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From Computational Complexity

Van der Waerden's theorem implies the infinitude of the primes

(Sam Buss and Denis Hirschfeld helped me on this post.) I was reading the table of contents of the American Math Monthly and saw an article by Levent Alpoge entitled...

Radio Free HPC wraps up the SC17 Student Cluster Competition
From insideHPC

Radio Free HPC wraps up the SC17 Student Cluster Competition

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team goes over the results of the SC17 Student Cluster Competition. This year, Nanyang Technological University from Singapore...

AVA Does Customer Service
From The Eponymous Pickle

AVA Does Customer Service

As part of a look and conversation regarding conversational agents for both engagement, loyalty and enhanced customer service for Autodesk.  Does such a solution...

NVIDIA and Nuance to Advance AI for Radiology
From insideHPC

NVIDIA and Nuance to Advance AI for Radiology

Today Nuance Communications announced that they are working together to bring the power of machine learning to radiologists and data scientists working across the...

A Rose By Any Other Name Gives An Error
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

A Rose By Any Other Name Gives An Error

There is an old computer science joke that goes more or less like this:There are two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off...

Argonne to Install Comanche System to Explore ARM Technology for HPC
From insideHPC

Argonne to Install Comanche System to Explore ARM Technology for HPC

Argonne National Laboratory is collaborating with HPE to provide system software expertise and a development ecosystem for a future high-performance computing system...

Machines that Say No
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machines that Say No

Back to how we interact with machines and the implications of different aspects of dialog.    Do we really expect a 'No' from a machine?   Different than 'disobeying...

AMD steps up with EPYC Processors for HPC at SC17
From insideHPC

AMD steps up with EPYC Processors for HPC at SC17

In this video from SC17, Josh Mora describes how the new AMD EPYC Processors deliver huge memory bandwidth and application performance for HPC. "EPYC strikes the...

Substitute Phone for Device Addiction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Substitute Phone for Device Addiction

Kick your smartphone habit with the 'Substitute Phone'  in EngadgetPinch, scroll and slide your way to a phone-free future.Cigarettes are hard to kick not justKlemens...

SIGAI Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

SIGAI Blog

ACM's blog about AI aspects of computer science.  Newsletter form.  Worth following.  Recent posts:News from AAAI FSS-17Public Policy OpportunitiesIs it too late...

Video: HPE Showcases Innovation for HPC at SC17
From insideHPC

Video: HPE Showcases Innovation for HPC at SC17

In this video, Bill Mannel gives a booth tour that highlights some of the amazing HPC innovations on display in the HPE booth at SC17. "HPE’s first ARM-based HPC...

Uber Data Hack
From Schneier on Security

Uber Data Hack

Uber was hacked, losing data on 57 million driver and rider accounts. The company kept it quiet for over a year. The details are particularly damning: The two hackers...

Video: Introducing the 125 Petflop Sierra Supercomputer
From insideHPC

Video: Introducing the 125 Petflop Sierra Supercomputer

In this video, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory describe Sierra, LLNL’s next-generation supercomputer. "The IBM-built advanced technology...

Search as a Conversation
From The Noisy Channel

Search as a Conversation

Most search applications assume a query-response paradigm: the searcher submits a search query, and the search engine responds with results. The query-responseprecision...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Proving Peano Arithmetic Partially Consistent?

An approach to consistency that could work… Kurt Gödel is feeling bored. Not quite in our English sense of “bored”: German has a word Weltschmerz meaning “world...

Big Data for Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data for Marketing

Simplistic, but goo introductory examples.  How are you doing these today?Big Data in Marketing; 5 Use Cases      There are a lot more than just 5.  in Inc by James...

Video: Quantum Computing for the Real World Today
From insideHPC

Video: Quantum Computing for the Real World Today

In this video from the International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, Dr. Colin P. Williams from D-Wave Systems presents...

Intel Xeon Scalable Processors come to Penguin on Demand HPC Cloud
From insideHPC

Intel Xeon Scalable Processors come to Penguin on Demand HPC Cloud

Penguin Computing has announced plans to deploy more than 11,500 cores of the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processor in their Penguin Computing On-Demand HPC cloud...

Video of Tencent's New AI Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

Video of Tencent's New AI Lab

Natural to think of more links between large social entities and the resulting data with the means of leveraging it.  Keep watching Facebook M for more in thisTencent...

Humanizing Autonomy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Humanizing Autonomy

This may ultimately become the most important question of the future. How do machines work with humans in varying contexts?   Both in their application of knowledge...
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