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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 …
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Micron steps up with NVMe SSDs
Micron recently unveiled its new series of flagship solid-state drives (SSDs) featuring the NVMe protocol, bringing industry-leading storage performance at higher...
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BeeGFS – Dealing with Extreme Requirements in HPC
Frank Herold from ThinkParQ gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Together with our partners around the globe, we work hard to create the fastest, most stableBeeGFS...
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Training Data for Autonomous Driving
Getting, saving, and usefully tagging data and metadata for key purposes is a powerful idea.Training Data for Autonomous Driving By Karlsruhe Institute of Technology...
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Autonomous Vegetable Weeding
Another approach that will increase agricultural food production.FarmWise turns to Roush to build autonomous vegetable weeders By Matt Burns @mjburnsyFarmWise...
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Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery
Yet another direction for pharmaceutical delivery is proposedNanoparticles take a fantastic, magnetic voyageTiny robots powered by magnetic fields could help drug...
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Quantum Hype and Skepticism
Short piece looks at both sides.Quantum Hype and Quantum Skepticism By Moshe Y. Vardi Communications of the ACM, May 2019, Vol. 62 No. 5, Page 710.1145/3322092...
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RSR Research on Clouds
Brought to my attention:The Candid Voice in Retail Technology: Objective Insights, Pragmatic AdviceRSR is the candid voice in retail technologySince our founding...
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Is Ubiquitous Cloud Bursting on the Horizon for Universities?
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Mahesh Pancholi from OCF writes a growing number of universities are taking advantage of public cloud...
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The Risks of Artificial Intelligence
Having now been involved in many applications using AI oriented methods, it was rare that there were not risks in their application. We saw them all. From legal...
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Podcast: Intel to Deliver Exascale for the Advancement of Science
In this Chip Chat podcast, Trish Damkroger from Intel outlines a few of the key technologies coming to the Aurora supercomputer in 2021. To enable Exascale levels...
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Scientific American on Deep Learning
Scientific American does a good job of providing a good, intuitive and largely non-technical view of the math and applications of deep learning. Good for use...
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Science and Technology links (April 27th 2019)
Women who use oral contraceptives have a harder time recognizing emotions of others. Worldwide, livestock has ten times the mass of wild animals and nearly twice...
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Automating Science Writing
How different is this from script writing mentioned previously? Accurate summarization of text is another example of a challenge for AI type methods, similar...
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McKinsey on Automating Logistics
Good description of the space and the large opportunities.Automation in Logistics: Big Opportunity, Bigger uncertainty Via McKinsey by Ashutosh Dekhne, Greg...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Speeding up a random-access function?
A common problem in software performance is that you are essentially limited by memory access. Let us consider such a function where you write at random locations...
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BPA, RPA or DPA? Automating Process
Interesting piece, with criticism of robotic process automation. It has somewhat focused application I agree. Contrast of options is interesting. I like the...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Toraiz SQUID Digital Sequencer
Pioneer DJ has a new sequencer: the Toraiz SQUID: Sequencer Inspirational Device. The 16-track sequencer is designed around jamming and performance with a host...
From Schneier on Security
Interview of Me in Taiwan
Business Weekly in Taiwan interviewed me. (Here's a translation courtesy of Google.) It was a surprisingly intimate interview. I hope the Chinese reads better than...
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Call for Proposals: ALCF Data Science Program
Argonne is now accepting proposals for the ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP) through July 1, 2019. "The ADSP open call provides an opportunity for researchers to...
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