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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
A Look at the ses of RPA
A useful examination of RPA. Robotic Process Automation. What we did starting in the 80s, without calling it that. I see a number of new businesses looking...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Launches .K. Technology Center to Advance AI Research
EPCC, Hartree Centre, and the University of Reading are the first to join the NVIDIA AI Technology Center, which provides a collaborative community for world-class...
From Schneier on Security
Hackers Expose Russian FSB Cyberattack Projects
More nation-state activity in cyberspace, this time from Russia: Per the different reports in Russian media, the files indicate that SyTech had worked since 2009...
From Computational Complexity
Answer to both Infinite Hats Problems from the last post
(This is a joint post with David Marcus. You'll see why later.) In a prior I posed two infinite hat problems. Today I post the solutions. Actually this is a....
From insideHPC
Video: berCloud Containers on Kubernetes
Burak Yenier from the UberCloud gave this talk at the High Performance Container Workshop at ISC 2019. "This workshop will outline the current state of Linux Containers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exposed Cloud Databases
Been following occasionally TWIT Security Now podcasts. In part to start thinking about the risk of data. Came upon this quite alarming cloud security podcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making the Web more Secure, Optimized
A very good goal. Considerable article on the approaches at the link. Something needs to be done regarding security, before the whole thing collapses. Also...
From insideHPC
DDN EXA 5: Innovation at Scale
James Coomer gave this talk at the DDN User Group meeting in Frankfurt. "EXA5 brings our customers a whole new level of experience based on the Lustre filesystem...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Complex Materials with QMCPACK
An effort within the Exascale Computing Project is developing a QMC methods software named QMCPACK to find, predict, and control materials and properties at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail as Theater
Being close to Jungle Jims near Cincinnati, and have taken many international tour groups there, so its a long time interest. Hard to pull off, but always makes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
State of Competitive Intelligence
Get the full report at the link. For a long time was part of my work at the enterprise.2019 State of Competitive IntelligenceThe Latest Best Practices, Challenges...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Packaging Solutions
One of our favorite topics in innovation space enhancement of both protection and consumer engagement.Packaging solutions: Poised to take off? in McKinseyMajor...
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Responsible, Ethical AI?
Thought provoking. Responsibility should be linked back to the business outcomes that emerge. But you could argue that AI and analytics methods allow these to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rewarding Autonomous AIs
Thoughtful piece. Can a human just provide some sort of reward function? Or is creating that alone very hard? Especially if we include some measures of risk...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Simulation with 3D games Hardware
Perhaps, but there is still considerable work to do in understanding how intelligence works in the brain. Exact replication still seems to be far away.Computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patrick Winston, AI Pioneer, Dies at 76
We met Patrick Winston at MIT, and worked with many of his students and colleagues. Also used his book 'Artificial Intelligence', as a basic text during ourProfessor...
From insideHPC
PASC19 Evolves into an International Conference on Computational Science
In this video from PASC19, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich describes how PASC19 has grown into an international conference with over 60 percent of attendees from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise AI Strategy
Useful overview of what it takes. Integrate it with real process, real goals, real results, not just small tests.Anatomy of an enterprise-scale AI strategyLooking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Changes Real-World Behavior
I would expect, but will it change the specific useful goal behaviors in the real world?Augmented reality can change your behavior in the real worldEven after you...
From insideHPC