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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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SingleStore Adds Schabenberger, Former COO & CTO of SAS
San Francisco – February 1, 2021 – SingleStore, database software for cloud-native modern applications, has announced the addition of Oliver Schabenberger joins...
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Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship Accepting Nominations
Nominations are open for the 2021 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship through February 22, 2021. Eligible faculty will then be contacted in early March to submit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Ford Sign Deal to Put Android into Car, onto Plant Floor
Perhaps unexpected partnership. Recall we recently mentioned that Ford was the leader in Self Driving Car patents. We worked with Ford and they were impressive...
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The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: From Narrow to General AI – Decoding the Brain to Train Neural Networks
HPC veteran Luke Wilson lives at the forefront AI research. In this interview he talks about research whose goal is to move computer intelligence from “narrow”The...
From Schneier on Security
Georgia’s Ballot-Marking Devices
Andrew Appel discusses Georgia’s voting machines, how the paper ballots facilitated a recount, and the problem with automatic ballot-marking devices: Suppose the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Odoo ERP System
Odoo Python based ERP system, with free and subscription based versions. Odoo is a suite of business management software tools including CRM, e-commerce, billing...
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Google Cloud Workflow
Brought to my attention and review, follow link for free trial:Google Cloud WorkflowsOrchestrate and automate Google Cloud and HTTP-based API services with serverless...
From Computational Complexity
Grading policies during Covid-No easy answers
Because of COVID (my spellecheck says covid and Covid are not works, but COVID is) various schools have done various things to make school less traumatic. Students...
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Descriptive Analytics
Always been a fan of the idea, of descriptive analytics, an excellent predecessor to more complex work as needed. . Here an overview of its value.The Value ...
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Expansion of Amazon Ring Network
The Verge reports on the considerable linking of Ring devices with police and fire departments. Have had one installed since they emerged. As usual the privacy...
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Whats a Transformer?
A major advance in NLP capabilities? Venturebeat does a good job of explaining and suggesting this will be one of the major AI advances of the year. Essentially...
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Printing Bone with Living Cells
Considerable idea. Scientists Use Novel Ink to 3D-Print 'Bone' With Living Cells, By University of New South Wales (Australia), January 27, 2021 New SouthA...
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Microsoft's Quantum Chip
Microsoft moves forward in quantum chip research. Microsoft’s new quantum chip could help control thousands of qubits in Digital Trends by Luke Dormeh Microsoft...
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See Who is Watching with Crowdsourced Maps
Clever idea, but how will it decrease the power of surveillance? Crowdsourced Maps Will Show Exactly Where Surveillance Cameras Are WatchingFast Company, MarkHuman...
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Detecting Flu-Like Illness with Behavior
Quite a considerable idea, depending on accuracy. It appears the data from is anonymous and thus private, Similar to a proposal we outlined, never implemented...
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BMW Aims to Manufacture with Quantum
BMW looking at nimbler process control for manufacturing. Embedded is a prediction for use within the next two years.BMW Takes First Steps Into Quantum Computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Manufacturing - AI OS for Industry 4.0
Putting all the pieces together for Industry 4.0Smart Manufacturing Startup Builds AI OS for Industry 4.0 in NAnalyzeSmart manufacturing. Industry 4.0. Smart factories...
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The Value of Constraints for Creativity
Even if you don't embed them formally, we found, as in an optimization. It states the walls to bounce off of. Note the use of 'some' in the statement, which...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Alan Selman, 1941–2021
Keeping a promise to structure the field of complexity 2017 Who’s Who award Alan Selman, my longtime friend and colleague, passed away last Friday, from the one...
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