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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 The Eponymous Pickle
China Gives Citizens a Danger Code
Via ACM. Is this a 'troubling precedent', or a reasonable approach for imminent danger?In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, with Red Flags...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Fights Amazon Prime with Walmart+
Not so quiet really, have seen several notes on this in the past week. Details will be interesting. Amazon has the really broad reach here with embedded channels...
From insideHPC
Video: How oneAPI Is Revolutionizing Programming
In this video, academics and industry experts weigh in on the potential of oneAPI, the new, unified software programming model for CPU, GPU, AI, and FPGA accelerators...
From insideHPC
SLIDE algorithm for training deep neural nets faster on CPUs than GPUs
Rice researchers created a cost-saving alternative to GPU, an algorithm called "sub-linear deep learning engine" (SLIDE) that uses general purpose central processing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emphasis on Remote Work
In my own work, ver the last few weeks this has been mentioned several times. Obvious reaction. Seen also the effect on physically attending conferences.As coronavirus...
From insideHPC
World’s Largest Spectra TFinity Tape Library installed at LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is now home to the world’s largest Spectra TFinity system, following a complete replacement of the tape library hardware...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 20 – The Ethics of Artificial Consciousness with Natesh Ganesh
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This is part two of Khari Douglas’ interview with Natesh...
From Putting People First
Special issue on digital ethnography
This special issue of the Journal of Digital Social Research collects the confessions of five digital ethnographers laying bare their methodological failures, disciplinary...
From Computational Complexity
Logic examples for your Discrete Math class
(I injured my hand about a month ago so I have had a hard time typing. That is why I have not blogged for a while. I'm better now but still slow. This is a post...
From insideHPC
Supermicro announces Pole-mounted Ruggedized Servers for AI on the Edge
Today Supermicro announced first-to-market IP65 enclosure-based servers for 5G RAN, AI inferencing, and other edge-focused applications based on Intel Xeon D and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Learning
Impressed with what is going on behind the scenes at Google, ultimately having systems that will learn about their contexts, both physical and logical.Google algorithm...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Ethical Machines
Qute a remarkable piece, ultimately technical but a good proposal for getting at the problem of exploring 'ethics' in machines. Can machines be more or less ethical...
From insideHPC
GPCNeT or GPCNoT?
In this special guest feature, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox Technologies writes that the new GPCNeT benchmark is actually a measure of relative performance under...
From Schneier on Security
Facebook's Download-Your-Data Tool Is Incomplete
Privacy International has the details: Key facts: Despite Facebook claim, "Download Your Information" doesn't provide users with a list of all advertisers who uploaded...
From Putting People First
[Book] The Power of Not Thinking
The Power of Not Thinking: How Our Bodies Learn and Why We Should Trust Themby Simon Roberts535 publishersApril 2020, 336 pages Have you ever held out your hand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transforming Organizations
My own observation is that this is very haphazardly done. This piece looks at key variables. But how do you make sure these variables are addressed, measured and...
From insideHPC
Advanced Clustering now offering Intel Cascade Lake Refresh Processors
Today Advanced Clustering Technologies announced that the company is now integrating Intel’s new Cascade Lake Refresh (CLX-R) processor into its line of HPC ACTblade...
From Putting People First
Video interviews on the history of design between the Dotcom Crash and the rise of machine intelligence
Transformations in design practice between the Dotcom Crash and the rise of machine intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Assistants in Healthcare
Much work to be done on voice solutions to health problems. The infrastructure is growing.Industry Voices—Is Dr. Alexa ready to see you now? in FierceHealthcare...
From insideHPC