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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
Half of US Uses Digital Voice Assistants
Assistants continue to increase their penetration into the home. People are getting used to voice interaction. New statistics about their use and abilities. In...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Don’t make it appear like you are reading your own recent writes
Richard Statin recently published a Java benchmark where the performance of a loop varies drastically depending on the size of the arrays involved. The loop isContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Transparent Decision Making
Am a student of the analysis of the process of decision making.The Downside of Transparent Decision Making In Kellogg Insight ... Why you’ll get a better recommendation...
From insideHPC
Intel Deploying Updates for Spectre and Meltdown Exploits
Intel reports that company has developed and is rapidly issuing updates for all types of Intel-based computer systems — including personal computers and servers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Research Podcast on How Programming Languages Quietly Run the World with CCC Exec Member Ben Zorn
Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Exec member Ben Zorn. Do you worry that the Bluetooth-enabled smart fork you just got for Christmas is trying to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Does Gremlin Swarms
We saw proposals in this space when we examined the use of cooperative swarming in places like warehouses, some time ago. Now Gremlins, small drones, can beIn...
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 insideHPC
Video: A Closer Look at the Atos Dibona Prototype for ARM-based HPC
In this video from SC17 in Denver, Pascale Bruner from Atos describes the company's innovative ARM-HPC technologies developed as part of the Mont-Blanc Project....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Awareness
What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)Tasha Eurich in HBRSelf-awareness seems to have become the latest management buzzword — and for good reason...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing Standard error vs R Squared
Nicely done simple stat point made in this DSC post ....Standard Error of the Regression vs. R-squared by Jim Frostin in DSCThe standard error of the regression...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Controlling Ovens
Not unexpected, but another reach into smart home control. Assuming this will require appliance design change rather than after market controls. Note SamsungAlexa...
From insideHPC
ESI Releases SimulationX 3.9 for Manufacturing
ESI Group has announced the release of SimulationX 3.9, a software platform for multiphysics system simulation. Designed for many industries – from automotive,ESI...
From insideHPC
Call for Sessions: UK OpenMP User Conference
The UK OpenMP User Conference has issued its Call for Sessions. The event takes place May 21-22 at St Catherine's College in Oxford. "This inaugural event is intended...
From insideHPC
Converging HPC, Big Data, and AI at the Tokyo Institute of Technology
Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology gave this talk at the NVIDIA booth at SC17. "TSUBAME3 embodies various BYTES-oriented features to allowConverging...
From Schneier on Security
Spectre and Meltdown Attacks
After a week or so of rumors, everyone is now reporting about the Spectre and Meltdown attacks against pretty much every modern processor out there. These are side...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Humans as Neurons Strategy
Brought to my attention. Takes me back to our early days of neural nets, and thinking about how error minimizing reinforcement worked in alliance with an architecture...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Product and Experience are King
Interesting positioning. Of course depends on the category of product that we are talking about, and what kind of experience exists today in their Moments ofProduct...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Always Look for Bias in Data Analytics
A short, somewhat simplistic, but point-making piece in KD Nuggets on biases in analytics. Note these kinds of biases occur in all kinds of analytics: Descriptive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Pushes Lighting in the Smart Home
GE pushes for more involvement in the Smart Home. Working with all the major assistants in play today. Looking forward to diving deeper into this. See alsocontinually...
From The Noisy Channel