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AI in Experimental Architecture
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI in Experimental Architecture

Fascinating approach,  here we are talking physical architecture, but could the same approach for business model and process?   Design in general?   Whole thing...

Patterns in Recycling Waste Streams
From The Eponymous Pickle

Patterns in Recycling Waste Streams

Consider the complexity of recycling waste, a major reason it is not re-used efficiently enough is the cost of sorting it.  Training data would be interesting to...

Readying for 5G and Advanced Gaming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Readying for 5G and Advanced Gaming

Had read that 5G will widely increase phone gaming.Qualcomm, Tencent agree to collaborate on gaming devices, 5GBy Stephen Nellis in Reuters(Reuters) - Qualcomm...

Japan Funding in Robotics and Automation Tasks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Japan Funding in Robotics and Automation Tasks

Japan renews funding for AI, automation and robotics innovation.Nikkei Asian ReviewMinako YamashitaJuly 29, 2019The Japanese government will solicit research proposals...

Details of VxWorks Vulnerability Found by Armis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Details of VxWorks Vulnerability Found by Armis

More on the topic mentioned recently about extensive vulnerability of common embedded OS.200 Million Devices—Some Mission-Critical—Vulnerable to Remote Takeover...

Most Everything is now Vulnerable
From The Eponymous Pickle

Most Everything is now Vulnerable

As part of a project,  I am looking at hacking vulnerabilities, and have been following some of the security press.   Another remarkable discovery.  That the vulnerabilities...

Friday Squid Blogging: Piglet Squid Video
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Piglet Squid Video

Really neat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

NCSA to help build world’s most powerful geospatial system
From insideHPC

NCSA to help build world’s most powerful geospatial system

NCSA has announced a new collaboration to produce digital elevation models (DEM) of the entire Earth, among other geospatial research projects. "This is the beginning...

More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp
From Schneier on Security

More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp

Yesterday, I blogged about a Facebook plan to backdoor WhatsApp by adding client-side scanning and filtering. It seems that I was wrong, and there are no such plans...

Nimbix HPC Cloud Powers US Sailing Team
From insideHPC

Nimbix HPC Cloud Powers US Sailing Team

Today ​Nimbix​ announced their collaboration with the US Sailing Team (USST) as the “Official Compute Partner of the US Sailing Team.” For us, it is all about providing...

Avoiding Blockchain Mistakes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Avoiding Blockchain Mistakes

Nicely done set of cautions, including strong mention of 'smart contracts'.  Has passed this to colleagues.7 blockchain mistakes and how to avoid themThe blockchain...

DAOS: Scale-Out Software-Defined Storage for HPC/Big Data/AI Convergence
From insideHPC

DAOS: Scale-Out Software-Defined Storage for HPC/Big Data/AI Convergence

As an all-new parallel file system, DAOS will be a key component of the the upcoming Aurora supercomputer coming to Argonne National Laboratory in 2021. "DAOS is...

Cautions when using RPA
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cautions when using RPA

Good piece with cautions about the use of RPA.   Most notably, its about task, not process.   And I agree, but process is also made out of tasks, and you have to...

AI Changing Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Changing Science

The race is on.   But how creative can this be?   The problems I see still require lots of data gathered in a given exploratory context.  The lots of data is one...

Disabling Security Cameras with Lasers
From Schneier on Security

Disabling Security Cameras with Lasers

There's a really interesting video of protesters in Hong Kong using some sort of laser to disable security cameras. I know nothing more about the technologies involved...

China Quantum Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

China Quantum Drones

Exactly what this means, claims should be followed.First 'Quantum Drone' Takes OffIEEE SpectrumBy Charles Q. ChoiResearchers at Nanjing University in China have...

JSON parsing: simdjson vs. JSON for Modern C++
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

JSON parsing: simdjson vs. JSON for Modern C++

JSON is the ubiquitous data format on the Internet. There is a lot of JSON that needs to be parsed and validated. As we just released the latest version of ourContinue...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

The Electoral College: Is It Good?

A old unpublished result, some new published results [ Playbill ] Alexander Hamilton was a framer of the U.S. Constitution. He wrote the bulk of the Federalist...

Dynamic Pricing with Electronic Shelf Labels
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dynamic Pricing with Electronic Shelf Labels

An idea we did lots of prototyping with, shelf tags that could update prices electronically and display information about product.    We tested a number of ideas...

Accelerating Neural Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Accelerating Neural Networks

Lots of work underway in making nets faster, and extending their architecture.DarwinAI Generative Synthesis Platform and Intel Optimizations for TensorFlow Accelerate...
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