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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
Most Practical Big Data Uses
Bernard Marr pushes his book 'Big Data in Practice: How 45 Successful Companies Used Big Data Analytics to Deliver Extraordinary Results' in Forbes. With real...
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Improved Analytics through Crowdsourcing
In Sloan Review. Requires registration." ... Syngenta developed an award-winning suite of analytics tools by tapping into expertise outside the organization...
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Practical Predictive Analytics
Good non technical piece that takes you on a journey of useful thoughts. Interesting infographics and statistics as well.
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You Always Need more Data
All the Data and Still Not Enough!Claudia Perlich discusses tricks to the art of predictive modeling in situations where the right data is scarce. Video by Claudia...
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Every Windows 10 PC can have Hololens
Now calling it 'mixed reality', makes some sense, distinguishing the terms augmented versus virtual reality has sometimes been difficult, but trying to push another...
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Mood Science and the Internet of Things
Anyone who works with advertising and marketing ideas wants to measure and influence aspects of mood in a number of context. Much has been made of neuromarketing...
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Product Association Rules Using R
Nice DSC article by Gregory Choi that relates directly to retail purchasing. How do I mine for associations in purchasing based on past buying data? Could be...
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Lineages of Creativity in Research
Nature article looks at the 'Phd-Family' trees of scientists and in particularly mathematicians. I don't find it too surprising that there are a small number of...
From insideHPC
SCinet Preps World’s Fastest Network Infrastructure at SC16
Over at the SC16 Blog, JP Vetters writes that planning for the SCinet high-bandwidth conference network is a multiyear process. The post SCinet Preps World’s Fastest...
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Juno Skims Close for More Atmosphere Data
Today the Juno probe skims close to Jupiter. With an aim to get a much better understanding of its atmosphere. Not the topic of this blog, but my earliest analytics...
From insideHPC
Extreme-scale Graph Analysis on Blue Waters
George Slota presented this talk at the Blue Waters Symposium. "In recent years, many graph processing frameworks have been introduced with the goal to simplify...
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Programmed for Procrastination?
We are programmed to delay work. So what do we do? See also the tag below on the topic, I have mentioned a number of other good pieces on this topicHow to Hack...
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Following the Euro
Long have been a follower of the EU and Euro and the implications of the union. Especially how the regulatory structure influences innovation. Newly published...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Self-Repairing Fabrics Based on Squid Teeth
Really: As shown in the video below, researchers at Pennsylvania State University recently developed a polyelectrolyte liquid solution made of bacteria and yeast...
From Phys.org Technology News
Study provides voice for evacuation needs of mobility impaired
A fire alarm sounds. An announcement comes over the office public address system: "A fire has been reported in the building. This is not a drill. Please move to...
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Beacon System for Push Notification
A very simple idea, a small device that can generate an alert for a push notification based on context and location. . Note this is unrelated in function to the...
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Hacking the Turing Test
The Turing test is a measure of 'intelligence' which came out of the AI era, has a number of flaws. In the CACM: " ... The test currently can't determine if a...
From Schneier on Security
Collision Attacks Against 64-Bit Block Ciphers
We've long known that 64 bits is too small for a block cipher these days. That's why new block ciphers like AES have 128-bit, or larger, block sizes. The insecurity...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Data Operations Specialist at the Simons Foundation
"The Simons Foundation is beginning a new computational science organization called the Flatiron Institute. Flatiron will seek to explore challenging science problems...
From insideHPC