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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
An Adaptive Platform for Converged HPC/AI Workloads
In this sponsored post from our friends over at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), we see that from many years of experience working with numerous customers, the company...
From Computational Complexity
Mathematics is not commutative
In my poll of P vs NP and other issues, one of the questions was Is factoring in P? One of the most interesting answers was I...
From Schneier on Security
Robocall Results from a Telephony Honeypot
A group of researchers set up a telephony honeypot and tracked robocall behavior: NCSU researchers said they ran 66,606 telephone lines between March 2019 and January...
From Putting People First
Visions of the post-pandemic home
Vitra, the German manufacturing company, published this week a “set of hypotheses” on the future of the home, as living spaces are pushed to the limits.
From Putting People First
The ethnographer and the algorithm: beyond the black box
Angèle Christin argues that we can explicitly enroll algorithms in ethnographic research, which can shed light on unexpected aspects of algorithmic systems—including...
From Putting People First
[Book] Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms
The starkly different ways that American and French online news companies respond to audience analytics and what this means for the future of news
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple as a Subscription Bundler.
Interesting statement, not quite sure the information supports it. How much of this will they do? Worked with IBM and Apple as a supplier for many years in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Blogger Experience?
Blogger has been here since 1999, this blog started using it shortly after that date. It was created from an initially internal corporate blog designed to introduce...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attorneys Embracing Analytics
A fairly short descriptive piece. Were involved with several examples of analytics/statistics before judges. Depends much upon the kind of legal proceedingMore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Army and Swarming Drones
Expect the use of multiple drones that work together to achieve results to comtine to increase. And Military is an obvious application. Note the use of (HRL)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BlackHat Conference Presentations
Recent research work for me has led more deeply into security systems. The recently complete BlackHat conference, like most, has gone virtual. It is a place...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can AI Sniff the Roses, Predict the Smell?
Spent some time in examining artificial olfaction for the coffee business. Here we are looking at predicting what something smells or tastes like. The general...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimization Assisting the User of Large Databases
Using tools like machine learning to adapt how we do complex operations, like analyzing increasingly large databases for complex uses. Here work at MIT in this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Some Hospitals Tracking Covid-19 by Adding Sensors to Employees' Badges
Makes sense to add sensors to track internal status of employees. Could likely be linked to networks of contacts outside the hospital.Some Hospitals Tracking Covid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Picking Locks from Audio
That is picking locks of the physical, notched metal kind. Seems a machine learning kind of approach would be possible. Learn from the sounds emitted when opening...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Book Review: Humble Pi
Recently, I asked my Facebook friends for recommendations for non-fiction books that would not get me depressed. Several people recommended Humble Pi: When Math...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GigaOM re File Storage to Scale
A project led me to this, saving it for later use. Scaling should always be in your mind for problems. Not that some projects are not one-off for tests, butKey...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Satellite Based Broadband Tests
Further competition in Sat based broadband, here from SpaceX Starlink. Early data speeds from Beta tests.SpaceX Starlink speeds revealed as beta users get downloads...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Editing the Squid Genome
Scientists have edited the genome of the Doryteuthis pealeii squid with CRISPR. A first. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle