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From The Eponymous Pickle

Talk to Your Email With Notion

Started to look at a system called Notion AI that will allow you to listen to your emails on assistant systems. Here is a general description. And the site for... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 19, 2017 at 01:58 PM

From insideHPC

XGC Fusion Code Selected for all 3 Pre-exascale Supercomputers

When the DOE's pre-exascale supercomputers come online soon, all three will be running an optimized version of the XGC dynamic fusion code. Developed by a teamXGC... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 19, 2017 at 01:17 PM

From insideHPC

Adrian Cockcroft Presents: Shrinking Microservices to Functions

In this fascinating talk, Cockcroft describes how hardware networking has reshaped how services like Machine Learning are being developed rapidly in the cloud with... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 19, 2017 at 12:42 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

On CPG Supersized Deals

Having read about the proposed merger deal between Unilever and Kraft Heinz, and as the owner of CPG options, this article in Strategy-Business was of interest.... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 18, 2017 at 02:20 PM

From insideHPC

Call for Exhibitors: PASC17 in Lugano

Industry and academic institutions are invited to showcase their R&D at PASC17, an interdisciplinary event in high performance computing that brings together domain... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 18, 2017 at 12:11 PM

From insideHPC

Addison Snell Presents: HPC Computing Trends

Addison Snell presented this deck at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Intersect360 Research returns with an annual deep dive into the trends, technologies and usage... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 18, 2017 at 11:35 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

My Friend Cayla Doll Banned

The 'My Friend Cayla' doll was previously mentioned with regard to US COPPA law. Possible implications for other attentive listening assistants? In Engadget... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 18, 2017 at 09:38 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Block Chain for Food Safety

In Progressive Grocer: Previously mentioned.PG Web Extra: Walmart Adopts Blockchain TechnologyMega-retailer aims to improve fresh food safety, security By Jenny... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 18, 2017 at 08:54 AM

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

ACM Joint Task Force on Cybersecurity Education Grabs Spotlight at U.S. Congressional Hearing

The ACM Joint Task Force on Cybersecurity Education seized the spotlight during a congressional hearing on “Strengthening U.S. Cybersecurity Capabilities” on Capitol... Renee Dopplick, ACM Director of Public Policy
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | February 18, 2017 at 02:34 AM

From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: The Strawberry Squid's Lopsided Eyes

The evolutionary reasons why the strawberry squid has two different eyes. Additional articles. Original paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | February 17, 2017 at 05:03 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Snapshots of Digital Transformation

Instructive. In McKinsey: Three snapshots of digital transformationFinancial services, food retailing, and pharma are reinventing themselves in different ways.... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 17, 2017 at 04:53 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Tom Davenport Writings

Had a chat with author Tom Davenport, we have long been in touch in the Analytics and AI spaces. Here is a link to his recent writing. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 17, 2017 at 04:42 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Home Adds Big Retail Connects

Are the assistant's major goal to directly sell? Or prepare a new kind of channel for sales? How will this evolve? Discussion.Will Costco, Kohl’s, Target... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 17, 2017 at 12:28 PM

From insideHPC

Earlham Institute Moves HPC Workloads to Iceland

In this video, Dr Tim Stitt from the Earlham Institute describes why moving their HPC workload to Iceland made economic sense. Through the Verne Global datacenter... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 17, 2017 at 11:51 AM

From insideHPC

Asperitas Startup Brings Immersive Cooling to Datacenters

Today Dutch startup Asperitas rolled out Immersed Computing cooling technology for datacenters. "The company's first market ready solution, the AIC24, 'the first... staff
From insideHPC | February 17, 2017 at 11:08 AM

From insideHPC

DDN and Lustre to Power TSUBAME3.0 Supercomputer

"The IO infrastructure of TSUBAME3.0 combines fast in-node NVMe SSDs and a large, fast, Lustre-based system from DDN. The 15.9PB Lustre* parallel file system, composed... staff
From insideHPC | February 17, 2017 at 10:54 AM

From insideHPC

Pascal GPUs to Accelerate TSUBAME 3.0 Supercomputer at Tokyo Tech

"TSUBAME3.0 is expected to deliver more than two times the performance of its predecessor, TSUBAME2.5," writes Marc Hamilton from Nvidia. "It will use Pascal-based... staff
From insideHPC | February 17, 2017 at 10:03 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

An Advisory Hub for Health Care

An idea that we discussed in some detail, regarding advisory systems in health care. Using popular advisory systems? I like very much the idea of leveraging... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 17, 2017 at 09:57 AM

From insideHPC

Video: The Era of Self-Tuning Servers

"Servers today have hundreds of knobs that can be tuned for performance and energy efficiency. While some of these knobs can have a dramatic effect on these metrics... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 17, 2017 at 09:47 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

New Fingerprinting Techniques

In CIO Today: " .... The new tech makes it possible to establish a unique online fingerprint based not on browser features but on features of a user's operating... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 17, 2017 at 09:31 AM