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From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Learning Use and Best Practices

Very interesting introductory piece for the newcomer to using deep learning in a professional setting. Not quite for the novice, but if you have data manipulation... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 1, 2017 at 07:17 PM

From insideHPC

Argonne to Install 1.5 Petaflop Cray CS400 Cluster

Today Cray announced a contract to deliver a Cray CS400 cluster supercomputer to the Laboratory Computing Resource Center (LCRC) at Argonne National Laboratory.... staff
From insideHPC | May 1, 2017 at 04:26 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Samsung to Buy Harman Kardon

How does this change the imminent Microsoft-HK Cortana based assistant?Samsung buying auto and audio giant Harman for $8 billionIt's Samsung's largest acquisition... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 1, 2017 at 03:50 PM

From insideHPC

Housing Registration Opens for SC17 in Denver

The SC17 housing reservation system is now open for business. The conference takes place Nov. 12-17 in Denver. The post Housing Registration Opens for SC17 in Denver... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | May 1, 2017 at 03:25 PM

From Computational Complexity

A Celebration of Computer Science at Harvard in Honor of Harry Lewis's 70th Bday

My adviser Harry Lewis turned 70 recently. I blogged about how things have changed since I got my Phd in this post. I now post on A celebration of Computer Science... GASARCH
From Computational Complexity | May 1, 2017 at 02:31 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Dominos Shows a Way to Connect to Data

For me, linking Domino's pizza more directly to my smart home is not a priority, but the example here is interesting. Use IFTTT to link to a stream of data toPizza... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 1, 2017 at 01:11 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Samsung Bixby Assistant is Rolling

Followed the Bixby for some time, the virtual assistant appears to be only on Samsung Smartphones for now. More at the link." .... Bixby starts rolling out in... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 1, 2017 at 12:39 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Go for Growth

In the HBR:Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growthby Michael Mankins" .... Today’s era of superabundant capital rewards faster growth. To thrive in this... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 1, 2017 at 12:13 PM

From insideHPC

Rescale to Offer On-Demand LS-DYNA Licenses in Europe

Today Rescale announced that hourly, on-demand licenses of the popular finite element analysis software LS-DYNA are now available in Europe on ScaleX Enterprise... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | May 1, 2017 at 11:43 AM

From insideHPC

HPC Accelerating Combustion Engine Design

Sibendu Som from Argonne presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Sibendu Som is a mechanical engineer and principal investigator for developing predictive spray... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | May 1, 2017 at 11:26 AM

From insideHPC

Greg Kurtzer of LBNL Launches SingularityWare, LLC

Over at the Singularity Blog, Greg Kurtzer writes that he has created a new organization, SingularityWare, LLC. In partnership with RStor, the new company willGreg... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | May 1, 2017 at 10:31 AM

From insideHPC

Rock Stars of HPC: Karan Batta

From software developer at a small start-up in New Zealand, to Senior Program Manager at one of the largest multinational technology companies in the US, KaranRock... Beth Harlen
From insideHPC | May 1, 2017 at 10:08 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and the Creative Industries

Some of the earliest objections we got to AI were: Where is the creativity? Then and now it can come from from how elements of content and value are effectively... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 1, 2017 at 10:04 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Punch Cards, Comments, and Learning From the Past

Doug Peterson, whose blog always makes me think, had a post last week about internal documentation. Specifically things like comments which a lot of the popular... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 1, 2017 at 09:22 AM

From Schneier on Security

Who is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why?

There's something going on inside the intelligence communities in at least two countries, and we have no idea what it is. Consider these three data points. One:... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | May 1, 2017 at 07:32 AM

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

A Great Solution

A great conjecture too Alternate photo by Quanta Thomas Royen is a retired professor of statistics in Schwalbach am Taunus near Frankfurt, Germany. In July 2014... RJLipton+KWRegan
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | April 30, 2017 at 11:23 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Appian BPM Goes Public

Have been a follower of BPM systems for some time. Now a well known provider of BPM as a service Appian is going public. Liked what I saw of them. We testedBPM... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | April 30, 2017 at 10:42 PM

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Global Technology Policy Newsletter – May 2017

ACM PUBLIC POLICY HIGHLIGHTS ACM provides independent, nonpartisan, and technology-neutral research and resources to policy leaders, stakeholders, and the public... Renee Dopplick, ACM Director of Public Policy
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | April 30, 2017 at 10:31 PM

From Geeking with Greg

All Crunchzilla tutorials now open source

All the code is now available for all the Crunchzilla coding tutorials. Code Monster, Code Maven, and Game Maven from Crunchzilla have been used by hundreds ofopen... Greg Linden
From Geeking with Greg | April 30, 2017 at 04:21 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinking about AI Transparency and Risk

Have written about this, and in our AI days, dealt with it many times in real applications. Good overview with lots of useful references. Needs more thoughtIn... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | April 30, 2017 at 02:59 PM