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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 insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC at Quantlab in Houston
Quantlab in Houston is seeking an HPC Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We seek to fill the role of an HPC Engineer within our research group in Houston, TX. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Handheld Printing
Fascinating application, for some kinds of graphics applications. In Indiegogo. With the usual warnings that such offers for product are high risk. For both initial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Matching for Identification of Antibiotics
Refreshing here is that there is no claim for AI. We need all kinds of analytics to enhance our skills.Computational 'Match Game' Identifies Potential Antibiotics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jeff Bezos's Master Plan
Some non technology views of how unique Amazon is, and where it is goingJeff Bezos’s Master Plan in The Atlantic By Franklin FoerWhat the Amazon founder and CEO...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Echo Auto: Customizing Mobile Voice Experiences
My test for client discussions have been ongoing. In my last post on this I mentioned that Amazon currently has very different behavior between home and Echo Auto...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attention for Advanced Forecasting and Classification
Interesting and quite technical view of forecasting and classification that is worth a look. Of course accurate and timely forecasting is important for most businesses...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Six-Foot-Long Mass of Squid Eggs Found on Great Barrier Reef
It's likely the diamondback squid. There's a video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
California Launches Earthquake Early Warning System
What is particularly good here is that the means to test this will be obvious. I get USGS reports on earthquakes via an App, can filter them to mag 4.5 and higher...
From Schneier on Security
Why Technologists Need to Get Involved in Public Policy
Last month, I gave a 15-minute talk in London titled: "Why technologists need to get involved in public policy." In it, I try to make the case for public-interest...
From The Noisy Channel
I think the even more interesting case for using supply or demand is where supply vastly outstrips…
I think the even more interesting case for using supply or demand is where supply vastly outstrips demand and most intents are in the tail, e.g., searching through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patent Portfolio Strategies of Amazon, Qualcomm, Tencent
Points to some marketing reports available for a fee. At the link.Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Portfolio Strategies of Amazon & Qualcomm, and AI Investments...
From insideHPC
Codeplay SYCL 1.2.1 Solution offers an Open Alternative to CUDA
Today Codeplay announced the world's first fully-conformant SYCL 1.2.1 Solution. "As a non-proprietary alternative to the incumbent CUDA, SYCL is an open standard...
From insideHPC
SC19 Session Preview: Whither Advanced Scientific Computing After Exascale Is Achieved?
"The goal of this BoF is to discuss the landscape for advanced scientific computing after the United States achieves the exascale milestone. What are possible future...
From insideHPC
Designing Scalable HPC, Deep Learning, Big Data, and Cloud Middleware for Exascale Systems
DK Panda from Ohio State University gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "This talk will focus on challenges in designing HPC, Deep Learning, Big Data and HPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailwire: Why Brands Are Moving Direct-To-Consumer
From Yesterdays webinar:If you would like to see a recording of the webinar or refer it to others, you'll find it in our Resources section: Recording and PDF Slides...
From insideHPC
Energy Exascale Earth System Model to Accelerate Climate Research
As one of the Grand Challenges of our time, climate modeling typically requires long run times and huge computational resources. Sandia National Laboratories has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
November Informs Analytics E Mag
The latest Analytics Mag from the Informs Group. Below some quick summaries of key articles, plus lots more at the link. Always informative.Beyond Cross Industry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Grip Improved
Grip is a big thing in robotics. This will be a big deal for classic smart home applications for eldercare. And in factory manufacturing applications.Giving robots...
From The Eponymous Pickle
40 Machine Learning Tutorials from DSC
This group of tutorials via DSC looks good. And to get full access you need to join as a member, which I always recommend. Its free. If you like self-study,...
From Schneier on Security