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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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Workload Portability Enabled by a Modern Storage Platform
In this sponsored post, Shailesh Manjrekar, Head of AI and Strategic Alliances, WekaIO, explors what is meant by “data portability,” and why it’s important. Looking...
From Computational Complexity
The ACM History Committee call for proposals looks wrong
In November I (and prob everyone in the ACM) got an email that was a call for proposal from the ACM History committee. Here is a pointer to it. One of the passages...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Launches on-device Facial Recognition
So could most any device recognize us? Bias considerations depend on usage modes. Intel launches RealSense ID for on-device facial recognition By Kyle Wiggers...
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Europe Bets on China’s ‘Unhackable’ Tech for Encryption
China and its secure communication broadbandEurope Bets on China’s ‘Unhackable’ Tech to Win Space Race By Helene Fouquet Jan 05 2021 (Bloomberg) -- Europe’s...
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Machine Learning Algorithms You Should Know
A nice piece which covers the basic concepts of the most used data science algorithms. Not enough to know how to use them, but good for knowing when and why. All...
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Picture Pile Platform to Crowdsource Data for Image Classification
Towards more classification examples for AI models.Crowdsourced Image Classification Will Train AI Models By International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technologie links (January 9th 2021)
The Earth is spinning faster and faster: The 28 fastest days on record (since 1960) all occurred in 2020, with Earth completing its revolutions around its axisContinue...
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Trends this Year
Irving Wladawsky-Berger does a good job of looking at trends likely to continue this year. With lots of useful links. Below the intro: Trends That Will Likely...
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IBM towards Secure Enterprise Data
Hyperledger towards business goals with sharing secure enterprise data How IBM is using blockchain to transform the potential of enterprise dataChris O'Brien @obrien...
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Rental Fees
Wow, now here is something, have quite a bit of retail equipment. Thinking this ... It’s Finally Illegal for ISPs to Charge Rental Fees for Equipment You OwnBy...
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Data Lineage Tools
This problem was brought to my attention. I don't buy that these are the best, but they are reasonable examples I will examine. Especially with regard to...
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U.S. Army Looks to Improve Quadrotor Drone Performance
Changes in flight capabilities for in context dynamic needs. U.S. Army Research LaboratoryDecember 8, 2020The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's...
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The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: BioTeam’s Ari Berman Talks HPC-Driven Life Sciences Research
Both Dr. Ari Berman and the consulting company of which he is CEO, BioTeam, stand at the crossroads of scientific research and HPC. As the company says of itself...
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Amazon Pantry Discontinued
Following this a while because some of our products were typically included. Seems to have decreased in use, and created anther level of unneeded complexity....
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Benford's Law in the Universe
We used Benford's law to detect potential fraud. I have mentioned it here a number of times. Turns out its much more broadly observed. Which is fairly obvious...
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Lopsided Digital Transformations
Can confirm this in the large enterprise. Broadly done in supply chain world, uncommon in marketing. Depends on things like data access, expectations around automation...
From insideHPC
FPGA Maker Achronix to List on Nasdaq Through Merger With ACE Convergence
Jan. 7, 2021, Santa Clara, CA – Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, maker of high-performance field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP...
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Portable Device Can Quickly Detect Plant Stress
Powerful idea. Here wondering how well the measure of stress works for various crops.Portable Device Can Quickly Detect Plant StressMIT News, January 4, 2021...
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Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation
Quantum Internet is quickly approaching. Implications?Fermilab and Partners Achieve Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation University of Chicago News...
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