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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
GNU GCC does not round floating-point divisions to the nearest value
I know that floating-point arithmetic is a bit crazy on modern computers. For example, floating-point numbers are not associative: 0.1+(0.2+0.3) == 0.599999999999999978...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Fishing for Jumbo Squid
Interesting article on the rise of the jumbo squid industry as a result of climate change. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Code as Evidence in Contracts, Disputes
A UK piece on the topic of computing and dispute resolutions, code as evidence, which came up with respect to smart contracts. Click through for useful and detailed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk: Robots as a Service in a Post Pandemic World
I had mentioned this talk, here is the recording:Correspondent Jim Spohrer talks about robot tech in our pandemic futures. ...ISSIP Speaker Series: COVID-19Speaker...
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Rich Brueckner Talks with Jack Collins about the Emergence of ‘HPC Everywhere’ and Its Impact on Science
HPC industry veteran Jack Collins, long-time fixture in the scientific supercomputing community, has seen it all in HPC, from the days when his input/output device...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Your AI Project May Fail
This is true, if you don't have ready understanding/access into the local architecture, its much harder to get the data to train models in context. And certainly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dash Shopping Wand to be Bricked
As predicted, the Dash Wand has gone away. I don't think I ever bought anything with it, just put it on a list to look at or buy later. As noted below, they...
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale: Forecasting Water Resources and Severe Weather with Greater Confidence
In this episode of Let’s Talk Exascale, Mark Taylor of Sandia National Laboratories talks about using exascale supercomputers for severe weather and water resource...
From Schneier on Security
The Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity
Interesting research: "Identifying Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity Countermeasures": Abstract: Well-meaning cybersecurity risk owners will deploy countermeasures...
From insideHPC
Quantum Superiority: How Far Away?
Some technologies, it’s said, are “always 10 years away” – we hear this in reference to autonomous vehicles and quantum computing. Of course, how far away we think...
From insideHPC
Intel, NSF Name Winners of Wireless Machine Learning Research Funding
Intel and the National Science Foundation (NSF), joint funders of the Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (MLWiNS) program, today announced recipients...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM SIGARCH BLOG: Highlights of 2020 Security Conferences for Computer Architects
While some in computing saw computing security as mostly a software issue, 2018’s Meltdown and Spectre publicized that security is a hardware issue as well. This...
From My Biased Coin
Writing Code for a Paper : A Note to Students
This post both relates to some of the stuff I'll be presenting at Friday's STOC workshop on Algorithms with Predictions, but is also for future students in my classes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtualitics June Newsletter
I see that Virtualitics has a June Newsletter out, we helped test early beta versions. I see you can now schedule a 30 day free immersive trial. See my past experiences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Counterfeiting Crimes
An area we also worked in, detecting counterfeits. But then isn't this another cooperation with law enforcement?Amazon forms Counterfeit Crimes Unit to tackleThe...
From insideHPC
Collaboration Moves to the Cloud in a Work-from-home World
In this Sponsored Post, our friends over at Altair explain how remote access and cloud collaboration tools allow companies of all sizes to discover and innovate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Polinating by Drone and Bubbles
Fascinating detail. As a long time part time botanist, of interest. But how well can it effectively being done? Will the use of drones interfere with natural...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Ways to Build Assistant Voice Apps
Look forward to the details on this, any way you can create better intelligence is good. Note changes in training methods.Google Assistant Upgrades Action Developer...
From Schneier on Security
Analyzing IoT Security Best Practices
New research: "Best Practices for IoT Security: What Does That Even Mean?" by Christopher Bellman and Paul C. van Oorschot: Abstract: Best practices for Internet...
From The Eponymous Pickle