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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
Running AI and HPC Workloads Together on Existing Infrastructure Enhances Return on System Investments
Because HPC technologies today offer substantially more power and speed than their legacy predecessors, enterprises and research institutions benefit from combining...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing and Sensors at ARL
In this podcast from the Army Research Laboratory, lab director Dr. Phil Perconti and computer scientist Ross Adelman discuss future of supercomputing and sensors...
From Schneier on Security
Evaluating the NSA's Telephony Metadata Program
Interesting analysis: "Examining the Anomalies, Explaining the Value: Should the USA FREEDOM Act's Metadata Program be Extended?" by Susan Landau and Asaf Lubin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Gaming
Will control of voice gaming take us to better voice oriented business?" ... Alexa is powering new games where you control the action with your voiceGames played...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Deep Learning Podcasts
Just experienced and signed onto onto these podcasts with accessible big player and state of the art topics on practical applications of AI. By Lex Fridman. Worth...
From The Noisy Channel
I’m hardly an expert on legal IR. But here are a few pointers:
I’m hardly an expert on legal IR. But here are a few pointers: Passage retrieval in legal texts [PDF] Passage Retrieval Starting from Patent Claims A Clef-Ip 2013...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Leaps and Bounds: Practice Meets Theory
Solving the runtime selection problem Composite from src1, src2 Brendan Lucier and Csaba Szepesvári were consecutive speakers at this week’s workshop at the Tokyo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Physical Throttles vs Touchscreen
Always Thoght there was something unnnatural about touchscreeen controls where there was a natural connection to the physical actions controlled. Here seemsNavy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leading Large Scale Change
Not about digital, which I see is not even mentioned. Why not? But I like some of the points made:A Better Way to Lead Large Scale Change in McKinseyIn Beyond...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consider Process too for Digital Transformation
A view from the APQC domain. As an answer to this see a recent book on the subject I also mentioned here: Why Digital Transformations Fail by Tony Saldanha with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Should Amazon Upskill its Employees?
Retention, improvement and modeling HR asset.Will Amazon’s Plan to ‘Upskill’ Its Employees Pay Off?Wharton’s Matthew Bidwell and NYU’s Ari Ginsberg discuss Amazon...
From insideHPC
Mellanox to Maximize Performance on AMD EPYC 7002 Processors
Today Mellanox announced that the company's InfiniBand ConnectX smart adapter solutions are optimized to provide breakthrough performance and scalability for the...
From insideHPC
Video: High-Performance Computing with Python – Reducing Bottlenecks
This course addresses scientists with a working knowledge of NumPy who wish to explore the productivity gains made possible by Python for HPC. "We will show how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Taxes
Reading the rest to determine how this is done. Via determining algorithms via machine learning. Note also the insertion of 'jurisdictional rules'Deloitte uses...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (August 10th 2019
A short (less than one hour) online lesson improved grades among weaker students. The lesson taught the growth mindset: that intellectual abilities can be developed...
From insideHPC
HPE ProLiant Sets 37 World Record Performance with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors
HPE announced today that it shattered 37 world records, establishing undisputed performance and efficiency leadership with the new HPE ProLiant DL325 and HPE ProLiant...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Postdoctoral scholar position for terrestrial systems modeling at Jülich Supercomputing Centre
The Jülich supercomputing Centre in Germany is seeking a Postdoctoral scholar position in the field of terrestrial systems modeling. "You will setup and perform...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data as Valued Corporate Asset
A topic I have now followed for some time, we even implemented aspects of valuation in the enterprise by starting with semantic structures. Good thoughts atWhat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Voice Science
Got to this somewhat late, but some useful directions about the nature and value of conversational assistance. Still don't see the required richness and context...
From The Eponymous Pickle