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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Planning in Food Retail
Advanced Planning using machine learning techniques are suggested for procurement. We always had advanced planning, its just how well you could integrate it with...
From Schneier on Security
Another Side Channel in Intel Chips
Not that serious, but interesting: In late 2011, Intel introduced a performance enhancement to its line of server processors that allowed network cards and other...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Knowledge Graphs
Have been looking at means of continuously and coherently connecting company data sources to analytical and AI methods. Most recently have looked at the idea...
From Apophenia
Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On
I was recently honored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Alongside Oakland Privacy and William Gibson, I received a 2019 Barlow/Pioneer Award. I was asked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Verizon says 5G Will be Available Everywhere Mobile is
Not fully understanding this. I assume your hardware will have to deal with it, and recent announcements by major players have not mentioned it. Implications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Certainty is Unusual
Jason Brownlee does his usual good job of explaining important concepts. Here largely non technical. And this is perhaps the most important. Often the hardest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cooperation is Central Issue of Our Time
It really has been the central issue of all time. Its just now we have to cooperate with so many people/things. Or at least have the opportunity to. And weCOOPERATION...
From insideHPC
Deep Learning at scale for the construction of galaxy catalogs
A team of scientists is now applying the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance supercomputers to accelerate efforts to analyze the increasingly...
From insideHPC
Computational Evaluation of Cloud HPC with a Global Atmospheric Model
Daniel Arevalo from DeVine Consulting gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Prompted by DoD priorities for modernization, cost savings, and redundancy, this project...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coaching with AI
Late to noting this, but thought it was interesting. How might this be more broadly delivered?2019 U.S. Open gets new 'coach' with IBM's A.I. technology in Yahoo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generating Text for All
Should we delight or be worried?The world’s most freakishly realistic text-generating A.I. just got gamified By Luke Dormehl in DigitalTrendsWhat would an adventure...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections–September 2019
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair September marks the beginning of a new year of programming for ACM-W and this one promises to be an exciting one. Our organization...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at University College London on September 23, 2019. I'm speaking at World's Top 50...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (September 14th 2019)
Streaming music makes up 80% of the revenue of the music industry. Revenue is up 18% for the first six months of 2019. This follows a record year in 2018 when the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Speeding up independent binary searches by interleaving them
Given a long list of sorted values, how do you find the location of a particular value? A simple strategy is to first look at the middle of the list. If your value...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Powers Rosie Supercomputer at MSOE
An NVIDIA GPU-powered supercomputer named "Rosie" is at the heart of a new computational science facility at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. "Housed in a glass...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Software Developer/SLURM System Administrator at Adaptive Computing
Adaptive Computing is seeking a Software Developer/SLURM System Administrator in our Job of the Week. The position is located in the Naples, Florida. "This is an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hardening Encryption for Quantum Computing
Our own early look at QC aimed at very highly combinatorial problems, and some believe this will also provide methods to break encryption. Now there are efforts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improvements for Future Voice Assistants
Survey of future improvements that could be useful. Not complete or specific to voice assistants. But useful thoughts.5 ways that future A.I. assistants will...
From The Eponymous Pickle