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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
Working with Interactive Articles
About Interactive Articles. We talked this, but never really did it. Articles were always static, and the users of the articles were responsible for working with...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Hybrid Versus Remote Teaching
Which is best for students? Cropped from Wikipedia src Moshe Vardi holds multiple professorships at Rice University. He is also the Senior Editor of Communications...
From insideHPC
Genomics England Expands Genomic Sequencing with Quantum ActiveScale Object Storage
SAN JOSE — Sept. 10, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced that Genomics England has expanded their Quantum ActiveScale object storage solution as...
From insideHPC
Combustion Pioneer Jacqueline Chen Named Department of Energy Fellow
Jacqueline Chen, whose work on fundamental turbulence-chemistry interactions in combustion helped advance the design of automotive, gas turbine and jet engines,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart+ Revealed
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/7/7/21314767/walmart-plus-grocery-delivery-amazon-prime-membership-loyalty-program-walmartAmazon may have a 15-year head start,...
From insideHPC
ScienceLogic Named Top AIOps Provider by EMA
Reston, VA – Sept. 10, 2020 – ScienceLogic, provider of monitoring solutions for multi-cloud management and hybrid IT infrastructure, has been recognized for AIOps...
From The Noisy Channel
Learning from Friction to Improve the Search Experience
When we design search applications, we aspire to make the user experience frictionless. A search engine should “just work”, enabling searchers to easily express...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Multiple Choice 2020: Assessment
Of interest, have two projects underway that will have key assessment aspects. Its measurement, the most important aspect of any data.AGENDACALL FOR PRESENTATIONS...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing floats in C++: benchmarking strtod vs. from_chars
Programmers often need to convert a string into a floating-point numbers. For example, you might get the string “3.1416” and you would like to get the resulting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moving AI to the Edge
Nicely put, mostly non technical overview of what it means to have AI move to the Edge. Ssing it in places like the Smart Home. Favorite topic of mine. Needs...
From insideHPC
Teradata Expands Data Science Collaboration Capabilities
Cloud data analytics specialist Teradata has released collaborative features to its Vantage platform designed to reduce the friction between data scientists, business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computational Models Help Translate Drugs From Animal Studies
Could be a considerable development. We need better drug development methods now. And expect considerable pushback here too.Computational Model Could Improve...
From insideHPC
Rescale Announces Appointments to its Executive Ranks
San Francisco, Sept. 10, 2020 — Rescale Inc., the leader in enterprise big compute, today announced the appointment of two new senior executives, underscoring the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming Talk: How Will the AI Genie Behave?
Upcoming sponsored by UC, online talk.You are all cordially invited to the following 29th Arnoff-Schloss lecture, which will be on Zoom on Friday, September 18th...
From Computational Complexity
When are both x^2+3y and y^2+3y both squares, and a more general question
In my last post (see here) I asked two math questions. In this post I discuss one of them. (I will discuss the other one later, probably Monday Sept 14.)For which...
From insideHPC
Intelligent Fabrics for the Next Wave of AI Innovation
In this sponsored post, our friend John Spiers, Chief Strategy Officer at Liqid, discusses how resource utilization and the soaring costs surrounding it are a constant...![[Book] The Innovation Delusion](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] The Innovation Delusion
The authors offer a compelling plan for how we can shift our focus away from the pursuit of growth at all costs, and back toward neglected activities like maintenance...
From Putting People First
[Book] Slow computing
Slow Computing: Why We Need Balanced Digital Livesby Rob Kitchin and Alistair FraserBristol University PressSeptember 2020 – 224 pages Digital technologies should...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IFTTT Pro Announced
Just received today, always liked IFTTT, used it some, the advances look interestingToday we’re launching IFTTT Pro, https://ifttt.com/pro a subscription designed...
From insideHPC