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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 insideHPC
Job of the Week: Sr. Scientific Programmer at Illinois Rocstar
Illinois Rocstar is seeking a Sr. Scientific Programmer in our Job of the Week. "Have you ever thought that you’d like to write code to model something awesome?...
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Philip Diamond from SKA Project to Keynote SC17
Professor Philip Diamond, Director General of the international Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project, will be the keynote speaker at SC17. "Professor Diamond, accompanied...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Teaching
Out of Micrsosoft Research. O'Reilly Summarises.Machine Teaching: A New Paradigm for Building Machine Learning SystemsPatrice Y. Simard, Saleema Amershi, David...
From The Noisy Channel
On hiQ v. LinkedIn
On August 14th, US District Judge Edward M. Chen granted a preliminary injunction to hiQ Labs in its case against LinkedIn. While I agree with part of the judge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Codes in China
Have not been using or reading about the use of QR codes of late, interesting how they are being used in China. See also links to previous pieces on QR. Some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ideas for Computer Science Teachers from CS Teachers
For me one of the big benefits of social media is getting and sharing ideas from other computer science teachers. Blogs, Twitter, and Facebook are regular sources...
From insideHPC
Dell EMC Supercomputer to Power OzGRav Studies of Black Holes
Today Dell EMC announced it will build a supercomputer to power Swinburne University of Technology’s groundbreaking research into astrophysics and gravitational...
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Video: Gas Clouds Wither in Galactic Winds
In this video from Evan Schneider at Princeton University, hot galactic winds destroy a cool cloud of interstellar gas. “The process of generating galactic winds...
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Video: How Extreme Energy Jets Escape a Black Hole
Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputers to better understand the forces at work at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The work could reveal how instabilities...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DataScience@NIH Updates
Check out the following updates from Data Science at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Data Science Opportunities: Big Data Neuroscience Workshop 2017 Organized...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On Melissa O’Neill’s PCG random number generator
Computers often need random numbers. Most times, random numbers are not actually random… in the sense that they are the output of a mathematical function that is...
From insideHPC
Microsoft Acquires Cycle Computing
Today Microsoft it has acquired Cycle Computing, a software company focused on making cloud computing resources more readily available for HPC workloads. "Now supporting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Assistants Using Wikipedia
A conversation at Wikipediocracy discusses how personal assistants like Alexa, Google Home and Siri use and attribute (or not) knowledge from the Wikipedia. ...
From insideHPC
DeepSat: Monitoring the Earth’s Vitals with AI
In order to better keep a finger on the pulse of the Earth’s health, NASA developed DeepSat, a deep learning AI framework for satellite image classification and...
From insideHPC
What Developers Need to Consider When Exploring Machine Learning
Frameworks, applications, libraries and toolkits—journeying through the world of deep learning can be daunting. If you’re trying to decide whether or not to begin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Video for the Home
IEEE Spectrum on 'friendly' home robotics. Still awaiting some more detailed looks at its in home use. Continue to cover this, but given the cost will likely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Dataset that Transformed AI Research
As in the emergence of Big Data, it has been pointed out that the large amount of the right kind of data can make the difference. And it has, opening an entire...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking a Gene Sequencer by Encoding Malware in a DNA Strand
One of the common ways to hack a computer is to mess with its input data. That is, if you can feed the computer data that it interprets -- or misinterprets -- in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google View of AI: Intelligence and Scale
Via O'Reilly: Jeff Dean is a Google senior fellow in the Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain project. Here is a video (and slides) of a talk he gave...
From The Eponymous Pickle