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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
Foiling illicit cryptocurrency mining with artificial intelligence
Again matching, finding patterns that are malicious.Foiling illicit cryptocurrency mining with artificial intelligenceby James Riordon, Los Alamos National Laboratory...
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Robotics of the Small
A favorite topic, here another:This tiny robotic beetle travels for two hours without a batteryLiquid methanol powers RoBeetle’s artificial muscles.Christine Fisher...
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What are Our Models Learning?
In some of my earliest work in statistics, we were informed of the "Clever Hans Effect" Which basically means your model is learning a pattern in the data which...
From Putting People First
Three reports to helps us address online manipulation
Research has gradually revealed the extent to which online manipulation has been weaponised to affect societies in almost every important way that society works...
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Software Suite Expedites Reproducible Computer Simulations
Broadly an excellent idea, here for molecular simulation and design. But in general its useful to have locally useful and validated libraries of simulationsSoftware...
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Digital Twins in Wargaming and Beyond
An example of 'Digital Twins' in wargaming. In the DOD we used many forms where the twin was an enhanced image with underlying technical details to emulate its...
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AI versus Human Perception Performance
Interesting challenge because we always emphasize that we need to be able to measure something to use/improve it. Which leads to our design of the measurement...
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Coordinating Complex Behaviors Between Hundreds of Robots
Back to the control of swarms. Intelligence is good, but collective intelligence is better? The process described here is very interesting.Coordinating Complex...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC: Is Amazon’s Graviton2 Ready for Prime (Time)?
The show starts on a high note, with Henry’s audio being amazingly echo free. Usually we hear a lot of echo as Henry talks, which is due to the rammed earth walls...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Rhode Island's State Appetizer Is Calamari
Rhode Island has an official state appetizer, and it's calamari. Who knew? As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
From insideHPC
KDD 2020 Data Mining Conference Goes Virtual Aug. 23-27
The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD) will hold its flagship annual conference, KDD...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering, Designing the Quantum Internet
Most interesting upcoming ACM talk. An area we are now exploring. Register at the link.Title: Quantum Networks: From a Physics Experiment to a Quantum Network...
From insideHPC
Arm and DARPA Announce 3-Year Development Agreement
Arm and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced a three-year partnership agreement to “enable the research community that supports...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Hits Quantum Volume of 64 in Deployed System
How useful is this for real problems in context? Looking for some write up on that and will report here. Statement of volume metric below is useful. Note this...
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Wal-Mart is Growing
Though I rarely use them online, their stores are more impressive these days. Apparently adjusted well to Covid.Walmart keeps growing and growing and … in Retailwire...
From Putting People First
You are not your data but your data is still you
New worlds need new language. TOne of those things to name is what is happening to ourselves and our data proxies. Expanding our language from privacy to personhood...
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Scientists Build Ultra-High-Speed Terahertz Wireless Chip
More chips to support high speed AI applications.Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)August 5, 2020Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore...
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Search Algorithm Fairness Adjustments
In particular looking at search results.Algorithm Improves Fairness of Search ResultsCornell ChronicleMelanie LefkowitzAugust 17, 2020Cornell University researchers...
From Schneier on Security
Yet Another Biometric: Bioacoustic Signatures
Sound waves through the body are unique enough to be a biometric: "Modeling allowed us to infer what structures or material features of the human body actually...
From Putting People First