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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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Drone collision with jet highlights growing aviation danger
A collision between a British Airways passenger jet and a drone over London has left the plane undamaged but the aviation industry deeply shaken.
From Computational Complexity
Its hard to tell if a problem is hard. Is this one hard?
Here is a problem I heard about at the Gathering for Gardner. Is it hard? easy? boring? interesting? I don't know. Let N={1,2,3,...} PROBLEM: parameters are s...
From insideHPC
Exxact to Distribute NVIDIA DGX-1 Deep Learning System
The NVIDIA DGX-1 features up to 170 teraflops of half precision (FP16) peak performance, 8 Tesla P100 GPU accelerators with 16GB of memory per GPU, 7TB SSD DL Cache...
From insideHPC
Who Is Using HPC (and Why)?
In today's highly competitive world, High Performance Computing (HPC) is a game changer. Though not as splashy as many other computing trends, the HPC market has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Doing it Smarter, Faster, Better
Brought to my attention:Mind Over MatterEveryone wants to be more productive. And as a result, there is a not insignificant industry of books, conferences, andIn...
From Schneier on Security
Security Risks of Shortened URLs
Shortened URLs, produced by services like bit.ly and goo.gl, can be brute-forced. And searching random shortened URLs yields all sorts of secret documents. Plus...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 April 2016
Last week was both long and short. Short in that I only spent three days at school. Long in that I spent the weekend and Monday working at the K 12 Computer Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Bots
This article doesn't provide much useful detail. But the direction is clear. Bots can provide simplified applications of AI in any communicating system. Then...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biofactories of the Future
Pointing to a Nature article of interest. " ..... From an evolutionary perspective, yeast has no business producing a pain killer. But by re-engineering the microbe's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Commoditizing Software
And further by adding new tools to integrate code and problems, and codes written by multiple people.Commoditization of CodingThe cloud- or industry-specific approach...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Mastering Difficult Conversations
Do you dread bringing up a problem in your relationship because you know your partner will be blinded by emotion? Are your 1:1s at work just happy recaps of your...
From Phys.org Technology News
Poll: Vast majority of Americans don't trust the news media
Trust in the news media is being eroded by perceptions of inaccuracy and bias, fueled in part by Americans' skepticism about what they read on social media.
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British Airways flight believed to hit drone on approach
Police say a British Airways flight from Geneva hit an object believed to be a drone while on approach to London's Heathrow Airport.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gaming Industry Technologies
We often looked to to the gaming industry for hardware and software that was driving decisions and operations. Here a good set of examples of current technology...
From insideHPC
Video: How to Build a Neural Net in 4 Minutes
In this video, Siraj Rival from Twilio presents a quick tutorial on How to Build a Neural Net in 4 Minutes. Siraj describes himself as the Bill Nye of ComputerVideo...
From insideHPC
Call for Participation: hpc-ch Forum on Intra- and Inter-Site Networking
The hpc-ch Forum on Intra- and Inter-Site Networking has posted its Call for Participation. Hosted by the University of Zurich, the event will take place Thursday...
From insideHPC
Using High Performance Interconnects in Dynamic Environments
"Over the last years the OFA community has shown the potential of using high performance networks (InfiniBand) to boost the performance of virtualized cloud environments...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Senior Director of HPC Sales at DDN
DDN in Santa Clara is seeking a Senior Director of HPC Sales in our Job of the Week. "We are currently seeking an Account Executive to drive the development ofJob...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for High Frequency Trading
Via the Financial Revolutionist:Note the statement that this simulates the insights of experienced traders. So more of an expertise based system rather than a...
From The Eponymous Pickle