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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
How will the pandemic impact software programming jobs?
Software programming is not for everyone, but among the careers that are mostly unregulated, and thus mostly free from rents, it has consistently been one of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can AI Find Evolving Earthquakes?
More advances moving towards closer to rea-time prediction?Technology Finds Long-Hidden Quakes, Possible Clues About How Earthquakes EvolveStanford News, JosieStanford...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Models Include Uncertainty, Risk
In the earlier days of AI we always included uncertainty and risk models in parallel. Even if risk was apparently minimal. This seems to be much less done today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RiskIQ and Ransomware
Useful detail.RiskIQ Has Released Its Corpus of Infrastructure and IOCs Related to Ryuk RansomwareOCTOBER 30, 2020BY TEAM RISKIQRyuk Ransomware has flooded USHowever...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Knowledge Research Foundation
My introduction to this group. Ultimately its about knowledge and its use: In a recent ACM Video Interview Stephen Ibaraki spoke with Amit Joshi, Director of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Identifying Asymptomatic Virus from Cough Prints
Most interesting, depending upon how well it works in practice.MIT Open Voice Model Used to Identify Asymptomatic COVID-19 Patients From Cough Recordings By BRET...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virus Tracing Apps have Problems
Privacy, but then what value do they deliver?Virus-Tracing Apps Are Rife with Problems. Governments Are Rushing to Fix ThemThe New York TimesNatasha Singer; Aaron...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (October 31st 2020)
Amazon has 1 million employees. “The iPhone 12 contains a Lidar. The first 3D Lidar was released a decade ago and cost $75,000.” (Calum Chace) There is water on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Honeywell Provides Quantum as a Service
More available services for quantum available.Honeywell Introduces Quantum Computing as a Service with Subscription Offering By ZDNetThe tech world may have to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Commons now Available via Google Search
Brought back to my attention. From Google: Data Commons is an open knowledge repository that combines data from public datasets using mapped common entities. It...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Dilemma of Ransomware
Been more educated of late regards the danger of ransomware. In my early days in the government I remember all the mag tapes we loaded for analysis and backup...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Illusory Perceptions
In our early work in this area we thought we found such 'illusions'. Based on the text here, these were not the same thing as mentioned here, but we named them...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crop Inspection
Recall my interest in crop and forestry inspection and improvement. See the related tags. Here another example in play to improve production.Alphabet Trialing...
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Waymo Self-Driving Stats Revealed
Quite impressive. 61 million miles, 21 months, 47 collisions and near misses. By far most caused by other cars. No one seriously injured. Better than human....
From insideHPC
Dell, NetApp, IBM Lead Coldago Research’s File Storage Map for 2020
Coldago Research, a market research and analysis firm, released today its 2020 edition of its map for file storage (see below) in which 31 vendors were examined...
From insideHPC
Five Argonne Researchers Named 2020 Distinguished Fellows
Five leading researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have been recognized as Argonne Distinguished Fellows, the highest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Garbage in - Garbage Forever?
Of course the well known phrase is applicable to many kinds of 'intelligence', analytics, AI and forecasting and inference. Here we just make sure it goes beyond...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spying via Body Movements on Video calls
Anther example of patterns from one kind of transmission (body movement) to another kind (typing) that could leak specific information. In the 70s we worked similar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Ships
Looked at robotic ships for a supply chain project now sometime ago there and were movements then. See the tag re 'autonomous ships'. IBM was involved. Then...
From Schneier on Security