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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 …
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"We run things, things don't run we"
Yesterday was Porchfest, an annual event where local musicians perform on their porches all around Somerville, MA. My friend Stefan Anderson, who performs as the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Condensed Guide to Data Science
Nicely done introduction by Vincent Granville of DSC, links to many useful resources. Good list, condensed, but still lots there, and considerable variability...
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Body Cameras for All
Do Police Body Cameras Really Work?Sometimes police body cameras accomplish their intended purpose, but other times they backfire. And nobody knows why .... By...
From insideHPC
CIPRES Offers Gateway to Supercomputing Life Sciences
In this special guest feature, Lance Farrell from Science Node writes that CIPRES is a web-based gateway that allows researchers to easily explore evolutionaryCIPRES...
From insideHPC
Exascale Architecture Trends and Implications for Programming Systems
John Shalf presented this talk at EASC2016 in Stockholm. "This talk will describe the challenges of programming future computing systems. It will then provide some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology Behind Viv
In Medium. A system that writes its own code. Though what exactly that means is unclear to me. Not classic machine learning. My first question is always, to...
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Sales People Embracing Silence
In Customerthink. More silence anyway. Words still need to get across but listening is primary to understand which ones. " ..... They say you have two ears...
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Anti Drone
Not unexpected. Reminds me of a number of anti RFID blocking methods that were sold, but not widely. Privacy here is more physical. In ArsTechnica: ...
From insideHPC
Video: The Vital Importance of HPC to U.S. Competitiveness and National Security
In this video, ITIF hosts a hearing on the The Vital Importance of High-Performance Computing to U.S. Competitiveness and National Security. Their recently published...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Research Computing Facilitator at OSC
Ohio State University is seeking a Research Computing Facilitator in our Job of the Week. "The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) provides high-performance computing...
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RFID Intelligence on Toys
In RFIDJournal. Disney Research Explores Ways to Add RFID Intelligence to Robots, ToysWalt Disney Co.'s lab network, together with scientists from MIT, the University...
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Retail: Mortar vs Digital
In Retailwire: "The best retailers will strike the balance between brick-and-mortar and digital. Some are already doing it.", Shep HykenChief Amazement Officer,...
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A Recent Exchange on Money and Time
Below is a recent exchange with my friend Rob Ochshorn, who often writes emails instead of blog posts to work out his thoughts. Here I am borrowing not only his...
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Kroger Expansion Plans
In the Cincinnati Enquirer " .... Kroger's big $4 billion expansion plan ... " Kroger has big expansion plans in 2016.How big?Enough to build both the Horseshoe...
From Phys.org Technology News
3-D candy-maker billed as world's first arrives in New York
Now there's yet another market for 3-D printer-enthusiasts: candy.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Kite
Video. Plus an octopus kite, with another squid kite in the background. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
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Google Declares an AI Spring
Words from Google's AI chief. Driven by machine learning and specific advances in language and image understanding at Google. Cognitive knowledge interaction by...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Making Public Information Secret
A way to recover and enforce privacy McNealy bio source Scott McNealy, when he was the CEO of Sun Microsystems, famously said nearly 15 years ago, “You have zero...
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Another Messaging App or Service Concierge
In Verge: Did remind me of Hangouts at first, but then with AI and better voice recognition included. More assistant like. Concierge like. A replacement...
From Schneier on Security