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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
Assisting Visually Impaired Web Browsing
Screen reading plus voice assistance. Good idea.New Tool Makes Web Browsing Easier for the Visually Impaired University of Waterloo NewsAugust 20, 2019Researchers...
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Data Labeling
We worked with both the crowdsourcing methods for this and automated methods. AI's New Workforce: The Data-Labeling Industry Spreads Globallyin Financial Times...
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Papercraft Inspired Math
I had previously reported on the use of Origami and Kirigami for real problems, here more out of Harvard:Papercraft-inspired math turns any sheet into any shape...
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More on Imminent Audible Captioning
Recently have been reading/hearing long texts in Audible and Kindle, usually non-fiction. So gaining an appreciation for the difference in the way we utilize...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Won't Have to Offer Patent Licenses Yet
Intriguing insight to antitrust vs patent licensing. Note the embedded predictive aspect included here. Predicting Qualcomm's income from patent licensing?Qualcomm...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pfizer Using Mutiple Data Sources for Shopper Insight
Makes sense to get multiple sources, at very least to check the accuracy of predictions. And inthis case because shoppers usually go to many places, tracking their...
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Simple Statistics Types in one Picture
A good, nontechnical infographic that describes commonly used simple statistics. Just enough to use with non-technical management and decision makers. Make sure...
From insideHPC
Video: PCI Express 6.0 Specification to Reach 64 GigaTransfers/sec
In this video, PCI-SIG President and Board Member, Al Yanes, shares and overview of PCI Express 5.0 and 6.0 specifications. “With the PCIe 6.0 specification, PCI...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (August 24th 2019)
The net contribution of the Amazon ecosystem to the world’s oxygen is effectively zero. Furthermore, there is a lot of oxygen in the air and it would be excessively...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Supercomputing Applications Specialist at CSIRO
Pawsey’s Supercomputing Team is responsible for providing the infrastructure to fulfill the needs of the Australian research community and to engage with that community...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bold Bridge Advisors
New Affiliation: Bold Bridge AdvisorsBold Bridge Advisors Values:1. Clarify WHY, WHO, SO WHAT, before technology and solutions are defined.2. Seek and speak truth...![[Book] The Costs of Connection](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] The Costs of Connection
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias Stanford University Press August...
From Putting People First
End user perceptions of smart home device data practices and risks
“I don’t own the data”: End User Perceptions of Smart Home Device Data Practices and Risks Madiha Tabassum, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Tomasz Kosinski...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Develops Could Services for Quantum Computers
More on the use and interaction of quantum computing with current needs, like secure cryptography. Is likely to increasingly become an important issue. Note the...
From Putting People First
Digital service teams in government
Digital service teams in government Ines Mergel, Professor of Public Administration, University of Konstanz, Germany Government Information Quarterly August 2019...
From Putting People First
[Book] Behavioural macroeconomics
Behavioural Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy Paul De Grauwe and Yuemei Ji Oxford University Press October 2019, 256 pages Modern macroeconomics has been based[Book]...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Vulnerabilities in Squid Server
It's always nice when I can combine squid and security: Multiple versions of the Squid web proxy cache server built with Basic Authentication features are currently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Battery-Free Sensors Underwater with Piezoelectricity
Another example of new ways to add power sources. I recall piezoelectric methods being suggested as gained from customers walking across a floor. HarvestingA...
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Russian Fedor Robot Assistant in the ISS
Much in the press this week. Looks to be of real value based on the description. Unclear here if this is voice driven and other specifics. Note it is communicating...
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