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AI Tech of Youtube Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Tech of Youtube Marketing

Simple, intriguing example here.Why AI Technology For YouTube Marketers Is Viewed As A Godsend AI technology for YouTube marketers is often viewed as a total godsend...

Trimming the Bushes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Trimming the Bushes

Classic messy, time consuming job, that needs some close attention.  Solved?Trimbot in a garden. Meet Edinburgh's 'Trimbot,' the Rose Pruning, Bush Trimming Auto...

NNSA Explorations: ARM for Supercomputing
From insideHPC

NNSA Explorations: ARM for Supercomputing

Howard Pritchard from LANL and Simon Hammond from Sandia gave this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing 2019. "Sandia National Laboratories...

Job of the Week: Discipline Leader for HPC Services for DST Group in Australia
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: Discipline Leader for HPC Services for DST Group in Australia

"As a critical member of the HPC Program leadership team, you will work collaboratively to provide secure HPC systems, systems support and related HPC technology...

Friday Squid Blogging: Triassic Kraken
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Triassic Kraken

Research paper: "Triassic Kraken: The Berlin Ichthyosaur Death Assemblage Interpreted as a Giant Cephalopod Midden": Abstract: The Luning Formation at Berlin Ichthyosaur...

Wolfram Alpha: Notebook Edition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wolfram Alpha: Notebook Edition

Been a while since I used this in the enterprise, but here is a new release of interest.  I would heartily recommend this as a teaching environment for math for...

China Passes Cryptography Law
From The Eponymous Pickle

China Passes Cryptography Law

This was predicted last month.   The specifics will be interesting, especially the degree to which the public will be able to use 'absolute' cryptographic methods...

Quantum Navigation?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Navigation?

I am skeptical that a quantum computer is necessary for this kind of shortest route navigation.  But interesting claim, and a real problem.  Will examine further...

What Makes an Image Usefully Memorable?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Makes an Image Usefully Memorable?

Asked this question as early as the 80s, hoping to capture the value for advertisers.  With very large Ad databases.   But with very different methods.    Not overly...

Detecting Misinformation Intent
From The Eponymous Pickle

Detecting Misinformation Intent

This gets closer to true intelligence in a machine.   Determining likely intent with AI methods.   But how well does it do, better than humans?  How well do humans...

Agent Based Mesa Models in Python
From The Eponymous Pickle

Agent Based Mesa Models in Python

This is new to me.    We actively used agent models for consumer interaction understanding.  See agent tag for more.Introduction to Mesa: Agent-based Modeling in...

Progress and Challenges for the Use of Deep Learning to Improve Weather Forecasts
From insideHPC

Progress and Challenges for the Use of Deep Learning to Improve Weather Forecasts

Peter Dueben from ECMWF gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "I will present recent studies that use deep learning to learn the equations of motion of the atmosphere...

Magic 8 Ball and Projects From Real Life
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Magic 8 Ball and Projects From Real Life

There has been a 12 inch tall Pez dispenser on my desk for a couple of years now. It’s a great visual aid for talking about stacks. Today I got a Magic 8 Ball as...

New Intel Xeon E-2200 Processors come to TYAN’s Entry Server Platforms
From insideHPC

New Intel Xeon E-2200 Processors come to TYAN’s Entry Server Platforms

Today TYAN announced support for new Intel Xeon E-2200 processor-based server motherboards and systems to the market. TYAN’s Intel Xeon E-2200 processor-based product...

Atos to Deploy AMD-powered BullSequana X Supercomputer at UIB in Spain
From insideHPC

Atos to Deploy AMD-powered BullSequana X Supercomputer at UIB in Spain

Today Atos announced a contract to supply a BullSequana X supercomputer to the Institute of Interdisciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) in Spain. TheAtos...

OpenIO Achieves Record 1 Tbps Write Speed
From insideHPC

OpenIO Achieves Record 1 Tbps Write Speed

French startup OpenIO recently announced record performance with Criteo, the advertising platform for the open Internet. OpenIO demonstrated the performance and...

Towards a Bio-Internet of Things?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards a Bio-Internet of Things?

Seems we are already part of that, if we like it or not, but here is some moreThe scientists who are creating a bio-internet of things in Technology ReviewThe internet...

Personalizing Voice Skills
From The Eponymous Pickle

Personalizing Voice Skills

Now personalization is generally available, a small but useful aspect of voice interaction.Personalize Your Alexa Experience with Voice Profiles (Generally Available)...

Resources for Measuring Cybersecurity
From Schneier on Security

Resources for Measuring Cybersecurity

Kathryn Waldron at R Street has collected all of the different resources and methodologies for measuring cybersecurity....

Robots, AI and Machine Learning Will be be Changing Your Jobs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots, AI and Machine Learning Will be be Changing Your Jobs

All jobs will have their nature changed, not unlike how computing in general has changed many jobs.    MIT and IBM are studying the changes and what they mean.The...
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