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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 insideHPC
Los Alamos Stands up HPE Cray EX for COVID-19 Fight
Los Alamos National Laboratory reported it has completed the installation of “Chicoma,” based on AMD EPYC CPUs and the HPE Cray EX supercomputer architecture. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bletchley Park Contribution Over-Rated?
Am a student of this effort, so this suggestion was surprising.Bletchley Park’s contribution to WW2 'over-rated'By Gordon Corera, Security correspondentCode-breaking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A GPU can Brute Force Your Passwords
Faster GPUs are eroding security. Using a password manager, which give you a larger number of characters, and/or a multifactor link up makes much sense. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Focus Music
Amazon Alexa Music has been pushing what they call 'Focus Time Music' With claims for 'perfect sound when you are studying, working, reading or writing '. They...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Ridiculously fast unicode (UTF-8) validation
One of the most common “data type” in programming is the text string. When programmers think of a string, they imagine that they are dealing with a list or an array...
From insideHPC
Atos Wins Northumbrian Water Cloud Computing Transformation project
London, 20 October 2020 – Atos has been awarded a leading role on a new cloud computing initiative to help deliver operational efficiencies and enhance customer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Synthetic Data
Was asked about this, seems it has not come up for some time. We used it to set up software and analyses for coming real data. Some MIT thoughts.The real promise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Toshiba Targets Quantum Cryptography
Considerable effort under way here:Toshiba targets $3 billion revenue in quantum cryptography by 2030By Makiko Yamazaki in ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp...
From insideHPC
HPE to build Australia’s No. 1 Supercomputer at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it was awarded a $48 AUD million contract to build a new supercomputer for Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, one of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Smart Cities Week Global- A Month of Collaborative Engagement (Oct 19-Nov 10, 2020)
This year Smart Cities Week is taking on a big challenge with a month of online virtual collaborative global engagement from October 19-November 10th, 2020. Called...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Smart Cities Week Global- A Month of Collaborative Engagement (Oct 19-Nov 10, 2020)
This year Smart Cities Week is taking on a big challenge with a month of online virtual collaborative global engagement from October 19-November 10th, 2020. Called...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bringing Power Tool From Math Into Quantum Computing
The implication that this idea can be used for problems already well solved by FFT methods, is considerable. These kinds of pattern recognition techniques areBringing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Takes on Synthetic Biology
Previously mentioned, we experimented with the idea before the current state of machine learning, with a kind of simulation more akin to 'digital twins'. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Engines?
Interesting proposal. Speculative? Relates to laws of thermodynamics brought up recently here. Can entanglement be a fuel? Consider the implications. Perfect...
From Computational Complexity
Nature vs Nurture close to my birthday
Since I was born on Oct 1, 1960 (that's not true---if I posted my real birthday I might get my identity stolen), I will do a nature vs nurture post based onhere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Microwave Ovens
My microwave oven learns, say to cook a baked potato, but this takes it to a new dimension. For possible industry applications. See also my previous note on...
From Putting People First
Remote events (like this one) are terrible. How to fix them and why.
In this talk, Andre Jay Meissner and Fredrik Matheson talk about what we’ve lost, why existing tech and formats are a poor replacement, and what we can do to change...
From Putting People First
The Big Home Reboot: IKEA’s Life at Home Report 2020
IKEA just launched its seventh Life at Home Report, exploring how people have grown closer to their homes in this extraordinary year
From Putting People First
The value of ethnographic research and contextual inquiry
In this article, Lylo Trotta explain the value that both contextual inquiry and ethnographic research provide and discuss why these practices are a crucial, even...
From insideHPC