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Competitive Zen
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Competitive Zen

To become a Jedi Knight you must have complete control of your thoughts. As you feel the force you start to control your surroundings and make objects move just...

Meta launches Llama 2 open-source LLM
From The Eponymous Pickle

Meta launches Llama 2 open-source LLM

The march continues.Meta launches Llama 2 open-source LLMAbout the AuthorBy Ryan Daws | July 19, 2023Categories: Companies, Development, Machine Learning, MetaMeta...

Considerable Bard Updates
From The Eponymous Pickle

Considerable Bard Updates

Google Bard Updated With Text to Speech, 40 New LanguagesBard is getting more capable, but it's still not trustworthy.By Ryan Whitwam July 14, 2023Bard AICredit...

New about Apple and Generative AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

New about Apple and Generative AI

Following this closely, How will it integrate with other search.  What is Apple GPT? Apple’s ChatGPT Rival & “Ajax” Explained  In Tech.co NewsApple is preparing...

From Computational Complexity

"Never give AI the Nuclear Codes" Really? Have you seen Dr. Strangelove?

(I covered a simlar topic here.)  In the June 2023 issue of The Atlantic is an article titled:                                    Never Give AI Intelligence the...

A Nested Inventory for Software Security, Supply Chain Risk Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Nested Inventory for Software Security, Supply Chain Risk Management

 A Nested Inventory for Software Security, Supply Chain Risk ManagementBy Esther Shein, July 20, 2023An SBOM is meant to provide visibility into risks and vulnerabilities...

Pit-stop heart surgery
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Pit-stop heart surgery

The Formula 1 car screams to a stop in the pit-lane. Seven seconds later, it has roared away again, back into the race. In those few seconds it has been refuelled...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

TTIC Makes a Hire

Avrim Blum just announced that Shiry Ginosar has accepted his offer and will be joining TTIC as a tenure-track Assistant Professor starting this Fall 2024. Avrim...

New Turing Test?
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Turing Test?

THE DOWNLOADThe Download: a new Turing test, and working with ChatGPTBy Rhiannon Williams archive pageJuly 14, 2023This is today's edition of The Download, ourMy...

Friday Squid Blogging: Chromatophores
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Chromatophores

Neat: Chromatophores are tiny color-changing cells in cephalopods. Watch them blink back and forth from purple to white on this squid’s skin in an Instagram video...

Cerebras and UAE-based G42 Announce Condor Galaxy AI Supercomputer, Offered as Cloud Service
From insideHPC

Cerebras and UAE-based G42 Announce Condor Galaxy AI Supercomputer, Offered as Cloud Service

July 20, 2023 — AI technology company Cerebras Systems with partner with G42, a UAE-based technology holding group, have announced Condor Galaxy, a cloud-basedCerebras...

CIQ Launches New Rocky Linux Support Partner Program
From insideHPC

CIQ Launches New Rocky Linux Support Partner Program

RENO, Nev.—July 20, 2023— CIQ, which builds software infrastructure for enterprises running workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise Linux distribution, announced...

Solar Energy Turns a New Leaf
From The Eponymous Pickle

Solar Energy Turns a New Leaf

 Natural fuels.Solar Energy Turns a New LeafBy Samuel Greengard, July 18, 2023A solar leaf product made from microalgae, phytoplankton, and other microscopic plants...

AI and Microdirectives
From Schneier on Security

AI and Microdirectives

Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws. All day and every day, you constantly receive highly personalized instructions for how to...

An Asteroid loaded with $10 quintillion worth of Metals edges closer to US reach
From The Eponymous Pickle

An Asteroid loaded with $10 quintillion worth of Metals edges closer to US reach

Previously mentioned, here a report excerpt.   An Asteroid loaded with $10 quintillion worth of Metals edges closer to US reachFilip De Mott Jul 20, 2023, 4:31NASA...

Fast decoding of base32 strings
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Fast decoding of base32 strings

We often need to encode binary data into ASCII strings. The standards (e.g., email) to do so include base16, base32 and base64. There are some research papers on...

Kevin Mitnick Died
From Schneier on Security

Kevin Mitnick Died

Obituary.

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Two Other Tests of Time

Mihalis Yannakakis 70-Fest and the 2023 Gödel Prize 2020 AAAS election—congrats on that too Mihalis Yannakakis is being honored with a 70th-birthday festival next...

Surprise! Surprise?
From The Noisy Channel

Surprise! Surprise?

We have reached the stage of generative AI where artists, authors, and performers are convinced that AI is stealing their lives — and, perhaps more importantly,...

Lenovo is a Supply Chain Powerhouse with Asset Recovery Services being a Key Cornerstone
From insideHPC

Lenovo is a Supply Chain Powerhouse with Asset Recovery Services being a Key Cornerstone

[Sponsored Guest Article]   The lifecycle of IT gear, HPC or otherwise, is generally thought to start the day it is powered up to the day it is powered down for...
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