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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 insideHPC
Trinity Supercomputer Wiring Reconfiguration Saves Millions
LANL reports that a moment of inspiration during a wiring diagram review has saved more than $2 million in material and labor costs for the Trinity supercomputer...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Intel Steps Up to Machine Learning with Nervana Systems Acquisition
In this Intel Chip Chat Podcast, Nidhi Chappell, the Director of Machine Learning Strategy at Intel discusses the company's planned acquisition of Nervana Systems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Medical Systems are not Written from a Cognitive Perspective
Via Larry Smith in Cognitive Systems Institute. Gets to how these systems need to be written to augment, hopefully improving the systems that they model" .....
From insideHPC
Pete Ungaro Presents: Blue Waters & the Cray Roadmap
Peter Ungaro presented this talk at the 2016 Blue Waters Symposium. "Built by Cray, Blue Waters is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, and is...
From Blog@Ubiquity
My Robot Wants Your Job—No
Although AI technology is posed to disrupt jobs, there isn't any real cause for alarm. The future of work doesn't mean we will be ruled by robot overlords. The...
From Blog@Ubiquity
My Robot Wants Your Job—YES
Robots could redefine the future of work, but what does that mean for the jobs that are displaced? Could a tax on labor-replacing technology be the answer? TheMy...
From insideHPC
Bill Gropp Named Acting Director of NCSA
"I am honored to have been asked to drive NCSA’s continuing mission as a world-class, integrative center for transdisciplinary convergent research, education, and...
From insideHPC
University of Oxford Develops Logic Gate for Quantum Computing
Researchers at the University of Oxford have achieved a quantum logic gate with record-breaking 99.9% precision, reaching the benchmark required theoretically to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Transfer Phenomenon
A new term for me. Essentially means addictive engagement with games or even any computer screen activity. To the agree they transfer out of reality. NowOn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is AI Becoming Mainstream?
Good Bloomberg article. It still depends on the definitions involved, If by machine learning we mean better analytics, and if by AI, we mean more embedded logic...
From Schneier on Security
Microsoft Accidentally Leaks Key to Windows Backdoor
In a cautionary tale to those who favor government-mandated backdoors to security systems, Microsoft accidentally leaked the key protecting its UEFI Secure boot...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 August 2016
Teachers report on Friday this week for back to school. The College Board was making a big thing about Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles starting for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fundamentals of Evaluating Data Science Models
Via DSC: Good overview of the basic methods for evaluating models. Posted by Sandeep Raut. Not complete, but these are the fundamentals that every modeler should...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Weka Mini Course
A 14 step mini course by Jason Brownlee on using the machine learning system Weka. Notable because it uses no code or math. Nice for those procedurally rather...
From The Noisy Channel
Enterprise Intelligence: Putting the Pieces Together
Today I had the honor to keynote the Workshop on Enterprise Intelligence, held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on…Continue reading on Medium...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Pins for Pinterest
In AdWeek: Pinterest's Real-World Pins Let In-Store Shoppers Save Real Items to Virtual Boards DM9DDB tests the app in Brazil's biggest furniture store By TimI...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Surprise For Big-Data Analytics
A simple but interesting issue with analyzing high-dimensional data Peter Landweber, Emanuel Lazar, and Neel Patel are mathematicians. I have never worked with...
From insideHPC
Video: How the HPC Environment is Different from the Desktop (and Why)
"High performance computing has transformed how science and engineering research is conducted. Answering a question in 30 minutes that used to take 6 months can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Should Your Business Be in the Cloud?
Good, non technical overview of the positives and negatives of moving your business into the cloud, by Richard Smith.
From The Eponymous Pickle