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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
New Mobility Lab
Brought again to my attention. Innovation about mobility decisions and technology advances.New Mobility LabNEW MOBILITY LAB INNOVATIONNew Mobility World® is a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeing Where Sounds are Coming From
We worked on sound location detection to support product placement and marketing. Also syncing audio and video experience.MIT PixelPlayer “Sees” Where Sounds Are...
From insideHPC
Deep Learning on Summit Supercomputer Powers Insights for Nuclear Waste Remediation
A research collaboration between LBNL, PNNL, Brown University, and NVIDIA has achieved exaflop (half-precision) performance on the Summit supercomputer with a deep...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Operations Manager at Ohio Supercomputing Center
The Ohio Supercomputer Center is seeking an HPC Operations Manager in our Job of the Week. "The operations manager will manage a team of three systems administrators...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Musical Octaves Are Learned
A bit of knowledge about how the brain works in context. Gives us a hint about how to use the broad biomimicry we like to use to build our own intelligence models...
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Bixby Ramps up Development and has a Contest
Here much more on how Bixby voice assistant works, its general architecture, and how they are promoting development. Also notably some advice from an award-winning...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 80-Foot Steel Kraken Deliberately Sunk
The headline gives the story: "An 80-Foot Steel Kraken Will Create an Artificial Coral Reef Near the British Virgin Islands." As usual, you can also use this squid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voicea Acquired by Cisco for Webex
Just Received, we tested the Voicea system last year as a potential means for an 'in meeitng' participant-assistant'. It seemed to have great potential. Now...
From insideHPC
Intersect360 Research Examines Spending Trends in Machine Learning Market
Intersect360 Research has released a pair of new reports examining major technology trends in AI and machine learning, including the worldwide market, spendingIntersect360...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Enters RPA Market
Just saw a hint of this earlier this week, and now more detail. They should play well here, given what I saw developed using bots with Azure. Microsoft, make...
From insideHPC
SC19 to Host BoF Meeting on Americas HPC Collaboration
SC19 will host a BoF Meeting on Americas HPC Collaboration. This third BoF Americas HPC Collaboration seeks to showcase collaboration opportunities and experiences...
From insideHPC
Altair acquires DEM Solutions for Discrete Element Method Analysis
Today Altair announced the acquisition of DEM Solutions, makers of EDEM, the market-leader in Discrete Element Method (DEM) software for bulk material simulation...
From insideHPC
How we built Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for HPC
In this video, Karan Batta from Oracle describes how the company built Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to deliver high performance for HPC applications. "Over the last...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the State of AI Writing
Good considerable piece on efforts underway to allow AI's to write. Its being done, but still not so well. Should writers worry? They can now relate basedA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voicebot Market Data
I see that Voicebot.ai has a market data section that covers generally the use of Voice assistants and related topics, like the overall market and data about individual...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Define Better
Someone posted an interesting question on Facebook.Is using ++i(pre-increment) better than i++(post-increment) ?My reply was to ask for a definition of “better....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Google's Teachable Machine
Was reminded of this as a means of demonstrating and playing with the idea. Writing a short piece on its limitations now a few years later. Thoughts?Google created...
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Bayesian Networks and Conditional Independence
Came up in a conversation about representing knowledge.Conditional Independence — The Backbone of Bayesian NetworksConditional Independence Intuition, Derivation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Photoshop Selecting Objects with AI
I recall doing lots of this kind of work early on, the power of automating it is considerable.Photoshop's latest AI-powered tool makes quick work of selectionsAdobe...
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