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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
Hololens App Reviews
Brought to my attention. Still trying to understand good example practical applications for virtual reality. The examples include the Schipol Flight ControlMicrosoft...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple AI Research for Creating Simulated Training
Interesting premise, to use simulation to produce training sets, a kind of gamification. We did something similar by simulating forward alternative choices inApple...
From insideHPC
Video: The Materials Project – A Google of Materials
"The Materials Project is harnessing the power of supercomputing together with state-of-the-art quantum mechanical theory to compute the properties of all known...
From Phys.org Technology News
Museum getting a massive geodesic dome with 61 glass eyes
A massive geodesic dome with 61 glass eyes is coming to Arkansas' Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
From Computational Complexity
Complexity Year in Review 2016
Paper of the year goes to A Discrete and Bounded Envy-Free Cake Cutting Protocol for Any Number of Agents by Haris Aziz and Simon Mackenzie. Might not seem like...
From Schneier on Security
Effects of the 2011 DigiNotar Attack
Nice article on the 2011 DigiNotar attack and how it changed security practices in the CA industry....
From Phys.org Technology News
Alexa a witness to murder? Prosecutors seek Amazon Echo data
Authorities investigating the death of an Arkansas man whose body was found in a hot tub want to expand the probe to include a new kind of evidence: any comments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Engineers vs Data Scientists
Its more about how data engineering than it is about data science. Science primarily involves discovering first principles, while engineering involves the useA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exponential Laws of Computing Growth
CACM VideoExponential Laws of Computing GrowthAuthors Peter J. Denning and Ted G. Lewis discuss "Exponential Laws of Computing Growth" (cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017...
From insideHPC
Building for the Future Aurora Supercomputer at Argonne
"Argonne National Labs has created a process to assist in moving large applications to a new system. Their current HPC system, Mira will give way to the next generation...
From insideHPC
Pointwise Adds Script Language Support for CFD Mesh Generation
Today Pointwise announced that the latest release of their CFD mesh generation software has been extended such that its Tcl-based Glyph scripting language can be...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Dealing with Infrastructure Disruption: IoT Security
Congress should incentivize universities and industry to partner to build security into Internet of Things (IoT) devices by design. The post Dealing with Infrastructure...
From insideHPC
IDC: Worldwide HPC Server Revenue Grows 3.9% in Third Quarter
IDC is out with their latest Worldwide High-Performance Technical Server QView report. The QView presents the HPC market from various perspectives, including by...
From insideHPC
Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems
"This talk reviews the history of the changing balances between computation, memory latency, and memory bandwidth in deployed HPC systems, then discusses how the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GPS Navigation in Tunnels
Navigation via Waze, but only in tunnels with Waze beacon support. " .... Waze worked with Bluvision to create custom beacon hardware designed to suit moving...
From insideHPC
Artificial Intelligence Becomes More Accessible
With the advent of heterogeneous computing systems that combine both main CPUs and connected processors that can ingest and process tremendous amounts of data and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Solving the Complex Subtasks
Good example of how, by breaking up complex sub tasks, you can perform difficult goals. We, as humans, don't have to 'solve' the problem of sight every time we...
From Schneier on Security
How Signal Is Evading Censorship
Signal, the encrypted messaging app I prefer, is being blocked in both Egypt and the UAE. Recently, the Signal team developed a workaround: domain fronting. Signal's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Spreads AI to all Phone Apps?
Interesting claim here, what exactly it means is unclear. I remain skeptical about Samsung software, send me a demo of some sort and I will report on experience...
From insideHPC