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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
Conflicting Demands and Creativity
In MIT/Sloan:Conflicting demands within a business can be a source of creativity and opportunity — if they are handled well. The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald once...
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Baby Faces
We did experiments with packaging and advertising, using neuromarketing techniques.Sweet Puppies and Cute Babies: Perceptual Adaptation to Babyfacedness Transfers...
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UC Center for Business Analytics
Had .a conversation with Glenn Wegryn of the UC Center for Business Analytics. More to follow.Inform and Improve Decisions with AnalyticsThe UC Center for Business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flipboard ReDesigns
Had looked at Flipboard as a means of doing market and store design testing. With ‘Smart Magazines,’ Flipboard uses machine learning to reinvent its app ... ...
From insideHPC
Video: Scientific Visualization with Python
In this video, Dr. Marcelo Ponce from SciNet presents: Scientific Visualization with Python. "SciNet is Canada’s largest supercomputer centre, providing Canadian...
From insideHPC
Call for Submissions: OpenMPCon & IWOMP at Stony Brook University in New York
This year, the OpenMP Architecture Review Board is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first OpenMP API specification with a pair of events: OpenMPCon and the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Frameworks
Well done, relatively non technical, pointing at existing software solutions. In KDNuggets: " ... This post sketches out some common principles which would...
From insideHPC
Re-Architecting Spark For Performance Understandability
"This talk will describe Monotasks, a new architecture for the core of Spark that makes performance easier to reason about. In Spark today, pervasive parallelism...
From insideHPC
XTREME DESIGN Startup Raises $700K in Funding for HPC Cloud Enablement
Today Tokyo-based Startup XTREME DESIGN announced it has raised $700K of funding in its pre-series A round. Launched in early 2015, the Startup's XTREME DNA software...
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An Interactive Storytelling Medium
Brought to my attention, Earplay is now also using the Alexa interface. Might also be useful for training? With bot driven intelligence based on data?https:...
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Predicting Earthquakes
A long time idea. Will it work in the real world?Intelligent MachinesMachine-Learning Algorithm Predicts Laboratory EarthquakesThe breakthrough has astonished...
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Looking at Amazon and Walmart Supply Chains
Some useful data and visuals on the topic, at the link below.First Thoughts by Dan Gilmore Editor Supply Chain DigestSupply Chain News: Walmart and AmazonOur...
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Coding Their Own
Via CACM. Implications about, but this still does not mean we have machines building their own yet.Microsoft's AI Is Learning to Write Code by Itself, Not Steal...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: When Squid Evolved
Squid evolved during an "evolutionary war" -- the Mesozoic Marine Revolution -- about 100 million years ago. Research paper. As usual, you can also use this squid...
From Apophenia
Failing to See, Fueling Hatred.
I was 19 years old when a some configuration of anonymous people came after me. They got access to my email and shared some of the most sensitive messages on an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon's New AI Blog
Emphasizing AWS, of course. But from real experts in the field.Amazon's New AI Blog: " ... From computer vision systems for autonomous driving, to FDA-approved...
From Schneier on Security
Me at the RSA Conference
This is my talk at the RSA Conference last month. It's on regulation and the Internet of Things, along the lines of this essay. I am slowly meandering around this...
From insideHPC
PEARC17 Extends Technical Paper Submission Deadline to March 13
Today the PEARC17 conference extended their Technical Paper Submission Deadline to March 13, 2017. Formerly known as the XSEDE Conference, PEARC17 will take place...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog