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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
BSC Lays out European RETHINK Big Roadmap
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center presented a big data roadmap that it has coordinated on behalf of the European Commission. As part of the RETHINK BigBSC...
From insideHPC
Power8 Systems with NVLink Come to Nimbix HPC Cloud
Today’s emerging workloads like machine and deep learning, artificial intelligence, accelerated databases, and high performance data analytics require incredible...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Khan Academy on Virtual Cameras
An introduction to virtual cameras. How they use them to teach. With influences by Pixar and others. See also, Pixar in a Box.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Survey of Data Visualization Tools
Just discovered from From DSC. Nicely done with many things I have not seen.A Visual directory of 339 tools. Posted by Laetitia Van Cauwenberge Fantastic resource...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bots Fighting Online
The Growing Problem of Bots That Fight OnlineThe way software agents interact on the Web is poorly understood. Now evidence shows that they fight each other for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combining Machine Learning and Game Theory
With an unusual application. In the CACM: " ... Technology that integrates machine learning and game theory, called Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security...
From Schneier on Security
Credit Cards with Changing CVVs
There's a new French credit card where the CVV code changes every hour....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Virtual Reality in Education–Sooner or Later?
There is a lot of excitement about virtual reality and the prospects of it changing education. Everything from Google Cardboard (on the low end of cost and ease...
From Writing
How to create reusable infrastructure with Terraform modules
In Part 1 of the Comprehensive Guide to Terraform series, we explained why we picked Terraform as our IAC tool of choice and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BlockChain for Supply Chain
In CWorld: " .... A massive DDOS attack and weaknesses in critical systems have put security concerns front and center in the internet of things. IBM thinks a technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assistant and Integrated Device Announcement
Notes on Today's Google Pixel Phone and related announcements. In particular I am interested in how these will work in conjunction with Google's AI developments...
From Schneier on Security
Is WhatsApp Hacked?
Forbes is reporting that the Israeli cyberweapons arms manufacturer Wintego has a man-in-the-middle exploit against WhatsApp. It's a weird story. I'm not sure how...
From insideHPC
Video: Sustainable High-Performance Computing through Data Science
Ozalp Babaoglu from the University of Bologna presented this Google Talk. "At exascale, failures and errors will be frequent, with many instances occurring daily...
From Computational Complexity
A Second Order Statement true in (R,+) but not (Q,+)
In my last post I asked Is there a first order statement true in (R,+) but false in (Q,+) Is there a second order statement true in (R,+) but false in (Q,+) ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft on Democratizing AI
More on Microsoft pulling together their AI skills ... A detailed piece. About Democratizing AI? From what I have seen this is more about enterprises using...
From insideHPC
ORNL Creates Programming System for NVM Main Memory Systems
Researchers at the Future Technologies Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a novel programming system that extends C with intuitive, language...
From insideHPC
CSIRO Deploys NVIDIA DGX-1 Deep Learning Supercomputers Down Under
Today NVIDIA announced APAC's first deployment of NVIDIA DGX-1 deep learning supercomputers CSIRO in Australia. "There is a growing interest from research groups...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Global City Teams Challenge SuperClusters and Kickoff Event
The Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC), a collaborative platform uniting local governments, nonprofits, academia, and industry working on Internet of Things (IoT)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New and Noteworthy in IFTTT
New channels and recipes in IFTTT. Construct your own. I continue to follow this way of easily constructing simple logic into streams of data for everyday and...
From insideHPC