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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
Hacking the Dash Button
Tom Warren in The Verge writes about the fast approaching demise of the Amazon Dash Button. With some interesting use experience comments. Also points to some...
From Schneier on Security
How Privacy Laws Hurt Defendants
Rebecca Wexler has an interesting op-ed about an inadvertent harm that privacy laws can cause: while law enforcement can often access third-party data to aid in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Programming Concept Do I Use?
I’ve been programming a long time. I wrote my first computer program in 1972. I think the parents of some of my students were not even born yet. So it’s hard to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon to Soon Shut off All Dash Buttons
Amazon will shut down all its one-push dash ordering buttons by the end of August, lliked the idea, thought it was novel and interesting. Used it for severalAmazon...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A new release of simdjson: runtime dispatching, 64-bit ARM support and more
JSON is a ubiquitous data exchange format. It is found everywhere on the Internet. To consume JSON, software uses tools called JSON parsers. Earlier this year,Continue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BlueTalon Acquired
Microsoft has acquired BlueTalon, lots of new work underway regarding how data is managed and valued and protected. Following that trend here and elsewhere.Microsoft...
From insideHPC
OSU Invests $2.6 million in AI Computing Resources
Oregon State University’s College of Engineering is accelerating its work in artificial intelligence, robotics, driverless vehicles and other areas by acquiring...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Value of Lineage Metadata
Did lots of work with metadata, especially in the corporate laboratory space. Had never heard the term 'Lineage Metadata', though again it was often considered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recognizing AI as an Inventor
I don't think the US patent system, at least, is ready for this kind of thingAI system 'should be recognised as inventor' By Leo Kelion in the BBCAn artificial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Tries an Educational Chatbot
An interesting example of an educational chatbot for a food. Avocados from Mexico Brings Educational Chatbot to WalmartBy Patrycja Malinowska - 07/31/2019 in ConsumerGoods...
From insideHPC
XSEDE Campus Champions to Focus on Research Collaboration
XSEDE has selected five Campus Champions Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year. These exceptional researchers will have the opportunity to work side-by-side with...
From insideHPC
Deep Learning for Higgs Boson Identification and Searches for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider
Mark Neubauer from the University of Illinois gave this talk at the Blue Waters Symposium. "In this talk, we present our work using deep learning techniques onDeep...
From insideHPC
Defense Department is testing a Shipping Container Supercomputer
The Defense Department is testing a Shipping Container Supercomputer. "The $12 million contract provides for a supercomputing system housed in a shipping container...
From insideHPC
Singularity 3.3.0 Goes GA
Today Sylabs announced the Generally Available Release of Singularity 3.3.0. As the premier Container platform for performance-sensitive workloads, this release...
From insideHPC
The Algorithms of Life – Scientific Computing for Systems Biology
Ivo Sbalzarini from TU Dresden gave this keynote presentation at ISC 2019. In his talk, Sbalzarini mainly discussed the rapidly growing importance and influence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
O'Reilly Data Show Podcast: Linking Decisions and Data Science
Liked this very much, in particular the statement of the topic ... that its all about how we link data science to real life decisions. The need for 'Decision...
From The Eponymous Pickle
'CrowdWorkers' Train the AI with Knowledge
The word is new to me, but understand the tasks involved. And we used the idea, having people train AI type systems by allowing them to observe human behavior...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford Sees Around Corners
Quite remarkable, but not the same thing as the article previously pointed to about using shadows to infer what is around the corner. See the tag below. In this...
From Schneier on Security
Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp
This article points out that Facebook's planned content moderation scheme will result in an encryption backdoor into WhatsApp: In Facebook's vision, the actual...
From The Eponymous Pickle