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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 1
Well, we’ve started. Today we only had half the classes in the rotation meet. Tomorrow we will have the second half. It’s all about getting adjusted to the new...
From insideHPC
Intel’s Neuromorphic Chip Can Sniff Out Hazardous Chemicals
Researchers have demonstrated how neuromorphic chips can mimic olfactory senses for use in industrial and medical applications. "In a joint paper published in Nature...
From insideHPC
Meero offers free large file transfers to make working from home easier
In order to facilitate the remote working required by the recent developments of COVID-19 worldwide, Meero is increasing the storage capacity and validity duration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing Launches Interactive COVID-19 Map
Instructive map, do wonder how up to date it is.Microsoft Bing launches interactive COVID-19 map to provide pandemic newsBut it’s struggling to provide relevant...
From Schneier on Security
TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater
The TSA is allowing people to bring larger bottles of hand sanitizer with them on airplanes: Passengers will now be allowed to travel with containers of liquid...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2020 will run as a Global Virtual Conference
You are cordially invited to attend Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2020 conference which this year will take place on March 23-25 in virtual space "everywhereSupercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automation vs AI
Some useful observations and possible application to work and tasks emerging.Automation and AI sound similar, but may have vastly different impacts on the future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
VR Physiotherapy
An example of using feedback to get real results.Physiotherapy Could be Done at Home Using VRUniversity of WarwickFebruary 28, 2020Researchers at the Warwick Manufacturing...
From insideHPC
Precision Medicine pushes demand for HPC at the Edge: AI on the Fly ® Delivers
In this special guest feature, Tim Miller from One Stop Systems writes that by bringing specialized, high performance computing capabilities to the edge through...
From insideHPC
EU Funds Exscalate supercomputing platform to fight coronavirus
Today the European Commission allocated new funding to the Exscalate (E4C) consortium for projects to counter the Coronavirus pandemic and improve the management...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Airport Facial Recognition
More examples of regulating facial recognition in new contexts.ACLU is suing the US gov for blocking airport facial recognition probeBy Ryan Daws Editor at TechForge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Post Google Economics
Blog: Man on the MarginClassical Economics in a Quantum World By Michael KendallBrought to my Attention by the book: 'Life After Google', by George Gilder
From The Eponymous Pickle
Slowing Down for Decisions in Crisis
Sensible, but depends on the flow of risk as well.Slow Down to Make Better Decisions in a Crisis by Art Markman in HBRThe news about the spread of COVID-19 is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Integrating Voice Synthesis for Business
API from Amazon AWS to synthesise speech in multiple languages to communicate and persuade in varying real and artificial personas.Simple-to-Use APIAmazon Polly...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Number of atoms in the universe versus floating-point values
It is estimated that there are about 1080 atoms in the universe. The estimate for the total number of electrons is similar. It is a huge number and it far exceeds...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Intel Select Solutions for Genomic Analytics at the Broad Institute
In this Conversations in the Cloud podcast, Geraldine Van der Auwera from the Broad Institute describes how her organization leverages Intel Select Solutions for...
From insideHPC
How Supersonic Commercial Flight is Possible with Big Compute
In this video from Big Compute 2020, Blake Scholl from Boom Supersonic describes how high performance computing in the cloud has opened a new era of high-speedHow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Uses of RPA in Business
Good example of the simple use of RPA in businessAI Is Coming for Your Most Mind-Numbing Office Tasks By Will Knight in WiredRoutine work, like cutting and pasting...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 14th 2020)
Mothers, but not fathers, possess gender-related implicit biases about emotion expression in children. Chinese researchers used to be offered cash rewards for publishing...
From The Eponymous Pickle