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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 Noisy Channel
Promoted Search: A Follow-Up
My post on promoted search results drew some pointed feedback. People asked me what kind of promoted search behavior I deem acceptable, as well as whether I saw...
From insideHPC
Panasas ActiveStor Solution: Architectural Overview
Panasas has released this timely new white paper "Panasas ActiveStor Solution: Architectural Overview." The Panasas ActiveStor architecture running the PanFS storage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Changes its Terms of Service
Intriguing look at how Google has changed its terms of service. Attributable in part to some pressure by consumers on the operation of big tech. Below a summary...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Machine Learning
Treatment and analysis of outliers and noise are key to improve these methods. The claim here is that this will be improved. Remains to be seen how well this...
From Schneier on Security
Russia Is Trying to Tap Transatlantic Cables
The Times of London is reporting that Russian agents are in Ireland probing transatlantic communications cables. Ireland is the landing point for undersea cables...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Thinking, Improv
Upcoming short free talk.You are invited to attend:ISSIP Service Design Speaker SeriesRadical cross-collaboration at Cisco with Design Thinking & Improvon Wednesday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Based Learning and the Power of the Human Element
Of interest to my readers, following up:Franz,My new, co-authored book has been launched and may be of interest to members of your community.Emotify!: The Power...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Power Generating Kites to be Axed
Remember reading the early reports on this, and seemed very interesting in possibility. but cost and risk was unclear.Google parent pulls the plug on power-generating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Autonomous AI Combatants
Expect this, at all sorts of levels of autonomy. Offensive and Defensive.How to Train Your AI Soldier Robots (and the Humans Who Command Them) in The RAND Blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Cars
Comment, with more detail:' ... My name is Jennifer Bowen, and I'm working with a site called PartCatalog.com. We just published an article that answers a question...
From insideHPC
Video: RISC-V momentum around the world, from edge to HPC
In this keynote talk from the 2020 HiPEAC conference, RISC-V Foundation Chief Executive Calista Redmond explains how the RISC-V open-source instruction set architecture...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Co-Design for Online Data Analysis and Reduction at Exascale
In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, Ian Foster from Argonne National Lab describes how the CODAR project at ECP is addressing the needs for data reduction, analysis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Moving UK Data
Note that 'where' data is held may start to become an important issue. Note also the specific considerations that Google is indicating here, as part of BrexitGoogle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Spatial Web
Brought back to my attention, dated (2018) , The Spatial Web, still relevant?The Spatial Web Will Map Our 3D World—And Change Everything In the Process By ...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (February 22nd 2020)
In a large cohort study, the highest probability of reaching 90 years old was found for those drinking between 5g and 15 g of alcohol per day. This does not mean...
From insideHPC
Video: A Preview of SC20 in Atlanta
In this video, SC20 General Chair Christine E. Cuicchi from the DoD Modernization Program previews the Supercomputing conference coming to Atlanta in November.Video...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Books by Stephen Few
A look at all of Stephen Few's books on the viz and use of data, including his latest:The Data Loom, Stephen Few, $15.95 (U.S.), Analytics Press, May 15, 2019...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple innovations are the Most Used
Anyone in this space for a while knows the drill.Larry Tesler: Computer Scientist Behind Cut, Copy, and Paste Dies at Age 74 BBC NewsLarry Tesler, inventor...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Architect at NVIDIA
NVIDIA is seeking an HPC Architect in our Job of the Week. "NVIDIA is developing processor and system architectures for accelerated high performance computing,Job...
From The Eponymous Pickle