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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
ARM MacBook vs Intel MacBook: a SIMD benchmark
In my previous blog post, I compared the performance of my new ARM-based MacBook Pro with my 2017 Intel-based MacBook Pro. I used a number parsing benchmark. In...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking about Approaching Tidy Data
Below an intro on the concept. We laid out and used similar ideas, this organizes it well. First stated by Hadley Wickham in his paper. Hard to fully achieve...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Traffic LIghts
Some examples of complex systems and data control. A line of green traffic lights on Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile Smarter Traffic Lights, Calmer CommutersPaul Stenquist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netflix is Shelf Selling with AI
When I first saw the long rows of 'content' on a Netflix selection shelf. I immediately thought of a supermarket shelf, which I had much experience with. This...
From Computational Complexity
Quarterly Th. Wksp `at' Northwestern, and thoughts inspired by it
On the Northwestern CS Theory Group there is a set of Quarterly Theory Workshops. There is one coming up on Dec 17-18, 2020, called the Junior Theorists Workshop...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Is The End Near?
Queen’s Gambit and more Kenneth Regan is my partner here at GLL and a dear friend. He is a longtime faculty member in computer science at the University of Buffalo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Companies in the Autonomous Race
Good overview of companies and efforts underwayThe Autonomous Vehicle Companies in the Self-Driving Race in nanalyze" ... While we’ve covered some of the most...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone for Exploring Caves, and other Tight Spaces and Situations
Drones that fold and unfold to enter and explore. Remember having to deal with that in one of my few caving efforts. Also includes discussion of their actingRidley...
From The Eponymous Pickle
State of Data Onboarding
Newly brought to my attention, surveys and analysis, of data use. FlatfileOur vision could be summed up no better than by the great poet, D.H. Lawrence:For God...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Updates on Echo Auto
Have been a user of Echo Auto in the car for some time. There were early glitches, but it is working well now. They are just announcing some new capabilities...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
ARM MacBook vs Intel MacBook
Up to yesterday, my laptop was a large 15-inch MacBook Pro. It contains an Intel Kaby Lake processor (3.8 GHz). I just got a brand-new 13-inch 2020 MacBook ProContinue...
From insideHPC
HPC-AI Advisory Council Announces Student Teams Competing in the 11th Annual ISC-HPCAIAC Student Cluster Competition
Sunnywale, CA — The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC), in collaboration with the ISC Group, organizers of Europe’s premier HPC forum, today announced the annual...
From insideHPC
AWS and Arm Demonstrate Electronic Design Automation in the Cloud
Seattle – Amazon Web Services has announced that Arm, a global leader in semiconductor design and silicon intellectual property development and licensing, willAWS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NIST: Quantum Bits Can be Self Correcting?
Could be a really big thing, depending on the context and consequences. Error-Prone Quantum Bits Could Correct Themselves, NIST Physicists ShowNational Institute...
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Says ActiveScale Meets Consistency Requirements for Amazon S3 Compatibility
San Jose — Dec. 10, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced that its ActiveScale object storage platform automatically complies with the new strongQuantum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TaintDroid: Information Flow on Smartphones
Brought to my attention as part of a broader study: TaintDroid: an information-flow tracking system for realtime privacy monitoring on smartphonesAuthors: William...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Newly Identified Ichthyosaur Species Probably Ate Squid
This is a deep-diving species that “fed on small prey items such as squid.” Academic paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training AI in Four Bits
Its happening now. Consider too that smartphones can be the source of much data that will be used to train such systems.Tiny four-bit computers are now all you...
From insideHPC
8 European Associations Commit to TransContinuum Initiative for EU R&D Cross-domain Collaboration
December 11, 2020 – Coordinated by the ETP4HPC, the TransContinuum Initiative (TCI) is the union of related digital technologies which offers solutions for the8...
From The Eponymous Pickle