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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
Exploring the Quantum World
Exploring the Quantum World: An index to Ars Technica's, a multi part view of the science behind Quantum. By physicist Miguel F. Morales Prof at U of Washington...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Healthcare Changed
And have been in the middle of it. Innovation is growing. Good overview piece:How Healthcare Changed in 2020By Katherine Boyarsky | January 7, 2021 Owl Labs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Chip Research
Smaller, faster chips to learn and deliver.Qualcomm research could lower the barriers to visual AI everywhere, By Jack Gold in VenturebeatDemand is growing forChip...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where did Those Images come From?
Worked on an image recognition problem that could have used this approach to determine where certain images where coming from, either to validate them, or to determine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biomimicking Learning by DragonFly
Like the idea of biomimicry for certain adaptive robotic abilities, here an example at a fairly low level. Technical.Bio-Inspired Robotics: Learning From Dragonflies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality to Assess Cognitive Abilities
Heard of this kind of approach somewhere. Either for determining brain and tactile health, or to use after specialized training, to assess abilities. Researchers...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (February 6th 2021)
You can use artificial intelligence and satellite images to count the number of elphants found in the wild. It appears that a billion people on Earth now use an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Password Autofill for Security
Starting to see this more generally provided by browsers, here is one from MS. Which should lead to better passwords, if we assume the MS site remains secure...
From insideHPC
EPCC Selects Cerebras Systems AI Supercomputer
Los Altos, Calif. & Edinburgh, UK — Cerebras Systems, the high performance artificial intelligence (AI) compute company, and EPCC, the supercomputing centre atEPCC...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Distinguished Lecture: How to Represent Part-Whole Hierarchies in a Neural Net
Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, will present “How to Represent Part-Whole Hierarchies in a Neural Net,” part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Asymtomatic Carrier
Would appear to be very big thing if it works significantly, as it suggests below. AI Predicts Asymptomatic Carriers of Covid-19IEEE Spectrum, Emily Waltz, February...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA to Develop a Mentoring Program for NSF’s CSGrad4US Graduate Fellowship
In response to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate’s recently announced CSGrad4US Fellowship...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Live Giant Squid Found in Japan
A giant squid was found alive in the port of Izumo, Japan. Not a lot of news, just this Twitter thread (with a couple of videos). If confirmed, I believe this will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Mapping Moods
We took at cut at the basic idea to determine changes in moods that might indicate purchases. And also mapping to actual behavior. Note pharmaceutical use implications...
From insideHPC
Applications Open for New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Research Fellowships
Grad students wanting to focus on their research have a new opportunity to do just that. The New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Fellowships provide PhD studentsApplications...
From insideHPC
RIKEN Center to Hold Annual Symposium on Fugaku and ‘Society 5.0,’ Feb. 15-16
The RIKEN Center for Computational Science (RIKEN R-CCS) will hold its third annual international symposium on Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 15 and 16 focusing on HPC...
From insideHPC
Hyve Managed Hosting Launches HPC cloud solution
Brighton, UK, 4th February 2021 – Hyve Managed Hosting, a UK cloud hosting provider, has launched a new high performance computing (HPC) cloud solution designed...
From insideHPC
UberCloud and NI SP in HPC Partnership
Tübingen, Germany and Los Altos, California – February 03, 2021 – NI SP GmbH and The UberCloud Inc. have announced a strategic partnership combining NI SP’s 3DUberCloud...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensing the Household
Talk about potential invasions of privacy .... note the use of multiple sensors and analysesHousehold Radar Can See Through Walls and Knows How You’re Feeling...
From Schneier on Security