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Radio Free HPC Tours the 100 Megawatt SuperNAP Datacenter
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Radio Free HPC Tours the 100 Megawatt SuperNAP Datacenter

In this Radio Free HPC podcast, Rich gives us the lowdown on his recent tour of the SuperNAP datacenter in Las Vegas. Run by Switch, the campus has over up to 2...

Busting the Bridge
From The Eponymous Pickle

Busting the Bridge

In my early days I was much Physics oriented.  A classic phenomena of real world dynamic physics is resonance, and the best example given was always the collapse...

Humans not Chatbots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Humans not Chatbots

Loyalty and Chatbots.   Customer Think writes about human interaction being the key to loyalty engagement.  " ... In a world where people are continuously connected...

Microsoft Office Cheat Sheets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Office Cheat Sheets

We all use too much software to get things done, so always looking for ways to keep all straight  and efficient as possible.  So thus the idea of a 'cheat sheet'...

CIA's Pandemic Toolkit
From Schneier on Security

CIA's Pandemic Toolkit

WikiLeaks is still dumping CIA cyberweapons on the Internet. Its latest dump is something called "Pandemic": The Pandemic leak does not explain what the CIA's initial...

More On Google Clicks to In-Store Purchase Links
From The Eponymous Pickle

More On Google Clicks to In-Store Purchase Links

Considerable question, continued here with input from a number of experts.   My answer is yes, not just by this first step, but following steps that will use this...

Building your own IFTTT Applet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building your own IFTTT Applet

Create your own,  also an instructive intro to how an Applet works and how it uses data.   A very simple kind of AI/IOT.  With pointers to more in depth instructions...

Curiosity and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Curiosity and AI

How do you build curiosity in a system.  And the ability to act on curiosity?  In a simplistic sense, mining for data and then ingesting it?   If you are a robot...

Accelerating Innovation with HPC and AI at HPE Discover
From insideHPC

Accelerating Innovation with HPC and AI at HPE Discover

In this special guest feature, Bill Mannel from Hewlett Packard Enterprise writes that this week's HPE Discover meeting in Las Vegas will bring together leaders...

Attracting Good Luck
From The Eponymous Pickle

Attracting Good Luck

The topic of luck came up recently.  Perception of and actual results.   From the 'Barking'  folks, a good look at research based ideas:Attracting Good Luck.How...

Podcast: Sumit Gupta on IBM’s New AI Software for Data Scientists
From insideHPC

Podcast: Sumit Gupta on IBM’s New AI Software for Data Scientists

https://archive.org/download/SumitGuptaIBMmachinelearning/SumitGuptaIBMmachinelearning.mp3   In this podcast, Sumit Gupta from IBM describes the company’s new PowerAI...

More on Self Driving Trucks
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on Self Driving Trucks

Worked for years on systems that managed trucking and driver management.    So this is a a key area of supply chain costs and complexity.   In Trucks.com:Why Waymo...

Walmart Sweepstakes Game
From The Eponymous Pickle

Walmart Sweepstakes Game

In Retailwire: With discussion.Can Walmart’s sweepstakes game teach the unbanked to ‘bank’ their money? by Matthew SternIn order to let the unbanked and underbanked...

Using Unstructured Dark Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Unstructured Dark Data

Instructive move, and worth examining just to understand what dark data is.Apple acquires AI company Lattice Data, a specialist in unstructured ‘dark data’, for...

Bayesian Deep Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bayesian Deep Learning

A curated list of resources dedicated to bayesian deep learningPosted by Emmanuelle RieufThis article comes from GitHub via DSC. ... " 

Designing Data Tables
From The Eponymous Pickle

Designing Data Tables

Nicely thought out.   If you design tables well enough, they can do much of the lifting for you.  Many examples at the link below.By Andrew Coyle    Designing the...

Hyperion Research to hold Annual HPC Market Update Meeting at ISC 2017
From insideHPC

Hyperion Research to hold Annual HPC Market Update Meeting at ISC 2017

Hyperion Research, the new name for the former IDC HPC group, today announced that it will hold its Annual HPC Market Update Meeting at ISC 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany...

Overview of Panasas Storage for HPC & Big Data
From insideHPC

Overview of Panasas Storage for HPC & Big Data

Dale Brantley presented this talk at the PBS Works User Group meeting. "Panasas storage solutions drive industry and research innovation by accelerating workflows...

Anniversary of Streetview
From The Eponymous Pickle

Anniversary of Streetview

Tenth anniversary of Google Streetview. Something that still amazes me, the amount of data gathered, updated and delivered gives us a remarkable view of our world...

Articles on AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Articles on AI

A list of some good articles on AI,  mostly about the quant aspects ..... not enough about the process considerations, or operations, but still very useful.  Connections...
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