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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
Video: Technical Challenges in Complex Bioinformatics Environments
In this video from the 2017 DDN User Group meeting at ISC, Dean Flanders, Head of Informatics/CIO at Friedrich Miescher Institute presents: Technical Challenges...
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RCE Podcast Looks at NetCDF Network Common Data Format
In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with the authors of NetCDF. NetCDF is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Maryam Mirzakhani, 1977–2017
Including debt to Marina Ratner, 1938-2017 Still from Harvard Math video Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal in 2014. We and the whole community are grieving...
From insideHPC
Velocity Micro Accelerates HPC Desktops
Today Velocity Micro rolled out a suite of new workstation offerings designed for CAD design, 3D rendering, multimedia creation, and scientific calculation. Headlining...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 27th, 2017)
Currently, damage to the retina is largely viewed as irreversible. However, some researchers were able to generate retinal cells in mice. Toyota is reportedly ready...
From Computational Complexity
Peter Wegner (1932-2017)
Peter Wegner passed away yesterday morning at the age of 84. As a child he escaped Stalinist Russia and Nazi-occupied Austria the latter via the Kindertransport...
From Wild WebMink
Public Domain Is Not Open Source
Open Source and Public Domain are frequently confused. Here’s why it’s a mistake to treat the two terms as synonyms. Plenty of people assume that public domain...
From Schneier on Security
Zero-Day Vulnerabilities against Windows in the NSA Tools Released by the Shadow Brokers
In April, the Shadow Brokers -- presumably Russia -- released a batch of Windows exploits from what is presumably the NSA. Included in that release were eight different...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Where Will We Get The Teachers/
Computer Science Teachers Needed. But Who Will Pay to Train Them? It's always someone else's job. Or someone else's money. Who will step up and say "I'll do it!...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Much Training Data is Required?
In Machine Learning Mastery. Good place to start, but there is rarely a precise answer. More is usually good. A look at one of the most common questions to be...
From The Noisy Channel
Here are a couple of relevant papers:
Here are a couple of relevant papers: Scaling Semantic Parsers with On-the-Fly Ontology Matching Ontology-Based Translation of Natural Language Queries to SPARQL...
From The Noisy Channel
Taxonomies and Ontologies
In order to understand queries, it’s important to ground that understanding in a knowledge base. Two common ways to represent a knowledge base are taxonomies and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do We Want Computer Science to be Required?
Is making computer science a required course for everyone really a good idea? Doug Bergman made some interesting comments on Facebook today:"A required course means...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Defies and Defines the Moment of Truth
From Wayfind, thought provoking. No longer a moment of truth, but a moment of speech? But isn't the cylinder now in control of the conversation? Sure Brands...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Cuts Digital Spending, Sales Rise
So digital advertising not directly tied to sales here. Stock is up. Requires sign-in/subscription:In Adage: P&G Slashes Digital Ads by $140M Over BrandNet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOT vs IIOT
Overview that is useful ...IOT vs IIOT Do you know the difference?Not all Devices are IoT or IIoTPosted by Daniel Ehrenreich in IOT CentralBusiness opportunities...
From insideHPC
Nick Nystrom Named Interim Director of PSC
Nick Nystrom has been appointed Interim Director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Nystrom succeeds Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies, who have been co-directors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Development Workflows for Data Science
Nicely done free Book/PDF on the topic. My experience is most people don't consider workflow at all, so even an overview of a resource like this is worthwhile....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
City-Scale Intelligent Systems and Platforms
Roughly 12% of the global population today lives in 28 megacities, and at least 40 megacities are projected by 2030. Cost-effective management and sustainability...
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