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Locating Microscopes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Locating Microscopes

Technical piece that lets devices learn about goal oriented use.  Likely broader applications as well.Information-rich localization microscopy through machine learning...

Simple, Scalable and Sustainable AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simple, Scalable and Sustainable AI

Simple, scalable, and sustainable: A methodical approach to AI adoptionRajendra Prasad explains how leaders in large enterprises can make AI adoption successful...

A Low-Code   No-Code Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Low-Code No-Code Future

Wrote many thousands of lines of computer code, built systems large and small.  Coding is powerful,  but also time consuming, non-transparent to most of the people...

Podcast: Astronomers Turn to AI as New Telescopes Come Online
From insideHPC

Podcast: Astronomers Turn to AI as New Telescopes Come Online

In this AI Podcast, Brant Robertson from UC Santa Cruz describes how astronomers are turning to AI to turn the vast quantities of data that will be pouring outPodcast...

Seeking Nominations for the XSEDE Advisory Board
From insideHPC

Seeking Nominations for the XSEDE Advisory Board

XSEDE seeks nominations for individuals to serve on the XSEDE Advisory Board (XAB). "The XAB aims to ensure that XSEDE is designed to impact a broad range of disciplines...

Future of Car Rental
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Car Rental

Largely agree.  But a decade out who knows?  Good overview.Semi-autonomous and always available: A peek into the near future of car rental in DigitalTrendsThe world...

Measuring the system clock frequency using loops (Intel and ARM)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Measuring the system clock frequency using loops (Intel and ARM)

In my previous post, Bitset decoding on Apple’s A12, I showed that Apple’s latest ARM-based processor can decode set bits out of a stream of words using 3 cycles...

Augmenting Movie Making Using VR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmenting Movie Making Using VR

Makes sense to use a visual medium to show alternative views to be chosen or combined.   Using game techniques.   No mention of a potential AR capability when combining...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

An App Proof

That is “app” as in an on-line application [ Leo Stein ] Leo Stein is an assistant professor in the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Mississippi...

Wolfram Alpha is 10!
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wolfram Alpha is 10!

I was an early tester, loved it.   An assistant that emphasized the computable!  Free and amazing.  How great to see things as computable.   But somehow I drifted...

Comparison of Wal-Mart and Amazon as Online Retailers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Comparison of Wal-Mart and Amazon as Online Retailers

Good review of the topic.  The details in the Why are interesting.Walmart vs. Amazon: Which online retailer is better, and why  in DigitaltrendsWalmart vs. Amazon...

Ethically Deploying AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ethically Deploying AI

Thoughtful piece, making the distinction between creating an AI and deploying it.   Deploying means how it operates in current and predicted future context.   Often...

CosmoGAN Neural Network to Study Dark Matter
From insideHPC

CosmoGAN Neural Network to Study Dark Matter

As cosmologists and astrophysicists delve deeper into the darkest recesses of the universe, their need for increasingly powerful observational and computational...

Job of the Week: AI Technical Lead at New York University
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: AI Technical Lead at New York University

"The NYU High Performance Computing team is seeking an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technical Lead to build state-of-the-art computing infrastructure in-house and...

Science and Technology links (May 18th 2019)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (May 18th 2019)

Though depression has genetic components, the previous studies that identified “depression genes” are probably all bogus. They are the results of poorly conducted...

Driverless Electric Trucks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Driverless Electric Trucks

More driverless examples emerging.   Note the remote operation of these as well, so limitation of autonomous and public interaction.Driverless Electric Truck Starts...

Egeria for Sharing Metadata
From The Eponymous Pickle

Egeria for Sharing Metadata

We spent much time on the application of relevant contextual metadata.  One big issue is making sure the quantity and quality of metadata is preserved in context...

ACM CompEd Conference
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

ACM CompEd Conference

Brett Becker has been blogging about the ACM CompEd conference now taking place in China. See his blog post at ACM CompEd daily update 1: Day 1 for example.  Looks...

Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Intelligence
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Intelligence

Two links. 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 posting guidelines here...

Google Tracking What You Buy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Tracking What You Buy

Google tracks what you buy,   a purchase history shown it all.  Article in TheVerge reveals it allhttps://www.theverge.com/2019/5/17/18629789/google-purchase-history...
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