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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 Mostafa Dehghani
Some Highlights of MILA Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer Schools 2017
A couple weeks a go, I attended MILLA Deep Learning summer school (DLSS) from June 26th to July 1st and Reinforcement Learning summer school (RLSS) from July 3rd...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sharing your Smartphone Location
When you should and shouldn't share your location via smartphone. Some best and worst Scenarios. But the experts now say it is impossible to not infer your physical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Video Recommendations
In the Verge: AI and Video recommendations: How YouTube started using Google Brain's AI to improve video recommendations in 2015, which now drive 70% of videos'...
From insideHPC
TensorFlow Deep Learning Optimized for Modern Intel Architectures
Researchers at Google and Intel recently collaborated to extract the maximum performance from Intel® Xeon and Intel® Xeon Phi processors running TensorFlow*, aTensorFlow...
From Computational Complexity
NOT So Powerful
A monotone circuit has only AND and OR gates, no NOT gates. Monotone circuits can only produce monotone functions like clique or perfect matching, where addingFavorite...
From Schneier on Security
Journalists Generally Do Not Use Secure Communication
This should come as no surprise: Alas, our findings suggest that secure communications haven't yet attracted mass adoption among journalists. We looked at 2,515...
From XRDS
Back from the Debian Conference
New blogger in XRDS! I should introduce myself before jumping in with my first post here in the XRDS blog. I am a long time Free Software enthusiast and developer...
From Schneier on Security
A Framework for Cyber Security Insurance
New paper: "Policy measures and cyber insurance: a framework," by Daniel Woods and Andrew Simpson, Journal of Cyber Policy, 2017. Abstract: The role of the insurance...
From insideHPC
Globus for Google Drive Provides Unified Interface for Collaborative Research
Today Globus.org announced general availability of Globus for Google Drive, a new capability that lets users seamlessly connect Google Drive with their existing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Culture for a Digital Age
From McKinsey. Good piece, though I think that there is value in diversity of culture as well, even outside these proclaimed boundaries.Culture for a digital age...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Social Robotics
Been intrigued by social robots, attempts at making interactive and friendly devices for the home and elsewhere. Is this problem solvable before we figure out...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Could an AI Win the Nobel Prize?
In this AI Podcast, Paul Wigley from the Australian National University describes how his team of scientists applied AI to an experiment to create a Bose-Einstein...
From insideHPC
Video: MVAPICH at Petascale on the Stampede System
"This talk will focus on the role MVAPICH has played at the Texas Advanced Computing Center over multiple generations of multiple technologies of interconnect,Video...
From insideHPC
Heroes of Deep Learning: Andrew Ng interviews Ian Goodfellow from Google Brain
"There were several other ways of doing generative models that had been popular for several years before I had the idea for GANs. And after I'd been working onHeroes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa and Cortana Collaborate for the Enterprise
About the surprise collaboration announced today between Amazon and Microsoft, good thoughts about this. How much market is there for strong connections between...
From Schneier on Security
Proof that HMAC-DRBG has No Back Doors
New research: "Verified Correctness and Security of mbedTLS HMAC-DRBG," by Katherine Q. Ye, Matthew Green, Naphat Sanguansin, Lennart Beringer, Adam Petcher, and...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA's 2014 Media Engagement and Outreach Plan
Interesting post-Snowden reading, just declassified. (U) External Communication will address at least one of "fresh look" narratives: (U) NSA does not access everything...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Retirement Party for Joel Seiferas
A gathering this Labor Day in Rochester Announcement source Joel Seiferas retired on December 31, 2016 and is now a professor emeritus in the University of Rochester...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
I was late pointed to a a number of posts from the recent Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) of the CACM. Information retrieval is the most...
From insideHPC