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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Shrinking Deep Learning Neural Networks
Via O'Reilly. As these tasks take on tougher problems, efficient architecture will be important. Even more important as these tasks become real-time.Excerpt...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
“I have read all of your papers”
There is a common movie quote where one (often the hero) says to an academic: “I have read all of your papers”. This does not happen. If you are an academic and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning by Sketching with CogSketch
Quite interesting idea. I remember looking at the CogSketch platform. Had not of thought of it as a learning method. But many of us do learn visually, can this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chrome Secure by Default?
Recently pointed to this in the Google blog. Which claims that Chrome is secure by default. Is this a reasonable claim? Am a long time Chrome browser user.deceptive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Resolving Conflict in Self-Managed Teams
Further, perhaps more important, when should a team be self managed? In the HBR:How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict by Amit MaimonIn a traditional team...
From insideHPC
SPACK: A Package Manager for Supercomputers, Linux, and MacOS
"HPC software is becoming increasingly complex. The space of possible build configurations is combinatorial, and existing package management tools do not handle...
From insideHPC
Anaconda Open Data Science Platform comes to IBM Cognitive Systems
Today IBM announced that it will offer the Anaconda Open Data Science platform on IBM Cognitive Systems. Anaconda will also integrate with the PowerAI softwareAnaconda...
From insideHPC
DOE’s INCITE Program Seeks Advanced Computational Research Proposals for 2018
Today the Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program announced it is accepting proposals for high...
From insideHPC
OpenPOWER Developer Congress Event to Focus on Machine Learning
Today IBM announced that the first annual OpenPOWER Foundation Developer Congress will take place May 22-25 in San Francisco. With a focus on Machine Learning,OpenPOWER...
From insideHPC
Baidu Deep Learning Service adds Latest NVIDIA Pascal GPUs
"Baidu and NVIDIA are long-time partners in advancing the state of the art in AI,” said Ian Buck, general manager of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA. “Baidu understands...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Competing Neural Nets Getting Smarter
We experimented with a similar ideas, using simulation and evolutionary methods to rate alternate neural network designs. Considerable improvements since then....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NAS Releases Information Technology and The U.S. Workforce Report
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Information Technology, Automation, and the U.S. Workforce released a report last week...
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance and our Insecure Infrastructure
Since Edward Snowden revealed to the world the extent of the NSA's global surveillance network, there has been a vigorous debate in the technological community...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BBC Looks at Robots and Workers
Rise of the robots: What advances mean for workers By Tim Harford .... No details here, but an interesting set of examples from the BBC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Count Down to Jambaar Time
Jambaar.com: The Video-as-a-Service Platform for Data & Technology-Enabled Business Growth (4 Days from Today) @JambaarCom
From insideHPC
Podcast: How AI Can Improve the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases
In this AI Podcast, Mark Michalski from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Clinical Data Science discusses how AI is being used to advance medicine.Podcast...
From insideHPC
Lenovo HPC Strategy Update
Luigi Brochard from Lenovo gave this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "High performance computing is converging more and more with the big data topic and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Immersive Star Wars Land
Been reading Brian Jay Jones biography of George Lucas: A Life. I am a long time fan of digital cinema and further how it can be made more immersive, so seeing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Obituary: Robert Taylor, Computing Pioneer
I never met Computing Innovator Robert Taylor, but through connections at the Pentagon, ARPA and PARC heard of his innovative management that led to advanced computing...
From The Noisy Channel