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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
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Dr. Michael Resch Talks about the Leap from von Neumann: ‘I Tell My PhD Candidates: Go for Quantum’
Dr. Michael M. Resch of the University of Stuttgart has professorships, degrees, doctorates and honorary doctorates from around the world, he has studied and taught...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Responsible Innovation
Google reports on what they believe is responsible. Considerable piece. Lots of words.An update on our work on AI and responsible innovationKent Walker SVP...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meshing and Simulation
Design meshes are a means for determining the design of simulation, especially for design problems. Good discussion.Better simulation meshes well for design software...
From Schneier on Security
Adversarial Machine Learning and the CFAA
I just co-authored a paper on the legal risks of doing machine learning research, given the current state of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Abstract: Adversarial...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Invitation to Participate in a Study to Investigate the Compounding Impacts of Racism & COVID-19 on Learning & Employment in Computing & Technology (CIRCLE-CT)
AnitaB.org, The National Center for Women & Technology (NCWIT) and the STARS Computing Corps (STARS) are conducting a survey to understand the impact of the global...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Good is Language Generator GPT-3?
Trying to understand the full range and usefulness of this, will schedule a test. I did take a look at GPT-2 for a client. Much more at the link ...OpenAI’s...
From insideHPC
University of Florida, Nvidia Plan to Build Fastest AI Supercomputer in Academia
The University of Florida and Nvidia have unveiled a plan to build what they say will be the world’s fastest AI supercomputer in academia, delivering 700 petaflops...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Plans to Lay off
Bell weather activity,especially when you would expect them to thrive in an era of increased job hunting and HR activity.In A Scary Sign Of The Times, LinkedIn ...
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3D Latex Printing
Nteo the use use of an embedded 3D printing system,another example of added sensor applications. Potential healthcare applications.Innovations Lead to 3D-Printed...
From insideHPC
RadioFreeHPC: ISC, Student Cluster Competition Recap
By RadioFreeHPC Podcast In this episode, the RadioFreeHPC team looks back at the success that ISC20 was and discusses what attending an online-only conference was...
From Schneier on Security
Fawkes: Digital Image Cloaking
Fawkes is a system for manipulating digital images so that they aren't recognized by facial recognition systems. At a high level, Fawkes takes your personal images...
From insideHPC
Inspur Launches Server for Mobile Liquid Cooling Cluster
Data center infrastructure provider Inspur Information has announced a plate liquid-cooling 2U 4-node server, the i24M5-LC, that the company said is optimized for...
From insideHPC
Paradigm Change: Reinventing HPC Architectures with In-Package Optical I/O
This white paper fromAyar Labs, "Paradigm Change: Reinventing HPC Architectures with In-Package Optical I/O," discusses an important paradigm change: reinventing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA and U of Florida
An Alma of mine makes an interesting AI move with NVidia, looUF announces $70 million artificial intelligence partnership with NVIDIA Artist's rendering of University...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Avoid character-by-character processing when performance matters
When processing strings, it is tempting to view them as arrays of characters (or bytes) and to process them as such. Suppose that you would like to determine whether...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Scout Delivery Robots Expand
Been awaiting for this, looking forward to see it operational in the suburbs, on the roads and sidewalks, among people. My camera is ready.Amazon is testing its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethereum is 5, and is Talking
Been impressed by the direction of Blockchain player Ethereum, which has been ambitious and planning to publish a newsletter as part of their milestone. I ask...
From insideHPC
U.S. Launches $75M Push to Advance Quantum Information Science – 3 University Centers
The U.S. has launched a $75 million to accelerate quantum information science (QIS) research and development, funding that will establish three Quantum Leap Challenge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Studies Remote Working
Good to see this being studied in the new context. Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote WorkforceBy Harvard Business ReviewJuly 20, 2020Microsoft employees...
From The Eponymous Pickle