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Taking a Virtual Turn, ModSim 2020 Focuses on the AI Era
From insideHPC

Taking a Virtual Turn, ModSim 2020 Focuses on the AI Era

From the front lines of this year’s ModSim conference, Charity Plata, Computational Science Initiative, Communications, Brookhaven National Laboratory, send this...

Platforms for Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Platforms for Data Science

Good piece in O'Reilly about this question,  largely-non technical and useful thoughts. Passing it on ...Why Best-of-Breed is a Better Choice than All-in-One Platforms...

Doorbell Cameras Used by Criminals too
From The Eponymous Pickle

Doorbell Cameras Used by Criminals too

I have recently been asked about security issues with doorbell and other smart home camera systems.  The following excerpt from The Verge shows a perhaps less than...

Amazon Prime Air Approved for Trials
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Prime Air Approved for Trials

Promised some time ago.  Now FAA approved.   In specifically what parts of the supply chain is this expected to be useful?   Some years away?Amazon's Prime AirThe...

Ikea Tries Virtual Influence, Happiness and More
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ikea Tries Virtual Influence, Happiness and More

So what is this?   An assistant?  An influencer in what sense?   Just to engage us?  An Android?  To do what for whom?  Assemble furniture or prepare meatballs?...

Knowledge Graphs vs Property Graphs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Knowledge Graphs vs Property Graphs

Robert Coyne Writes and points to a number of their resources on this topic:Thank you for attending our webinar: "Knowledge Graphs vs. Property Graphs --a brief...

Quantum Accelerated Computation as Disruption
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Accelerated Computation as Disruption

Some bits of thoughts on the topic.   And new form of high performance computing (HPC)?  Ultimately what are the limits of capabilities here, versus more standard...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Mea Culpa

Plus more on the separating word problem Mea Culpa is not someone we introduced on the blog before. She does not come from the same world as Lofa Polir or Neil...

Managing Complexity in the New Era of HPC
From insideHPC

Managing Complexity in the New Era of HPC

In this contributed article, Bill Wagner, CEO of Bright Computing, discusses how the HPC industry has entered an era of change in the past few years. New technologies...

Seny Kamara on "Crypto for the People"
From Schneier on Security

Seny Kamara on "Crypto for the People"

Seny Kamara gave an excellent keynote talk this year at the (online) CRYPTO Conference. He talked about solving real-world crypto problems for marginalized communities...

Seny Kamara on "Crypto for the People"
From Schneier on Security

Seny Kamara on "Crypto for the People"

Seny Kamara gave an excellent keynote talk this year at the (online) CRYPTO Conference. He talked about solving real-world crypto problems for marginalized communities...

Seny Kamara on "Crypto for the People"
From Schneier on Security

Seny Kamara on "Crypto for the People"

Seny Kamara gave an excellent keynote talk this year at the (online) CRYPTO Conference. He talked about solving real-world crypto problems for marginalized communities...

More Seeing Around the Corner
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Seeing Around the Corner

More on the topic.  Mentioned a number of times here, a seemingly impossible idea. But very useful for driving applications to anticipate and avoid problems. Thought...

Exoskeletons Advancing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Exoskeletons Advancing

The exoskeleton idea is fascinating ... already in use in automotive.  Anywhere that needs improved physical strength and manipulation.  Military another area very...

Surveillance Capitalism
From The Eponymous Pickle

Surveillance Capitalism

I was just pointed to Shoshanna Zuboff's latest Book: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:    Our company had been interviewed for her 1988 book:  In the Age of....

Content Factories Emerge
From The Eponymous Pickle

Content Factories Emerge

We have many means of converting data and hypotheses to useful testable directions.The Data-Driven Tech Engine at the Heart of Hollywood's Content FactoriesTheChristopher...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

20,000 Comments and More

With more about the Separating Words Problem I.I.T. Madras page Anoop S K M is a PhD student in the theory group of I.I.T. Madras in Chennai, India. His comment...

Connecting Computers to the Brain: Update NeuralLink
From The Eponymous Pickle

Connecting Computers to the Brain: Update NeuralLink

Had heard of this some time ago.   Apparently this updates.   Still skeptical as to what the word 'connecting' means here.  We can read brain signals readily, but...

Considering the AI Factory
From The Eponymous Pickle

Considering the AI Factory

Nicely covered by Irving:The AI Factory: A New Kind of Digital Operating Model“Whether you’re leading a digital start-up or working to revamp a traditional enterprise...

Honeywell Talks Future of Quantum Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Honeywell Talks Future of Quantum Computing

Honeywell gives a non technical (but necessarily incomplete) view of the state and future of quantum computing. And they are apparently bullish on its future. The...
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