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Arrows of Time
From The Eponymous Pickle

Arrows of Time

Fascinating report on how we think about time and its implication for culture and science.   Time measurements are part of any analytics.  Does this apply to our...

Supercomputing the San Andreas Fault with CyberShake
From insideHPC

Supercomputing the San Andreas Fault with CyberShake

With help from DOE supercomputers, a USC-led team expands models of the fault system beneath its feet, aiming to predict its outbursts. For their 2020 INCITE work...

Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure – Part 4
From insideHPC

Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure – Part 4

Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing...

Rail Supply Chain Opportunity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rail Supply Chain Opportunity

Recalls an examination of opportunity we saw.North American Rail Is Missing a Growth Opportunity in SupplychainbrainRobert Sabath, SCB Contributor, Steven Fox,Many...

Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France SIGINT Alliance
From Schneier on Security

Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France SIGINT Alliance

This paper describes a SIGINT and code-breaking alliance between Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France called Maximator: Abstract: This article is...

Original Google Home on Sale
From The Eponymous Pickle

Original Google Home on Sale

I have one of these in my smart home lab, have tested it since its beginning in 2015.  No screen and only a primitive quality speaker, it gives you voice access...

Watson Discovery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Discovery

We took an early look at Watson Discovery, but it did not meet our needs.   It has been updated in how it can be used.  The below article shows how it can be used...

Ready to go beyond Zoom to Virtual Worlds?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ready to go beyond Zoom to Virtual Worlds?

Something we explored, but it was overall not very successful.  Even allowed us to construct part of the real-world operational process world to interact with. ...

Podcast: David Barkai book to chronicle the History of HPC
From insideHPC

Podcast: David Barkai book to chronicle the History of HPC

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team catches up with special guest today, David Barkai, a 50-year veteran of HPC. David has worked in a wide variety of positions...

Sustainable Industrial Chemistry
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sustainable Industrial Chemistry

A means of testing and formulating, using neural methods.Researchers Design Intelligent Microsystem for Faster, More Sustainable Industrial ChemistryNYU TandonApril...

Can Algorithms Recognized a Masked Face?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Can Algorithms Recognized a Masked Face?

Now having worn a mask at times now in public.  I would guess, not well at all.  The makers of such recognition systems seem to scrambling.    In the recent past...

IBM Study Says Consumer Behavior Altered
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Study Says Consumer Behavior Altered

Insightful look at changes we will need to adapt toIBM Study: COVID-19 Is Significantly Altering U.S. Consumer Behavior and Plans Post-CrisisARMONK, N.Y., May 1...

Encoding binary in ASCII very fast
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Encoding binary in ASCII very fast

In software, we typically work with binary values. That is, we have arbitrary streams of bytes. To encode these arbitrary stream of bytes in standard formats like...

Can AI Understand Cause and Effect?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Can AI Understand Cause and Effect?

Key point is made,  in human conversations we continually make cause-effect assumptions and consideration.What AI still can’t do in TechnologyReviewArtificial intelligence...

Google Messaging
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Messaging

TheVerge looks at Google messaging.  Agreed is a mess.  Been using Hangouts of late because some clients do.  Worth a look.Exclusive: Inside Hangouts, Google'sHow...

Science and Technology links (May 2nd 2020)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (May 2nd 2020)

As we age, we tend to produce less of NAD+, an essential chemical compound for our bodies. We can restore youthful levels of NAD+ by using freely available supplements...

How to Achieve High-Performance, Scalable and Distributed DNN Training on Modern HPC Systems
From insideHPC

How to Achieve High-Performance, Scalable and Distributed DNN Training on Modern HPC Systems

DK Panda from Ohio State University gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "This talk will focus on a range of solutions being carried out in my group to...

[Book] We Are Not Users
From Putting People First

[Book] We Are Not Users

A call to reclaim and rethink the field of designing as a liberal art where diverse voices come together to shape the material world.

Video: Ayar Labs pushes Moore’s Law through Optical I/O technology
From insideHPC

Video: Ayar Labs pushes Moore’s Law through Optical I/O technology

In this video, Mark Wade from Ayar Labs explains how the company's optical I/O solution will address the critical computing challenges of efficiency, density, and...

Job of the Week: System Administrator at DE Shaw Research
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: System Administrator at DE Shaw Research

DE Shaw Research is seeking System Administrators for Servers, Clusters and Supercomputers in our Job of the Week. "Exceptional sysadmins sought to manage systems...
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