIO Announces Results with NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage in Microsoft Research Lab
CAMPBELL, Calif., March 22, 2021 – WekaIO (Weka), the data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), life sciences research, enterprise technical...
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BioNTech Chairman Helmut Jeggle Joins the Board of IQM Quantum Computers
MUNICH – March 24, 2021 – IQM Quantum Computers (IQM) announced today that Helmut Jeggle, chairman of the BioNTech SE Supervisory board, has joined IQM ́s board...
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MIT: Researchers’ Algorithm Designs Soft Robots that Sense
CAMBRIDGE, MA — March 22, 2021 — There are some tasks that traditional robots — the rigid and metallic kind — simply aren’t cut out for. Soft-bodied robots, onMIT...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Augmentation for Brain-Computer Interface
Very good piece that also connects with some of our neural explorations. The linking to GANs is fascinating. (See tag links)Data Augmentation for Brain-Computer...
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Industry Veteran Karl Freund Launches Analyst Firm Cambrian-AI Research
March 22, 2021 — Chip industry veteran Karl Freund has recently launched Cambrian-AI Research, a new firm specializing in helping providers of AI hardware and the...
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Japanese Smart City Offers Residents Quake, Privacy Protection
Makes much sense given the higher likelihood of natural disasters in Japan.Japanese Smart City Offers Residents Quake, Privacy Protection By Thomson Reuters Foundation...
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Kick-off for the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre’s Quantum Integration Centre
Munich, March 22, 2021-The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities has opened its Quantum Integration Centre, orKick...
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Stop the Lab Worship: Commercial HPC is Sexy, Too
There’s a trend in the data storage world to call out a growing “divide” between HPC and enterprise storage. We believe that’s an oversimplification. What’s worse...
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XSEDE HPC Workshop: Big Data and Machine Learning, April 6-7
XSEDE, the National Science Foundation’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment virtual organization that shares HPC, supercomputing and other advanced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOTA New Dawn Chrysalis Changes Announced
Late to this but of interest, the IOTA Foundation, mentioned here a number of times, was an interesting change in the idea of blockchains and how they were delivered...
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Majorana Meltdown Jeopardizes Microsoft's Quantum Computer,
This is an example of the danger of converting reported research results into working systems. Without the complete validation of those results. Large companies...
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UK Protecting Critical Undersea Cables
This piece made me think. And consider from who, using what .... and what are the implications?New Royal Navy ship to protect 'critical' undersea cables in the...
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Consider the Humble Roundabout
In my very early days of analytics, much involved with civil engineering data. So this transcript of a Freakonomics article on the traffic roundabout was good...
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Refining Audience Advertising Context Mixing
Interesting method altering acquired video and mixing it to change advertising context. Would seem the same method could be used for advertising with augmented...
From Geeking with Greg
Wisdom of the trusted
Flood-the-zone disinformation is a problem for crowdsourced data. Wisdom of the crowds, mass amateurization, and rejection of gatekeepers no longer works with coordinated...
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Human Robot Cooperation
More good thoughts on the complexity of human-robot cooperation.How many robot helpers are too many?Khari Johnson @kharijohnson March 20, 2021 6:21 AM TechCrunch...
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Fast Random Number Generation with Lasers
Fast Random Number Generation with LasersPointer to this in Schneier: In school one of my particular areas of interest was random number use and leverage....
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Further Emerging Smart Toothbrush
Showing how package goods, like Colgate and my former employer P&G are building smart devices to improve consumer health processes. Smart Device Push Brings IT,...
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Self-Folding Nanotech Creates Origami Bird
A combination of favorite topics, small robots(nanoscale here) and Origami representations. Includes images and video of their prposed development and use.Self...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP