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MIT CSAIL Sees Thorough Walls
From The Eponymous Pickle

MIT CSAIL Sees Thorough Walls

Mentioned once before, continues to draw interest.A seemingly very radical capability, consider implications privacy and otherwise.  Again caution must be placed...

Amazonification of Supply Chains
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazonification of Supply Chains

Driven on the consumer side by strong and rising expectations of in-stock and quick delivery.The Amazonification of Supply ChainsDecember 30, 2019Roddy Martin,In...

Assigning Machines to Tasks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Assigning Machines to Tasks

Interesting question when we start to share work.  How is it most effectively done?   Thoughts from Kellogg linked to at the short Podcast linked to below.   But...

Looking Back on Blogging
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Looking Back on Blogging

Both Doug Peterson (https://dougpete.wordpress.com/2019/12/30/10-years-ago-2/) and Mike Zamansky (https://cestlaz.github.io/post/10-years-blogging/) posted to their...

Techniques for Interpretable Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Techniques for Interpretable Machine Learning

Very good piece I am reading in the January CACM.  The most important aspect of considering AI-ML type models in the real world.  Good introduction, useful key'Model...

Personality Detection by Autonomous Vehicles
From The Eponymous Pickle

Personality Detection by Autonomous Vehicles

More on personality determination to be used for autonomous vehicles.  Or any IOT device?  While it would appear this would be very useful, it leads to some kinds...

Hacking School Surveillance Systems
From Schneier on Security

Hacking School Surveillance Systems

Lance Vick suggesting that students hack their schools' surveillance systems. "This is an ethical minefield that I feel students would be well within their rights...

Cloud Compute in 2019: Workloads and Options
From insideHPC

Cloud Compute in 2019: Workloads and Options

In this video, Oracle Sr Director Leo Leung cloud computing options by workload in 2019. "Of course there's variance when it comes to clock speeds, when it comes...

Video: Democratizing the World’s Weather Data with IBM GRAF
From insideHPC

Video: Democratizing the World’s Weather Data with IBM GRAF

In this video, scientists describes IBM GRAF, a powerful new global weather forecasting system that will provide the most accurate local weather forecasts everVideo...

Geometrically: What Should You Read  Next?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Geometrically: What Should You Read Next?

Classifying and suggesting documents that point to our goals.  An old problem, but now being done with new tools.   'Geometric Data Processing'  an interestingsee...

Smart Contracts and FMCG
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Contracts and FMCG

A point by point set of examples, includes some examples such as what Wal-Mart is doing.   Biggest possibility I see is the sharing of operational data betweenHow...

Bring Blockchain Undertanding into Physical World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bring Blockchain Undertanding into Physical World

Fascinating to see how the emergence of new tech is quickly tried against problems, and older metaphors are used to improve understanding.  Bringing the Blockchain...

Reconstructing Spoken Words from NonHuman Brains
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reconstructing Spoken Words from NonHuman Brains

Fascinating challenge.   Implications for future understanding of animal brains and human speech perception.Researchers Reconstruct Spoken Words as Processed in...

My Science and Technology review for  2019
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

My Science and Technology review for 2019

I like to end every year with my selection of the most significant science and technology events. In 2019, you could buy a computer from Apple with 1.5 terabytes...

Enabling AI in Hospitals for Training
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enabling AI in Hospitals for Training

Distributed learning method. deep learning on the edge to provide privacy.Nvidia uses federated learning to enable AI in hospitalsBY MIKE WHEATLEY in SIliconAngle...

Smarter Offices with IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smarter Offices with IOT

Very much makes sense to integrate further facilities management.  Add more elements of autonomy.Increasing Business ROI with IoT in Facilities ManagementBy Michael...

Podcast: Mapping Disasters with Artificial Intelligence
From insideHPC

Podcast: Mapping Disasters with Artificial Intelligence

In this Chip Chat podcast, Intel's Alexei Bastidas describes the technology behind making maps from satellite images. "Good maps rely on good data. The Red Cross...

Adaptive Computing Releases NODUS Cloud OS 4.0
From insideHPC

Adaptive Computing Releases NODUS Cloud OS 4.0

Adaptive Computing has released NODUS Cloud OS 4.0 to help organizations simplify the deployment of cloud-hosted resources and gain access to the virtually unlimited...

An IOT Security Crisis
From The Eponymous Pickle

An IOT Security Crisis

Well hardly usual, in this case the device was placed in a bedroom and used to communicate. Hardly its stated purpose.   Any surveillance camera could have been...

Assembling, Using,  Visual Knowledge
From The Eponymous Pickle

Assembling, Using, Visual Knowledge

We also looked at ways to assemble visual information, for use in training, communication, archiving, data.    And at patterns in that data that wold make it more...
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