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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
OCF Builds POWER8 Supercomputer for Atomic Weapons Establishment in the UK
High Performance Computing integrator OCF is supporting scientific research at the UK Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), with the design, testing and implementation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Driven Clothes Shopping
I think I have seen at least three recommender-engine driven apparel selection systems pitched to me, none have survived. This is a tough sell. Touch and 3D would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensor Filled Gloves
A prototype for gloves that contain health sensorsSensor-filled glove could help doctors take guesswork out of physical exams" .... Now, an interdisciplinary team...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UPS Using Beacons for Accuracy
It sounds like the beacons are being used to get indoor accuracy to affirm location. And alert the system to misplacement. Reducing error. In ChainstoreAge: ...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The real lesson of the human genome project
When I was pursuing my PhD, the human genome project was often both regarded as overly ambitious (maybe even impossible) and full of possibilities. To many people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Editing Photos with Neural Networks
In NVidia Blog, quite interesting piece on generating new photos from collections of photos. In other words editing them. The article is quite technical, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Broad View of Amazon
Interesting view from CBInsights about Amazon. Pointer to a further strategy document. I agree, quite a breadth of directions by a former book seller. AmazonSeattle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PC Magazine Reviews Watson Analytics
A review in PC Magazine that much likes Watson Analytics, describing it as a self-service analytics tool rather than cognitive.
From insideHPC
PBS Works will Power New Supercomputer at BASF
Over at the Altair Blog, Jochen Krebs writes that the new HPC cluster at BASF will run PBS Works workload management software. "What does it take to go from months...
From insideHPC
OpenStack for Research Computing
"This talk will present the motivating factors for considering OpenStack for the management of research computing infrastructure. Stig Telfer will give an overview...
From Mostafa Dehghani
Beating the Teacher: Neural Ranking Models with Weak Supervision
Our paper "Neural Ranking Models with Weak Supervision", with Hamed Zamani, Aliaksei Severyn, Jaap Kamps, and W. Bruce Croft, has been accepted as a long paper...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Building its Own Quantum Chip
Have followed quantum computing from the beginning. Even offered some industrial test problems for potential solution. Followed NASA and Google Tests of research...
From insideHPC
The Computer That Could Be Smarter than Us – Cognitive Computing
Ingolf Wittmann from IBM presented this talk for the Switzerland HPC Conference. "This presentation will point out based on real examples how HPC environments can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards an Era of Mass Collaboration
Good overview of the idea, and players that are helping to make it happen. with similar challenges to any kind of group work measurement.We're Entering A New Era...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Linux Infrastructure Engineer at 10X Genomics
Bay Area Startup 10x Genomics is seeking a Linux / Infrastructure Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We are looking for an exceptional engineer with a solid understanding...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 21st, 2017)
Can we trust software? Lance Fortnow, a famous computer scientist, answers… Sometimes I feel we put to much pressure on the machines. When we deal with humans,Continue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Rolls Out Lex Chatbot Tools
Amazon rolls out conversational Chatbot interface 'Lex'. Am looking for better yet conversational and memory capabilities for Lex. Good technical overview at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Earth is Updated
We were much impressed with Google Earth, even used it for things like showing where our plants were worldwide, and providing 'tours' to their locations. Seems...
From Putting People First
An anthropologist in the boardroom
“It is often tempting to think that the 21st-century world is so closely integrated and digitised that the issue of culture is becoming irrelevant,” writes Gillian...
From The Eponymous Pickle