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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
Statistical Techniques You Should Know
Beyond the data scientist, the manager who is using analytics should know the basics of these techniques. Data Scientists as they are now called should know the...
From My Biased Coin
Double-blind, ALENEX
I wanted to point people to a pair of blog posts (Part 1, Part 2) by Suresh Venkatasubramanian at the geomblog discussing the experience of having the ALENEX conference...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can you bit-interleave 32-bit integers? (SIMD edition)
In a previous post, I asked how fast one could interleave the bits between two 32-bit integers. That is, given 0b1011 (11 in decimal) and 0b1100 (12 in decimal)...
From Schneier on Security
Daniel Miessler on My Writings about IoT Security
Daniel Miessler criticizes my writings about IoT security: I know it's super cool to scream about how IoT is insecure, how it's dumb to hook up everyday objects...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Global City Teams Challenge Updates
The 2018 kickoff conference for the GCTC – Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge (SC3) is February 6-7, 2018 in Washington, DC. You can see preliminary...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US, China Looking for an AI Stack
From O'Reilly.The artificial intelligence computing stackA look at why the U.S. and China are investing heavily in this new computing stack. By Reza ZadehRezaA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Enabled AR Glasses
I think there is a higher likelihood that something connected to a known and trusted assistant, like Alexa or Google Home will succeed. But security and privacy...
From insideHPC
Berkeley Lab-led Collaborations win HPC Innovation Awards
Two Berkeley Lab-led projects—Celeste and Galactos—were honored with Hyperion Research’s 2017 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards for "the outstanding applicationBerkeley...
From insideHPC
PEARC18 Conference Announces lineup of Keynote Speakers
The PEARC18 Conference has announced its lineup of Keynote Speakers. The event takes place July 22-27 in Pittsburgh. "PEARC18 is for everyone who works to realize...
From insideHPC
NOAA Looks to Dell for Massive Supercomputing Upgrade
Today NOAA announced to plans for a major upgrade to its supercomputing capabilities. The upgrade adds 2.8 petaflops of computational power, enabling NOAA’s National...
From insideHPC
RAID Inc. Joins OpenSFS to Support the Lustre File System
RAID Incorporated has joined OpenSFS (Open Scalable File Systems, Inc.). OpenSFS is a non-profit organization that supports the vendor-neutral development of Lustre...
From insideHPC
Steve Oberlin from NVIDIA Presents: HPC Exascale & AI
Steve Oberlin from NVIDIA gave this talk at SC17 in Denver. "HPC is a fundamental pillar of modern science. From predicting weather to discovering drugs to finding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Institute for Business Value
Stating to follow the writing of:IBM Institute for Business ValueDiscover emerging trends, business innovations and success patternsAccess our latest thought leadership...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cortana as Windows Assistant
Nice idea, looking forward to a demonstration. So far have not seen much of value from the Cortana assistant.Cortana as an assistant for WindowsMicrosoft Windows...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Morale
The Washington Post is reporting that poor morale at the NSA is causing a significant talent shortage. A November New York Times article said much the same thing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can you bit-interleave 32-bit integers?
A practical trick in software is to “bit-interleave” your data. Suppose that I have two 4-bit integers like 0b1011 (11 in decimal) and 0b1100 (12 in decimal). I...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA and Baidu Announce Autonomous Car project with 30 Deep earning TOPS (trillions of operations per second)
Today NVIDIA and Baidu today that they are creating a production-ready AI autonomous vehicle platform designed for China, the world’s largest automotive market....
From The Noisy Channel
Thanks Randy!
Thanks Randy! And I promise I’ll discuss some of the issues of mobile and voice interfaces in future posts.
From insideHPC
Video: Red Hat Showcases ARM Support for HPC at SC17
In this video from SC17, Jon Masters from Red Hat describes the company's Multi-Architecture HPC capabilities, including the new ARM-powered Apollo 70 server from...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog