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Why Tokens Matter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Why Tokens Matter

Whats a token?  Why should we use it as a means of payment.  How does it change how we do business?Is it inevitable we will tokenize?     Dr Rijmenam writes about...

Policymakers Stress Urgent Need for U.S. Leadership in AI at National Security Commission on AI Conference; Schumer Proposes $100 billion in Research and Education Funding
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Policymakers Stress Urgent Need for U.S. Leadership in AI at National Security Commission on AI Conference; Schumer Proposes $100 billion in Research and Education Funding

Significant contributions were provided by CRA Director of Government Affairs Peter Harsha and CCC Director Ann Schwartz Drobnis.   Yesterday at a conference of...

NVIDIA Launches $399 Jetson Xavier NX for AI at the Edge
From insideHPC

NVIDIA Launches $399 Jetson Xavier NX for AI at the Edge

Today NVIDIA introduced Jetson Xavier NX, "the world’s smallest, most powerful AI supercomputer for robotic and embedded computing devices at the edge. "With aNVIDIA...

Tableau Conference Nov 13-15
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tableau Conference Nov 13-15

Particularly interested in seeing how they are integrating with Salesforce, providing new AI methods,  New kinds of data handling, Better visualization and prescriptive...

MLPerf Releases Over 500 Inference Benchmarks
From insideHPC

MLPerf Releases Over 500 Inference Benchmarks

Today the MLPerf consortium released over 500 inference benchmark results from 14 organizations. "Having independent benchmarks help customers understand and evaluate...

Touchless plus Tactile Interaction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Touchless plus Tactile Interaction

Quite unusual combination, can it greatly improve interaction in new ways?Intuitive in the Virtual RealityHelmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-RossendorfBy Simon Schmitt,Researchers...

Advania Data Centers to build sustainable HPC datacenter in Sweden
From insideHPC

Advania Data Centers to build sustainable HPC datacenter in Sweden

Advania and Stockholm Exergi have joined in partnership for the construction of a new HPC data center in Stockholm, Sweden. ADC will lease land in Stockholm Data...

Interview: Advancing HPC in the UK in the Age of Brexit
From insideHPC

Interview: Advancing HPC in the UK in the Age of Brexit

In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World interviews Mark Parsons on the strategy for HPC in the UK. "We are not part of EuroHPC...

Visual Studio Online–Possibilities for Education?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Visual Studio Online–Possibilities for Education?

Microsoft has been running their big MSIgnite event this week and making all sorts of announcements.  One of them was a cloud-based development environment called...

TMGcore Teams with Dell EMC on Immersion Cooled Datacenter Platform
From insideHPC

TMGcore Teams with Dell EMC on Immersion Cooled Datacenter Platform

Today datacenter solution provider TMGcore announced it has developed a first-of-its-kind data center platform that utilizes immersion cooling and is ready to house...

Building Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Bare-Metal
From insideHPC

Building Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Bare-Metal

In this video, Taylor Newill from Oracle describes how the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers high performance for HPC applications. "From the beginning, Oracle...

Applause for Automated AI Testing and More
From The Eponymous Pickle

Applause for Automated AI Testing and More

Was just pointed to Applause, a means to  expert-crowdsource and manage complex projects.    We had similar capabilities in the enterprise.  Interesting that these...

Supply Chain: IBM adds Assistant Based Methods
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supply Chain: IBM adds Assistant Based Methods

Combining Assistant oriented methods and algorithmic prescriptive solutions makes much more sense.   One way to combine human and autonomous solutions effectively...

Da Vinci's Robot Lions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Da Vinci's Robot Lions

Have a long time interest in Leonardo Da Vinci, and came upon some of his work in 'Robotics'.  He was a person well ahead of his time with the concept, but sadly...

Details of an Airbnb Fraud
From Schneier on Security

Details of an Airbnb Fraud

This is a fascinating article about a bait-and-switch Airbnb fraud. The article focuses on one particular group of scammers and how they operate, using the fact...

Robots in the Boardroom
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots in the Boardroom

A place we experimented with, see a number of tags below for more.Research by HBS, with a number of related topics, some examples:Robots in the Boardroom    by ...

US Patent Office to Leverage AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

US Patent Office to Leverage AI

US Patent office to use AI MethodsPatent Office Seeks Help From AI   By The Wall Street JournalThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is expanding its use of artificial...

Adding a (predictable) branch to existing code can increase branch mispredictions
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Adding a (predictable) branch to existing code can increase branch mispredictions

Software is full of “branches”. They often take the form of if-then clauses in code. Modern processors try to predict the result of branches often long before evaluating...

Bridging the AI Gaps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bridging the AI Gaps

There are AI gaps, huge gaps.  Just like my very modern, effective, correct and powerful smartphone.  With special purpose Apps, loaded up and many more available...

Hitching a Ride
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hitching a Ride

An interesting idea.Delivery Drones Could Land on Public Transport to Extend Their RangeNew ScientistEdd GentOctober 31, 2019Researchers at Stanford University...
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