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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
More on Alexa Pitching Brands
Further discussion. Amazon will also have to consider how this will position themselves against, at this time, Google Home, and then other emerging competitors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When Computers Disappear
What Life Will Be Like When the Computers DisappearUSA Today By Edward C. BaigThe expected transition to an ambient computing era driven by advances in artificial...
From insideHPC
Micron and Intel to continue joint development of NAND Memory
Today Micron and Intel announced an update to their successful NAND memory joint development partnership that has helped the companies develop and deliver industry...
From insideHPC
New Whitepaper on Meltdown and Spectre fixes for HPC
Can you afford to lose a third of your compute real estate? If not, you need to pre-empt the impact of Meltdown and Spectre. "Meltdown and Spectre are quickly becoming...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Spectre and Meltdown Exploits
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the performance ramifications of the Spectre and Meltdown exploits that affect processors from Intel, AMD, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cortana Voicebots in China
In Voicebot.Xiaomi has launched a new Microsoft Cortana powered smart speaker called Yeelight VoiceAssistant. The Yeelight product line is known in China for smart...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Hard Is That Programming Problem?
A recent blog post by Mark Guzdial (Learning Computer Science is Different than Learning Other STEM Disciplines) has my mind going in a bunch of different directions...
From Schneier on Security
Tourist Scams
A comprehensive list. Most are old and obvious, but there are some clever variants....
From Mostafa Dehghani
Internship at Google Brain
I've started a five-month internship at Google Brain \o/. I am working with Lukasz Kaiser, Jakob Uszkoreit, and Stephan Gouws from Brain team and Oriol Vinyals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Aipoly for Autonomous Market Shopping
This will be shown at this week's CES conference in Las Vegas:Fully Autonomous Markets200,000 new small businesses are born every day around the world. We help...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Common questions about the CSTA board
I hope everyone had a great holiday break is leaping back into the school year with renewed drive and energy. With all of the chaos of the new year, you might have...
From Computational Complexity
A new largest prime found!
A new largest KNOWN prime has been discovered and its 23 million digits long. Nate Silver's website had an article about it (written by Oliver Roeder) here An...
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Think with Google says Smart Speakers Changing Technology
In the latest Think with Google, Google provides stats about "Smart Speaker" (advisory) systems, and provides interesting data about their use by consumers. Google...
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Extreme Event Forecasting at Uber
Spent quite some time in the enterprise considering extreme events. Interesting to see Uber's way to address this. With some technical details. In DSC, posted...
From insideHPC
Pointwise ISV is Finalist for Small Business of the Year
The Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce has named Pointwise a finalist for 2018 Small Business of the Year award. Pointwise, Inc. is solving the top problem facing computational...
From insideHPC
Adapting Deep Learning to New Data Using ORNL’s Titan Supercomputer
Travis Johnston from ORNL gave this talk at SC17. "Multi-node evolutionary neural networks for deep learning (MENNDL) is an evolutionary approach to performingAdapting...
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Advances in Sensory Substitution
Been reading about this for many years, are real advances here? Article looks at the history, technology and likely advances.Feeling Sounds, Hearing Sights Gregory...
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Personal Assistants Cloning Yourself
Digital Twins taken beyond the basic idea. In some ways this is much harder than building an assistant. We sought something like it when we replaced green coffee...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Confusion Mapping for Worst Case
Intriguing piece.Robots Are Wrong Too—Confusion Mapping for the Worst CaseHere be dragonsBy Chris Butler, Strategy and product at Philosophie NYC https://philosophie...
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