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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Migrating to Android–an early trip report
One of the reasons I held on to my Windows Phone as long as I did is that it was so easy to program apps for it. I had come to depend on one particular app I wrote...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at KAUST
KAUST is seeking an HPC Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week. "The HPC senior systems administrator will work with other Advanced Computing Infrastructure...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 4th 2019)
It is often believed that colleges help class mobility… if you were born poor, college can help your rise up. So is there more class mobility when more people go...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC reviews the ASC19 Student Cluster Competition
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC looks at the recent ASC Student Cluster Competition in Dalien, China. Dan got to witness the finals last week, with 20 teams...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AntWorks for Intelligent Automation
Brought to my attention. Would like something that would combine pattern implementation like deep leaning, specific tasks like RPA, and the architecture specification...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Translate Does not Understand Context
There has been lots of talk about the perfection of machine translation. It has advanced considerably since we looked at it for corporate tasks in the 80s. In...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Face Scanning with Amazon Rekognition
A look at use of Amazon's Rekognition for Police Functions. More on Amazon Rekognition.Oregon's a Testing Ground for Amazon's Facial Recognition Policing, But What...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Skin "Inspires" New Thermal Sheeting
Researchers are making space blankets using technology based on squid skin. Honestly, it's hard to tell how much squid is actually involved in this invention. As...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Really fast bitset decoding for “average” densities
Suppose I give you a word and you need to determine the location of the 1-bits. For example, given the word 0b100011001, you would like to get 0,3,4,8. You could...
From insideHPC
Intel Powers Atipa Visualization Cluster at NIU
Today Atipa Technologies announced the deployment of its Polaris High Performance Computing and Visualization (HPCV) platform at Northern Illinois University. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A View of Decision Trees
A considerable and detailed look at decision trees, and multiple applications. We used DT methods extensively in the enterprise. We implemented it within our...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Adoption Expected to Surge
WSJ looks at the Stats of AI:Businesses' Adoption of AI Expected to Surge The Wall Street Journal by John MurawskiMultinational professional services firm Deloitte...
From insideHPC
New HeSpaDDA Algorithm Distributes Parallel Workloads on LANL Supercomputers
Researchers at Los Alamos National Lab have developed new software to distribute computation more efficiently and across increasing numbers of supercomputer processors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Be Wary of Robot Emotions
Certainly be cautious of it, but I think that emotion can be used to promote things like useful collaboration and shared goals. Should machines be wary of human...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Unloading Trucks
Classic problem, closer to solution. Its surprising that this problem of solving the problem of dealing with relative disorder. Another step forward.Robots Edge...
From insideHPC
Get Your Head in the Cloud: Lessons in GPU Computing with Schlumberger
Wyatt Gorman from Google and Abhishek Gupta from Schlumberger gave this talk at the GPU Technology Conference. "Demand for GPUs in High Performance Computing is...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Accelerating AI Inference with Intel Deep Learning Boost
In this Chip Chat podcast, Jason Kennedy from Intel describes how Intel Deep Learning Boost works as an embedded AI accelerator in the CPU designed to speed deep...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TopBraid and Knowledge Graphs
We actively used Semantic methods to organize our large and complex databases.You can access a recent update webinar recording and slides here:Should you havehttp...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hybrid Heavy Duty Trucks
More changes in supply chain options.Engineers develop concept for hybrid heavy-duty trucksLong-haul trucks with electric motors combined with gas-alcohol engines...
From Schneier on Security