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Challenges for Machine Driven Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Challenges for Machine Driven Marketing

Considerable challenges involved.  Like the concept of 'guardrails', though the measurements involved need to be well established.   Return, risk, behavior?  Think...

Building a Computer Vision Model
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building a Computer Vision Model

A simplified, straightforward tutoral on a computer vision model.   This is the place you can get something impressive out of neural nets,  and an intro to theFrom...

Video: Investigating Epistatic Genetic Architectures in Bioenergy and Human Health
From insideHPC

Video: Investigating Epistatic Genetic Architectures in Bioenergy and Human Health

Dan Jacobson from ORNL gave this talk at PASC19. "The new CoMet application consists of implementations of the 2-way and 3-way Proportional Similarity metric and...

EU Regulates Linguistic Burger Purity
From The Eponymous Pickle

EU Regulates Linguistic Burger Purity

Am always a bemused observer of my homeland.   And ultimately its about language, and how things are expressed.   The apparent explosion of 'meatless' burgers is...

Heartbeat Identification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Heartbeat Identification

Another example of pattern recognition,  here with lasers at a distance.The Pentagon can now identify people by measuring their heartbeats in DigitalTrendspentagon...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

A Prime Breakthrough

A breakthrough on the Riemann Hypothesis [ Composite of various sources ] Michael Griffin, Ken Ono, Larry Rolen, and Don Zagier (GORZ) have recently published a...

Video: HPC and AI Market Update from Intersect360 Research
From insideHPC

Video: HPC and AI Market Update from Intersect360 Research

Addison Snell from Intersect 360 Research gave this talk at the DDN User Group at ISC 2019. "Addison Snell will give a market overview presentation of developments...

Science and Technology links (June 29th 2019)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (June 29th 2019)

Consuming pornography has no effect on sexual desire for one’s partner. Exercise may increase the likelihood that a woman will become pregnant. Consuming more protein...

Google Lens Redesigned: Plant Identification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Lens Redesigned: Plant Identification

I see that Google Lens for IOS has been redesigned and the App updated.  Before the update did considerable experimentation with it as a plant identifier, especially...

Job of the Week: Director of Facilities Technologies at PSC
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: Director of Facilities Technologies at PSC

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is seeking a Director of Facilities Technologies in our Job of the Week. "In this role, you will be responsible for directing...

Nearest Neighbor
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nearest Neighbor

A method we worked on for useful purpose from very early on.     In our applications we never needed optimal,  just good, because there was too much else in the...

Voices in AI Podcast: A Conversation with Norman Sadeh
From The Eponymous Pickle

Voices in AI Podcast: A Conversation with Norman Sadeh

We had early AI connects with Carnegie Mellon.Voices in AI – Episode 90: A Conversation with Norman SadehBy Byron ReeseEpisode 90 of Voices in AI features Byron...

Cortana Moving to a Standalone App
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cortana Moving to a Standalone App

Its been losing share for some time, and from my interactions has only been seen as a nuisance within Windows.   Never integrated as an assistant with MS Windows...

Friday Squid Blogging: Fantastic Video of a Juvenile Giant Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Fantastic Video of a Juvenile Giant Squid

It's amazing: Then, about 20 hours into the recording from the Medusa's fifth deployment, Dr. Robinson saw the sharp points of tentacles sneaking into the camera's...

I'm Leaving IBM
From Schneier on Security

I'm Leaving IBM

Today is my last day at IBM. If you've been following along, IBM bought my startup Resilient Systems in Spring 2016. Since then, I have been with IBM, holding the...

At Work: Specialists vs Generalists?
From The Eponymous Pickle

At Work: Specialists vs Generalists?

Specialists vs Generalists?I think there is a need for a mix of specialist and generalists.    But at least initially more of the specialist activity will be taken...

Retail robotics:  Platt Retail Tech Bulletin
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retail robotics: Platt Retail Tech Bulletin

Several articles on Retail Robotics at the link:The quarterly Retail Tech Bulletin, published by Platt Retail Institute and the Retail Analytics Council, includes...

StorONE and Seagate Partner to Maximize SSD Performance Specs
From insideHPC

StorONE and Seagate Partner to Maximize SSD Performance Specs

Today StorONE announced record speeds using Seagate SSD drives and StorONE’s TRU S1 Software Defined Storage solution. In recent performance testing, StorONE combined...

Dell EMC Powers Innovation with AI and HPC at ISC 2019
From insideHPC

Dell EMC Powers Innovation with AI and HPC at ISC 2019

At ISC 2019, Dell Technologies announced a series of new solutions, reference designs, customer collaborations, and partnerships designed to advance and simplify...

Eye Contact in Video Chat
From The Eponymous Pickle

Eye Contact in Video Chat

Interesting,  never found this to be a problem in our own exploration of advanced chat enhancement, but the solution appears to be here.   How much can it measurably...
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