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More on the Google PAIR Effort: People+AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on the Google PAIR Effort: People+AI

 As important as how smart the methods will be,  will be the means by which we collaborate with them.   Thinking about this as a team, beyond just a person using...

Apple vs Google Maps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apple vs Google Maps

In Flowingdata:   In Google and Apple mapping approaches.   I have looked at both of these for years now on the IOS smartphone.  A close comparative look at different...

Pharma and the Sharing of Data in Drug Discovery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pharma and the Sharing of Data in Drug Discovery

Not quite what I call crowdsourcing, but rather a  means to make it easier to share and fund expensive research efforts.  Ultimately the very expensive genomicBig...

Exaflow: Collaborating on the Computational Challenges of CFD
From insideHPC

Exaflow: Collaborating on the Computational Challenges of CFD

"Fluid Dynamics (FD) simulations provide a powerful tool for the analysis of such fluid flows and are an essential element of many industrial and academic problems...

Machine Learning and Emergence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning and Emergence

Complete article at the link in DSC:The E-Dimension: Why Machine Learning Doesn’t Work Well for Some Problems?by Shahab Sheikh-Bahaei, Ph.D.*Principal Data Scientist...

Fostering Diversity in HPC at Lenovo
From insideHPC

Fostering Diversity in HPC at Lenovo

"Lenovo is an interesting company in that they started in China and the founders realized they need to become diverse in culture and every other way. So what we've...

Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Power New Servers from Advanced Clustering Technologies
From insideHPC

Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Power New Servers from Advanced Clustering Technologies

Today Advanced Clustering Technologies announced new systems based on the new Intel Xeon Scalable processors. "Integrating this new breakthrough generation of Intel...

Video: Supermicro Showcases HPC Solutions at ISC 2017
From insideHPC

Video: Supermicro Showcases HPC Solutions at ISC 2017

In this video, Peter Maas from Supermicro gives us a tour of the company's exhibit at ISC 2017. "Supermicro offers the industry’s broadest selection of HPC Solutions...

Radio Free HPC Looks at Big News in Graph Computing
From insideHPC

Radio Free HPC Looks at Big News in Graph Computing

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at why the Alan Turing Institute is focusing on Graph Computing with their acquisition of a Cray Urika-GX supercomputer...

How Will People Interact with Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Will People Interact with Machines

I see my former collaborators at IFTF have been working on this problem:Forecasting How Humans Will Interact with Machines by 2030By: Chris Preimesberger | July...

From Computational Complexity

89944 Hat Problems

I've blogged about different hat problems a few times (see here). The question arises: How many hat problems are there? The answer is really infinite (literally)...

Australia Considering New Law Weakening Encryption
From Schneier on Security

Australia Considering New Law Weakening Encryption

News from Australia: Under the law, internet companies would have the same obligations telephone companies do to help law enforcement agencies, Prime Minister Malcolm...

Share your Model instead of your Data!
From Mostafa Dehghani

Share your Model instead of your Data!

Our paper "Share your Model instead of your Data: Privacy Preserving Mimic Learning for Ranking", with Hosein Azarbonyad, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke, has...

Developing and Marketing Deep Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Developing and Marketing Deep Learning

In Zdnet:Automating automation: a framework for developing and marketing deep learning models Are you sold on the benefits of adding automation to your stack, but...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Kitchen Tile Catalog Complete

All tessellating convex polygons found Cropped and combined from src1, src2. Michaël Rao and Marjorie Rice are linked in this month’s news. Rao has just released...

Assistant Mission Creep
From The Eponymous Pickle

Assistant Mission Creep

When I read recently that a virtual assistant had called 911 in the US to report a crime in progress, my immediate reaction was:  No that will not work, for a number...

Service Bot Examples
From The Eponymous Pickle

Service Bot Examples

Systems that do sales bot interactions.  In cnbc:" .... Here's how it works: When a company signs up with Conversica, they get to pick the name, gender and title...

Imagine a Future of Infinite Computing Power
From The Eponymous Pickle

Imagine a Future of Infinite Computing Power

Quite a way to go, but following how assistants can, learn, gather information, analyze and deliver.     I think its less about the speed of hardware and software...

Panel Discussion: Beyond Moore’s Law
From insideHPC

Panel Discussion: Beyond Moore’s Law

"Shrinking the feature sizes of wires and transistors has been the driver for Moore’s Law for the past 5 decades, but what might lie beyond the end of current lithographic...

Interview: John Gustafson on the Evolution of Supercomputing
From insideHPC

Interview: John Gustafson on the Evolution of Supercomputing

In this MacObserver podcast, John Martellaro discusses the evolution of HPC with John Gustafson, Visiting Professor at NUS in Singapore. “Known by many as the father...
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