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Uses of Inactive Pill Ingredients
From The Eponymous Pickle

Uses of Inactive Pill Ingredients

Some interesting AI driven uses of  'inactive ' pill ingredients.“Inactive” pill ingredients could raise the dose of your medicationWith help from artificial intelligence...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Leprechauns Stay Home

Stay safe, everyone Cropped from Floss Dance source Neil L. is a Leprechaun. He has visited me once every year since I started GLL. I had never seen a leprechaun...

Teaching From Home–Day 2
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Teaching From Home–Day 2

My advisory (homeroom) was interesting. For one thing I realized that thee isn’t the chatter between students in the room. I’m pretty sure they are texting and...

Computing Research at AAAS
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Computing Research at AAAS

The following blog is from Ann Schwartz Drobnis, CCC Director.  Every February brings an exciting event for scientists – the AAAS Annual Meeting. AAAS is the American...

Google Creates Transcribe
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Creates Transcribe

Had seen and noted this before, likely quite helpful for business applications.  I remember noting its need to be embedded in the enterprise Looking forward toGoogle...

From Computational Complexity

Richard Guy passed away at the age of 103

Richard Guy passed away on March 9, 2020 at the age of 103. Before he died he was the worlds oldest living mathematician (see here for a list of centenarians who...

GigaIO Brings FabreX to vScaler Cloud Platform
From insideHPC

GigaIO Brings FabreX to vScaler Cloud Platform

Today GigaIO announced availability of FabreX for vScaler's management interface. As the industry's first in-memory network, FabreX will bolster vScaler's cloud...

Podcast: One Big Debate over OneAPI
From insideHPC

Podcast: One Big Debate over OneAPI

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Intel's oneAPI project. "The OneAPI project is a highly ambitious initiative; trying to design a single API to...

Alexa Accelerator
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Accelerator

Amazon seeks more startups for Alexa:Alexa Fund Opens Virtual Startup Accelerator ApplicationsEric HAL SCHWARTZ in VoicebotAmazon announced a new startup accelerator...

Benchmarking CPUs at Shell
From insideHPC

Benchmarking CPUs at Shell

Ronald Cogswell from Shell gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas Conference. "In this presentation we will compare the benchmarking results from the latest 2 generations...

IRI Offers Updating Retail Oriented Virus Information
From The Eponymous Pickle

IRI Offers Updating Retail Oriented Virus Information

IRI Market Research offers resources (via Retailwire)The coronavirus is top of mind for all right now, and understandably so. There remain a lot of unanswered questions...

Reproducibility on Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reproducibility on Machine Learning

In The Gradient  ....Reproducibility and Machine LearningPeer review has been an integral part of scientific research for more than 300 years. But even before peer...

Case Study: Magseis Fairfield Uses a Sea of Data to Support Environmentally Responsible Energy Exploration
From insideHPC

Case Study: Magseis Fairfield Uses a Sea of Data to Support Environmentally Responsible Energy Exploration

This whitepaper contains a compelling HPC data storage solution case study highlighting the use of Panasas ActiveStor® by Magseis Fairfield, a geophysics firm that...

ICHEC to Bring European Quantum Technologies Conference to Dublin
From insideHPC

ICHEC to Bring European Quantum Technologies Conference to Dublin

Over 500 global experts in quantum technologies will descend on Dublin in November this year for the European Quantum Technologies Conference (EQTC). Taking place...

Machine Learning and NanoIndentation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning and NanoIndentation

What appears to be a novel application of machine learning which uses the sensory gathering of large numbers of inputs.Deep learning for mechanical property evaluation...

NEWS: Call to Action to the Tech Community on New Machine Readable COVID-19 Dataset
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NEWS: Call to Action to the Tech Community on New Machine Readable COVID-19 Dataset

From the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for immediate release. Today, researchers and leaders from the Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg...

D-Wave Announces Leap-2 and Discusses it and Matching with Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

D-Wave Announces Leap-2 and Discusses it and Matching with Machine Learning

Fascinating progress here.  We have followed D-Wave Quantum computing here since our original conversations with them.  Excellent update here.D-Wave: Quantum computing...

Ideal Glass
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ideal Glass

For the material scientist in me, a fascinating piece in Quanta MagazineIdeal Glass Would Explain Why Glass Exists at AllGlass is anything that’s rigid like a crystal...

Monitoring Virus Patients by Phone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Monitoring Virus Patients by Phone

With an expectation of a certain degree of violation of privacy and the need for regulating that.Israel Takes Step Toward Monitoring Phones of Virus PatientsAssociated...

Learning New Ways to Continually Learn
From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning New Ways to Continually Learn

Not quite I think of when I think of AGI (Artficial General Intelligence).    But sequences of useful tasks/learning can be seen as what humans do, provided they...
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