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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
New XSEDE program makes HPC expertise more accessible
Today XSEDE announced a pilot-phase program meant to give users ready access to HPC expertise. Called ECSS (Extended Collaborative Support Services), ECSS service...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Posit Computing
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the problems with IEEE Floating Point. “As described in a recent presentation by John Gustafson, the flaws and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Its All About Continuous Learning
Our own early experiments in AI failed because we ended up needing expensive continuous Maintenance. We need continual learning, and we need to plan for thatin...
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Scalable Platform Enables Major Advancements for HPC
Described by Intel as the biggest platform advancement in a decade, the new Intel Xeon Scalable Platform accelerates high-performance computing workloads and provides...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voices in AI Podcasts
From GigaOM, have signed up for these.Announcing “Voices in AI” Podcast, Byron ReeseArtificial intelligence has received more digital ink recently than just about...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Twitter Chats for Computer Science Teachers
With the isolation that many computer science teachers feel social media can be an important part of both building community and professional development. Recently...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Slot Machines by Reverse-Engineering the Random Number Generators
Interesting story: The venture is built on Alex's talent for reverse engineering the algorithms -- known as pseudorandom number generators, or PRNGs -- that govern...
From Mostafa Dehghani
Learning to Attend, Copy, and Generate for Session-Based Query Suggestion
Our paper "Learning to Attend, Copy, and Generate for Session-Based Query Suggestion", with Sascha Rothe, Enrique Alfonseca, and Pascal Fleury, has been accepted...
From Computational Complexity
Should we care if a job candidate does not know the social and ethical implications of their work (Second Blog Post inspired by Rogawarys Moral Character Paper)
Phillip Rogaway's article on the The Moral character of Cryptographic Work (see here) brings up so many issues that it could be the topics for at least 5 blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Gmail will Answer Your Emails?
What is Ray Kurzweil up to at Google? Writing your Emails. ... in Wired .. I respond:Interesting background and information about an innovator and his team's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversational Banking Assistant Pilot
Intriguing statement of how this is operating, and how it can deal with a messy conversational interaction. Because of the nature of the interaction, this would...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Targeting Cancer with 3D Modeling and Simulation
In this podcast, University of Oregon Associate Professor Eugene Zhang and Assistant Professor Yue Zhang describe their research to help medical doctors betterPodcast...
From insideHPC
HPC Speeds NASCAR at OSC
In this video, Ray Leto from Total Sim LLC describes how his firm uses supercomputing resources at OSC to speed NASCAR simulations. "Designers and engineers utilizing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transcript Data to Tailor Voice Interaction
Amazon’s Alexa Has A Data Dilemma: Be More Like Apple Or Google?Amazon’s virtual assistant is caught between Apple-like privacy safeguards and Google-style openness...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Randomness of Numbers
Early projects had us looking to determine if numbers were random or not. Signal vs noise detection. Can be very important for scrubbing data before use. ...
From Wild WebMink
Give Generously! Seven Ways To Help Open Source
Should you donate money to the open source projects you use? Or is there a better way to help? Your business most likely depends on open source software. But...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (August 4th, 2017)
Lifting a lot of small weights and eating protein regularly builds muscle mass. There is no need for heavy weights and hormones matter less than you think. There...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Ocean Currents at NASA
A team from the NASA has developed a new visualization tool that is being used by researchers from the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO)...
From insideHPC
Rescale Partners with HPC Systems in Japan
Today Rescale announced a channel partnership with HPC Systems Inc., a high-performance computing hardware integrator based in Japan, to deliver Rescale’s ScaleX...
From The Eponymous Pickle