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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Making Up Tests
It’s harder to make up tests than to take them [ Recent photo ] Ken Regan has been busy these last few days working on making a final exam, giving the exam, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Needs to Invest for Machine Learning
Good piece. Yes, usually in conjunction with companies and academia. Also a way to train management and decision makers on its uses. Enterprise wants examples...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Announces New Glass
Emphasis on enterprise makes sense, we looked at the early versions, and there was not enough useful business content to make these work for key applications like...
From Schneier on Security
How Technology and Politics Are Changing Spycraft
Interesting article about how traditional nation-based spycraft is changing. Basically, the Internet makes it increasingly possible to generate a good cover story...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telecom Customer Analytics
Good piece from DSC on definitions used for customer analytics in Telecom industry. Specifics of the definitions are interesting, and can be further considered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Book, Slides.
Had mentioned this once before, by its nature slightly out of date but good resource. Continuing to read it now.https://cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/mlbook/Foundations of...
From Schneier on Security
The Concept of "Return on Data"
This law review article by Noam Kolt, titled "Return on Data," proposes an interesting new way of thinking of privacy law. Abstract: Consumers routinely supply...
From insideHPC
DDN Completes Acquisition of Nexenta
Today DDN announced the successful completion of the acquisition of Nexenta, the market leader in Software Defined Storage for 5G and Internet of Things (IoT),DDN...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Retail Ethics Challenge?
From a retailers and retail expertise and their customers perspective, with further expert comments at the link:Just How big is Amazon’s Ethics Challenge? in Retailwire...
From The Eponymous Pickle
360 Degree AI Agent View
Intriguing idea. Many applications to maximize information. Although also likely a distraction as well. Like the idea of an 'Agent' being beyond a person with...
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for PASC19 in Zurich
PASC19 has posted its Full Conference Program. The event takes place June 12-14 in Zurich, Switzerland. "PASC19 is the sixth edition of the PASC Conference series...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT and Air Force
Examining this now:MIT and U.S. Air Force sign agreement to launch AI AcceleratorNew program will focus on rapid deployment of artificial intelligence innovations...
From insideHPC
Barcelona Supercomputing Centre opens Arm Centre of Excellence for HPC
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Arm Research have signed a multi-year agreement to establish the Arm-BSC Centre of Excellence. The move reflects a...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Introduces High Speed Ethernet Cloud Fabric Technology
Today Mellanox introduced breakthrough Ethernet Cloud Fabric (ECF) technology based on Spectrum-2, the world’s most advanced 100/200/400 Gb/s Ethernet switches....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 10 – Interview with Beth Mynatt Part 2
Part 2 of the Catalyzing Computing podcast interview with Dr. Beth Mynatt is out now. Dr. Mynatt is the Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for People...
From insideHPC
Video: Exascale Deep Learning for Climate Analytics
Thorsten Kurth Josh Romero gave this talk at the GPU Technology Conference. "We'll discuss how we scaled the training of a single deep learning model to 27,360Video...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better, Faster Decisions: Faster is a Context
Its all about decisions. Not only our own but also those we make based on help from systems. And, increasingly autonomous decisions. And faster may not be...
From Computational Complexity
Notorious L.A.H or Notorious LAH? OR You always need one more proofread
I noticed a while back that even on the nth proofread of a document there are still corrections. So I decided to keep track of how many corrections there are in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text Generating AI
Still have not seen an example of text generation that is completely convincing. But having one, especially if it was context adapting, could be a real concern...
From The Eponymous Pickle