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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 1st 2019)
The DeepMind engineers built an artificial intelligence (a software program) that can learn to play 3D shooter games at super-human levels. Researchers have found...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Bad Data
Self correcting data is a good idea, but want to see some examples. Its similar to removing outliers. It depends on the context and often metadata involved. Researchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Life Stories Can be Told to a Google Home
A colleague and I talked this recently. Everyone with a family has a history, can this effectively record them?How AI could be used to record our life storiesEveryone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots and Work
Overstated, but good points are made. No doubt we will have to adjust to how we work, and the face of that will be automated.For Lower-Paid Workers, the Robot...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Senses from States
The use of simple states would suggest we could do some interesting things here. Spidey Senses’ Could Help Autonomous Machines See BetterPurdue University News...
From insideHPC
Storage Advances for HPC and AI
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe looks at storage technologies being developed to suit both AI and HPC workloads. The storage...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Computer Scientist at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre
The Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany is seeking a Computer Scientist in our Job of the Week. "You will directly support and independently advance the code...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automated Trust?
From recent MIT conference.Enterprise level trustAt MIT Technology Review’s recent Blockchain conference, we explored the notion of automating trust of “assetsWatch...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Helping Doesn’t Always Help
My programming students are working on their final/semester projects. As is typical some of them are doing extra work on their projects at home. Normally that is...
From Schneier on Security
The Human Cost of Cyberattacks
The International Committee of the Red Cross has just published a report: "The Potential Human Cost of Cyber-Operations." It's the result of an "ICRC Expert Meeting"...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Hundred-Million-Year-Old Squid Relative Found in Amber
This is a really interesting find. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Gloves for Feeling Results
The broad idea has been around for while, we tried it for tracking a manufacturing process to determine the 'feel' of output based on handling it. A kind of test...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Public Decentralized Applications Not Broadly Used
The idea of a Dapp (Distributed Application) is often included in the idea of 'smart contracts'. The idea of inserting a Dapp into a blockchain is often mentioned...
From insideHPC
Apply Now for the Blue Waters Petascale Computing Hackathon
NCSA is now accepting team applications for the Blue Waters Petascale Computing Hackathon. The event will take place September 9-13, 2019 at NCSA. "The Hackathon...
From insideHPC
Converging Workflows Pushing Converged Software onto HPC Platforms
Are we witnessing the convergence of HPC, big data analytics, and AI? Once, these were separate domains, each with its own system architecture and software stack...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances in Automated Machine Learning
Automated machine learning is inevitable. How good will it be, and how much human oversight needs to be applied to ensure confidence in their results is important...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Irene Qualters from LANL Shares Life Lessons on HPC and Diversity
In this Big Compute Podcast episode Gabriel Broner interviews Irene Qualters about her career and the evolution of HPC. "Some of the most profound advances that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart IRL Store With Virtual Shelves in the Store
This picture through the ACM in the Chicago Tribune. Shows a scene in Wal-Mart's new smart store, called their IRL.Appears to be a virtual shelf placed on an end...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Healthcare Uses of AI
Not sure I would call this 'Top' perhaps common uses of AI in healthcare. Somewhat limited in scope. Still some useful ideas to get people started in where the...
From insideHPC