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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 Putting People First
Imagining the next decade of behavioral science
The editor in chief of Behavioral Scientist asked 120 behavioral scientists around the world how they imagined the next decade of behavioral science: hopes and...
From Putting People First
A new psych paper on why being extremely online makes you cynical
A new psychology study on how being disrespected leads to increasing cynicism has repercussions for online behavior
From Putting People First
Amy Orben: ‘To talk about smartphones affecting the brain is a slippery slope’
The psychologist Amy Orben talks about the widespread fear that smartphones are harmful to our wellbeing – and the difficulty of proving it
From insideHPC
International Advanced Research Workshop on HPC Returns to Cetraro June 29 – July 3
The International Advanced Research Workshop on HPC will return to Cetraro, Italy this summer with a focus on state of the art, emerging disruptive innovations...
From My Biased Coin
Current CS 124 Stats
This is as much personal recording for me (and perhaps of interest to Harvard people who read the blog). But also putting the numbers here for others to know for...
From insideHPC
New Algorithm to make AI less biased
A researcher from Queen’s University Belfast has developed an innovative new algorithm that will help make artificial intelligence (AI) fairer and less biased when...
From insideHPC
Video: Data Parallel Deep Learning
Huihuo Zheng from Argonne National Laboratory gave this talk at ATPESC 2019. "The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) provides intensive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Realism Considered
Not sure what to fully make of this, but recently have listened to some podcast conversations about how we were all in a Matrix-like simulation of sorts, and this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins for Urban Planning
Reminds me of the urban/city planning games like SimCity. And then also the Agent Models we used to construct simulations of very complex country spaces. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can an AI System Reinvent Physics?
The idea has been kicked around a bit. I see Gary Marcus is one of the authors. have much enjoyed his book on the current limitations of AI. See my review at...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Subliminal Graph Duals
Why don’t we have a good general notion of graph duality? Nat. Medal of Science source Hassler Whitney was an American mathematician. He contributed seminal ideas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at the Google Meena Chatbot
Just pointed to this, the claims are considerable. A very good conversational model would be a big step forward. Current assistants do poorly except for the simplest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistants Disappoint When asked for Aid
If a system assists it should at least refer to other resources in these cases. Perhaps there is a case here to construct a centralized knowledge base for all...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (February 1st 2019)
Almost all climate predictions are based on the so-called “business as usual” model, yet this model is based on assumptions that are unrealistically pessimistic...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Earth and Space Science for Exascale
In this podcast, Anshu Dubey of Argonne National Laboratory describes the Earth and Space Science application portfolio in the Exascale Computing Project (ECP)....
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: PhD scholarship in GPU processing for Super Resolution Ultrasound Imaging
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is seeking a in our PhD scholarship in GPU processing for Super Resolution Ultrasound Imaging in our Job of the Week.Job...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Show Scans Barcodes
Was surprised this didn't happen much sooner, given their earlier experiments with wands and buy buttons. As suggested, put it right next to the can for quick...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Pterosaur Ate Squid
New research: "Pterosaurs ate soft-bodied cephalopods (Coleiodea)." News article. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Communications of the ACM
I was reminded that there is an online version of the CACM magazine, which contains many of its articles, Here it is for the February issue.
From Schneier on Security