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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
Multivariate Regression
In DSC, a good piece explaining multivariate regression. Not very technical, addresses both the data and the results. Every manager should understand this simple...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bikes Existing Among Cars
Troublesome thought that bicycles might need to become so complex to exist in an ecosystem with automobiles.Bikes May Have to Talk to Self-Driving Cars for Safety's...
From My Biased Coin
Best Post I've Read on the Google Memo
After the shout-out to Meena, she suggested I might have more to say on the issue of the Google memo. I (like I imagine so many others) have been following the...
From XRDS
ElectroEuro
In 2017, General Electric (GE), one of the largest American companies that specializes in oil and gas, healthcare, aviation and software development, and Eurelectric...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Handbook of Neural Computation
Below book looks good, but very pricey. Consider a free version via MIT, also being continually updated, don't have a copy to compare its coverage. In general...
From insideHPC
Video: HPE goes for Mission to Mars with Supercomputer Launch
"Traveling to Mars and further destinations will require more sophisticated computing capabilities to cut down on communication latencies and ensure astronauts’...
From insideHPC
Slovenia signs European Declaration on HPC
This week Slovenia became the ninth member state to sign the European Declaration on High Performance Computing. Designed to coordinate HPC efforts throughout Europe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Debating Statistical Significance
A considerable look, both technical and non-technical about statistical significance. Have it has been used, and how that is being re-considered. The original...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telepresence Robots
These robots should be called 'minimal presence portable robotics', we looked at them to test the idea of having someone who was very remote introduced to a team...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data as Asset: Deriving Knowledge from Data
Good thought, and a natural way to lead toward value based intelligence. In O'Reilly.A DevOps approach to data managementA multi-model approach to transforming...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Eyeballs
Details on how a squid's eye corrects for underwater distortion: Spherical lenses, like the squids', usually can't focus the incoming light to one point as it passes...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Optimizing polynomial hash functions (Java vs. Swift)
In software, hash functions are ubiquitous. They map arbitrary pieces of data (strings, arrays, …) to fixed-length integers. They are the key ingredient of hash...
From Schneier on Security
I Seem to Have a LinkedIn Account
I seem to have a LinkedIn account. This comes as a surprise, since I don't have a LinkedIn account, and have never logged in to LinkedIn. Does anyone have any contacts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making AI Explain Itself
Back to our maintenance problem. Unless you can explain a result, it is hard to maintain it under changing context. Trust too can be lost if the methods are indistinguishable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Platt Research Institute: Journal of Retail Analytics
Have begun to follow, details for sign-in and article download at the link:Journal of Retail AnalyticsPRI’s Journal of Retail Analytics is a comprehensive quarterly...
From insideHPC
Mellanox BlueField Accelerates NVMe over Fabrics
Today Mellanox announced the availability of storage reference platforms based on its revolutionary BlueField System-on-Chip (SoC), combining a programmable multicore...
From Wild WebMink
7 Rules For Engaging Communities On Legal Matters
Having watched a fair number of people attempting to engage both the Open Source Initiative’s licensing evaluation community and the Apache Software Foundation...
From insideHPC
Test Your Knowledge with the MPI Quiz
In this video, David Henty from EPCC conducts a video-based quiz on MPI. "The multiple-choice questions are partly designed for fun to test attendees' knowledge...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (August 11th, 2017)
It looks like the Java programming language might finally get in-language support for vector instructions, these instructions are supported by modern processors...
From insideHPC