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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
EPA Joins National Consortium for Data Science
"The work we do involves capturing and analyzing huge environmental data sets so that the government can make informed policy decisions that protect humans andEPA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Marketing Blog
Just discovered this blog 'for practical shopper marketing'. Some useful thoughts about the topic. We did not agree with the premise, but treated the problem as...
From insideHPC
Latest NAG Numerical Library Adds Optimization Modeling Suite
Today the Numerical Algorithms Group announces the latest version of its flagship software, the NAG Library, Mark 26. In this release, NAG has introduced an Optimization...
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: ISC 2017 in Frankfurt
"ISC High Performance 2017 is now open to a number of submission opportunities. Whether your interest lies in research posters, project posters, birds-of-a-feather...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Networks and Complex Reasoning
Beyond just recognition, on to recognizing and reasoning. Like to see this in a business context that includes complex quant optimization. Some of our own experiences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Executives and Behavioral Science
Good post, makes sense, but always test the assumptions and the operational results.Why executives should be interested in behavioural science by John Aves In...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dealing with Very Large Networks
Architectures and size. With some lessons from Google:" ... I’m pretty sure that you would agree with me if I told you that your enterprise network will just...
From insideHPC
A New Generation of Performance with Intel Xeon Phi
"With up to 72 out-of-order cores, the new Intel Xeon Phi processor delivers over 3 teraFLOPS (floating-point operations per second) of double-precision peak while...
From Computational Complexity
Alternate Histories
Imagine if we had a machine that let us change some earlier moment in history and see what developed. We wouldn't actually change history--that would lead to paradoxes...
From Schneier on Security
President Obama Talks About AI Risk, Cybersecurity, and More
Interesting interview: Obama: Traditionally, when we think about security and protecting ourselves, we think in terms of armor or walls. Increasingly, I find myself...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Salesforce Acquisitions for Data and Analytics
Interesting list, speculation of course, but the whys are interesting. In particular for companies that already deal with large amounts of data, its acquisition...
From Schneier on Security
Bypassing Intel's ASLR
Researchers discover a clever attack that bypasses the address space layout randomization (ALSR) on Intel's CPUs. Here's the paper. It discusses several possible...
From insideHPC
Seagate HPC User Forum Coming to SC16
The 3rd Annual Seagate HPC User Forum is coming to SC16 on Nov. 17. "We’re venturing well beyond legacy boundaries. Are you confused about the real future of HPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changes in the Rules of Retailing
In Knowledge@Wharton:How Target and Amazon Are Changing the Rules of RetailingWharton's Peter Fader and Syracuse's Amanda Nicholson discuss recent moves by Target...
From insideHPC
Apply Now for ISC 2017 Student Cluster Competition
Attention students: there is still time to enter your team into the ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition. As part of the ISC 2017 conference, the Student Cluster...
From insideHPC
Dell EMC Isilon Goes All-Flash for Unstructured Data
Today Dell EMC announced a new member of the Dell EMC Isilon product family. Designed around an all-flash, the Isilon scale-out family of NAS storage is designed...
From insideHPC
Simulating Jellyfish Blooms to Protect Coastal Power Stations
Scientists at the University of Bristol are working with the energy industry to develop an 'early warning tool' to predict jellyfish blooms that can cause serious...
From CERIAS Blog
It Was A Good Monday
Mondays. There are many reasons Monday have a bad reputation. Few of us would claim to like Mondays. My Monday earlier this week got off to a poor start. I wasKristian...
From CERIAS Blog
It Was A Good Monday
Mondays. There are many reasons Monday have a bad reputation. Few of us would claim to like Mondays. My Monday earlier this week got off to a poor start. I wasKristian...
From The Eponymous Pickle