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Build Your Own Voice Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Build Your Own Voice Assistant

A look at building your own Voice Assistant from KDNuggets, instructive about how relatively little it takes to set up the basics using Python.   Of course setting...

Guardicore and Mellanox to Deliver Agentless and High-Performance Micro-Segmentation in Data Centers
From insideHPC

Guardicore and Mellanox to Deliver Agentless and High-Performance Micro-Segmentation in Data Centers

Today Guardicore announced that it has partnered with Mellanox to deliver the first agentless and high-performance, low latency micro-segmentation solution forGuardicore...

How SUSE Powers High Performance Computing
From insideHPC

How SUSE Powers High Performance Computing

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing provides a parallel computing platform for high performance data analytics workloads such as artificial intelligence...

Insilico Medicine Brings GENTRL AI System to Open Source for Drug Discovery
From insideHPC

Insilico Medicine Brings GENTRL AI System to Open Source for Drug Discovery

Insilico Medicine has developed GENTRL, a new artificial intelligence system for drug discovery that dramatically accelerates the process from years to days. “By...

AMD: Delivering the Future of High-Performance Computing
From insideHPC

AMD: Delivering the Future of High-Performance Computing

In this video from the recent DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit, Dr. Lisa Su from AMD describes how the semiconductor industry is meeting the growing...

Studies of Management by Algorithm
From The Eponymous Pickle

Studies of Management by Algorithm

Is part of the process of what we deal with as we start to work more closely with robots and algorithms.   What People Hate About Being Managed by Algorithms, According...

Password Checking Tools
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Password Checking Tools

Neil Plotnick shared some Password Checking Tools on Facebook recently. I’ve used some of these in the past and find them useful and instructive. https://howsecureismypassword...

Default Password for GPS Trackers
From Schneier on Security

Default Password for GPS Trackers

Many GPS trackers are shipped with the default password 123456. Many users don't change them. We just need to eliminate default passwords. This is an easy win.....

AI Explainability 360 Toolkit
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Explainability 360 Toolkit

From today's talk:http://cognitive-science.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/AIX360-CSIG-V1-2019-09-05.pdf (Slides)http://cognitive-science.info/community/weekly-update...

Passing integers by reference can be expensive…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Passing integers by reference can be expensive…

In languages like C++, you can pass values to functions in two ways. You can pass by value: the value is semantically “copied” before being passed to the function...

From Computational Complexity

Transitioning

You may have noticed, or not, that I haven't posted or tweeted much in the last month. I've had a busy time moving back to Chicago and starting my new positionsignificant...

NetApp looks to BeeGFS for High Speed Storage
From insideHPC

NetApp looks to BeeGFS for High Speed Storage

ThinkParQ is expanding its global reach of BeeGFS by partnering with NetApp. The new partnership will provide an easy to deploy, cost effective and easy-to-manage...

Podcast: ECP Team Achieves Huge Performance Gain on Materials Simulation Code
From insideHPC

Podcast: ECP Team Achieves Huge Performance Gain on Materials Simulation Code

The Exascale Atomistics for Accuracy, Length, and Time (EXAALT) project within the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has made a big step...

CSC Finland powers AI to help predict hybrid nanoparticle structures
From insideHPC

CSC Finland powers AI to help predict hybrid nanoparticle structures

Researchers in Finland have achieved a significant step forward in predicting atomic structures of hybrid nanoparticles. The work was carried out using supercomputing...

Supercomputing and the Scientist: How HPC and Analytics are transforming experimental science
From insideHPC

Supercomputing and the Scientist: How HPC and Analytics are transforming experimental science

In this video from DataTech19, Debbie Bard from NERSC presents: Supercomputing and the scientist: How HPC and large-scale data analytics are transforming experimental...

Shipping Containers as IoT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shipping Containers as IoT

Used to deal with lots of shipping containers that contained valuable perishable items.  So saw the need for this early on.     Tests were already underway then...

Thermoplastic Connectors Grow in Popularity Along with Liquid Cooling
From insideHPC

Thermoplastic Connectors Grow in Popularity Along with Liquid Cooling

As liquid cooling becomes more and more prevalent, new technology and types of connectors are becoming water cooler topics for those in the data and computing industries...

Blockchain Testing to Secure Power Grid
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blockchain Testing to Secure Power Grid

Interesting example of how to use chains for securing data.  Here it appears primarily IOT examples.US Energy Department Funds Trial of Factom Blockchain to Secure...

McCormick Uses AI to Test Spices
From The Eponymous Pickle

McCormick Uses AI to Test Spices

Been impressed with what McCormick has done in emerging tech spaces.McCormick using AI to test recipesMcCormick has been using artificial intelligence to develop...

NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing

This is a great program for high school girls interested in technology. I have had several students get awards at the state level and they all say it has been a...
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