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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
Time Lapse Video: Building the Attaway Supercomputer at Sandia
In this time lapse video, technicians build the new Attaway supercomputer from Penguin Computing at Sandia National Labs. In November 2019, the Attaway was #94Time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Protecting Control Systems from Hackers
Was asked to produce a comment on this area, previously mentioned, probably one of the most important aspects of advanced infrastructure.New Approach Could Protect...
From The Noisy Channel
Opportunity Analysis for Search
I’m a big fan of opportunity analysis. I’ve seen far too many organizations underinvest in opportunity analysis and thus waste enormous — and avoidable — effort...
From insideHPC
Special Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure – Part 2
Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing...
From Schneier on Security
Vulnerability Finding Using Machine Learning
Microsoft is training a machine-learning system to find software bugs: At Microsoft, 47,000 developers generate nearly 30 thousand bugs a month. These items get...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensors for Plant Stress
Possible applications for sensing problems with crops.Nanosensor can alert a smartphone when plants are stressedCarbon nanotubes embedded in leaves detect chemical...
From insideHPC
Podcast: WarpX exascale application to accelerate plasma accelerator research
In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, researchers from LBNL discuss how the WarpX project are developing an exascale application for plasma accelerator research....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examination of Machine Ethics
In preparation for an upcoming talk and effort that touches on ethics regarding autonomous systems, such as vehicles, but not necessarily restricted to them, Itrolley...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon can now find Acoustic A capella Versions of Songs
This struck me as interesting, have followed the way musical pieces are classified, combined and described online. In fact have had much trouble with systems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reimaging Jobs in Crisis
Useful piece from McKinsey:How to rebuild and reimagine jobs amid the coronavirus crisisPublic-, private-, and social-sector leaders are taking urgent steps toSent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using AI methods to Address the most Current Problems
Examples of AI augmented problem solving:Benevolent AIBecause it matters.Benevolent AI: Accelerating the journey from data to medicine.Our work on Covid-19.PRESS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating AI By Evolution
Akin to genetic algorithms, which we experimented with, but found that the combinatorics (very large number of solutions) of real world problems were too large...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Proof and Cake Envy
Our proofs can be big too [Mackenzie and Aziz] Haris Aziz and Simon Mackenzie are computer scientists at UNSW and CMU respectively. Of course UNSW is the University...
From insideHPC
NSF awards compute time on Frontera Supercomputer for 49 projects
The most powerful supercomputer in the world for academic research has established its mission for the coming year. "The NSF has approved allocations of supercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Does Amazon Sell too Well?
Noted exactly this recently, ordered a couple of common things, seemingly not at all virus related, and I got a message back saying they were unavailable. Never...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Scientific Data Application Developer at CGSA in Milwaukee
The Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics (CGCA) at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is seeking a Scientific Data Application Developer in our...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: On the Efficacy of Squid as Bait
How to use squid as bait. 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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cybersecurity Risk
Advancing for some time now, but at least we should be able to assemble defenses for the inevitable?Why Is Cybersecurity Not a Human-Scale Problem Anymore?By Gaurav...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning at Home with Google Earth
I was astounded by Google Earth from the very beginning, very precise and visual interactive geography. Here some hints from Google about how to use it effectively...
From The Eponymous Pickle