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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Hobgoblins in Our Equations
With consequences for physics Britannica source Paul Painlevé was a French mathematician who specialized in classical mechanics. He is known for a conjecture in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Paid for Your Data
More and better data means better training. Better results. And better adaption to future knowledge. Still not perfect results, and the risk involved in that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on McD's Knows What You Want
More on the McDonald's drive through idea. Less friction, more sales. Note plan to roll to all drive-throughs. Looking forward to see it in action.McDonald’s...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Disinformation is (Unfortunately) Here to Stay
We live in a new world. A world where information can spread fast and without any regard to accuracy. Our challenge as individual citizens is to somehow identify...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing numbers in C++: streams, strtod, from_chars
When programming, we often want to convert strings (e.g., “1.0e2”) into numbers (e.g., 100). In C++, we have many options. In a previous post, I reported that it...
From Computational Complexity
Statistics to Scare
So how do you parse the following paragraph from Monday's NYT Evening Breifing. A study in JAMA Pediatrics this year found that the average Halloween resultedpaper...
From insideHPC
Spectra Logic Protects Genome Data for Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Today Spectra Logic announced that the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has chosen the Spectra NAS solution for management of its extensive library of research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictions in Science
Could you crowdsource validity within science?Individual predictions might not tell us much, but group predictions are useful. in ArstechnicaLast year, a huge...
From insideHPC
Dell EMC to Deploy World’s Largest Industrial Supercomputer at Eni
Today Eni announced plans to deploy the world's largest industrial supercomputer at its Green Data Center in Italy. Called "HPC5," the new system from Dell EMCDell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numbers Being Transformations
Claimed success or sometimes not. Rarely seen the actual numbers discussed. Metrics are important.The numbers behind successful transformations By Kevin Laczkowski...
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing: The Why and How
Jonathan Baker from the University of Chicago gave this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "Jonathan is studying quantum architectures...
From insideHPC
How PRACE Brings HPC to Industry
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World speaks with Lee Margetts, chair of PRACE’s industrial advisory committee, about its work...
From The Eponymous Pickle
4 Keys to AI Success
Good, completely non technical piece in the Cisco Blog. Needs much filling out but starts the conversation.AI and the 4 Keys to its Success: Diving DeeperBy Anthony...
From insideHPC
A Liquid Cooling Petascale Supercomputing Site and GROMACS Workload Optimization Benchmark
Accelerated computing have been viewed as revolutionary breakthrough technologies for AI and HPC workloads. Significant accelerated computing power from GPUs paired...
From Schneier on Security
A Broken Random Number Generator in AMD Microcode
Interesting story. I always recommend using a random number generator like Fortuna, even if you're using a hardware random source. It's just safer....
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Codes Have Considerable Value
Someone recently mentioned to me, in a discussion of brand package identification, that QR Codes had disappeared. I knew that was not the case, but did not have...
From insideHPC
GCS Student Team preps for SC19 Student Cluster Competition
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) will once again sponsor some of Germany’s brightest collegiate minds at the SC19 Student Cluster Competition. Team “deFAUlt"...
From insideHPC
Parker Hannifin to Showcase Liquid Cooling Solutions at SC19
Parker Hannifin will showcase their latest quick connect couplings for liquid cooling at SC19 in Denver. "Recognized as the largest manufacturer of quick couplings...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wind Energy Kites
Intriguing approach for wind energy production, in IEEE Spectrum.Alphabet’s Makani Tests Wind Energy Kites in the North SeaThe flyers are just one of several airborne...
From insideHPC