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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
Azure Kinect DK for AI Sensors
Microsoft continues to expand from the developer direction. Like I have said before was impressed by their capabilities for delivering in Azure from the basic...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (December 21st 2019)
The number of research papers with more than 1000 authors is increasingly quickly and reaching many fields. Researchers at Facebook use neural networks to solve...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Streamlined Quick Unfolding Investigation Drone
Yet another squid acronym. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI as Creative Partner
Another good thought, but still hard to do well. And how? Should such a system generate and test possible new ideas? Then we need to carefully test what a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Statistical vs Mathematical Modeling
Interesting comments, having been involved in 'mathematical modeling' for a long time ... it, like statistics has to be evaluated with terms like significance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Data with Brexit
Useful thoughts, How will the flow of data change in new regulatory environments.How to Manage Your Data When Expecting BrexitBy Ralph O'Brien in DatanamiThe implications...
From insideHPC
ANSYS Accelerates Electronic Product Design at GUC
Global Unichip Corp. has adopted ANSYS to support its unmatched combination of advanced technology, low-power and embedded CPU design capabilities. "GUC is committed...
From insideHPC
NEC Selects Synopsys ZeBu Server 4 Emulation Environment for Supercomputer Verification
Today Synopsys announced that NEC has selected Synopsys' ZeBu Server 4 as its emulation solution for the verification of its SX-Aurora TSUBASA high-performanceNEC...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Developing Multiprecision Algorithms with the Ginkgo Library Project
In this episode of Let’s Talk Exascale, Hartwig Anzt from the University of Tennessee describes how the ECP Ginkgo Library Project is developing a vision for multiprecision...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters
In software, you frequently need to check whether some objects is in a set. For example, you might have a list of forbidden Web addresses. As someone enters a new...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Causal Theory Of Views
Good piece. It is all ultimately about context, in the sense of location, events, agents, results ... connects to the rest of the world. It drives things like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA Previews its Smart Home Experience
Good overview here. Unclear if they will be able to establish the needed infrastructure that consumers need to make this happen. TheVerge make a good point that...
From insideHPC
Intel Optane comes to new Inspur Storage Products
Inspur recently launched all-flash storage systems with dual-port Intel Optane SSDs. "With the Optane SSD as the high-speed cache layer, AS5000G5-F combines innovative...
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Launches Intel Xeon W-3200 & Xeon Scalable Workstation & Server Motherboards
Today GIGABYTE announced two new single socket ATX motherboards ready for Intel’s new Xeon W-3200 processor. This new platform is purpose built and optimized for...
From insideHPC
Vivien Kendon from Durham University to Keynote PASC20 in Geneva
Today the PASC20 conference announced that Vivien Kendon from Durham University will deliver a keynote talk on quantum computing. With a theme of New Challenges...
From insideHPC
Video: SC19 BoF session on TOP500 supercomputers
"This years BoF will follow this traditional format and present detailed analyses of the TOP500 and discuss the changes in the HPC marketplace during the past years...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergent AI by Minimizing Chaos
Article is ultimately quite technical, but the basic proposal is interesting. A way to predict, measure, drive particular goals that lead to behaviors? Intriguing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An AI Transparency Risk Paradox
Risk is not thought of formally enough. And the point made in the article points out that to do current AI med\methods you need more data, but more data creates...
From Schneier on Security
Lousy IoT Security
DTEN makes smart screens and whiteboards for videoconferencing systems. Forescout found that their security is terrible: In total, our researchers discovered five...
From insideHPC