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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
Sony Aibo Updated, will Greet You at the Door
Seems to be only assistant system left that makes a claim to being mobile and family friendly. Home oriented. With elements of a home pet emphasized. We visited...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patient Survey for Telemedicine
Useful to get some real experience from this event:Doctor.com's Patient Survey Reveals Surprising Trends About Telemedicine Adoption Amid ReopeningsPR NewswireJune...
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High Quality Images of Moving Objects
I recall having to solve this problem for diagnosing from images of manufacturing machine parts.Capturing Moving Subjects in Still-Life QualityEPFL News (Switzerland)...
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Upcoming ISSIP/CSG Talk: Robots in the Pandemic
Correspondent Jim Spohrer talks about robot tech in our pandemic futures. I will post about this and point to the transcript.ISSIP Speaker Series: COVID-19 &...
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Google Assistant and Duplex can Listen Better
This made me think a while about the implications. It does not necessarily imply a loss of privacy, these are the actions-skills that we accept as extensions to...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Washes Up on South African Beach
Fourteen feet long and 450 pounds. It was dead before it washed up. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
From Schneier on Security
Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2020
Today is the second day of the thirteenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. It's being hosted by the University of Cambridge, which in today's world means...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Concept Mapping-based Platform for Learning and Knowledge Assessment.
Re connecting with Sero!, here is a repeat of a previous post:Brought my attention by Brian Moon, a knowledge design practitioner we have worked with. I am aIntroducing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Proposal Writing Workshop for the CISE Community
By Thyagarajan Nandagopal, NSF You are invited to participate in the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Proposal Writing Workshop, to be held as an interactive online...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Physics: All the Way Down?
Descriptive. But will it show us something really predictively new?THE THIRD CULTUREComputation All the Way Down In the EdgeA Conversation with Stephen Wolfram...
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Money Reimagined?
Are we there yet? Still I think major regulatory issues ahead. Good piece:Money Reimagined: Ethereum’s Renaissance Creates an Opportunity – And a Major Test ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Do We Know Who Is Struggling In Learning CS
One of the interesting points Amy Ko makes in her presentation to Microsoft (CS education in higher education) is that “Most faculty have little insight into who...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Computational overhead due to Docker under macOS
For my programming work, I tend to assume that I have a Linux environnement. That is true whether I am under Windows, under macOS or under a genuine Linux. HowContinue...
From insideHPC
‘Rocky Year’ – Hyperion’s HPC Market Update: COVID-19 Hits Q1 Revenues, Cloud HPC Boom, Shift in Server Vendor Standings
COVID-19’s impact on the industry will come in at a net first quarter decline of 15-18 percent, Hyperion predicted, due to delayed product shipments caused by worker...
From insideHPC
HPC Guru Speaketh! Kind of…
In this extraordinary episode of Radio Free HPC, the crew interviews the industry icon that is @HPC_Guru. This is the first time that anyone has been granted an...
From Schneier on Security
New Hacking-for-Hire Company in India
Citizen Lab has a new report on Dark Basin, a large hacking-for-hire company in India. Key Findings: Dark Basin is a hack-for-hire group that has targeted thousands...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Acquires Mapillary, Competes with Street View
First I had seen this. Generalized tool for looking at location. Commercial users for now.Facebook acquires Google Street View competitor MapillaryThe streetBy...
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Google Maps Add New COVID-19 Alerts
Useful updates regarding changes in status of Pandemic.Google Maps adds new COVID-19 alerts as more cities reopenMaps will remind you to wear a face covering on...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Episodes ….In Case You Missed It
There are fresh episodes of Radio Free HPC out in the wild and, in case you missed them, here’s what’s new: ColdQuanta Serves Up Some Bose-Einstein Condensate May...
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