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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 …
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STFC Machine Learning Group Deploys Elastic NVMe Storage to Power GPU Servers
At SC19, Excelero announced that the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has deployed a new HPC architecture to support computationally intensive analysis...
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Vint Cerf Takes a Driverless Ride
Vint Cerf takes a hands-free, unaccompanied drive in a Waymo and muses the technology.A Hands-Free Ride By Vinton G. CerfCommunications of the ACM, December 2019...
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Our Relationship with AI
Wired Launches a new podcast: Sleepwalkers, in the post below with links to it. Will be listening to and following. Posting comments here.Rethinking Our Relationship...
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Robots Supporting Teachers in Class Sessions
Assistance is important, especially with respect to repetitive tasks that need strong context.Robots can learn how to support teachers in class sessionsby University...
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Fighting Cybercrime in the Cloud
Evidence for Cybercrime in the cloud.Machine Learning Advances Tool to Fight Cybercrime in the CloudPurdue University NewsBy Chris AdamPurdue University researchers...
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Job of the Week: Systems Administrators for Servers, Clusters and Supercomputers at D.E. Shaw Research
D.E. Shaw Research is seeking Systems Administrators for Servers, Clusters and Supercomputers in our Job of the Week. "Our research effort is aimed at achieving...
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SC19 Cluster Competition Configs: Small is Mostly Beautiful
"Ok, you’re running a student cluster competition. You tell the university student teams that they can build any cluster they want with the only restriction being...
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Designing Games
There is value in having game developers aid in designing interaction with business problems.The Sims’ Creator Shares His Secrets“If I was going to teach somebody...
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Predicting Humor for Engagement
Humor as engagement. Can it be delivered artificially, as a strong component of story?It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh |by Dina Gerdeman...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Like Underwater Drone
The Sea Hunting Autonomous Reconnaissance Drone (SHARD) swims like a squid and can explode on command. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
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Benchmarking a Big Quantum Computer
This article ultimately gets very technical, but attracted me because the bit size starts to get interesting for real problems. The abstract and intro part are...
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Novel Mobile Mapping Algorithm
As I read this, it too could have been used usefully for our forestry application, since we had large scale databases of measurements based on location contexts...
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Lenovo Powers French Space Agency CNES Data Center for IO500 world ranking
A newly upgraded data center at the French Space Agency CNES took 15th place in the world ranking in the IO500 list unveiled this month. IO500 is an international...
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Lustre Trademark Released to User Community
In this video from SC19, Stephen Simms from OpenSFS and Frank Baetke from EOFS announce the release of the Lustre trademark back to the Lustre community. "We are...
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Preventing Theft By Drones
Brief, intriguing piece in Coindesk, a blockchain App of the tracking type. Seems a very simple solution regarding altitude and IOT. No indication anything...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Predicating Predictivity
Plus predicaments of error modeling Cropped from Bacon Sandwich source Sir David Spiegelhalter is a British statistician. He is a strong voice for the public understanding...
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Manipulating Machine Learning Systems by Manipulating Training Data
Interesting research: "TrojDRL: Trojan Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents": Abstract:: Recent work has identified that classification models implemented...
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AI Storytelling Companies
Not quite all the same thing, but interesting spins on the idea. Like the idea of a story, like a contract, that could adapt readily to an audience and context...
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Harvard Robobee Powered by Soft Muscles
Back to the interest in the tiny drone.RoboBee Powered by Soft MusclesHarvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied SciencesLeah BurrowsResearchers...
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