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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

A Polemical Overreach?

Our 1977 paper on the role of formal methods [ Harvard ] Harry Lewis is known for his research in mathematical logic, and for his wonderful contributions to teaching...

From Computational Complexity

Differentiation and Integration

Recently there was an excellent xkcd about differentiation and integration, see here. This brings up thoughts on diff and int: 1) For some students Integration...

Voice Landscape in Europe
From The Eponymous Pickle

Voice Landscape in Europe

 Some good alternative work ongoing in Europe:Voice Landscape in Europe from All About Voice Conference – Voicebot Podcast Ep 119From Voicebot.ai  by Bret Kinsella...

Fujitsu installs Quantum-Inspired Computing Digital Annealer in Singapore
From insideHPC

Fujitsu installs Quantum-Inspired Computing Digital Annealer in Singapore

Today Fujitsu launched of the Digital Platform Experimentation Project in Singapore. In cooperation with A*STAR and SMU, the Project marks the world’s 1st on-premises...

In Context Facial Recognition Improved
From The Eponymous Pickle

In Context Facial Recognition Improved

More work in this space, apparently particularly useful when seeing alternative views to ID.  The UK's massive coverage of CCTV cameras would benefit considerably...

China vs US in AI Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

China vs US in AI Research

Perhaps, but citing is not always a good measure to determine value.  There can be pressure in some countries to cite other papers from your country.    NumberChina...

Insect Scale Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Insect Scale Robotics

And is a bit frightening too.The Deep Learning Way to Design Fly-Like RobotsEPFL (Switzerland)October 11, 2019Researchers at Switzerland's Swiss Federal Institute...

HPE Hybrid HPC Early Access Program for your Hybrid HPC Journey
From insideHPC

HPE Hybrid HPC Early Access Program for your Hybrid HPC Journey

This timely article from our friends over at HPE provides the following key takeaways: HPE Hybrid HPC provides you choice to meet demanding workload needs; HPEHPE...

Details of the Olympic Destroyer APT
From Schneier on Security

Details of the Olympic Destroyer APT

Interesting details on Olympic Destroyer, the nation-state cyberattack against the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea. Wired's Andy Greenberg presents evidence...

Data Visualization in Quadrants with a Story
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Visualization in Quadrants with a Story

Clever piece in KDNuggets, about how to take survey data and take some basic, well known frameworks, and add a story to make your point.  Non-technical.   Not sure...

AI for Reading Understanding
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI for Reading Understanding

Been reading and exploring about what reading understanding means.  Here an update from Quanta Magazine on the toic.      We still have far to go when we have to...

Microsoft AI Powered Digital Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft AI Powered Digital Marketing

Not a very detailed article, but of interest.   Somewhat unexpected space for Microsoft.  Here an effort first in India.Microsoft unveils AI-powered Digital Marketing...

A64fx: A Game Changing, HPC / AI Optimized Arm CPU for Exascale
From insideHPC

A64fx: A Game Changing, HPC / AI Optimized Arm CPU for Exascale

Satoshi Matsuoka from Riken gave this talk at Linaro Connect 2019. "Fugaku is the flagship next generation national supercomputer being developed by Riken R-CCS...

Artifcial Gut Exploring Microbiomes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Artifcial Gut Exploring Microbiomes

Saw a presentation recently on means of using the human microbiome, but not linking to an artificial gut that would allow it to be interacted with and simulated...

Podcast: Simulation & Visualization Drive New Discoveries and Insights
From insideHPC

Podcast: Simulation & Visualization Drive New Discoveries and Insights

In this podcast, Katrina Feliciano-Stoddard joins Intel's Conversations in the Cloud. "Katrina talks about simulation and visualization, its role in innovation,...

AI Startups in Healthcare
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Startups in Healthcare

A look at AI type startups in the health and diagnostic and imaging areas.  Very active.8 AI Diagnostics and Imaging Startups for Digital Health in NAnalyzeInvesting...

Database of Tomorrow: Self Driving and Autonomous
From The Eponymous Pickle

Database of Tomorrow: Self Driving and Autonomous

Was struck by the depth and further volume of data and implications?  The intro below, much more at the linkThe Database of Tomorrow: The Self-Driving, Autonomous...

Lessons learned from losing 50 lbs
From Writing

Lessons learned from losing 50 lbs

On January 10, 2019, I weighed in at 223 lbs. On October 20, I weighed in at 173 lbs. That’s 50 pounds lost (22.7 kg) in 10 months.

Reflections and Projections about IBM Watson
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reflections and Projections about IBM Watson

An nicely done internal look at Watson.   As I have mentioned here before, Watson may not have lived up to some of the early expectations, but it remains a serious...

Video: The Cambridge Research Computing Service
From insideHPC

Video: The Cambridge Research Computing Service

Paul Calleja from the University of Cambridge gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "The Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3) brings together researchers...
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