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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 Schneier on Security
Mysterious Drones are Flying over Colorado
No one knows who they belong to. (Well, of course someone knows. And my guess is that it's likely that we will know soon.)...
From insideHPC
Single-Cell Sequencing for Drug Discovery: Applications and Challenges
Sarah Middleton from GSK gave this talk at DOE CSGF 2019. "Advances in techniques for single-cell RNA sequencing have made it possible to profile gene expression...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Scaling Approach for Deep Learning
Fast and effective training is important, especially for many IOT and edge devices. So a potential advance here.Deep Learning breakthrough made by Rice University...
From insideHPC
Donald Knuth on Algorithms, Complexity, and The Art of Computer Programming
In this Artificial Intelligence podcast with Lex Fridman, computer scientist Donald Knuth discusses Alan Turing, Neural networks, machine learning and other AIDonald...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Brief Career Memoir
Blame Mike Zamansky for this one. In my last post I mentioned that I am planning on retiring from the classroom this spring. Mike wondered how my perspectives have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Smart Switch Makes a Move
As the article suggests, have seen little from GE oriented toward smart home applications.GE's wireless smart switch works without a hub in EngadgetNo messing around...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Blockchain Good For?
Readable piece that covers positives and negative cautions. Which gets to some reasonable rules of useful application. In PDF form.Blockchain Technology: What...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Andreessen Top 10 Podcasts of the Year
Andreessen HorowitzOur Top 10 Podcasts of 2019by a16z EditorialIt’s that time of year again, where we share some of our most popular podcasts of the year. ThisAnd...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unlocking Data for Public Policy
Improved governmental data access for policy and regulation decisions.Unlocking Data to Improve Public PolicyBy Justine S. Hastings, Mark Howison, Ted Lawless,Communications...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A 2020 Vision
Sorry. You may be as tired of the 2020 jokes and puns about the new year as I am. I’ll try to avoid them in the future. This is the time of year I look at the last...
From insideHPC
Theta and the Future of Accelerator Programming at Argonne
Scott Parker from Argonne gave this talk at ATPESC 2019. "Designed in collaboration with Intel and Cray, Theta is a 6.92-petaflops (Linpack) supercomputer based...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Rings in the New Year
"It’s become a tradition at Radio Free HPC to celebrate the holidays with a video of the holiday episode. The new logo launches the video: celebrating a truly family...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decade of Voice Assistants
General but simplified history, worth a look. Platforms have been constructed, with lots of users. Now how will they filled with meaningful assistance? How close...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Technology Updating
Always good to take a look at how existing tech will coexist with emerging.Retailers take on massive legacy system challenges one module at a time by Andrew Blatherwick...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Resolutions For 2020
Some fun about resolutions. source Ben Orlin is a funny mathematician. His book title Change Is the Only Constant was selected by the blog Math-Frolic as the best...
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies Democratizes HPC at SC19
In this video from SC19, Thierry Pellegrino from Dell Technologies describes how the company's HPC solutions are designed to simplify and accelerate customers’Dell...
From Computational Complexity
Complexity Year in Review 2019
Some great theorems this year including non-deterministic double exponential time by quantumly entangled provers and integer multiplication in O(n log n) time.shockingly...
From insideHPC
RISC-V Lagarto is First Open Source Chip Developed in Spain
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has coordinated the manufacture of the first open source chip developed in Spain. "Lagarto is an important step in the search...
From insideHPC
Reimagining HPC Compute and Storage Architecture with Intel Optane Technology
Andrey Kudryavtsev from Intel gave this talk at the DDN User Group in Denver. "Intel Optane DC SSDs are proven technologies that have helped data centers remove...
From The Eponymous Pickle