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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
Baidu and Open Source Deep Learning
In SiliconAngle: The Open source idea coming from China seems remarkable. Have covered Baidu for some time, see the tag on the topic below.China’s Baidu to open...
From The Noisy Channel
No. I believed that they brought me on as an advisor so I could help them solve their problem.
And I spent a bunch of time with their team. It was only later that they started dropping my name to VCs — in fact, after May when I’d… Continue reading on »
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re-Inventing Ivy
The current education model is broken, we have all the tools in place to change it.Can Startup College Minerva Reinvent The Ivy League Model For The Digital Age...
From insideHPC
Dell and EMC Transaction to Close on September 7, 2016
Today Dell Inc. and EMC Corp. announced that they intend to close the transaction to combine Dell and EMC on Wednesday, September 7, 2016. The name of the newly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizations in R
I was reminded of this, Machlis Musings ... By Sharon Machlis 5 data visualizations in 5 minutes: each in 5 lines or less of R ... Nicely done. Does not...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The rate-of-living theory is wrong
The rate-of-living theory is popular on the Internet. The intuition is that all animals are born with some “budget” that they burn out over time according to their...
From insideHPC
Bridges Supercomputer Enters Production at PSC
"Bridges has enabled early scientific successes, for example in metagenomics, organic semiconductor electrochemistry, genome assembly in endangered species, and...
From insideHPC
Co-Design Offloading
The move to network offloading is the first step in co-designed systems. A large amount of overhead is required to service the huge number of packets required for...
From insideHPC
Paul Messina Presents: A Path to Capable Exascale Computing
Paul Messina presented this talk at the 2016 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. The U.S. Department of Energy has been charged with carrying out...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Ethernet Solutions Power Germany’s Most Advanced Cloud Datacenter
Today Mellanox announced that SysEleven in Germany used the company's 25/50/100GbE Open Ethernet solutions to build a new SSD-based, fully-automated cloud datacenter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Plotting Analytics Terminology
An interesting article in the SAS blog on the evolution of 'data mining', actually a term less used these days. They quote the image below about how a number...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recipes for Training and Understanding Delivery
In Adage:Why Martha Stewart Doesn't Feel Sorry for Media CompaniesMogul Talks Facebook Live, Future of Magazines and the 'Advertiser Dilemma' .... Fascinating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hadoop Effectiveness
A good overview of Hadoop and how it fits into data management and analytics. To what degree will open source approaches change our view of analytics?
From Schneier on Security
NSO Group
We're starting to see some information on the Israeli cyber-weapons arms manufacturer that sold the iPhone zero-day exploit to the United Arab Emirates so they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
EU Eldercare Effort
This was an area we looked at as we explored consumer robotics in the smarthome, See the tag for past examinations. Netcarity is a European project researching...
From Phys.org Technology News
Turbulence forces emergency landing in Ireland; 12 injured
A United Airlines flight bound for London made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport in Ireland on Wednesday after severe turbulence that left 12 passengers needing...
From Phys.org Technology News
The quest to end lost airline luggage
Victor DaRosa stands under a scorching afternoon sun, loading bags onto a jet heading to Detroit.
From The Eponymous Pickle
IOT and High Value Goods
In Readwrite: Not extremely new. Had seen solutions by GE using essentially the idea in remote power plant applications. Active RFID applications. The idea has...
From The Noisy Channel
I may have been burned, but I’m not willing to let this experience make me that cynical.
I still basically trust people, and I’d like to keep it that way. But now I understand more than before why other people are less trusting. Continue reading on...
From The Eponymous Pickle