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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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Space Kraken
A Lego model of a giant space kraken destroying a Destroyer from Star Wars. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Weapons of Math Destruction?
More on biases of algorithms. Inevitable, and will require new kinds of transparency that require deep contextual expertise. Only governments and big tech enabled...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When But It Works Isnt Enough
I saw this image on Twitter recently. It was captioned: "Spaces or tabs?""Semicolons." Its all perfectly legal C or C++ code. And a decent compiler will handle...
From insideHPC
Cadence and TSMC Advance Towards 7nm FinFET Designs
Today Cadence Design Systems announced several important deliveries in its collaboration with TSMC to advance 7nm FinFET designs for mobile and high-performance...
From insideHPC
DDN User Group Coming to SC16 Nov. 14
The DDN User Group meeting is returning to Salt Lake City for SC16. The meeting takes place Monday, Nov. 14 from 2pm-6pm at the Radisson Hotel near the convention...
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Question: "Correcting brilliant students"
A question for all of you.-- from: Grzegorz Kossakowski to: Jean date: Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:51 AM subject: Correcting brilliant students Hi Jean, I...
From insideHPC
Larry Smarr Presents: 50 Years of Supercomputing
Larry Smarr presented this talk as part of NCSA's 30th Anniversary Celebration. "For the last thirty years, NCSA has played a critical role in bringing computational...
From insideHPC
Minimal Metrics Releases PerfMiner Parallel Optimization Tool
This week Minimal Metrics announced an early-adopter program, which uses lightweight, and pervasive performance data collection technology, automates its collection...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inspired by the Architecture of Neural Networks
Why does machine learning work? And I would add, what does 'work' mean?A look into the mysterious world of neural nets, which are not new, we used them for practical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Practical AI Systems
Video from O'Reilly, requires basic registration.Building practical AI systemsAs a technical founder at Siri, Sentient, and Viv Labs, Adam Cheyer has helped design...
From insideHPC
Video: Cycle Cloud Works with Dell to Deliver More Science for More Users
In this this video from ISC 2016, Tim Carroll describes how Cycle Computing is working with Dell Technologies to deliver more science for more users. Cycle Computings...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Only Humans Need Apply
Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines Hardcover May 24, 2016 by Thomas H. Davenport (Author), Julia Kirby (Author). They write...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watch Gets the Voice of Echo Alexa
Moving generalized intelligence into multiple kinds of hardware.Review: The CoWatch -- a smartwatch with the voice of Alexa ... With solid hardware design, an Android...
From Schneier on Security
Amtrak Security Awareness
I like this Amtrak security awareness campaign. Especially the use of my term "security theater."...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Image Captioning by Tensorflow is Now Open Source
I have mentioned before this is a problem we addressed for several AI oriented applications. We called it 'image recognition'. Now the general solution is open...
From Computational Complexity
Boris Trakhtenbrot (1921-2016)
I woke up this morning to two pieces of news. Subhash Khot has just been named a MacArthur Fellow, the "genius" award, for his work on unique games. But I also ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Bug Reports
I saw the following tweet earlier today. Still earlier in the day I read a post on Mark Guzdials blog about Barriers to Stack Overflow Use for Females which had...
From insideHPC
Volkswagen Moves HPC Workloads to Verne Global in Iceland
Today Verne Global announced Volkswagen is moving more than 1 MW of high performance computing applications to the companys datacenter in Iceland. The company will...
From insideHPC