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Video: VMware Talks GPU Virtualization, Sharing for AI/ML
From insideHPC

Video: VMware Talks GPU Virtualization, Sharing for AI/ML

In this video, Mike Adams, VMware’s Senior Director CPBU, AI/ML Market Development, talks with us about a new, integrated VMware vSphere 7 feature enabling “elastic...

Hacking a Power Supply
From Schneier on Security

Hacking a Power Supply

This hack targets the firmware on modern power supplies. (Yes, power supplies are also computers.) Normally, when a phone is connected to a power brick with support...

15 years of Experientia
From Putting People First

15 years of Experientia

Today is the 15th birthday of Experientia. The first ones to thank are all our collaborators (former and current ones), but also our clients, our partners and our...

Robots Given Human Like Perception of Environment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Given Human Like Perception of Environment

In general,  there is need for general an understanding of context, starting with physical environment.MIT researchers have developed a representation of spatial...

Offline Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Offline Learning

Some good points made about using particular machine learning methods off-line.    The point that offline could be dangerous.D4RL: Building Better Benchmarks for...

Summary of July 15th, 2020 Purdue Seminar on Control System Cyber Security
From CERIAS Blog

Summary of July 15th, 2020 Purdue Seminar on Control System Cyber Security

Guest Blog by Joe Weiss, Applied Control Systems, Inc Wednesday July 15, 2020 I gave a 1 hour presentation on control system cyber security for the Purdue University...

Autonomous Vehicles to Race at Indy 500 Speedway
From insideHPC

Autonomous Vehicles to Race at Indy 500 Speedway

One of – if not the – most famous car races in the world, the Indianapolis 500, will take AV form a year from this fall when more than 36 universities globallyAutonomous...

Assistant IOT Regulation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Assistant IOT Regulation

Specifics of the IOT aspects would seem to be beyond these, and to any assistant, depending on the definition of an IOT.Siri, Alexa Targeted as E.U. Probes Internet...

Automatically Generating Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
From The Eponymous Pickle

Automatically Generating Reinforcement Learning Algorithms

Can be expected that many current machine learning techniques will move towards automation.  Papers mentioned are worth looking at.DeepMind’s AI automatically generates...

Pandemic Shopping Habits
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pandemic Shopping Habits

An interesting peek into corporate bahavior.Our pandemic shopping habits are here to stay. Brands are racing to adapt  By Hanna Ziady CNN Business Three days a...

The Industrial Internet Consortium
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Industrial Internet Consortium

Was just reminded of the Industrial Internet Consortium. Has some interesting documents within.THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET CONSORTIUM: A GLOBAL NOT-FOR-PROFIT PARTNERSHIP...

Nominations Open for 2021 Microsoft Research Fellowships
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Nominations Open for 2021 Microsoft Research Fellowships

Nominations are now open for the 2021 Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship and Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. Doctoral students must be nominated by the...

On the Twitter Hack
From Schneier on Security

On the Twitter Hack

Twitter was hacked this week. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter. Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the...

A Look at Transfer Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Look at Transfer Learning

Good generalized look at the concept of Transfer LearnigEverything you need to know about transfer learning in AI   in TNWToday, artificial intelligence programs...

UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation Breaks Data Bottlenecks
From insideHPC

UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation Breaks Data Bottlenecks

In this compelling use case provided by our friends over at HPC storage solution provider Panasas, we look at how the UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation...

Facebook Reveals Holographic Optics for Thin, Light VR Headsets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook Reveals Holographic Optics for Thin, Light VR Headsets

Technically interesting  next step via Facebook.  Still apparently in early stages. Facebook Reveals Holographic Optics for Thin, Light VR HeadsetsVentureBeatJeremy...

AI, CoronaVirus and Investing
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI, CoronaVirus and Investing

I am guessing probably because most learning models depend on machine learning, and the data is not there to predict rare events.  A classic caution for any AIEven...

From Computational Complexity

Erdos-Turan for k=3 is True!

(All of the math in this post is summarized (without proofs) in a writeup by Erik Metz and myself which you can find here. It is a pdf file so you can click onGil...

Sankey Diagrams for Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sankey Diagrams for Visualization

A reader reminded me that I had posted on the Sankey Diagram, a form of 'pie' chart with room for lots of relationships.    A kind of concept diagram too.    Even...

Virtual Try Ons
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtual Try Ons

An idea with a long history that we also examined as part of a broader smart-store effort.  Would not say it has been generally successful to date, but with increased...
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