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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Math Gift For All
Happy holidays to all. Kathryn Farley is my dear wife. We just celebrated Christmas together and then went off to London for a holiday. Today I thought I would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOTA, FiWare and more
Brought to my attention regarding IOTA, also the connection to Fiware, which was new to me. Regarding identification and secure use of knowledge/data. Mentioning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Article Summarization by Microsoft
Had just mentioned this classic AI problem, was pointed to work underway by Microsoft, which points to this. Pointd to the article below, which after the abstract...
From insideHPC
Take the Data Science Survey from the University of Pisa
A research team from the University of Pisa seeks your participation in their Data Science Survey. The survey is mainly addressed at those who work every day in...
From insideHPC
Video: I/O Architectures and Technology
Glenn Lockwood from NERSC gave this talk at ATPESC 2019. "Systems are very different, but the APIs you use shouldn't be. Understanding performance is easier when...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walgreens Explores Drone Delivery
Exploring new means of delivery.History made: Walgreens takes off with first drone deliveryBy Dan Berthiaume - 10/18/2019Walgreens is officially in flight withAs...
From Schneier on Security
Chinese Hackers Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication
Interesting story of how a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group is bypassing the RSA SecurID two-factor authentication system. How they did it remains unclear;...
From insideHPC
An Alternative to OpenMP and an On-Ramp to Future C++ Standards
In this edition of Let's Talk Exascale, Christian Trott of Sandia National Laboratories shares insights about Kokkos, a programming model for numerous ExascaleAn...
From insideHPC
SC19 Invited Talk: HPC Solutions for Geoscience Application on the Sunway Supercomputer
Lin Gan from Tsinghua University gave this invited talk at SC19. In recent years, many complex and challenging numerical problems, in areas such as climate modeling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Boosting Online Training Business
Good thoughts, though ultimately we need better ways to create and maintain conversations to make training work well. Moving in that direction, but lots of work...
From Schneier on Security
ToTok Is an Emirati Spying Tool
The smartphone messaging app ToTok is actually an Emirati spying tool: But the service, ToTok, is actually a spying tool, according to American officials familiar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future will be More Autonomous, Humans will be Involved.
True, its been going that way for a long time , but has it really sped up greatly at the macro level? At the level of 'self driving', 'identifying', 'charging'...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Upgrades Corona Cluster with 7nm AMD GPU Technology
Penguin Computing has upgraded the Corona supercomputer at LLNL with the newest AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 accelerators. Based on the Vega 7nm architecture, thisPenguin...
From insideHPC
Sandia and LBNL to lead Quantum Information Edge Strategic Alliance
A nationwide alliance of national labs, universities, and industry launched today to advance the frontiers of quantum computing systems designed to solve urgent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Ships
The numbers continue to expand. The efficiency amazes.Amazon Is Its Own Biggest Mailman, Shipping 3.5 Billion Parcels in SupplychainBrainSource: BloombergAs Amazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Paid for Data
Considering the design of methods of payment and ensuring their security. An example.AI Needs your Data and you should get pad for it. By Gregory Barber in Wired...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shutters for Star Watching
Watching the skies for anomalous behaviour in real time:NASA to demonstrate new star-watching tech with thousands of shuttersby Lori Keesey, NASA's Goddard Space...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Summarization Performance: Pegasus
A kind of AI. Summarization is useful and powerful concept. But consider that summarization also exists in a context. Its output is only useful in a particular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo Flex: Plug+Simple speaker
Amazon seems ready to inexpensively (for now $20) replace every wall plug with a link to Alexa. Now lets give these devices something more intelligent to do...
From The Eponymous Pickle