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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
StoryFit Analyzes Stories for Understanding
Again links to work we did for large advertisers using language analysis for marketing goals. Brought to my attention in a recent podcast on Artificial Intelligence...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Executive Council Member Nadya Bliss on How to Build Resiliency to Disinformation
Nadya Bliss, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Executive Council member and Executive Director of the Global Security Initiative (GSI), was recently interviewed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adapting Kiosks for the Pandemic
Another are we addressed in the innovation centers, kiosks. Here a good article about how the Pandemic is making us think more about their useful operation.How...
From Schneier on Security
On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death
Wired has a detailed story about the ransomware attack on a Dusseldorf hospital, the one that resulted in an ambulance being redirected to a more distant hospital...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Remote Work, Example in Film Production
New changes in remote work, an example:The film crews being directed from a continent away By Richard Baimbridge Business reporter BBC In a production studioSome...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robo Taxis are Coming
More autonomy to be seen on the roads. How soon will we see applications in broad use?Robotaxis get the green light for paid rides in CaliforniaThe state’s public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
USAF Tests Robotics Security, Surveillance
Another inevitable move, for surveillance and implied force available. As I have mentioned for other security examples of use, the robot-dogs look scary. US Air...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads
In this insideHPC technology guide, "insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads,"as we’ll see, by relying on open source software...
From The Noisy Channel
Facets of Faceted Search
Faceted search is a fascinating topic. It’s a standard feature of site search, and one could write an entire book on the subject. In this post, I’ll focus on some...
From Computational Complexity
Fun with birthdays, inspired by Nov 20
On Nov 20, 2020 the Google Doodle was of Benoit Mandelbrot for his 96th birthday. Why have a Doodle on his 96th bday? Anyway, the Doodle is here. On Nov 20,here...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Making of a Computer Science Teacher
There is quite the conversation going on in the private Computer Science Educators group on Facebook about teacher preparation for CS educators. This is a veryhighly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Long Horizon Planning
Another interesting piece from Berkeley - BAIR. Now looking at more complex planning. Long range planning that machines are not necessarily good at. But humans...
From Schneier on Security
More on the Security of the 2020 US Election
Last week I signed on to two joint letters about the security of the 2020 election. The first was as one of 59 election security experts, basically saying that...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The disagreeable scientist conjecture
If you are a nerd, the Internet is a candy store… if only you stay away from mainstream sites. Some of the best scientists have blogs, YouTube channels, they post...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Management Must Change
Yes, consider the impact of uncertainty for longer periods as linked to a risk model.Growth in Uncertainty: As Consumers Change, Customer Management Must Evolve...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fraunhofer Modular Vehicle Concept
Interesting conceptually, practical in what future time? Thought provoking at least. Flexible and Individual: Fraunhofer Team Develops Groundbreaking VehicleResearch...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automated Workflows are Rolling
Clearly, and this will continue. But doing it right will still be a challenge. The advantage will be to those that use the best approaches, applied to context...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Larping for Education
Admit I did not know what LARPing was. And thus not its use in education. Or is it just like interning? Or could it be linked to gaming? You could use 'fictitious'...
From insideHPC
NETL, Cerebras Claim CFD Milestone
A collaboration between DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory and Cerebras Systems, maker of the CS-1 deep learning compute system, has demonstrated that...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog