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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 insideHPC
Video: Data Driven Ocean & Atmosphere Sciences at MoES in India
Dr. Suryachandra Rao from MoES gave this talk at the DDN User Group. "The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) is mandated to provide services for weather, climate...
From insideHPC
ORNL Tests Arm-based Wombat Platform with NVIDIA GPUs
Researchers at ORNL are trying out their HPC codes on Wombat, a test bed cluster based on production Marvell ThunderX2 CPUs and NVIDIA V100 GPUs. The small cluster...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Value from Digital Factories
Via McKinsey, innovation studies inmanufacturing.Industry’s fast-mover advantage: Enterprise value from digital factoriesManufacturing’s leaders in applying Fourth...
From Putting People First
Designing for digital well-being
Smartphone attachment is so prevalent that the fear of being without a phone has a name: nomophobia, writes Elizabeth Churchill in Interactions. What can be done...
From Putting People First
Are smart homes undermining our sense of ‘home’?
CES indicates we're still a far way off seeing technology for the home that genuinely fosters our sense of comfort, wellbeing and community.
From Putting People First
The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states
We could decide to treat people as sensors, and not as things to be sensed – to observe Kant’s injunction that humans should be “treated as an end in themselves...
From Putting People First
Tricia Wang on why the big data mentality fails – and what to do about it
Tricia Wang of Sudden Compass pokes holes in big data hype, arguing for the course-correcting power of thick data. I share podcast highlights, such as her dismantling...
From Putting People First
Human-centred policy? Blending ‘big data’ and ‘thick data’ in national policy
How might policymakers better understand citizens’ perspectives when designing policy? Put another way, how should we improve and innovate the way policy is made...
From insideHPC
HDR 200GB/sec InfiniBand for HPC & AI
In this video from the DDN booth at SC19, Scot Schultz from Mellanox presents: Connecting Visions: HDR 200GB/sec InfiniBand. "HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand accelerates...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Head of Research Computing at the Norwich Biosciences Institute
The Norwich Biosciences Institute Partnership (NBIP) is seeking a new Head of Research Computing in our Job of the Week. "We have an exciting opportunity for aJob...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Technology at NRF
A look of how retailers are using new technology from the recent NRF conference. Human labor and its management still a very important topic.NRF 2020 Review:by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Machines Joins IBM Q Network
IBM continues to make alliances in Quantum computing.Quantum Machines Joins the IBM Q NetworkTEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Machines (QM)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Neural Models
So many groups working on how to make such models smaller and faster. Not different from the very long hunt for faster models to solve optimization problems over...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stats on Alexa Skills
Decrease in skill increase. Lots of other interesting skills, in particular by language. Now lets get the quality and intelligence upNew Alexa Skill Data ShowBret...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Genome Analyzed
This is fantastic work: In total, the researchers identified approximately 2.7 billion DNA base pairs, which is around 90 percent the size of the human genome....
From The Eponymous Pickle
AR Contact Lens: Prototype
If the QR Contact lens finally here in prototype. Has been talked about for some time. Ultimate kind of wearable.Tech Start-up Develops AR Contact LensesFinancial...
From insideHPC
Groq Hardware Now Available on Nimbix Cloud for AI Workloads
Today Groq announced that the company's tensor processing hardware is now available on the Nimbix Cloud for select partners. The Groq processor is designed specifically...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Sciencetown Investigates Extreme Computing at SC19
In this Sciencetown podcast, we follow experts from around the world to the epicenter of supercomputing - the annual, North American supercomputing conference or...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Allocating large blocks of memory: bare-metal C++ speeds
In a previous post, I benchmarked the allocation of large blocks of memory using idiomatic C++. I got a depressing result: the speed could be lower than 2 GB/s....
From The Eponymous Pickle