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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Stopped Watches and Data Analytics
Is this a new or old paradox? UK Independent source—and “a gentle irony” Roger Bannister is a British neurologist. He received the first Lifetime Achievement Award...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gillette Replaces Dad with Assistant
In Fastcompany, by Jeff Beer. Includes video of Ad:Most Men Ask Their Phone For Advice Before Dad, So Gillette Made An App For ThatThe brand’s new Father’s Day...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track held at AAMAS 2017
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the Sixteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and...
From Schneier on Security
ICE is Using Stingray to Track Illegal Immigrants
According to court documents, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using Stingray cell-site simulators to track illegal immigrants....
From insideHPC
Transaction Processing Performance Council Launches TPCx-HS Big Data Benchmark
Today the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) announced the immediate availability of TPCx-HS Version 2, extending the original benchmark’s scope to...
From insideHPC
Why Summer of HPC is an Experience to Remember
The Summer of HPC is a PRACE program that offers summer placements at HPC centres across Europe. “I was part of the Laboratory of Computer-Aided Design at the University...
From insideHPC
SPEC High-Performance Group Seeking Applications for New MPI Accelerator Benchmark
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.'s High-Performance Group (SPEC/HPG) is offering rewards of up to $5,000 and a free benchmark license for application code...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grafana for Time Series
Brought to my attention. Grafana." ... The leading open source software for time series analytics ... Grafana is an open source metric analytics & visualization...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Counting exactly the number of distinct elements: sorted arrays vs. hash sets?
Suppose that you have ever larger sets of 64-bit integers, and you want to quickly find out how many distinct integers there are. So given {10, 12, 10, 16}, you...
From insideHPC
Kimberly Keeton from HPE Presents: Memory-Driven Computing
Kimberly Keeton from HPE gave this talk at the MSST Conference. "Data growth and data analytics requirements are outpacing the compute and storage technologiesKimberly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twin Technology
Mostly about hardware, saw it well described by GE Digital at our recent meeting. Gets closer to understanding the process. But how do you include the actions...
From insideHPC
Reliability, scalability and performance – the Impact of Intel HPC Orchestrator
When it comes to getting the performance out of your HPC system, it’s the small things that count. David Lombard, Sr. Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation, explains...
From Schneier on Security
The Future of Ransomware
Ransomware isn't new, but it's increasingly popular and profitable. The concept is simple: Your computer gets infected with a virus that encrypts your files until...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Algo Visualizes Code Process
Always thought there should be a easy way to better visualize the process of code. There have been attempts. Is this finally it? Much like the idea, transparency...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithmic Gastronomy and Beyond
Fascinating look about how to morph recipes. Might this be used to rewrite other process + ingredient kinds of decisions? We were influenced in coffee blending...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Andreessen Horowitz's AI Playbook
New, examining.AI Playbook by the Andreessen Horowitz VC firm. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a set of computer science techniques that, as Stanford professor...
From Schneier on Security
North Korean Cyberwar Capabilities
Reuters has an article on North Korea's cyberwar capabilities, specifically "Unit 180." They're still not in the same league as the US, UK, Russia, China, and Israel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering the Data Science Behind AI
Nicely done piece from DSC by William Vorhies, an overview. Good exec and introductory piece. Like in general the way this is presented. Would add that I have...
From insideHPC
Bright Cluster Manager Adds BeeGFS Support
Today Bright Computing announced support for the BeeGFS parallel file system into Bright Cluster Manager 8.0. BeeGFS, developed at the Fraunhofer Center for High...
From The Eponymous Pickle