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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
Science and Technology links (May 30th 2020)
We might soon be able to buy memory cards with speeds nearing 4 GB/s. For comparison, an expensive and recent macBook currently has a disk with a 2 GB/s bandwidth...
From insideHPC
ISC 2020 Goes Digital Offering an Exciting Program for the HPC Community
ISC 2020 Digital will showcase the latest advancements in HPC, encompassing all the key developments happening in system design, applications, programming models...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why is AI so Confused by Language?
From the Elemental Blog, well worth reading through there:Why is AI so confused by language? It’s all about mental models. By David FerrucciIn my last post, ILet...
From Putting People First
MVP vs. “Minimal Desirable Product”
The MVP is a double-edged sword in that it focuses your engineering and product management priorities, but might steamroll user priorities. An MVP that misses 'desirable'...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Communication
Humboldt Squid communicate by changing their skin patterns and glowing. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Just Arvind
Theory and practice [ MIT ] Arvind Mithal—almost always referred to as Arvind—is now the head of the faculty of computer science at a Boston trade school. The school...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CI Fellows 2020 – Applications Now Open
Applications are now open for the Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Steve Gibson on Why Contract Tracing Won't Work
I have inserted links below to this analysis of Apple/Google attempts at generalized software based tracking. See also related Bruce Schneier article: https...
From Schneier on Security
Bogus Security Technology: An Anti-5G USB Stick
The 5GBioShield sells for £339.60, and the description sounds like snake oil: ...its website, which describes it as a USB key that "provides protection for your...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo Look Experiment Ends
A look at the history of and now the end of fashion advice from Echo Look. Had some people look at it but it got only rare interest and the experiment ended quickly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Street Lamps as a Platform for the Urban Smart City
Considerable piece on using Street lights as a platform for the urban smart city. Have seen this posed a number of times, greet place to start, how often has it...
From insideHPC
Infinidat De-risks Storage Infrastructure with New Offerings and Support for NVMe over Fabrics
Infinidat, a leading provider of multi-petabyte data storage solutions, announced new offerings that reduce storage infrastructure costs, mitigate the risks ofInfinidat...
From Schneier on Security
Facebook Announces Messenger Security Features that Don't Compromise Privacy
Note that this is "announced," so we don't know when it's actually going to be implemented. Facebook today announced new features for Messenger that will alert...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Buying its Way into RPA
Microsoft buys it way into RPA capabilities, announced last week. Late to the space it seems, but now a flurry of activity. With claim of AI capabilities.Microsoft...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating Loaded Dice
Intriguing. We spent lots of time updating ow we generated random numbers, sometimes laboriously checking internal random number generators. I can think of...
From Putting People First
Post Covid, our societies will likely be more value-oriented, local and green
<!-- wp:paragraph --> The world after Corona will not be the same. When the corona wave has passed, our societies will likely be more value-oriented, local and...
From Putting People First
The changing role of home during crisis
In the first Constellation of Future Matters, the team of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab of Masoch University considers various aspects, from different...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Mapping an interval of integers to the whole 64-bit range, fairly?
In my blog post A fast alternative to the modulo reduction, I described how one might map 64-bit values to an interval of integers (say from 0 to N) with minimal...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Elects CCC Council Member Elisa Bertino as Secretary/Treasurer
ACM has announced the election of Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Elisa Bertino as Secretary/Treasurer for a two-year term from July 1, 2020...
From The Eponymous Pickle