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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 The Eponymous Pickle
New Look at the Semantic Web
A new look at the Semantic web in the CACM. Abstract. I spent considerable time in this space in the 90s, now revisiting it to address issues like the efficient...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UX as a Process
A big proponent of at least understanding your process. And ideally, mapping it out in as much detail as is possible. Interestingly put here in Linkedin:Process...
From Phys.org Technology News
London lab recreates horrors of war with 3D technology
Starvation, torture and rape: the grim daily realities of prisoners inside Syria's Saidnaya military prison have been recreated in harrowing 3D detail by a London...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Practical Statistics E Books
From DSC. An interesting selection. None that I have seen before:" ... These books require different levels of existing knowledge, and while some are for early...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Quick Descriptive Statistics
Just received from Jason Brownlee:" ... Hi, you can learn a lot about your dataset by reviewing some basic descriptive statistics. ... The R platform provides a...
From The Noisy Channel
Summarization and Refinement Tags in Folksonomies
This paper, which I co-authored with Joyce Wang and Vladimir Zelevinsky when we were all at Endeca, originally appeared in the proceedings… Continue reading on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inferring Traffic Patterns for Graph Analytics
I can see this kind of pattern recognition more broadly used, and linked not only to maps but also to network patterns for graph analytics.Inferring urban travel...
From insideHPC
Saving Water with Sandia’s New Datacenter Cooling Technology
Engineers at Sandia are developing new datacenter cooling technologies that could save millions of gallons of water nationwide. The post Saving Water with Sandia...
From insideHPC
Video: SIMD, Vectorization, and Performance Tuning
James Reinders presented this talk at the 2016 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. Reinders is the author of multiple books on parallel programming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
D3 Javascript for Interactive Visualization
D3 is particularly interesting for interactive data visualization. Flowingdata points to recent explanation and examples. Technically/programming oriented."Pair...
From insideHPC
Cray to Add Intel Xeon Phi to Archer Supercomputing Service in the UK
EPSRC and Cray have signed an agreement to add a Cray XC40 Development System with Intel Xeon Phi processors to ARCHER, the UK National Supercomputing Service.Cray...
From insideHPC
New Bright for Deep Learning Solution Designed for Business
"We have enhanced Bright Cluster Manager 7.3 so our customers can quickly and easily deploy new deep learning techniques to create predictive applications for fraud...
From Schneier on Security
Cybercrime as a Tax on the Internet Economy
I was reading this 2014 McAfee report on the economic impact of cybercrime, and came across this interesting quote on how security is a tax on the Internet economy...
From insideHPC
Python and HPC
"In the HPC domain, Python can be used to develop a wide range of applications. While tight loops may still need to be coded in C or FORTRAN, Python can still be...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Scratch Resources from Ireland
A friend recently sent me a link to this site that looks like it will be very helpful for teachers who are using Scratch from MIT. Check it out at scratch.ie Lero...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence
The following 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...
From Computational Complexity
The Letter
Guest post by Molly Fortnow, incoming member of the University of Chicago class of 2020. On January 24, 2011, a miraculous thing happened. I was published on the...
From Phys.org Technology News
Audi, Lexus and Toyota rank highest for car-seat anchors
New rankings from the insurance industry show that the Audi Q7, Lexus RX and Toyota Prius have the easiest-to-use anchors for child seats.
From The Noisy Channel
Thanks, but I can’t take credit for that — and I don’t recall seeing it when I published the post.
Perhaps it was added by the Startup Grind publication. Continue reading on »
From The Noisy Channel