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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 Writing
Why we use Terraform and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation
If you search the Internet for infrastructure-as-code (IAC), its pretty easy to come up with a list of the most popular tools: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
KM World
Was recently re-introduced. http://www.kmworld.com/ Had read it for years, but not recently.KMWorld is the leading publisher, conference organizer, and information...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Creeping Model Of Computation
Local rules can achieve global behavior Sarah Cannon is a current PhD student in our Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization program working with Dana Randall...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why and How is Watson a Cognitive System?
Jim Spohrer sends along a link to a talk by Rob High, IBM Chief Technology Officer, Fellow and Vice President, Does a good job of discussing why Watson is cognitive...
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High Cost of eFullfillment
In particular an interesting example, because I buy Tide Pods via Amazon Dash. " ... Supply Chain Digest ... Supply Chain News BitesSupply Chain Graphic of the...
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Robots and Assistants Will Replace Tasks in Jobs
This is obvious. Jobs are a set of tasks. Tasks are what are replaced. Course it can often mean that they will do the job faster and better, needing fewer people...
From insideHPC
SGI and ANSYS Achieve New World Record in HPC
Over at the ANSYS Blog, Tony DeVarco writes that the company worked with SGI to break a world record for HPC scalability. "Breaking last years 129,024 core record...
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Phi Boosts Supercomputing at NCI in Australia
The National Computational Infrastructure in Canberra, Australias national advanced computing facility, is the first Australian institution to deploy the latest...
From Putting People First
Three new reports on behavioural science applied to policy making
European Commission There is growing recognition that behavioural insights (BIs) by shedding light on how people actually make choices help deliver more effective...
From Writing
A Comprehensive Guide to Terraform
Today, we are kicking off a series of blog posts on how to define and manage infrastructure-as-code in the real world using Terraform. If you havent used it before...
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Some of My Niceness Role Models
Yesterday my friend Grzegorz asked me if I knew how to prevent promising students from becoming "brilliant jerks," and I opened up this question to the Internet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Algorithmic Merchandising
In the Gartner blog: On algorithmic merchandising. Good thoughts in the importance of data, process and analysis used with more concise and repeatable algorithmic...
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Five Technologies for the Next Ten Years
McKinsey does a good job of explaining, in a non-technical way, why these technologies will be important. Provides a sketch in oil and gas of how they can be used...
From insideHPC
Video: Using HPC to build Clean Energy Technologies
Maria Chan from NST presented this talk at Argonne Out Loud. "People eagerly anticipate environmental benefits from advances in clean energy technologies, suchVideo...
From insideHPC
Call for Proposals: Fortissimo Project
The European Fortissimo Project has issued its Second Call for Proposals. Fortissimo is a collaborative project that enables European SMEs to be more competitive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use of Techniques by Data Scientists
In KDNuggets, summary of a poll done with data scientists. Indicating the use of techniques by practitioners. Not too surprising. Much more detail about the...
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Algorithmic Retailing
Gartner on Algorithmic retailing. Pretty broad view. I assume this is for particular parts of the business where process can be defined? I don't have a Gartner...
From Phys.org Technology News
MH370 wreckage hunter won't give up until mystery solved
The fedora, the bomber jacket and the consuming quest invite comparisons to Indiana Jones. Blaine Gibson, though, hasn't matched the film hero's triumph in finding...
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Procurement Analytics
A favorite topic, see previous posts below.Includes a link to an eBook. In O'Reilly:Advancing Procurement AnalyticsLearn how your company can significantly improve...
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