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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
GigaOm Radar for Evaluating Data Warehouse Platforms
This new GigaOm Radar Report "GigaOm Radar for Evaluating Data Warehouse Platforms" provided by our friends over at Vertica, examines the leading platforms in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sweat Powering Wearables
Have heard this being proposed from time to time over the years, but it never happened. The power involved was always too low and the electricity too cheap. ...
From Schneier on Security
ThiefQuest Ransomware for the Mac
There's a new ransomware for the Mac called ThiefQuest or EvilQuest. It's hard to get infected: For your Mac to become infected, you would need to torrent a compromised...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Mental Health from Microsoft
Mental health likely a more useful direction using voice.Microsoft Pilots Voice AI-Based Senior Mental Healthcare Program in South Korea Eric Hal Schartz on July...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Something Missing in Remote Work?
Nice view of the very nature of remote work. What is essential, what is a waste of time?Remote Work is Surprisingly Productive, But For Many… Something Is Missing...
From Computational Complexity
A table for Matrix Mortality- what I wanted for Hilbert's 10th problem
In this post I speculated on why I could not find anywhere a table of which cases of Hilbert's 10th problem were solvable, unsolvable, and unknown. (I then made...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advance of Automated Trucking
Looked at this topic last year, it continues to advance.Are automated freight trucks ready to carry retail’s heavy load? in Retailwire by George AndersonTuSimple...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Safety and Leadership in a Time of Change
Good overview of current and future considerations.Psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and leadership in a time of fluxTwo renowned scholars and two McKinsey...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Covid Changing the Way we Eat?
Implications for food related industries.How COVID-19 has changed the way we eat, according to five expertsTop executives from General Mills, Impossible Foods, ...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Intellectual Fireworks?
Some different ideas for marking the Fourth “Founding Frenemies” source John Adams and Thomas Jefferson did not use Zoom. Their correspondence, from 1777 up to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone Deployed Sterile Mosquitoes
My son Steve is an expert at drone deployment and photography, Need any help in that domain, let me know and I will introduce you.Drone-Deployed Sterile Mosquitoes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NBA Uses Smart Tech Wearables
Expect continued use of wearable sensors. Here another example. Brings to mind the question of who owns the captured and derived data. Similar agreements...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Strawberry Squid
Pretty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.....
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Rich Brueckner and Doug Ball Talk CFD, Autonomous Mobility and Driving Down HPC Package Sizing
Doug Ball is a leading expert in computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamic engineering, disciplines he became involved with more than 40 years ago. In this interview...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Purpose
I often follow university and lab work of interest that matches my long problem solving experience. Sometimes I mention it for my own future purposes, or if I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Manufacturing Cost Predictor
Overall a good idea, especially if a process model of existing manufacturing systems are maintained and this can be used to price out changes.Manufacturing Cost...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Announcing CRA Workshop Series on Departmental Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Plans
The following is a guest blog from the BPC Plan Workshop Steering Committee. We are pleased to announce the Workshop Series on Writing Departmental Broadening...
From Schneier on Security
Hacked by Police
French police hacked EncroChat secure phones, which are widely used by criminals: Encrochat's phones are essentially modified Android devices, with some models...
From insideHPC
RadioFreeHPC Podcast: NSF, QIS Funding, But First…
....we discuss some recent government news. First is that the US House is looking to devote an additional $1.25 billion over the next five years. But even bigger...
From The Eponymous Pickle