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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
Non Gaming VR
Continue to look for practically oriented VR applications, here a video:8i Is Trying To Bring Virtual Reality Out Of The Gaming World
From insideHPC
Podcast: Do It Yourself Deep Learning
In this AI Podcast, Bob Bond from Nvidia and Mike Senese from Make magazine discuss the Do It Yourself movement for Artificial Intelligence. "Deep learning isn't...
From insideHPC
Video: Advances and Challenges in Wildland Fire Monitoring and Prediction
Janice Coen from NCAR gave this Invited Talk at SC16. "The past two decades have seen the infusion of technology that has transformed the understanding, observation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Room in Your Brain
Note quite so practically precise, but a a more general idea, A maintenance idea, in FastCompany:Your Brain Has A "Delete" Button—Here's How To Use ItThis is the...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Will Fish and Chips Become Squid and Chips?
BBC.com reports that squid are proliferating around the North Sea, and speculates that they will become an increasingly common British dinner. As usual, you can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Age
Applying artificial intelligence to age predictionArtificial intelligence is amazing. And even more so when it is applied to a problem in the real world. Insilico...
From insideHPC
The Fesitvus Airing of Grievances from Radio Free HPC
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team honors the Festivus tradition of the annual Airing of Grievances. Our random gripes include: the need for a better HPCThe...
From insideHPC
SAGE Project Looks to Percipient Storage for Exascale
"The SAGE project, which incorporates research and innovation in hardware and enabling software, will significantly improve the performance of data I/O and enable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Processes as Platforms
Always interesting Michael Schrage makes some good points in the HBR. Thinking of examples of implementing this. We were always interested in improving, evenInstead...
From insideHPC
Thomas Sterling Presents: HPC Runtime System Software for Asynchronous Multi-Tasking
Thomas Sterling presented this Invited Talk at SC16. "Increasing sophistication of application program domains combined with expanding scale and complexity of HPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forget the Glasses
You have probably not noticed, the Pokeman Go phenomenon is off the news, but it is still here. IEEE Spectrum reports that the broad concept is still rumbling....
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Overview of GE Predix
Largely nontechnical overview, rather than a review of Predix as a platform. . Prompted me to take another look. I was an early tester. GE is a big part of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scientists using Slack
And other messaging tools. My own experience is that most people that are balancing multiple real time, multiple participant tasks use messaging tools. MoreIn...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Can your C compiler vectorize a scalar product?
If you have spent any time at all on college-level mathematics, you have probably heard of the scalar product: float scalarproduct(float * array1, float * array2...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back on CS Education in 2016
I started 2016 with a post called Computer Science Education Things to Watch in 2016. It's time to look back and write about what I think I saw over the year. My...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Watson Analytics Add-Ons
New in Watson Analytics. Will take a closer look.Four additional capabilities satisfy your appetite for more. You’ll be discovering insights like a champ in no...
From insideHPC
Nor-Tech Rolls Out HPC Clusters Integrated with Abaqus 2017
Today Nor-Tech announced that it is now integrating the latest release of simulation platform Abaqus into its leading-edge HPC clusters. "We have been working with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Ads as Conversation
So what is a Watson Ad? Its more like an intelligent brand conversation. Like the idea, taking a closer look. Any experiences out there? The Weather Company...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Wins the Holidays. Implications?
Saw some of this effect myself, got many questions about the Amazon Alexa device, and its comparison to the also heavily advertised Google Home, which I am also...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP