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AIOps Company ScienceLogic Raises $105M from Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital and NewView Capital
From insideHPC

AIOps Company ScienceLogic Raises $105M from Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital and NewView Capital

Reston, Virginia – February 23, 2021 – ScienceLogic, provider of AI-driven monitoring solutions for hybrid cloud management, announced today that it has raisedAIOps...

From Computational Complexity

Good Names and Bad Names of Game Shows and theorems

 In my post on Alex Trebek, see here, I noted that Jeopardy! is not a good name for the game show since it doesn't tell you much about the show. Perhaps Answers...

Parsing Floating-point Numbers Really Fast in C#
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Parsing Floating-point Numbers Really Fast in C#

Programmers often write out numbers as strings (e.g., 3.1416) and they want to read back the numbers from the string. If you read and write JSON or CSV files, you...

The Problem with Treating Data as a Commodity
From Schneier on Security

The Problem with Treating Data as a Commodity

Excellent Brookings paper: “Why data ownership is the wrong approach to protecting privacy.” From the introduction: Treating data like it is property fails to recognize...

Linux and Open Source Go to Mars
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linux and Open Source Go to Mars

Big follower of astronomy and astronautics.   Connections to modern computing are also of continued interest.   The latest efforts to Mars are instructive.  What...

Microsoft Big Quantum Win was a Mistake
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Big Quantum Win was a Mistake

Interesting,  recall the announcement then, mostly technical points are made here, but worth noting.   Not clear then hw this will effect Microsoft's work in the...

Modernizing Data Dashboards.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Modernizing Data Dashboards.

Good thoughts, somewhat obvious, but still useful tips about the ideas involved. Modernizing Data Dashboards. Posted by Technovert Solutions on February 21, 2021...

Great Innovative Idea: Using Computer Modeling to Effectively Prioritize and Distribute the COVID-19 Vaccine
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Great Innovative Idea: Using Computer Modeling to Effectively Prioritize and Distribute the COVID-19 Vaccine

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Daniel Larremore, Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder Computer Science Department and the BioFrontier...

Amazon Alexa Crowdsources New Products
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Alexa Crowdsources New Products

Interesting approach will examine further and post here.  Thoughts about usefulness?Amazon is using crowdsourcing to create new products   by Tom Ryan  in Retailwire...

Technology Impacting Supply Chains
From The Eponymous Pickle

Technology Impacting Supply Chains

 Good thoughts, all players should examine these methods.Blockchain and RPA Leading Supply Chain Trends in 2021  By Marisa Brown, APQCIt is worrisome to note that...

Communicating with Dreaming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Communicating with Dreaming

Recall our early dream experiments.   Could this re-open our sleep learning goals?Scientists Communicated With People While They Were Lucid Dreaming  By ShellyWe...

Octopai Announces Support of Snowflake
From insideHPC

Octopai Announces Support of Snowflake

Tel Aviv – February 22, 2021 – Octopai, the leader in Automated Data Lineage and Data Discovery, announced today its support and analysis of Snowflake, the fastest...

More No and Low Code Emerges
From The Eponymous Pickle

More No and Low Code Emerges

More solutions, but have yet to see them widely used.   Would want to see them strongly tested for security issues.   Probably open source to allow that? Low-code...

Storage as a Service in AWS
From insideHPC

Storage as a Service in AWS

In this sponsored post, Shailesh Manjrekar, Head of AI and Strategic Alliances, WekaIO, explores “storage as a service” in using AWS, and how this is made possible...

10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI – Part 4
From insideHPC

10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI – Part 4

In this insideHPC Guide, “10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI,” our friends over at WEKA offer 10 important questions to ask when starting with AI, specifically...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Riemann Hypothesis—Why So Hard?

“If I were to awaken after having slept a thousand years, my first question would be: has the Riemann Hypothesis been proven?” — David Hilbert Steklov Institute...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Riemann Hypothesis—Why So Hard?

“If I were to awaken after having slept a thousand years, my first question would be: has the Riemann Hypothesis been proven?” — David Hilbert Steklov Institute...

Deep Learning for Fleet Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Learning for Fleet Management

Interesting example,  worth examining.   Other operations examples?New Deep Learning Systems Profoundly Disrupt Fleet Management OperationsDeep learning is having...

IBM and Daimler using Quantum Computer
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM and Daimler using Quantum Computer

Continued advances of the use of quantum computing to model lithium molecules to get closer to lithium Sulphur  batteries that would be longer lasting and cheaper...

Kroger Data Breach
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Data Breach

Had come to mind that retailers had been less susceptible here, but then an example:Kroger is latest victim of third-party software data breach   by Frank Bajak...
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