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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
Linked Data in the Enterprise
I am reminded of the term, definition from the WP below: What are the best examples of its use in the enterprise? The DBPedia is an easily understandable"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Toward a Layer of Common Sense
Admittedly dated, but been reexamining the 'common sense' ontology Cyc again recently, this article reexamines the premise and progress. Circa 2005. I recall thinking...
From insideHPC
Video: Accelerating Code at the GPU Hackathon in Delaware
In this video from the GPU Hackathon at the University of Delaware, attendees tune their code to accelerate their application performance. The 5-day intensive GPU...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Pre-Sales Engineer at SGI
SGI_logo_platinum_lgSGI is seeking an HPC Pre-Sales Engineer in our Job of the Week. "The HPC Pre-Sales Engineer role provides in depth technical and architectural...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking: Building AI that Builds AI
Building AI is hard work, have been working on it for years. Even if we are attempting to just improve relatively common cognitive business tasks. Forgetting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disrupting Manufacturing
In Brookings:Disrupting manufacturing: Innovation and the future of skilled labor by Daniel Araya and Christopher Sulavik" ... The common assumption today is that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data University
Brought to my attention by Jim Spohrer, a community that pulls together a number of introductory segments on data engineering (broadly defined to include analytical...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Firefly Squid in the News
It's a good time to see firefly squid in Japan. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...
From Phys.org Technology News
Simulation tool uses FinTech quant techniques and big data to guide best health insurance plan
Using technologies originally developed to evaluate complex investments and portfolios, a new data-driven simulator is being developed to help individuals and families...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeing, Sensing and Reproducing Color
In the New Yorker: The Search for Our Missing Colors, By Amos Zeeberg. You would think that in our digital world we could sense, see and reproduce most any color...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is RFID Ready for Prime Time in Retail?
Perhaps piggybacking on the IOT craze? Our original prediction from the innovation center proved to be very wrong. The particular lack of progress was fed byAre...
From insideHPC
Register for ISC 2016 by May 11 for Early Bird Discounts
There is still time to take advantage of Early Bird registration rates for ISC 2016. You can save over 45 percent off the on-site registration rates if you sign...
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Dual Booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04
For a couple of years, secure boot was making it harder every time to install a Windows/Linux dual boot. I've just finished successfully setting up a dual bootsame...
From Schneier on Security
Dilbert on Electronic Voting Machines
Accurate (the cartoon, not the machines)....
From The Eponymous Pickle
VR Revolutionizing Data Visualization
We experimented in this in a number of ways, virtual words and using 3D viewers ... Visualization should also be part of the first few steps in any analytics project...
From insideHPC
Video: Brendan Gregg Looks at Tools & Methodologies for Linux System Performance
In this video from the 2016 Percona Data Performance Conference, Brendan Gregg, Senior Performance Architect from Netflix presents: Linux Systems Performance. “Systems...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Professors intentionally slow down science to make themselves look better
Recently, the president of the United States announced a big anti-cancer initiative, to be headed by his vice-president Joe Biden. Will it be fruitful? Maybe. But...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing Gels with Stampede
In this TACC Podcast, Jorge Salazar looks at how researchers are using the Stampede supercomputer to shed light on the microscale world of colloidal gels — liquids...
From insideHPC
A Perspective on Power Management for Hard Disks
Kirill Malkin from SGI presented this talk at the 2016 MSST conference. "Malkin will talk about the impact of power management on reliability of hard disk devices...
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