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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
Smart Contract Security and Correctness
Intriguing thoughts, but still find the extensibility of SC to be closer to 'agreements', and thus work process, less general than it could be. Security certainly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Super Saturday vs Black Friday
Another look, with some numbers, with further expert comment and opinions from Retailwire.Is Super Saturday rivaling Black Friday in importance? in Retailwire Tom...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Optimizing Math Libraries to Prepare Applications for Exascale
In this episode of Let’s Talk Exascale, Ulrike Meier Yang of LLNL describes the xSDK4ECP and hypre projects within the Exascale Computing Project. The increased...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Singapore Cashierless Convenience Stores
More experience with cashierless models.Singapore's Unmanned Convenience Stores Learn from China's FailuresNikkei Asian ReviewBy Dylan LohUnmanned stores are appealing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Trust of AI
Over time this will change, but mere statistical statements of performance are still hard to win with. Augmented a doctor's reasoning capability is still a more...
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Blockchain Impact on Securities
Worth following.Understanding Blockchain Technology’s Impact on the Securities MarketsA team of legal and business researchers from Columbia has been awarded aThe...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Video from the Gulf of Mexico
Fantastic video: Scientists had used a specialized camera system developed by Widder called the Medusa, which uses red light undetectable to deep sea creatures...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Architectures
For an exploration of cryptocurrencies and supporting blockchain architectures. Countries like Sweden and China are considering their direct implementation. Cryptocurrency...
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Palm Scanning Patent by Amazon
I recall we looked at this, as well as retina scans, for identification. Less perception of invasion perceived with palms, but also had some other issues. ...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Research Computing Specialist at Stanford University
Stanford University is seeking a Research Computing Specialist in our Job of the Week. "As a Research Computing Specialist, you will draw on both deep technical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upside Down Reinforcement Learning
New to me, in DSC, about new ways to look at reinforcement learning, see also posts on IRL. See also other links to Inverse Reinforcement Learning. How closely...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Advancing Deep Learning with Custom-Built Accelerators
In this Chip Chat podcast, Carey Kloss from Intel outlines the architecture and potential of the Intel Nervana NNP-T. He gets into major issues like memory andPodcast...
From insideHPC
Simulating SKA Telescope’s Massive Dataflow using the Summit Supercomputer
Researchers are using the Summit Supercomputer at ORNL to simulate the massive dataflow of the future SKA telescope. "The SKA simulation on Summit marks the first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recommendation and Return Rates out of Control?
Experienced just this during the holiday buying season. Due mainly to the fact that a product recommendation was greatly overstated on Amazon, discovered later...
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Foresight Institute AGI Strategy Meeting
Was reminded of the Forsight Institute, which we actively followed regarding nano tech developments since the 90s. Just got there yearly update, of interest. We're...
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Baidu and GLUE
China and langage meaning.Baidu has a new trick for teaching AI the meaning of language in 7WdataEarlier this month, a Chinese tech giant quietly dethroned Microsoft...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistant Telling Stories in the Classroom
Other examples of this out there? I would rather have kids reading for themselves. The basics still mean something.Alexa in the classroom? Amazon’s voice assistant...
From Schneier on Security
Chrome Extension Stealing Cryptocurrency Keys and Passwords
A malicious Chrome extension surreptitiously steals Ethereum keys and passwords: According to Denley, the extension is dangerous to users in two ways. First, any...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generalized Smart Contracts with IOTA
Have now examined the potential and depth for 'smart contracts' for several blockchain applications. Here one example:Smart Contracts and IOTAMarkus in Medium...
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