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Podcast: Digital Trust in the Age of Deepfakes
From insideHPC

Podcast: Digital Trust in the Age of Deepfakes

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team catches up with Dave Maher, CTO of internet security company Intertrust, to share with us his deep knowledge of digital...

Google's Explainable AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google's Explainable AI

Looks to be well done, in Beta,  but worth looking at:Explainable AIBETATools and frameworks to deploy interpretable and inclusive machine learning models.Try it...

When There’s No Conversion Rate
From The Noisy Channel

When There’s No Conversion Rate

If your business depends on search, it’s critical to track search effectiveness using an evaluation methodology. In my experience, most organizations rely on implicit...

Drones Do the Work of 500 Farmers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drones Do the Work of 500 Farmers

Our own work with pulp forests could also have used drones,  as well as the idea of AI detecting patterns of growth and harvest planning.    And for control ofDrones...

Waves Enterprise Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Waves Enterprise Blockchain

Been examining a number of applications of smart contracts recently, including those more closely connected to specific goal oriented and regulatory agreementsWaves...

Smart Cities Based on Good Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Cities Based on Good Models

Here energy is the starting point, but other aspects of city resource use, transportation processes, risk analyses and other goal and future predictive models should...

BSC takes one of top spots in the IO500 10-Node Challenge
From insideHPC

BSC takes one of top spots in the IO500 10-Node Challenge

The Storage Systems for Extreme Computing team from BSC has taken the number 4 spot in the IO500’s ‘10- Node Challenge’ with GekkoFS. This ephemeral file system...

Alphabet X Everyday Robot
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alphabet X Everyday Robot

Early tasks will have these robots sorting trash.   In practice a tough job, with vision and other sensory aspects.   Learning also means adapting, so the hardest...

Impacts of RPA
From The Eponymous Pickle

Impacts of RPA

Some good thoughts, also some  obvious.   In our own experience we first tried to model actual process exactly and directly, but soon found it was not possibleRPA...

NVIDIA Launches GPU-Accelerated Reference Design for Arm Servers
From insideHPC

NVIDIA Launches GPU-Accelerated Reference Design for Arm Servers

At SC19, NVIDIA introduced a reference design platform that enables companies to quickly build GPU-accelerated Arm®-based servers, driving a new era of high performance...

Knowledge Graphs in Industry at Scale
From The Eponymous Pickle

Knowledge Graphs in Industry at Scale

How knowledge Graphs are done, used in industry.  Emphasizing realistic scale.Industry-Scale Knowledge Graphs: Lessons and ChallengesBy Natasha Noy, Yuqing Gao,...

RPA Usage in Banking
From The Eponymous Pickle

RPA Usage in Banking

A good area to explore, since its methods and processes are better defined.  Our own work in RPA-like AI worked best in financial areas.  Also were the easiestRPA...

Whats ahead for Machine Programming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Whats ahead for Machine Programming

A long time idea, and likely to emerge strongly.   Hand coding will eventually be rare.    Podcast on the topic belowMachine Programming: What Lies Ahead?Podcast...

Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at UC Riverside
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at UC Riverside

The University of California, Riverside is seeking an HPC System Administrator in our Job of the Week. UC Riverside's (UCR) research computing infrastructure is...

The Certainty of Having to Deal with Uncertainty
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Certainty of Having to Deal with Uncertainty

Late to this article, nicely done.Home/Magazine Archive/December 2019 (Vol. 62, No. 12)/Uncertainty/Full TextUncertainty    By Peter J. Denning, Ted G. LewisCommunications...

On the State of AI and Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the State of AI and Machine Learning

Brought to my attention, a short non technical document on the topic.The State of AI and Machine Learning    32 pagesFrom Figure EightBridging the AI Gap Between...

Epidemics and use of Personal GPS Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Epidemics and use of Personal GPS Data

Recall our work with bioterrorism modeling, link below.  Not just a matter of disease epidemics.During Epidemics, Access to GPS Data from Smartphones Can Be Crucial...

Video: Intel and Lenovo Power Cannon Supercomputer and Project Everyscale
From insideHPC

Video: Intel and Lenovo Power Cannon Supercomputer and Project Everyscale

In this video from SC19, Scott Yokel from FASRC describes Cannon, Harvard University’s first liquid-Cooled supercomputer. Developed in cooperation with Intel and...

Friday Squid Blogging: T-Shirt
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: T-Shirt

"Squid Pro Quo" T-shirt. 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...

Deploy AI Anywhere with ScaleMatrix DDC – No Data Center Required
From insideHPC

Deploy AI Anywhere with ScaleMatrix DDC – No Data Center Required

At SC19, ScaleMatrix and its DDC subsidiary announced that it is collaborating with NVIDIA and Microway to deliver SKUs for an 8 petaFLOPS and a 13 petaFLOPS ‘Supercomputer...
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