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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 The Eponymous Pickle
CES: More Assistants in the Car
CES: Amazon's Alexa Making More Inroads Into VehiclesDavid Kiley , Contributor. Providing insights and news about the global auto business.For all the talk about...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maersk, IBM Launch Blockchain
Good to think about the value proposition here, how it is beyond a simple ledger database approach. The stated value is to have controlled data sharing amongMaersk...
From Computational Complexity
Donald Knuth Turns 80 years and 6 days
Celebrating Donald Knuth's 80th birthday, or 80 years + 7 days birthday seems odd. Should we use powers of 2? Hmm- too few, just 32 and 64 really. And having ahere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Home Delivery Expands
There seemed to be quite a bit of push back about giving retailers the ability to open your home door and drop a package inside. Some horror stories emerged. Smart...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alibaba Claims to Beat Humans in Reading Test
More examples of advanced AI in China.Alibaba's AI Outguns Humans in Reading Test By Robert Fenner in BloombergAlibaba has developed an artificial intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Network Zoo Updated
Kirk Bourne writes that the useful 'Neural Network Zoo' now contains links to the original papers for each network type AND a poster version of the full infographic...
From insideHPC
Red Hat steps up to POWER9 for HPC
In this video from SC17 in Denver, Dan McGuan from Red Hat describes the company's Multi-Architecture HPC capabilities with the Power9 architecture. "Red Hat and...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at the European Union’s Big Investment in Exascale
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at European Commission’s recent move to fund exascale development with 1 Billion Euros. "While Europe already had...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imposter syndrome and the Turing Test
How a Famous Robot Test Can Help You Beat Impostor Syndrome by Kelton Reid in Copyblogger Points to a 2012 Atlantic article on using the Turing Test to discern...
From Schneier on Security
Jim Risen Writes about Reporting Government Secrets
Jim Risen writes a long and interesting article about his battles with the US government and the New York Times to report government secrets....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Microbenchmarking calls for idealized conditions
Programmers use software benchmarking to measure the speed of software. We need to distinguish system benchmarking, where one seeks to measure the performance of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger and Boxed
Still speculation, but other possible buyers also lining up. A response to Amazon's supply chain wins.Kroger may acquire digital bulk retailer Boxed In Cincinnati...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crucial Need for Uncertainty in Deep Learning
Below piece really rocked me. It is very old AI school. Even takes us to methods that were used in Watson-Jeopardy. Conclusions, and even sub conclusions, are...
From insideHPC
Rescale Offers ANSYS Software On Demand
Today Rescale announced that ANSYS Elastic Licensing can now be purchased directly through Rescale’s ScaleX, a SaaS platform purpose-built for solving the world...
From insideHPC
HiPEAC18 Conference to Focus on Performance and Security Next Week in Manchester
Coming up next week in Manchester, the HiPEAC 2018 conference will once again bring together the best minds in computer architecture and compilation to exploitHiPEAC18...
From insideHPC
ClusterVision White Paper Looks at HPC Performance Impact of Spectre and Meltdown
While various kernel patches are already out for the Spectre and Meltdown, the performance impact of these patches on HPC performance has been a big question. Now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Laundry Folding Robots
It was one of the key goals of the 60s. Having a home robot fold your clothes and put them away after washing. Second only to the robotic butler that wouldIt...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Halo Effect
Interesting top line, suggesting that established and known strategy and process is not enough. Though I would still think its useful to document what you areThe...
From Schneier on Security