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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
Linguistics at Google
Google research writes about what they are doing in computational linguistics. As it implies 'computational' means linguistics applied and delivered in systems...
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First Web Site Went Public 25 Years Ago
Quite an interesting anniversary. Tim Berners-Lee 1991 announcement of his Web Project. Its interesting that one of the other primary components of the Web, the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Health Delivery Systems
In RW: Smarter Health Delivery Systems. Givessome interesting examples, like that of compliance in drug usage. But I believe that in the short term, the use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pingpad Building onto Slack for Knowledge Sharing
I see that long time connection Ross Mayfield, who we worked on in early corporate wiki days with Socialtext, is building onto Slack, He writes: " .... We are...
From insideHPC
ICC Updates Overclocked Vega Financial Servers with Broadwell-E
Today International Computer Concepts (ICC) announced that it has upgraded the company's ICC Vega line of high-frequency trading servers with the latest Broadwell...
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems Showcases Open Compute Flash Array with 500 TB in 2U
This week at the Flash Memory Summit, One Stop Systems showcased the OCP Flash Storage Array (OCP-FSA), supporting up to 500TB of Flash storage in a 2U form factor...
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Random but with Geometric Order
A mathematical, but but not very technical article, but the implications are not easily thought about. The non-order called randomness has a remarkable number of...
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Predictive Analytics Interview
Good piece, non technical, relatively little about how results will be integrated with the decision process.Talk with Eric Siegel on predictive analytics. Good...
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Psychology of Loyalty Programs
In CustomerThink. by David Feldman of Catchit Loyalty. Straightforward overview.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink Soda
You can order a cocktail made with squid ink soda at Hank's Oyster Bar in Washington, DC....
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Deep Dive on Consumer Product Innovation
From Deloitte. Good overview ..Consumer product companies face ongoing challenges from slowing industry growth to declining brand loyalty and the rise of unconventional...
From Schneier on Security
Reddit "Ask Me Anything"
I did an AMA on Reddit a few days ago. My Reddit AMA from 2013....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking for Sarcasm
Have been looking at the general problem of how to detect demographic and personality indicators via twitter streams. Here is an example described of detecting...
From insideHPC
Video: Quantum Computing – The World’s Most Incredible Machines
"A quantum computer cannot just be created from just trapping ions, it is necessary to move the information (the ions) between different locations in a trap, for...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Trucks
Another hijack attack against vehicles, this time trucks and buses....
From insideHPC
NSF Centers for Innovation Focus on Machine Learning, Genomics and More
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is leading three new centers of innovation funded through the National Science Foundation’s Industry/University Cooperative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable, IOT Memory
In CWorld: New kinds of very low power memory for Wearables and IoT by Samsung and IBM. I am thinking that building simplicity will be particularly useful for...
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Skype to Translate Business Meetings
Imagine your conferencing systems translating all the interactions. Trouble is, translation is still not perfect, so be cautious about this. In CWorld,
From insideHPC
Adept Project Explores HPC Energy Efficiency
"We have been working on developing a number of tools that enable users to quantify power and performance in both software and hardware, and then design a moreAdept...
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