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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
Video: Lorena Barba Keynote at PYCON 2016
In this video from PYCON 2016 in Portland, Lorena Barba from George Washinton University presents: Beyond Learning to Program, Education, Open Source Culture, Structured...
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Univa Grid Engine Adds Support for Docker Containers & Knights Landing
Today Univa announced the general availably of its Grid Engine 8.4.0 product. Enterprises can now automatically dispatch and run jobs in Docker containers, from...
From insideHPC
Lustre and ZFS to Power New Parallel File System at LLNL
Today RAID Inc. announced a contract to provide Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) a custom parallel file system solution for its unclassified computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beacons Doubling
Have seen and been asked about a number of applications. Our environment is becoming more aware, attentive to needs and requests. This is a form of locationBeacons...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Adds Ads to the Smarts
Have been a user of Samsung Smart TVs for some time now. Have noticed that updates to the OS have started to add more advertising oriented capabilities. Geeting...
From The Noisy Channel
Let Bigrams be Bigrams
I’ve spent most of my career advocating for the use of query understanding to improve search relevance. It’s not that I don’t value search…Continue reading on Medium...
From insideHPC
Do you like Water? Do you like Pumps?
The HPC industry is ever facing more and more challenges on various topics and especially a significant increase in cooling requirements. To meet those requirements...
From Schneier on Security
Arresting People for Walking Away from Airport Security
A proposed law in Albany, NY, would make it a crime to walk away from airport screening. Aside from wondering why county lawmakers are getting involved with what...
From My Biased Coin
Class Evaluations, Again
I've not been blogging much, but I have an excuse now that class evaluations have arrived. By posting about the evaluations, the students know I read them. And...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Flashback for Mobile VR
In VRFocus: Microsoft’s FlashBack Aims to Redefine Mobile VRReal time rendering could be a thing of the past with this new concept ... Microsoft, well-known for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What the IOT will Disrupt
In SiliconAngle. This is fairly obvious, would like the suggestions presented a lower level, but it is still a good overview that is worth a scan. A look at...
From insideHPC
Video: Neuromorphic Computing – Extreme Approaches to Weak and Strong Scaling
"Computer simulations of complex systems provide an opportunity to study their time evolution under user control. Simulations of neural circuits are an established...
From insideHPC
Cavium Rolls Out ThunderX2 ARM Processor
Today Cavium announced ThunderX2, its second generation of Workload-Optimized ARM server SoCs. ThunderX2 targets high performance volume servers deployed by Public...
From Schneier on Security
Identifying People from their Driving Patterns
People can be identified from their "driver fingerprint": ...a group of researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California at San Diego...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Enough with the bogus medical studies!
Every week, we hear about how eating such and such food gives cancer, or how working out can save you from a heart attack. If you have been reading these studies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Monetizing Data
Some useful but very general thoughts. Some sort of direct monetary value and risk attribution under a given context would be most useful. We already have some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Titles Energizing Workers
I recall a few cases where people have revealed their non traditional and unusual business title, and I am more likely to remember them. In the HBR.
From Phys.org Technology News
Beijing tracks the elderly as they take buses, go shopping
These days, when people over 80 in Beijing take a bus, see a doctor or spend money, their activities are digitally tracked by the government, as part of an effort...
From Computational Complexity
New Ramsey Result that will be hard to verify but Ronald Graham things its right which is good enough for me.
If you finitely color the natural numbers there will be a monochromatic solution to x+2y+3z - 5w = 0 There is a finite coloring of the natural numbers such that...
From The Eponymous Pickle