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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 …
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HPC Framework Blocks to Ease Programming of Exascale Supercomputers
Researchers are beginning a three-year cross-institute project that aims to lower the barrier to entry for software engineers developing new high-performance applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tiny Drones for Unknown Environments
We explored the approach of using small swarms of drones. In industrial and outdoor forestry and logging spaces.....Swarm of Tiny Drones Explores Unknown Environments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Giant Food for Frictionless Checkouts
There has been some suggestion that Amazon is backing off the idea, except in narrow contexts. But recently there has been a newly opened store. Here new word...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decade's end: On Future Developments
Gizmodo does a reasonable look at what to expect:The Most Futuristic Developments We Can Expect in the Next 10 YearsBy George Dvorsky in Gizmodo via Walter Riker...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Quantum Supremacy At Last?
What it takes to understand and verify the claim Cropped from 2014 Wired source John Martinis of U.C. Santa Barbara and Google is the last author of a paper published...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Passes Cryptography Law
Broad implications unclear, especially how it might relate to Blockchain or other uses of cryptography that relate to regulatory access. Apparently quotes theChina...
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Nortek Unveils World’s Most Powerful CDU for Data Center Liquid Cooling
Today Nortek Air Solutions rolled out its new CDU1200, a 1,200-kW coolant distribution unit (CDU). As the single most powerful, compact CDU on the planet, the CDU1200...
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Job of the Week: HPC Operations Manager at Ohio Supercomputer Center
"OSC is seeking an HPC Operations Manager, a new position inside the HPC Systems Team. The operations manager will manage a team of three systems administrators...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Trees for Shopping
Perhaps simplistic, but interesting. Even if you have to ultimately complicate such a model, its useful to start with something this simple and see how well it...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (October 26th 2019)
People who were the oldest in the classes in school tend to be more confident and to take more risks. At the University of Montreal, about 32% of the students are...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How expensive is it to parse numbers from a string in C++?
In software, we frequently have to parse numbers from strings. Numbers are typically represented in computers as 32-bit or 64-bit words whereas strings are variable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cross Entropy
What is this? New to me as a term. I record here for my own refernce and pass it out to others. In particular the suggestion here is that classification may...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Loop By Any Other Name
My first programming language was FORTRAN IV. As I recall we had Do loops. They worked pretty much the same as what we call For loops in most languages today. We...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Researchers Investigating Using Squid Propulsion for Underwater Robots
Interesting article and paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Creates Fund for 5G Use Beyond Phones
Being speed, what are the applications in play? Where can we predict particular useful ventures that we should support?Qualcomm creates $200 million fund for 5G...
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Wozniak: No Self-Driving Cars in My Lifetime
A contrary look to be considered.Steve Wozniak: No Self-Driving Cars in My Lifetime By Bill Howard in ExtremetechLAS VEGAS — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak believes...
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D-Wave Announces First European Leap Quantum Cloud Site at JÜlich
Today D-Wave Systems announced that it will house its first European Leap quantum cloud-based system outside of North America at the Jülich Supercomputing Center...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Databricks with Tableau
Intriguing update for Tableau.Visualize your data lake with the new Tableau Databricks ConnectorTableau 2019.3 was a momentous release for a number of reasons.At...
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