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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 Computational Complexity
Turing to be on the Bank of England 50 pound note, giving me an excuse to talk about Turing
BILL: Darling, guess who is soon going to be on the Bank of England 50 pound note? DARLING: Alan Turing. BILL: How did you deduce that? (She is right, see here...
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted: MVAPICH User Group (MUG) Meeting in Ohio
The MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG 2019) has published its Speaker Agenda. The event will take place from August 19-21 in Columbus, Ohio. "MUG aims to bring together...
From insideHPC
Accelerate Your Apache Spark with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
Piotr Balcer and Cheng Xu from Intel gave this talk at the 2019 Spark+AI Summit. "Intel Optane DC persistent memory breaks the traditional memory/storage hierarchy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supercomputers + Graphic Processing for Parameter Simulation
Another example of the use of simulation, and much faster computing to check proposed solutions. We used just such methods in the enterprise, though well before...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Gives Cancer AI to Open Source
Like the potential of clearly beneficial approaches being shared this way. What outcomes have come out of this work to date?IBM Gives Cancer-Killing Drug AIZDNet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Lenses
In New Scientist, complete article requires subscription:A robotic lens can be controlled by simply looking around or blinking By Leah CraneBlink twice to zoom...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Further Emergence of the Very Small
Good piece on the emergence fo the very small devices aimed at tasks for many purposes.Micro machines: How the next big thing in robotics is actually quite small...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Defining, Measuring Cleanliness
Worked early on in grocery.How do consumers define cleanliness in grocery stores? by Tom Ryan in RetailwireCleanliness in grocery stores means much more than “clean...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensor Based Skin for Prosthetic Touch
New advances in touch. We experimented with devices on the shelf to let consumers touch-engage with a product. So this might be a way to quantitatively test...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at DE Shaw Research
D.E. Shaw Research is seeking and HPC System Administrator in our Job of the Week. "Exceptional sysadmins sought to manage systems, storage, and network infrastructure...
From insideHPC
Video: Lustre, RoCE, and MAN
Marek Magryś from Cyfronet gave this talk at the DDN User Group. "This talk will describe the architecture and implementation of high capacity Lustre file system...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 27th 2019)
There are thick ice deposits on the Moon. Water in space is important as it can be used to create fuel and to sustain life. Most animals do not suffer heart attacks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Integrating Machine Learning and Graph Algorithms
Just attended the Neo4j webinar for Improving Machine Learning Predictions Using Graph Algorithms. Nicely informative. Click below to watch a recording of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Regulations Needed for Digital Ledgers
Regulations for Blockchain systems and contractsColumbia DataScience (@DSI_Columbia)How is blockchain technology affecting the securities market and what regulations...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Big Complicated Programming Projects
Ria Galanos has a wonderful blog about her experiences moving from the classroom to a life as a professional software developer. It’s been a long time since I developed...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Humbolt Squid in Mexico is Getting Smaller
The Humbolt squid are getting smaller: Rawley and the other researchers found a flurry of factors that drove the jumbo squid's demise. The Gulf of California historically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Assistive Driving Tech Allows Control of Multiple Trucks
New look at how to make supply chains more efficient.EMERGING TECHSmart assistive driving tech allows one truck driver to control multiple trucks By Luke Dormehl...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Powering Drones for Days with Ultralight Photovoltaics
Something like this might fill the skies. The efficiency increase seems small, but perhaps is key to the task at hand.Drones will fly for days with new photovoltaic...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can a BufferedReader read lines in Java?
In an earlier post, I asked how fast the getline function in C++ could run through the lines in a text file. The answer was about 2 GB/s. That is slower than some...
From insideHPC