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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
Confidence vs Intelligence
Generalized thought, but useful. A little like 'A for effort'. Acquired skill is still very useful. Backing up your confidence also useful.Here Is Why Confidence...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Linux Engineer at Pfizer
Pfizer in Connecticut is seeking an HPC Linux Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We are seeking an accomplished Linux operations engineer with a comprehensive understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Relationships Beyond Advertising
Podcast and text. The continued transferal of control to the customer." ... How many times do you block advertising in an app or online? Yet, many companies persist...
From Putting People First
The Internet of Things needs design, not just technology
Scott A. Nelson writes that, as B2C companies rush to exploit new IoT applications, pushing technology to potential end users no longer works. Increasingly, the...
From Putting People First
Security versus UX
Gwendolyn Betts explores how to reconcile one of the biggest challenges in interface design: security versus user experience. Betts writes that it is not uncommon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Another IFTTT Tool for Automated Workflow
This has always been a good idea, surprised there has not been more competition. Still not ready, in development. Implications for combining IOT activityMicrosoft...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Global Squid Shortage
There's a squid shortage along the Pacific coast of the Americas. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
From insideHPC
Video: Lustre 2.9 and Beyond
In this video from LUG 2016, Andreas Dilger from Intel presents: Lustre 2.9 and Beyond. “I do this presentation every year and I think it is important to focusVideo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open AI Gym is Now in Place
An Open AI Dojo, some are calling it. To set up standards for AI. It is an open Beta." ... We're releasing the public beta of OpenAI Gym, a toolkit for developing...
From Schneier on Security
I'm Writing a Book on Security
I'm writing a book on security in the highly connected Internet-of-Things World. Tentative title: Click Here to Kill Everything Peril and Promise in a Hyper-connected...
From insideHPC
Designing Interfaces in Materials with Supercomputers
Designing materials atom-by-atom has long been a science fiction dream. Georg Schusteritsch and Chris Pickard of the University of Cambridge are bringing science...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is software a neutral agent?
We face an embarrassing amount of information but when we feel overwhelmed, as Clay Shirky said, “It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.” Unavoidably...
From insideHPC
Quad-Core Maker Board Uses BSC Programming Model OmpSs
Parallel programming software developed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center is being used as part of a successful kickstarter campaign for a maker board with...
From insideHPC
EuroMPI Conference Partners with Women in HPC to Bolster Diversity
Over at the Women in HPC Blog, Daniel Holmes from EPCC writes that the EuroMPI Conference is partnering with Women in HPC to increase diversity in high performance...
From Phys.org Technology News
Obama announces new steps to curb gun violence
President Barack Obama announced new steps Friday to help curb gun violence, including by identifying the requirements that "smart guns" would have to meet for...
From insideHPC
HPC and SMEs – The Fortissimo Initiative
"Fortissimo will make advanced simulation more easily accessible, particularly to SMEs, through the realization of a “one-stop shop” where hardware, expertise,HPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon as a Logistics Company
In Fastcompany: They certainly need the best of efficiency in supply chains and logistics. But it is still ultimately an innovative retailer.
From Schneier on Security
Documenting the Chilling Effects of NSA Surveillance
In Data and Golliath, I talk about the self-censorship that comes along with broad surveillance. This interesting research documents this phenomenon in Wikipedia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Ontology Frameworks
An investigation brought this to my attention. Ontologies can give organization to many kinds of analytics processes.The Enterprise Ontology Reference Framework...
From The Eponymous Pickle