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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
Baidu DuerOS Update
Been a while since I have seen an update on Baidu's DuerOS, voice platform and assistant. Here are some impressive numbers, especially regarding installed base...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cars
Jalopnik asks the important question: "If squids ruled the earth, what would their cars be like?" As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From Schneier on Security
Applied Cryptography is Banned in Oregon Prisons
My Applied Cryptography is on a list of books banned in Oregon prisons. It's not me -- and it's not cryptography -- it's that the prisons ban books that teach people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Assistants and an Algorithmic Bill of Rights
From my alma mater magazine. Just reviewing for comment.AI Assistants or Digital DespotsWhy we need an algorithmic bill of rights.By Kartik HosanagarMy wife and...
From insideHPC
Atos announces winners of 2019 Joseph Fourier Award
Today Atos announced the winners of the 2019 Joseph Fourier Award. The award aims to accelerate research and innovation by rewarding projects in the fields of numerical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pizza Robotics is at the Door
More traffic for the suburbs?Nuros Pizza Robot Will Bring You a Domino's PieBy Alex Davies in Wired Nuro's vehicle looks like an avant-garde handbag, but it’s...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Why is HPE buying Cray?
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team tackles the HPE-Cray acquisition as it reviews the companies' recent moves, strengths, and market conditions. Hint: part...
From insideHPC
Video: Dr. Michela Taufer sets the stage for SC19 with ‘HPC is Now’
In this video, Dr. Michela Taufer from the University of Tennessee recaps PASC19 and looks ahead to SC19. "SC is still a place to share new and futuristic ideas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Emergence of Self Driving
Was interviewed about my opinion of when self-driving would become common in a recent study. So now am following these predictions more closely. Now major tech...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Change, Order, Randomness
Fascinating, technical. Implications?Proof Finds That All Change Is a Mix of Order and RandomnessAll descriptions of change are a unique blend of chance and determinism...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Analytics Acqisitions
A number I had not heard of, interesting review of analytics advances and implications.8 Data Analytics Acquisitions That Will Re-Shape the Industry in 7wData...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chinese Intelligent Uniforms
Apparently in test.Chinese schools keep tabs on kids with 'intelligent uniforms'All in all, you're just another chip in the wall. .... "By Jon Fingas, @jonfingas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improved AI EcoSystems Drive Adoption
Its often about the ecosystem. Its the how rather than the what that makes the most long term value useful.AI adoption is being fueled by an improved tool ecosystem...
From Schneier on Security
Research on Human Honesty
New research from Science: "Civic honesty around the globe": Abstract: Civic honesty is essential to social capital and economic development, but is often in conflict...
From Putting People First
Experientia on addressing vaccine hesitancy
Vaccine hesitancy is a top10 global health threat. Dealing with it successfully requires understanding it as a behaviour and generating a holistic view of people...
From insideHPC
NEC Steps up with SX-Aurora Vector Engine for HPC
In this video from ISC 2019, Shintaro Momose, Ph. D. from NEC describes the company's SX-Aurora Vector Engine. "These days, vector functions are added to scalar...
From insideHPC
ISC 2019 Recap from Glenn Lockwood
In this special guest feature, Glenn Lockwood from NERSC shares his impressions of ISC 2019 from an I/O perspective. "I was fortunate enough to attend the ISC HPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accenture Patents Link of Classical and Quantum Computing for Deep Learning
Their second patent in Quantum. A bit surprising in this space, but companies file patents for all sorts of reasons. The basic statement of its use below seems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intro to GAN's by Jason Brownlee
Good intro, have just passed this on to a group ...A Gentle Introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)by Jason Brownlee on June 17, 2019 in Generative...
From Schneier on Security