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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
Testing Self Driving in Germany
The idea of autonomous vehicles moves on.Mobileye wins permit to test autonomous vehicles in Germany By Kyle Wiggers in VenturebeatMobileye, Intel’s driverless...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Updates Audio Settings
Had noticed that that Google assistant seemed to better understand. Via Google:' .... We recently updated the setting for voice and audio recordings in yourThe...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA on the Risks of Exposing Location Data
The NSA has issued an advisory on the risks of location data. Mitigations reduce, but do not eliminate, location tracking risks in mobile devices. Most users rely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Many Sat Nav Systems in Orbit
The continued increase of GPS systems. Will the data from multiple systems be commonly be shared? Or more likely withdrawn in conflict?China Celebrates Completion...
From insideHPC
Summit Takes Center Stage in GE Wind Power Study
Scientists at GE Research have been authorized by the U.S. Department of Energy to access Oak Ridge National Lab’s (ORNL) Summit supercomputer, the world second...
From insideHPC
Unify Your Analytics, and Keep Your Data Where It Suits You
In this sponsored post, Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing, believes that we need to stop our fixation with “data in one place.” The days...
From insideHPC
RadioFreeHPC: HPC Market Growth; Student Cluster Competition — Winter Classic Invitational
by RadioFreeHPC Podcast HPC Market Projected Growth It’s a few weeks since we recorded this episode so maybe things have changed, but as of the recording the HPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Bricklayer
A great deal of human engineering has been done on bricklaying, that could be used to carefully compare the work involved under varying contexts. Robotic Bricklayer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Questions on the Value of Speaking Robotish
What is the meaning behind declaring something a language? We have many computing and many human languages. How much does their form influence the nature of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Opinions on State of the Art of Automated Machine Learning
Very useful piece here, the individual comments at the link are most interesting, the key takeaways are mostly obvious. State of the Art in Automated Machine Learning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Suites to be Modified
Have now had to use G-Suites for a number of interactions, especially of university project communications. Always thought they were less logical, especiallyGoogle...
From insideHPC
Inspur NF5488A5 Breaks AI Server Performance Record in Latest MLPerf Benchmarks
San Jose, Aug. 5 – In the results released last week of MLPerf AI benchmark, Inspur NF5488A5 server set a new AI performance record in the Resnet50 training task...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Reversible Classical Computing Workshop – Position Papers Submission Deadline August 7th
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a virtual workshop the week of Oct. 5-9 (with a reception on Fri., Oct. 2) to address the physics & engineering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google-Style Map of the Brain
As suggested brains vary considerably. So its not a map in a true geographic sense. a more probabilistic map. How easy is it to navigate, link to behavior, data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco on Post Quantum Security
Full considerable article at the link, a good overview of the direction of quantum Crypto, with predictive time line.It’s Not Too Early to Start Thinking AboutBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Downsizing of Retail
Retailwire does a good job of examining current trends and process in retail.Has retail permanently downsized?By George Anderson in RetailwireThe number of people...
From insideHPC
Panasas Offering Takes on Tiered HPC Storage Headaches, Automatically Adapts to Workload Changes
High performance storage vendor Panasas today released Dynamic Data Acceleration on its new PanFS parallel file system, a software feature designed to overcome...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning Python Part 2: Distracted by a Turtle
I cracked a book and found out that Python supports turtle graphics. I love drawing pictures with graphics. I have since I was in university. So today I played...
From insideHPC
Oxford, Atos in Deal for Nvidia 63-Node DGX System, Said to be UK’s Largest AI Supercomputer
The University of Oxford has signed a £5 million with Atos, provider of hybrid cloud and big data solutions, to deliver what the two organizations say will beOxford...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson