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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Can Swift code call C code without overhead?
Swift is the latest hot new language from Apple. It is becoming the standard programming language on Apple systems. I complained in a previous post that Swift 3...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Myths About Machine Learning
A number of useful points are embedded here. Useful to know these objections, since they will be brought up by thoughtful management. I am not sure I would call...
From insideHPC
Video: Analysis of SSDs on SGI UV 300
Nikos Trikoupis from the City University of New York gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "We focus on measuring the aggregate throughput delivered by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tom Davenport on the Four Eras of Analytics
Tom Davenport gave this talk to our Columbia University Adjunct group for the School of Professional Studies, recording below. He also mentions me and some ofhttp...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Purdue Exploratory Systems Lab
Purdue's Exploratory Systems Lab. Talk Given Today: Mohammad Sadoghi “ExpoDB: An Exploratory Data Science Platform” ... " ... Insight is lost in islands of data...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Adds Remote Desktop Collaboration to Scyld Cloud Workstation
Today Penguin Computing announced Scyld Cloud Workstation 3.0, a 3D-accelerated remote desktop solution which provides true multi-user remote desktop collaboration...
From insideHPC
SC16 Plenary Session to Focus on HPC and Precision Medicine
SC16 will continue its HPC Matters Plenary session series this year with a panel discussion on HPC and Precision Medicine. "The success of all of these research...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
World’s Largest Technology Companies Create Historic Partnership on AI
This is a guest blog post by Greg Hager, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Past Chair and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University...
From insideHPC
Accelerating Finite Element Analysis with Intel Xeon Phi
With the introduction of the Intel Scalable System Framework, the Intel Xeon Phi processor can speed up Finite Element Analysis significantly. Using highly tuned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electronic Tongue Tastes Wine
An area we explored on the coffee blending business. Was still very primitive in capabilities at the time. Some advances are seen here. How can resulting data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Learning for Process Intelligence
Nvidia blog writes about deep learning and reinforcement learning with examples. Once again, I like considering the approach because it can have similarities to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Partnership on AI
Newly formed, The Partnership on AI: (could use a snappier name)" ... Established to study and formulate best practices on AI technologies, to advance the public...
From Schneier on Security
The Cost of Cyberattacks Is Less than You Might Think
Interesting research from Sasha Romanosky at RAND: Abstract: In 2013, the US President signed an executive order designed to help secure the nation's critical infrastructure...
From Writing
An Introduction to Terraform
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
Heat Mapping in Brick and Mortar
An approach we used widely in our laboratory. A kind of augmented pictured reality to show changes in context that is very effective. Good to animate in theIn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ohio Supercomputing Center
I was reminded of the Ohio Supercomputing Center, and their blog.Notable is AweSim:Manufacturing modeling and data analytics collaboration: What does the future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Still Loves Facebook
In Adage: P&G, GM and Facebook Agree: Big Is Beautiful By Jack Neff.Facebook has drawn unwanted scrutiny of late over how it counts video viewership and the usefulness...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and Customer Loyalty
Integrating data and linking it to real business process is always key:How Data Integration and MachineLearning Improve Customer Loyalty - Part 1 and Part 2 By...
From insideHPC
E4 Computer Engineering Rolls Out GPU-accelerated OpenPOWER server
Today Italy’s E4 Computer Engineering announced generalavailability of the E4OP206, a GPU-accelerated OpenPOWER system designed to propel deep learning, artificial...
From insideHPC