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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 …
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Atos Powers HPC for Genomic Pilot Platform
Atos was recently selected by GCS AURAGEN to provide and orchestrate the high-performance computing infrastructure and storage of a new genomic pilot platform for...
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VSC-4 from Lenovo is Austria’s most powerful supercomputer
Lenovo has deployed the fastest supercomputer in Austria. Installed by EDV-Design at TU Wien, the water cooled Vienna Scientific Cluster 4 (VSC-4) ranks #82 inVSC...
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Accelerating High-Resolution Weather Models with Deep-Learning Hardware
Sam Hatfield from the University of Oxford gave this talk at the PASC19 conference. "In this paper, we investigate the use of mixed-precision hardware that supports...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Gives Out 100K Google Minis to the Paralyzed
Google is giving out free devices for the paralyzed. Great effort and also a way to illustrate the particular value of assistants for paralytics and other related...
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Captioning Audible Books
The idea below is a kind of captioning of audio from a a book being read to you. Gives you two streams, audio and visual, for a given book. I would find this...
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Gut vs Brain
Perhaps a radical view, but things other than out brain do think for us, should we use them as models for intelligence as well?Questioning the Cranial ParadigmA...
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Google Assistant Rolls Out in Waze
Continued better integration of Google methods within their Assistant.The Google Assistant is now available in WazeAustin ChangDirector, Google AssistantThink about...
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Odds vs Probability
Good thought, since I am from an engineering background, I hear probability rather than odds.Are you mixing up odds with probability? in TowardDataScienceOddsKeith...
From Schneier on Security
Insider Logic Bombs
Add to the "not very smart criminals" file: According to court documents, Tinley provided software services for Siemens' Monroeville, PA offices for nearly ten...
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Pricing Smart Products
Towards business models of smart products.5 Questions to Consider When Pricing Smart ProductsNicolaj Siggelkow, Christian Terwiesch in HBRImagine you are the CEO...
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Alexa Introduces third Startup Class
Interesting list of developers follows:Amazon’s Alexa Accelerator introduces its third startup class By Kyle WiggersA year to the day after Amazon revealed the...
From Computational Complexity
The Advisor/Advisee Relationship
I've always felt a strong advisor/advisee relationship is the single most important factor in a successful PhD career. At its best, the advisor works closely with...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Discrepancy Games and Sensitivity
Can we connect the talks that closed this month’s Random Structures and Algorithms conference? Cropped from NYU homepage Joel Spencer gave the closing talk of last...
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Alexa Prize Primary Tools
Sciences used in the Socialbot Grand Challenge.AI Tools Let Alexa Prize Participants Focus on Science By Anu VenkateshMarch 4 marks the kickoff of the third Alexa...
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Hierarchical Clustering Example
Here a good technical, but readily understandable, example of hierarchical clustering. With Code. We used similar methods in the enterprise, but not for crime...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
RFI Released to Improve Federal Data and Models for Artificial Intelligence R&D
Recently, the White House posted a Request for Information (RFI) inviting suggestions for improvements to Federal data and models needed to accelerate AI R&D and...
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DOE Funds $37 Million for Materials and Chemistry Research in Quantum Information Science
Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $37 million in funding for targeted research in materials and chemistry to advance the important emerging field...
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GRC to Tailor Datacenter Immersion Cooling for Japanese Market
Today immersion cooling provider GRC announced a new partnership and licensing agreement with Nihon Form Service (NFS), a Tokyo-based manufacturer of IT and communications...
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Video: Update on the Exascale Computing Project
In this video, ECP Director Doug Kothe provides an update on the Exascale Computing Project. ECP has mission to ensure that a capable exascale computing ecosystem...
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