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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
Vectorization with AVX-512 Intrinsics
"With the Intel compilers, intrinsics are recognized and the instructions are generated in-line which is a tremendous advantage. Since the Intel Xeon Phi processor...
From insideHPC
Considerations for Applications to Transition to a Cloud
This is the third entry in an insideHPC series that explores the HPC transition to the cloud, and what your business needs to know about this evolution. This series...
From insideHPC
Exxact Corporation offers NVIDIA DGX Station and DGX-1 for Deep Learning
Today Exxact Corporation announced that it will offer the new NVIDIA DGX Station and DGX-1 systems featuring the NVIDIA Tesla V100 data center GPUs based on the...
From Schneier on Security
Millennials and Secret Leaking
I hesitate to blog this, because it's an example of everything that's wrong with pop psychology. Malcolm Harris writes about millennials, and has a theory of why...
From insideHPC
Bright Computing Adds Cloud Bursting Support for Microsoft Azure
"We are pleased to offer this new integration to our customers and we are confident that the solution will be very popular with our user base," said Martijn deBright...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Patents Smart Home System
In BizJournals.com You don't often think of a CPG company innovating in this space. See other posts here on reordering systems.P&G invents smart home systemProcter...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
QuickSelect versus binary heap for top-k queries
In a previous post, I considered the problem of finding the k smallest (or k largest) elements from a stream of values. The naive approach is to collect all the...
From Schneier on Security
Data vs. Analysis in Counterterrorism
This article argues that Britain's counterterrorism problem isn't lack of data, it's lack of analysis....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AI Now Initiative Symposium on July 10th, 2017
The AI Now Initiative is hosting a symposium on July 10th, 2017 at the MIT Media Lab to “address the biggest challenges we face as AI moves further into our everyday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wheel of Retailing?
Admit I had not heard the term 'Wheel of Retailing'. HBS talks this. I will include the explanation, more at the link below. Comments also interesting at link...
From insideHPC
PBSCloud.io – A new SAS platform for Deploying HPC Appliances in the Cloud
In this video, Jérémie Bourdoncle from Altair describes the company's innovative PBSCloud.io, which is a new SAS platform to for deploying HPC Appliances in Public...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How To Teach Computer Science
I always read articles like this one - The 5 Worst Ways to Teach Computer Science – with some trepidation. I always expect to find out that I’m doing it all wrong...
From insideHPC
DDN Storage Innovations Enhance Performance and Reliability at Scale
"Today DDN announced a series of performance and reliability innovations across its storage appliances, aimed at meeting the growing demand for storage performance...
From XRDS
Notes from IIT Kharagpur ACM Summer School on ML and NLP
Today is June 14th, so I am 14 days into summer school; 7 more days left, and we are all already feeling saddened by the idea of leaving Kharagpur soon. In India...
From insideHPC
STULZ and CoolIT Systems Launch Liquid Cooled Micro Data Center for HPC
"The Micro DC is a compact data center that can be easily deployed in any environment while managing an incredible amount of power and performance,” said JoergSTULZ...
From Computational Complexity
The Power of Economic Inefficiency
I grew up in a time when long distance domestic phone calls from AT&T costed $0.20/minute off peak ($1.30 in today's dollars). I also grew up close to AT&T Bell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extracting Tagging Data from Imagery
An example of how advanced deep learning methods can be used to extract information from image data. The image data is already captured and stored. And its dynamic...
From insideHPC
Riding the Wave of Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning — decades-old technologies that are now electrifying the computing industry — for all intents and purposes, seem...
From The Eponymous Pickle