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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
Selecting Forecasting Methods
Good, not too technical piece in DSC, on the basic elements of forecasting ....Selecting Forecasting Methods in Data SciencePosted by Kamala Kanta Mishra We are...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Storj Blockchain Technology in Cloud
In this podcast, Radio Free HPC looks at a Startup called Storj, which will pay you to use your excess data capacity as cloud-based storage based on BlockchainRadio...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fuel Measurement and Security
A big area of security and measurement, could have considerable value ...RFID-enabled Fuel-Monitoring System Connects to the Internet of ThingsCustomers in multiple...
From Schneier on Security
A Survey of Propaganda
This is an excellent survey article on modern propaganda techniques, how they work, and how we might defend ourselves against them. Cory Doctorow summarizes the...
From Computational Complexity
Should we learn from the Masters or the Pupils (Sequel)
A while back I had a blog entry Should we learn from the Masters of the Pupils? The Masters may have more insights but he Pupils may have a better view aided by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do Solution Order Analytics
When I first read the below I did not understand the '2nd order' aspects, but then I thought, well yes .... it has to be applied. Like that the application is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moto Z Phone Embeds Alexa Capability
No experience with this kind of phone and capability. But an interesting further integration. Can we expect more of this to compete with other phone systems?We...
From Geeking with Greg
More quick links
Some of the tech news I found interesting lately, and you might too: "In addition to making our systems more intelligent, we have to make them more intelligible...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: EuroMPI/USA 2017 in Chicago
"EuroMPI/USA 2017 will continue to focus on not just MPI, but also extensions or alternative interfaces for high-performance homogeneous/heterogeneous/hybrid systems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Activity of Editing Bots on the Wikipedia
Do we understand the 'social' aspects of competing bots? In this case bots that are left to their own directives. You might think such examples have obscure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Liability and the Self Driving Car
In the CACM, about the process of self driving, and how that links to specific liability.Here's Why Self-Driving Cars May Never Really Be Self-DrivingBy Computerworld...
From insideHPC
The REX Neo: An Energy Efficient New Processor Architecture
"With a team of four and less than $2 million, REX has taken a design concept to reality in under a year with a 16 core processor manufactured on a modern TSMCThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sin Taxes and Behavioral Economics
Do sin taxes change consumer behavior? In Knowledge@Wharton. An example of Behavioral Economics. Can the results be simulated, used to directly predict...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Hololens Update
From Microsoft. An update with some impressive visuals. Still mostly very specialized things, still looking for some very breakthrough applications in typical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google AI in Game Play
Intriguing example, like the interaction of intelligence and gamesGoogle's new AI has learned to become 'highly aggressive' in stressful situations ScienceAlertBec...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: HPEC 2017 in Waltham
The IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC 2017) has issued its Call for Papers. The conference takes place September 12-14 in Waltham, MA. "HPEC...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Cybersecurity Challenges in a World of AI
“From home assistants like the Amazon Echo to Google’s self-driving cars, artificial intelligence is slowly creeping into our lives. These new technologies could...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Authorization
I have not any issues like this, but it makes sense. Even better would be the abiity to differentiate between household members. No current assistant does this...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Short Story
A short SF story in a tweet. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Schneier on Security