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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
Are there too many people?
Without immigration, most developed countries would face massive depopulation. In fact, half the population of the Earth lives in countries with sub-replacement...
From insideHPC
The Challenges and Rewards of Stockpile Stewardship
Charles W. Nakhleh from LANL presented this talk at the 2016 DOE NNSA SSGF Annual Program Review. "This talk will explore some of the future opportunities and exciting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Computing Consortium
Very nicely done presentation we sponsored by Sue Feldman of the Cognitive Computing Consortium. In particular broadly covering what Cognitive Computing is,Their...
From insideHPC
SuperComputing Camp Returns to Colombia
Applications are now open for the annual SuperComputing Camp in Colombia. The five-day camp takes place Oct. 16-21 at CIBioFI at Universidad del Valle in Santiago...
From insideHPC
Powering Aircraft CFD with the Piz Daint Supercomputer
The Piz Daint supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is again assisting researchers in competition for the prestigious Gordon Bell prize...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Exhaust
Relatively new term as it relates to the data lake " ... There are no standard definitions or schemas for data exhaust, which tends to be raw and unstructured,...
From Putting People First
Great engine, but the fuel seems poor. Discussing insight development in corporate marketing
The September issue of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) contains a lengthy essay, entitled Building an Insights Engine, on how Unilever has created the organizational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kalman Filter Co-Inventor
Rudolf Kalman, inventor of the ubiquitous filter of the same name, died recently at the age of 86. Out of MIT and Columbia. Impressive work whose value was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smaller and More Flexible Tracking Motes
RFID, AIDC, and IoT News: Intel Demonstrates New Mote that Can Track Parcel Handling HistoryIdea Not New, but Approach Is, with Tiny Mote Powered by Wi-Fi Networks...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
How Hard, Really, is SAT?
A new longest computer proof makes us wonder about things from security to the Exponential Time Hypothesis Marijn Heule, Oliver Kullmann, and Victor Marek are experts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Process Examination and Mining
Brought to my Attention again. Worth a look. Every data analytics problem should start with an understanding of the underlying process. Its OK to start very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Word 2016 Researcher Feature
Happened on this. I note that this does not appear in the current version, but in the insider addition of Word 2016 in Office 365. This method lets you quickly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advantages of Classification Algorithms
Machine learning is often a classification problem. In marketing its often segmentation. Here a good, largely nontechnical article on the advantages of different...
From insideHPC
Video: User Managed Virtual Clusters in Comet
Rick Wagner from SDSC presented this talk at the the 4th Annual MVAPICH User Group. "At SDSC, we have created a novel framework and infrastructure by providingVideo...
From insideHPC
Pegasus 5 CFD Program Wins NASA’s Software of the Year
Over at NASA, Michelle Moyers writes that the 2016 NASA Software of the Year Award has gone to Pegasus 5, a revolutionary CFD tool. "Developed in-house by a team...
From Phys.org Technology News
Drones overfly Champs-Elysees in 'magical' Paris festival
The Champs-Elysees was the setting of a mini-air show on Sunday as amateur drone enthusiasts flew their high-tech toys over the famed Paris avenue in the city's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Bias
Experientia overviews cognitive bias. Nicely put. overviews a cognitive bias cheat sheet, by Buster Benson. Whew, it is a lot of cognitive bias.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting Digital in Perspective
In CustomerThink: " ... This year, the number of smartphones, tablets and connected devices is expected to cross 7 billion – that will mean more connected devices...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Memory For Wearables, IoT
In CWorld: " ... IBM and development partner Samsung announced they've developed a process to manufacture a type of non-volatile RAM that is up to 100,000 times...
From Putting People First