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Dimensional Analysis of Failure and Fixing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dimensional Analysis of Failure and Fixing

Brought to my attention.  We also attempted to use neural methods to determine when agents, machine or otherwise, were likely to fail,  and afterwards what were...

More on Ahold's Cashierless Solution
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on Ahold's Cashierless Solution

More on Ahold's use of 'Cashierless' stores.   The provider of the tech was mentioned here before.  More detail at the link.Ahold Delhaize's 'NanoStore' heads to...

NSF Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes

The National Science Foundation (NSF) just posted a number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes...

NVIDIA Clara Federated Learning to Deliver AI to Hospitals
From insideHPC

NVIDIA Clara Federated Learning to Deliver AI to Hospitals

NVIDIA Clara FL uses distributed training across multiple hospitals to develop robust AI models without sharing patient data. It runs on the recently announcedNVIDIA...

Fujitsu Begins Shipping Fugaku Supercomputer
From insideHPC

Fujitsu Begins Shipping Fugaku Supercomputer

Today Fujitsu announced that the company has commenced shipping the supercomputer Fugaku. Jointly developed with RIKEN, Fugaku is slated to start general operation...

Panasas HPC Storage Goes from Fast to Ludicrous Mode at SC19
From insideHPC

Panasas HPC Storage Goes from Fast to Ludicrous Mode at SC19

In this video from SC19, Curtis Anderson from Panasas announces company's new the Panasas ActiveStor Ultra appliance. Anderson goes on to offers a sneak peek at...

Kaolin: A Library for 3D Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kaolin: A Library for 3D Intelligence

Has to be useful for building and testing 3D intelligence.Kaolin: The first comprehensive library for 3-D deep learning research  by Ingrid Fadelli , Tech Xplore...

Intel Wins IO500 10-node Challenge with DAOS
From insideHPC

Intel Wins IO500 10-node Challenge with DAOS

In this video from SC19, Kelsey Prantis from Intel describes how the DAOS parallel file system won the IO500 10-node Challenge with Intel Optane DC persistent memory...

Facebook to Allow Users to Upload Photos to Google
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook to Allow Users to Upload Photos to Google

Sharing Photos among services. I think the main problem will be consumers will not understand the implications, given that different services treat security differently...

China Requiring Facial Scans
From The Eponymous Pickle

China Requiring Facial Scans

More use of facial data gathering.   While it could be used for convenience and general identification, say for voting or providing services, it can then also be...

Taming Uncertainty
From The Eponymous Pickle

Taming Uncertainty

Via MaxPlanck, Berlin.TAMING UNCERTAINTY© MIT PressCenter: Adaptive RationalityAbstract: How do people navigate uncertainty, making decisions under conditions of...

AI and Behavioral Change
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Behavioral Change

See paper and related research, examining this now.Is AI Disrupting the Field of Behavioral Change Marketing?Artificial Intelligence is intended to mimic the behavior...

Cameras that Automatically Detect Mobile Phone Use
From Schneier on Security

Cameras that Automatically Detect Mobile Phone Use

New South Wales is implementing a camera system that automatically detects when a driver is using a mobile phone....

Universal Acceptance Continues Momentum During ICANN66
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

Universal Acceptance Continues Momentum During ICANN66

By Dr. Ajay Data, chair of the UASG; founder and CEO of XgenPlus I am invigorated after returning from ICANN66, which took place in Montréal 2-7 November. Always...

Machines Perceiving Common Sense Physics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machines Perceiving Common Sense Physics

 Having machines understand common sense 'physics' may well be way to train them to do general AI.   How humans learn is a potential model.  Infant cognition. Helping...

Replacing Screen by Realities?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Replacing Screen by Realities?

Will every screen be replaced by a virtual reality experience?In Smithsonian:Alex Kipman on how it's "inevitable" that devices like the HoloLens will replace every...

Robot Prototype for Microsurgery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Prototype for Microsurgery

Seems a considerable advance.   Full and more technical article at the linkRobot Prototype Shows Promise for Microsurgery on Eyes, AneurysmsBy Vanderbilt School...

Drones and Facial Recognition in the UK
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drones and Facial Recognition in the UK

Another example that will likely be criticized as being easy to mis-use.Police to Use Facial Recognition Drones to Help Find the MissingBBC News (U.K.)By Ken Macdonald...

Malevolence of the Use of Evolving Images
From The Eponymous Pickle

Malevolence of the Use of Evolving Images

Good-non technical view of the current state of creating and evolving images. Somewhat like the 'photo shopping' enigma still going on, but more subtle and automated...

Video: Characterizing Network Paths in and out of the Clouds
From insideHPC

Video: Characterizing Network Paths in and out of the Clouds

Igor Sfiligoi from SDSC gave this talk at CHEP 2019. "Cloud computing is becoming mainstream, with funding agencies moving beyond prototyping and starting to fund...
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