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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
Disruption Considered
Been asked about the concept recently, not that well defined, but a case where extreme examples are obvious. In the consumers mind, or business? In...
From Putting People First
Emerging social roles for life in 2025
Over the last five years Ericsson’s Networked Society Lab has been exploring what social life in 2025 might mean. How have 20th structures of industrializationEmerging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Targeting Physical Out of Stocks
Seen a number of related methods, this PG article looks at methods that combine image recognition and robotic methods. We also looked at a method that could...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Sperm Whale Eats Squid
A post-mortem of a stranded sperm whale shows that he had recently eaten squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Importance of Data Management
Some good thoughts here. Recently have seen the particular importance of how data is changing over time. Metadata is important and may differ in quality and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer by Frank Chen“One person, in a literal garage, building a self-driving car.” That happened in 2015. Now to put...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Micro Moments During Mobile Shopping
Via Think with Google. A Guide with statistics.Shopping Micro-Moments Guide: How to Be There and Be Useful for ShoppersMobile has forever changed the way people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bringing Intelligence to Data Handling
Linking AI and data, in an efficient and semantic (meaning linked) manner, then utilizing integrated machine learning, is a huge leveraging point.In Medium: "“When...
From insideHPC
Cray Teams With Deloitte to Combat Cybercrime
Today Deloitte Advisory and Cray introduced the first commercially available high-speed, supercomputing threat analytics service. Called Cyber Reconnaissance and...
From insideHPC
Dassault to Acquire Computer Simulation Technology (CST) in Germany
Dassault Systèmes, a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, has announced that it will acquire Computer Simulation Technology (CST), a specialist...
From insideHPC
Simulating Sea Ice Leads at DKRZ
Researchers at DKRZ are using supercomputers to better understand the movement of sea ice. "Sea ice is an important component of the Earth System, which is often...
From insideHPC
Video: Mellanox Powers Open Science Grid on Comet Supercomputer
"We are pioneering the area of virtualized clusters, specifically with SR-IOV,” said Philip Papadopoulos, SDSC’s chief technical officer. “This will allow virtual...
From Schneier on Security
Cyber Weapons vs Nuclear Weapons
Good essay pointing out the absurdity of comparing cyber weapons with nuclear weapons. On the surface, the analogy is compelling. Like nuclear weapons, the most...
From insideHPC
Interview: PDSW-DISCS’16 Workshop to Focus on Data-Intensive Computing at SC16
The first Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISCS’16) has issued its Call for Papers. As...
From The Eponymous Pickle
InsightETE Seeks Root Cause in Process
Just brought to my attention, and applicable to all kinds of process measuring and management. Whats more important than determining root cause in a process? ...
From Phys.org Technology News
MH370 mystery spurred efforts to improve aircraft tracking
As investigators prepare to wind down the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 search after more than two fruitless years, the airline industry is still working to raise...
From Putting People First
[Book] Overcomplicated (or when systems go feral)
Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension by Samuel Arbesman Current (Penguin Randomhouse), July 2016 256 pages Abstract Why did the New York Stock...
From Putting People First
A nudge toward participation: Improving clinical trial enrollment with behavioral economics
A nudge toward participation: Improving clinical trial enrollment with behavioral economics Eric M. VanEpps, Kevin G. Volpp and Scott D. Halpern (University ofA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Magazine
Long before data science and machine learning, there was Analytics. Here is their most recent e-newsletter. Subscribe. Always some useful information.
From The Eponymous Pickle