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Why I Don't Believe in ET

Is there life on other planets? The naive answer is "of course, why should Earth be special." What makes a lottery winner special? We could have just won the life...

Robots in the Retail Aisle at Lowe's
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots in the Retail Aisle at Lowe's

Lowes has long been a great experimenter in technology space.  But what has lasted?   Naturally, since it needs expertise to be delivered in a very complex aisle...

MIT on Data Science and Statistics
From The Eponymous Pickle

MIT on Data Science and Statistics

Have been involved in something similar, so this is an interesting approach.    I like the emphasis on decisions as opposed to broad scoping on the alleged 'magic'...

The Future of AI: CCC’s Response to OSTP RFI
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

The Future of AI: CCC’s Response to OSTP RFI

Contributions to this post were made by Greg Hager, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Past Chair and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns...

Video: The ECP Exascale Computing Project
From insideHPC

Video: The ECP Exascale Computing Project

Paul Messina presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is a collaborative effort of the Office of Science (DOE...

Driver dies as Tesla slams into tree in central Dutch town
From Phys.org Technology News

Driver dies as Tesla slams into tree in central Dutch town

The 53-year-old driver of a Tesla Model S electric car died Wednesday when the vehicle smashed into a tree in the central Dutch town of Baarn and burst into flames...

Most Important Skill: Problem Solving
From The Eponymous Pickle

Most Important Skill: Problem Solving

Not know the latest code or algorithms, just solve the problem.   In the simplest way possible.  If you can just test solution X easily, just test X!   So true....

Deep Learning for Chatbots Part II
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Learning for Chatbots Part II

More about Chatbots in KDNuggets.     " .... Check out part 2 of this tutorial on building chatbots with deep neural networks. This part gets practical, and using...

It’s “Day 1” for Dell Technologies with New Branding
From insideHPC

It’s “Day 1” for Dell Technologies with New Branding

Today Dell Technologies announced completion of the acquisition of EMC Corporation, creating a unique family of businesses that provides the essential infrastructure...

Mapbox Intelligent Geospatial
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mapbox Intelligent Geospatial

 Yes, can see this as a considerable leverage point.  That companies like Twitter and Google are already reaping.   Discussion in Linkedin.With Mapbox Deal, IBM...

Service Innovation Professionals
From The Eponymous Pickle

Service Innovation Professionals

Lots of good information coming out of this group.    See the link to their archive of talks.   Innovation and delivering the details is key:The International Society...

Network Co-design as a Gateway to Exascale
From insideHPC

Network Co-design as a Gateway to Exascale

Achieving better scalability and performance at Exascale will require full data reach. Without this capability, onload architectures force all data to move to the...

Berkeley Lab to Develop Key Applications for ECP Exascale Computing Project
From insideHPC

Berkeley Lab to Develop Key Applications for ECP Exascale Computing Project

Today Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced that LBNL scientists will lead or play key roles in developing 11 critical research applications for next-generation...

Video: IDC HPC Market Update
From insideHPC

Video: IDC HPC Market Update

Earl Joseph presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "HPC is still expected to be a strong growth market going forward. IDC is forecasting a 7.7 percent...

New regulations curb use of drones in Poland
From Phys.org Technology News

New regulations curb use of drones in Poland

New aviation regulations have taken effect in Poland to limit the flying of drones in populated areas and to require identification plates on drones used for professional...

Car sharing on campuses improves quality of life, takes cars off the road
From Phys.org Technology News

Car sharing on campuses improves quality of life, takes cars off the road

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out why UC Berkeley has designated parking areas for Nobel Laureates: if there's one thing harder to snag than...

Fighting crime at the intersection of science and social justice
From Phys.org Technology News

Fighting crime at the intersection of science and social justice

During the past decade, law enforcement agencies across the country have confronted the alarming trend of sex trafficking. The crimes often take place in hotel...

Univa Joins up with Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance
From insideHPC

Univa Joins up with Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance

"Aligning ourselves with an organization like Microsoft further supports our mission of enabling companies to manage their application workloads whether on-premise...

Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Awards $39.8 million for Application Development
From insideHPC

Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Awards $39.8 million for Application Development

"These application development awards are a major first step toward achieving mission critical application readiness on the path to exascale,” said ECP director...

Talk by the Former Head of French SIGINT
From Schneier on Security

Talk by the Former Head of French SIGINT

For former head of French SIGINT gave a talk (removed from YouTube where he talked about a lot of things he probably shouldn't have. If anyone has 1) a transcript...
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