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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
Maxeler Technologies Accelerates Analytics on UK G-Cloud
Today Maxeler Technologies announced it is now on the G-Cloud 9 framework and can offer its world class accelerated compute performance to the entire UK PublicMaxeler...
From insideHPC
NEC’s Aurora Vector Engine & Advanced Storage Speed HPC & Machine Learning at ISC 2017
In this video from ISC 2017, Oliver Tennert from NEC Deutschland GmbH introduces the company's advanced technologies for HPC and Machine Learning. "Today NEC Corporation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alibaba Builds Echo for China
Apparently only in Mandarin for now. Continued competition in this space.Alibaba Challenges Google, Amazon With New Echo-Like DeviceBy Lulu Yilun Chen in Bloomberg...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA and Baidu Partner Up to Accelerate AI
Today NVIDIA and Baidu today announced a broad partnership to bring the world’s leading artificial intelligence technology to cloud computing, self-driving vehicles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo as Intercom
Has now rolled out, have used it daily for a week, obvious useful add for the smart home.Alexa gets room-to-room intercom support between Echo devicesby Chaim Gartenberg...
From Computational Complexity
The Complexity of Rubik's Cube
In my book I use Rubik's Cube as an example of a puzzle we can computationally solve efficiently (as opposed to Sudoku or Rush Hour). How does this square with...
From Schneier on Security
Commentary on US Election Security
Good commentaries from Ed Felten and Matt Blaze. Both make a point that I have also been saying: hacks can undermine the legitimacy of an election, even if there...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overview of Recurrent Neural Networks
An overview of recurrent neural networks, and a tour of different types used for deep learning applications. Note in particular, such problems that require sequencing...
From Schneier on Security
GoldenEye Malware
I don't have anything to say -- mostly because I'm otherwise busy -- about the malware known as GoldenEye, NotPetya, or ExPetr. But I wanted a post to park links...
From insideHPC
Liquid Cooling Ecosystem Expands for HPC with CoolIT Systems
In this video, CoolIT Systems debuts high TDP processor coldplates, STULZ Micro Data Center with Rack DCLC™, and new liquid cooled OEM servers at ISC High Performance...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing New Tools for Cancer Detection
"In the future, though, it may be possible to diagnose cancer much earlier using more sensitive body scans, new types of biomarker tests, and even nano-sensorsSupercomputing...
From insideHPC
Intel’s Raj Hazra on how new technologies are Clouding our Future
In this video from ISC 2017, Raj Hazra, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise and Government Group at Intel, discusses key trends impacting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Manufacturing Process Control
Interesting process manufacturing example. Weight control is a very often used, and a simple control process. Interesting to see how this differs.Hershey adopts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
API Economy
Expanding business models2017 Is Quickly Becoming The Year Of The API EconomyThis year more CIOs will have their bonuses tied to how many new business models they...
From Writing
Yak Shaving Series #1: All I need is a little bit of disk space
I just published the first entry in The Yak Shaving Series, where we share stories of some of the unexpected, bizarre, painful, and time-consuming problems we’ve...
From Writing
Yak Shaving Series #1: All I need is a little bit of disk space
I just published the first entry in The Yak Shaving Series, where we share stories of some of the unexpected, bizarre, painful, and time-consuming problems we’ve...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Acquires Souq
In Chain Store Age. Full article requires registration.Amazon gains huge foothold in Middle EastAmazon has completed its acquisition of e-commerce company souq...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Pruning spaces from strings quickly on ARM processors
Suppose that I give you a relatively long string and you want to remove all spaces from it. In ASCII, we can define spaces as the space character (‘ ‘), and the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smelling with VR for Immersion
The CPG company I worked with for years used to have a big foods component and smell and aroma were major sensory components of products and product development...
From insideHPC