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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
Science and Technology links (August 29th 2020)
In children, higher video game time is positively associated with cognition (i.e., kids who play more video games are smarter). Note that it does not follow that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Autonomous Drones
More advances in the use of data to train autonomous drones in many contexts. Likely to see many more autonomous drone applications. Moving the sensors to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon's Smart Carts Launch in LA
Update on Amazon work with the 'smart cart,' which I have mentioned many times in this space. Note also Alexas as assistants. A new integration. Could an Alexa...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Survive Freezing, Oxygen-Deprived Waters
Lots of interesting genetic details. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog...
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Simon Burbridge Gives ARM a Hand – ‘Maybe We Don’t Need to Have Accelerators’
At this point in the career of HPC luminary Simon Burbridge of the University of Bristol, he’s focused on HPC system design based on ARM-designed processors. Citing...
From insideHPC
Article Retraction
Due to reporting error, insideHPC yesterday ran an article mistakenly reporting that supercomputers at the National Energy National Scientific Computing CenterArticle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating Mask Effectiveness
Was alway surprised this was not better understood. Had for years done simulation of complex systems using high performance computing methods. Why not for mask...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Faster Testing
Iproving the sensor to be better faster, or cheaper is a way we did quick classification of possibilities. And thoughts to risk of application.For Quick Coronavirus...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Survive Freezing, Oxygen-Deprived Waters
Lots of interesting genetic details. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Survive Freezing, Oxygen-Deprived Waters
Lots of interesting genetic details. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog...
From The Noisy Channel
Thanks. And sorry that slide was cryptically brief.
Thanks. And sorry that slide was cryptically brief. What I mean is that spelling correction should not restrict itself to correcting each token separately. Many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Smartphone Cases
Clever idea,but for what purpose? To test some interactive interaction with people or things?CaseCrawler Adds Tiny Robotic Legs to Your PhoneA phone case withBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pandemic Will Change Uncertainty
We have never looked at uncertainty enough, but has the pandemic made us more sensitive. Also how much risk is associated with the uncertainty. Good piece:AnA...
From insideHPC
DOE, White House Announce Members of U.S. Quantum Advisory Committee
Technologists from the national labs, universities, federal agencies and industry have been named by the U.S. Department of Energy and the White House Office of...
From Schneier on Security
US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent
The US Postal Service has filed a patent on a blockchain voting method: Abstract: A voting system can use the security of blockchain and the mail to provide a reliable...
From Schneier on Security
US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent
The US Postal Service has filed a patent on a blockchain voting method: Abstract: A voting system can use the security of blockchain and the mail to provide a reliable...
From Schneier on Security
US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent
The US Postal Service has filed a patent on a blockchain voting method: Abstract: A voting system can use the security of blockchain and the mail to provide a reliable...
From The Noisy Channel
In this case, I’m imagining that the only match of the string “black” against one of the attributes…
In this case, I’m imagining that the only match of the string “black” against one of the attributes is for the “color” attribute. If the string matches multiple...
From The Noisy Channel
The typical integration approach I’ve seen is to use a separate query rewriting service that then…
The typical integration approach I’ve seen is to use a separate query rewriting service that then either filter the Solr query to the preferred categories / attributes...
From insideHPC