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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 Apophenia
The Radicalization of Utopian Dreams
Amazon Fulfillment Center, CC Scottish Government The following is a transcript of my lightning talk at The People’s Disruption: Platform Co-Ops for Global Challenges...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning From My Students
Some days I think my greatest edge over my students is that I am better at debugging than they are. Well there is that I actually read documentation as well but...
From insideHPC
NEC Supercomputer at JGU in Germany Ranks #65 on TOP500
NEC Deutschland GmbH has delivered an LX series supercomputer to Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), one of Germany’s leading research universities and part...
From insideHPC
DDN Powers Big Data and Machine Learning at UTC in Tennessee
Last week at SC17, Data Direct Networks announced that The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga (UTC) has selected DDN’s GS14KX parallel file system appliance with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Roomba Does IFTTT
Big follower and user of IFTTT, like to see it taken further for the smart home, think it can be taken further yet, especially by adding more intelligence to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Streaming Algorithms for Customers
For a project have been looking at how streaming recommendations act as marketing for products. The big example out there are cases where there there is lots of...
From insideHPC
Hyperion Innovation Excellence Award goes to UberCloud and Stanford Living Heart Project
Last week at SC17, Hyperion Research announced that the UberCloud and the Stanford Living Heart Project have won the Hyperion Award for Innovation Excellence. "The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Distractions from New Things
Part of my responsibility in the enterprise was to manage this thing. Explain to management why or why not they should pay attention to, or even invest in newWhat...
From insideHPC
Russian RSC Group Joins the Intel Select Solutions for HPC Program
Last week at SC17, Russian HPC vendor RSC Group showcased the next generation of their liquid-cooled RSC Tornado supercomputers based on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors...
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Processors and Intel Omni-Path Architecture Offer Breakthroughs for Top500 Systems
Last week, the rhetorical one-two punch of the Intel HPC Developer Conference and Supercomputing 2017 offered global HPC aficionados new insights into the direction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning in Academia
Interesting points made here. Since methods like deep learning are used for value and also hyped the results may not be widely shared. But then the major players...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI vs ML vs Deep Learning
A Comparative Roundup: Artificial Intelligence vs. Machine Learning vs. Deep LearningThis article was written by Paramita Ghosh.A 1969 McKinsey article claimed...
From Computational Complexity
The Grad Student Tax
By now as you've read from Luca or Scott or PhD Comics or a variety of other sources on the dangerous changes to the tax code that passed the US House of Representatives...
From Schneier on Security
Vulnerability in Amazon Key
Amazon Key is an IoT door lock that can enable one-time access codes for delivery people. To further secure that system, Amazon sells Cloud Cam, a camera that watches...
From Putting People First
Experientia and Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo announce innovative partnership
Wide ranging partnership also covers collaboration with design schools and public events on service design “Finding the way forward for independent design means...
From Putting People First
Experientia and Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo announce innovative partnership
Wide ranging partnership also covers collaboration with design schools and public events on service design “Finding the way forward for independent design means...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hashgraphs
This was new to me. I know what 'Hashing' is with regard to storage allocation and cryptography, looking at it in more detail here.The End of Blockchain? Hashgraph...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Project Management Inspiration
Worth a refresher, have been on both sides of this.7 TED Talks to Inspire Project Management ExpertsWe regularly work with project managers from all walks of life...
From insideHPC
Video: An Affordable Supercomputing Testbed based on Rasberry Pi
In this video from SC17, Bruce Tulloch from BitScope describes an low-cost Rasberry Pi cluster that LANL can use to simulate large-scale supercomputers. "The BitScope...
From The Eponymous Pickle