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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming vs. Computer Science
Programming is not the same thing as computer science. But of course they are related. For example, knowing how to use the following arrays is programming. Knowing...
From insideHPC
RSC Tornado Breaks Record with 1.41 Petaflops per Rack
Today Russia's RSC Group announced that the company has achieved a record compute density of 1.41 Pflops per rack using direct liquid cooling and Intel Xeon Phi...
From insideHPC
Video: PASC17 Conference Seeks Papers, Minisymposia, and Posters
In this video, Jeff Hollingsworth from SIGHPC and Michele De Lorenzi from CSCS invite you to submit papers, minisymposia proposals and posters to the PASC17 Conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking about Business Process as Recipes
Finally got a chance to look in detail at the Allrecipe skill in Amazon's Echo Alexa. This lets you voice search 60K+ recipes and then have them recited step by...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
Some of the tech news I found interesting lately, and you might too. Heavy on the comics this time to lighten the mood: Jeff Bezos: "Good leaders ... seek to disconfirm...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technological Change: Harvey Nash Tech Report
To register for the entire report. Fascinating piece by a participant. Links to my recent Columbia course on managing change, this is part of that change. Almost...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Striped Pyjama Squid
Here's a nice picture of one of the few known poisonous squids. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts on Simplifying Innovation
In Innovation Excellence, some interesting and simple thoughts about getting to real innovation. The Tesla of Bikes Got a Brilliant Idea by Gijs van Wulfen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Questions to Ask Your Data Scientists
(And questions they should ask you) Crucially this is not about recruiting, but to make sure you are managing them to get value from proposed solutions. Management...
From insideHPC
Japan to Build 130 Petaflop ABCI Supercomputer
Today Japan announced plans to build a 130 Petaflop supercomputer for deployment in 2017. Such a machine would surpass the 93 Petaflop Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer...
From insideHPC
Podcast: John McCalpin Surveys HPC System Memory Bandwidth
"In the long run, if you need orders of magnitude more bandwidth than is currently available there’s a set of technologies that are sometimes referred to as processor...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking and the 2016 Presidential Election
Was the 2016 presidential election hacked? It's hard to tell. There were no obvious hacks on Election Day, but new reports have raised the question of whether voting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Red 212 Content Strategy Agency
Brought to my attention: Red212: A Content Strategy Agency" ... Red212 was founded on the idea that business can be a powerful force for change. We are a full...
From Mostafa Dehghani
Internship at Google Research
I've started a four-months internship at Google Research \o/. I am working on Natural Language Generation using Neural Computational Models, with Aliaksei Severyn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Wikipedia Visible
Intriguing challenge is how to make any data usefully visual. Quant data has well established ways. Database structures have semantic networks. Here is linking...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Thanks
Theorems and Proofs—which are more important? src Ken and I wish to thank all who read and follow us. May you have a wonderful day today all day. But we would like...
From insideHPC
BSC Paper: Scale-in on Large-memory Nodes to Save Energy
Researchers from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center have received the award for Best Paper of the MEMSYS 2016 conference. "This study confirms that improvements...
From insideHPC
Full Rundown of SC16 Stats, World Records, and Awards
The numbers are in for SC16, the international supercomputing conference that wrapped up last week in Salt Lake City. The conference drew more than 11,100 registered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Has an Echo-like Device
The basic idea continues to spread in the Smart Home. I am continuing to test the Google Home in a formerly Echo environment. See my curated list of assistants...
From The Eponymous Pickle