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Measuring Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Measuring Intelligence

A considerable look at the question, 64 pages.    Not necessarily technical but philosophical at times.  Requires some knowledge of how the problem is being addressed...

BioAcoustic Signatures
From The Eponymous Pickle

BioAcoustic Signatures

Very novel approach.  Repeatable and low error rate?The Bioacoustic Signatures of Our Bodies Can Reveal Our IdentitiesIEEE Spectrum   By Michelle HampsonResearchers...

Unity Simulation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unity Simulation

We actively used simulation in the enterprise for this kind of simulation. Not necessarily just in 3D simulations, but in any case where simulation could be used...

McKinsey:  Where AI is Being Used
From The Eponymous Pickle

McKinsey: Where AI is Being Used

In the recent article in McKinsey:AI Adoption Advances, but Foundational Barriers RemainSurvey respondents report the rapid adoption of AI and expect only a minimal...

Slidecast: Dell EMC Using Neural Networks to “Read Minds”
From insideHPC

Slidecast: Dell EMC Using Neural Networks to “Read Minds”

In this slidecast, Luke Wilson from Dell EMC describes a case study with McGill University using neural networks to read minds. "If you want to build a better neural...

Podcast: SC19 Student Cluster Competition Preview
From insideHPC

Podcast: SC19 Student Cluster Competition Preview

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team catches up with Jessi Lanum, a veteran of the SC19 Student Cluster Competition, for an insider peek on what it’s like to...

Météo-France to Boost Weather Forecasting Capabilities with Atos Supercomputer
From insideHPC

Météo-France to Boost Weather Forecasting Capabilities with Atos Supercomputer

Today Atos announced a new four-year contract with French national meteorological service, Météo-France, to supply two supercomputers based on its latest BullSequana...

Video: TNG50 cosmic simulation depicts formation of a single massive galaxy
From insideHPC

Video: TNG50 cosmic simulation depicts formation of a single massive galaxy

"This cosmic simulation was made possible by the Hazel Hen supercomputer in Stuttgart, where 16,000 cores worked together for more than a year – the longest and...

Science and Technology links (November 16th 2019)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (November 16th 2019)

We have new technology to do genetic engineering on human beings (CRISPR). In a small clinical trial, the researchers tested it on live human subjects and found...

Via KDNuggets: 10 Free Books on AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Via KDNuggets: 10 Free Books on AI

Via the always interesting KDNuggets.    Which we often pored long ago for information about developments in 'Knowledge Discovery',  before the term changed to10...

Tackling Turbulence on the Summit Supercomputer
From insideHPC

Tackling Turbulence on the Summit Supercomputer

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have achieved world record performance on the Summit supercomputer using a new algorithm for turbulence simulation...

Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at Washington State University
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at Washington State University

Washington State University is seeking an HPC Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week. "The Center for Institutional Research Computing at Washington State...

Nestle and Carrefour Track Baby Milk
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nestle and Carrefour Track Baby Milk

Another tracking and safety identification example.Nestle, Carrefour Extend Blockchain Tracking Effort to Baby Milk   By Daniel Palmer in CoindeskNothing is more...

Laser Pointers Can Hack Your Voice Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Laser Pointers Can Hack Your Voice Assistant

Troublesome, but does require visual line of sight.   Could the assistant detect the kind of energy being received and reject a transduced signal?Laser pointerby...

IBM Wants to Change Weather Forecasting
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Wants to Change Weather Forecasting

Wondered Where IBM was Taking their big Weather Investment.  I note that American Airlines is testing some of this.IBM hopes to change weather forecasting around...

Censorship Evasion
From The Eponymous Pickle

Censorship Evasion

Basically fooling the censors.   Is this breakable? AI System Evolves to Evade Internet CensorshipUniversity of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural...

Friday Squid Blogging: Planctotuethis Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Planctotuethis Squid

Neat video, and an impressive-looking squid. I can't figure out how long it is. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...

ACM-W Connections–November 2019
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

ACM-W Connections–November 2019

Welcome from the ACM-W Chair Several times over the past three years, I have mentioned ACM/ACM-W’s participation in the Gender Gap in Science project (https://gender...

Should Customers be Paid for their Data?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Should Customers be Paid for their Data?

From a retail perspective, below the outline, more at the linkShould customers just be paid for their data?   by Guest contributorWise Marketer StaffIn light of...

Foundational Barriers to AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Foundational Barriers to AI

Interesting ideas from surveys by McKinsey.    About value of AI at scale.  Foundational changes to make it work.   I take it somewhat differently.  This was the...
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