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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
New ReRAM Memory Can Process Data Where it Lives
A team of international scientists have found a way to make memory chips perform computing tasks, which is traditionally done by computer processors like thoseNew...
From Computational Complexity
Learning About Learning
Yesterday Scott Aaronson released his sweeping new P v NP survey. Babai gave an update on graph isomorphism, in short while he still has the first subexponential...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Brands Leveraging Foundational AI
Good overview, nothing very unexpected. Starbucks, IBM, Amazon, Lowes and Cosabella are highlighted. Following these for years. More about what is being done...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA Spot Extends Google Home
One of the challenges for smart home assistants is to extend their functionality throughout the home efficiently, as part of a single service. NVIDIA has now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
2017 CES Wired Live Blog
Used to attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for the enterprise, tracking technology applications. Now watch it much more comfortably from my desk and don't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mercedes Silicon Valley Research Center
Excerpt. Mercedes is known for interesting work, see the tag below for more posts on them. Considering the volume of data involvedInside Mercedes' Silicon Valley...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptographic Capabilities of the Barbie Typewriter
They're not much, but they do exist....
From ACM on Huffington Post
EMV Credit Card Chips: No Silver Bullet, but a Significant Step Forward in Fraud Reduction
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Babai’s Result: Still a Breakthrough
Even after today’s retraction of quasi-polynomial time for graph isomorphism Cropped from source László Babai is famous for many things, and has made many seminal...
From Schneier on Security
An SQL Injection Attack Is a Legal Company Name in the UK
Someone just registered their company name as ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD. Reddit thread. Obligatory xkcd comic....
From The Eponymous Pickle
LG's Announces Hub Robot Assistant
Note this uses Alexa's Voice recognition. Another embedding example.LG's new robot helpers are cute and friendly AF by Karissa BellThe Korean company showcased...
From insideHPC
New Site Lists all Comparable Features from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Are you shopping for Public Cloud services? A new Public Cloud Services Comparison site gives a service & feature level mapping between the 3 major public clouds...
From insideHPC
a16z Podcast Looks at Artificial Intelligence and the Space of Possible Minds
In this a16z Podcast, Murray Shanahan, Azeem Azhar, and Tom Standage discuss the past, present, and future of A.I. as well as how it fits (or doesn’t fit) witha16z...
From insideHPC
Video: Azure High Performance Computing
"Run your Windows and Linux HPC applications using high performance A8 and A9 compute instances on Azure, and take advantage of a backend network with MPI latency...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Alexa at Consumer Electronics Show
Most interesting is that Alexa continues to be embedded into a number of systems. Amazon does not want to be in the business of selling echo branded boxes, but...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- BigGIS: A Continuous Refinement Approach to Master Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Spatio-Temporal Big Data
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Patrick Wiener from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. Wiener along with his coauthors Manuel Stein and Daniel...
From insideHPC
Parallel Multiway Methods for Compression of Massive Data and Other Applications
"Scientists are drowning in data. The scientific data produced by high-fidelity simulations and high-precision experiments are far too massive to store. For instance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving the Value of Data Science
Of interest, taught aspects of this at my recent Columbia Course. The PDF below is very visual and largely non-technical. Worth a look.Optimizing the Effectiveness...
From insideHPC
HPC Networking Trends in the TOP500
The TOP500 list is a very good proxy for how different interconnect technologies are being adopted for the most demanding workloads, which is a useful leading indicator...
From The Eponymous Pickle