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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
My annual fall jobs posts, giving advice to PhDs looking for faculty positions, were getting repetitive. See last year's post for the usual stuff and feel freeTaulbee...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | October 28, 2020 at 06:27 PM
Pacific Northwest National Lab sent along this article today by PNNL’s Allan Brettman, who writes about the advanced techniques used by the lab’s Center for Advanced...staff From insideHPC | October 28, 2020 at 02:13 PM
Videos are now available of last month's Anthropology and Technology conference, dedicated to socially-responsible AI.Experientia From Putting People First | October 28, 2020 at 02:09 PM
Rarely hear about this, we used it for retail analysis, it is useful to understand. Link to it below and a Wikipedia article definition. What makes a good estimator...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 28, 2020 at 01:45 PM
Fascinating play. Remember this similarity being brought up in a talk about short vs long term memories. Now being brought into play?How a Memory Quirk of ...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 28, 2020 at 01:25 PM
Boston – Oct. 28, 2020 – Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced its partnership with EdgePresence...staff From insideHPC | October 28, 2020 at 11:57 AM
This article has been adapted from one that appeared in Aeon, aeon.co. Our society is a complex system, “a system with many interacting agents, whose collective...Helen Wright From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | October 28, 2020 at 11:34 AM
When coding efficient algorithms having to do with hashing, random number generations or even cryptography, a common construction is the expression “-n%n“. My experience...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | October 28, 2020 at 11:02 AM
This is neat:
By generating powerful streams of water, UCSD’s squid-like robot can swim untethered. The “squidbot” carries its own power source, and has the room...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 28, 2020 at 10:40 AM
Senator Ron Wyden asked, and the NSA didn’t answer:
The NSA has long sought agreements with technology companies under which they would build special access for...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 28, 2020 at 10:38 AM
CAMPBELL, Calif. – October 27, 2020 – WekaIO (Weka), the leader in high-performance, scalable file storage for data-intensive applications, today announced a transformative...Doug Black From insideHPC | October 28, 2020 at 10:29 AM
London, 28 October 2020 — Sellafield Ltd has signed a contract extension with Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, for a further two years, extending...staff From insideHPC | October 28, 2020 at 10:21 AM
But AI is still in action, especially in speeding simpler customer interactions:IBM study highlights rapid uptake and satisfaction with AI chatbots in AINewsAMost...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 28, 2020 at 07:46 AM
Always interesting former IBMer Irving Wladawsky-Berger talks AI hype, cycles, and lots of supporting links and observations. Been through it all, and this second...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 28, 2020 at 06:46 AM
Very interesting piece in Queue and the Communications of the ACM, Nov 2020, pp 108-110. Take the problem beyond the technical and to the collaboratively social...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 28, 2020 at 12:57 AM
Marking a new phase in in the re-resurrection AMD in its eternal struggle with Intel, and as reported here October 9, AMD has agreed to buy FPGA chip maker Xilinx...staff From insideHPC | October 27, 2020 at 06:10 PM
Worked with MITRE way back. Now it is also about active defense. Not much revealed here, but its interesting. MITRE Shield Matrix Highlights Deception & Concealment...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 27, 2020 at 03:13 PM
Fairly good, short, non technical piece. I agree with the first item mentioned: 'unsupervised learning', it is the future, and it is hard to do generally. ...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 27, 2020 at 02:59 PM
Most interesting approach. The implications? Note deep neural approach for selection of poses. Accuracy? Gathering information for healthcare, sports, training...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 27, 2020 at 02:29 PM
Out of SingularityHub. A look at the writing AI called GPT-3. Scopes some of the possibilities and limitations.OpenAI’s GPT-3 Wrote This Short Film—Even the ...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 27, 2020 at 01:04 PM