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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
Decisions and Process
In McKinsey:" ... Untangling your organization’s decision makingBy Aaron De Smet, Gerald Lackey, and Leigh M. WeissAny organization can improve the speed and quality...
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Google's MultiModel for Multiple Tasks
New to me, examining. Premise sounds very useful. Or is it carrying the neural model architecture too far? Defining a useful task as? The architecture does...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Architecture Visioning — Why Not Emulate?
The following blog was written by CCC Vice Chair Mark D. Hill, with contributions from Sarita Adve and Alvin Lebeck. As readers of the Computing Community Consortium...
From insideHPC
IO Management with DDN IME 1.1
In this video from the 2017 DDN User Group meeting at ISC, James Coomer from DDN presents: IME Update - I/O Profiling of applications. "DDN’s Infinite Memory Engine...
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KDNuggets Observer Paper
The latest headline paper from KDNuggets, a source that has been around for a long time, and always very useful. Good place to quickly scan Analytics and Machine...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Optimizes Drive Writes Per Day for SSDs
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at why Drive Writes Per Day are such an important metric for acquiring the right kind of SSD for your particularRadio...
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Amazon Launches 'Echo Squad' Help for Alexa Installs and Beyond
Had only a minor problem installing Alexa, Had somewhat more trouble with Google Home, which could have stymied a non tech user. In both cases dial-in help was...
From insideHPC
Silicon Mechanics steps up with Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Today Silicon Mechanics announced immediate availability of Intel's new family of processors, the Intel Xeon Scalable platform, formerly code-named Purley. Intel's...
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More Uses of Digital Twins
Datascience Central article on Digital Twins. I was introduced to the idea at GE, and then later through interaction with their analytics methods. This example...
From insideHPC
Nvidia Volta GPUs Power HPC & AI at ISC 2017
In this video from ISC 2017, Keith Morris from NVIDIA describes how the company's next-generation Volta GPU technology will drive HPC and AI applications to new...
From insideHPC
New Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Accelerate HPC Systems
Intel outlines the highlights and features of the company's new Intel Xeon Scalable processors designed to accelerate HPC systems. The Intel Xeon processor Scalable...
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iPhone Security
Don't usually follow this kind of news, but this seems very serious. Apple has this reputation for good security, which this seems to erode considerably, evenIn...
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Why People Can't Write
Steven Pinker writes about writing, have heard this point of his before. Good thoughts. Particularly important in technical topics. Where communications have...
From Schneier on Security
More on the NSA's Use of Traffic Shaping
"Traffic shaping" -- the practice of tricking data to flow through a particular route on the Internet so it can be more easily surveiled -- is an NSA technique...
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Linkedin Mentor Matching
Been looking for how Linkedin, after acquisition, will be planning to innovate with its gigantic, novel and ubiquitous database. Can they use it to help assign...
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Artificial Intelligence Poised to Improve Lives of People With Disabilities
By Shari Trewin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Chair, Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on
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AI Methods in Enterprise Software
OK , but with still a narrow view of AI, by these definitions we were using analytics/AI in the enterprise in the 80s. Still some good recent examples and a good...
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Adam Optimization for Machine Learning
Been enjoying some of the writing of Jason Brownlee, who below introduces us to Adam Optimization, new to me. He has compiled some of his other writing at the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Intelligent Infrastructure for Smart Agriculture
Agriculture provides approximately 1 in 10 U.S. jobs and supports food and nutrition security as well as energy independence. However, U.S. global competitiveness...
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