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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
What Problem are you Solving?
Good thoughts in Inc. I add: Most of us have a list of things that we know are problems for our industry ingrained in our head. So it becomes a matter of prioritizing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Existing Technology to Assist Disabled.
In CACM: A good overview of the topic. We exist in a world where common, but still remarkable technologies are being broadly applied. I was reminded too, that...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Missing Mate in Ten
Can we have overlooked short solutions to major problems? src Efim Geller was a Soviet chess grandmaster, author, and teacher. Between 1953 and 1973 he reached...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Posing the Warrant Canary
The BBC poses the concept of a 'warrant canary'A legal statement that something is not true, by its mere existence?" .. A warrant canary is a statement sayingIt...
From insideHPC
Video: NVMe Over Fabrics
NVMe over Fabrics is an enhancement / expansion of the NVMe specification to support remote access to NVMe storage resources via RDMA. This presentation will review...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Postdoctoral Appointee on FPGAs for Supercomputing
Argonne National Laboratory is seeking a Postdoctoral Appointee on FPGAs for Supercomputing in our Job of the Week. "This is an exciting opportunity for you toJob...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Explained
In O'Reilly. Good, but still technical, utilizes code to make the comparisons." ... Defining blockchains by analogies and applicationsBlockchain is a buzzword,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watching and Learning for AI
The ideal AI would be akin to a small child. It could observe, learn and reapply that which they have learned. Build its knowledge and skills. To this end we...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cooking with Squid Ink
Risotto nero and more. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Schneier on Security
Security Lessons from the Game of Werewolf
I can't believe I haven't posted this before....
From insideHPC
SC16 Adds State-of-the-Practice Track
Over at the SC16 Blog, Dan Stanzione from TACC writes that the conference is starting a multi-year emphasis designed to advance the state of the practice in the...
From insideHPC
Now on Azure: Intel Cloud Edition for Lustre* Software
The Intel Cloud Edition for Lustre* Software is now available on Microsoft’s Azure platform. Intel Cloud Edition for Lustre Software on Azure is a scalable, parallel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Martin Lindstrom Podcast on Small Data
Martin Lindstrom discusses his new book about 'small data'Podcast: Small Data coverMartin Lindstrom has spent time with 2,000 families in more than 77 countries...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Zika Virus at Purdue
Researchers at Purdue University are using HPC to help fight the Zika virus. "Purdue’s award-winning Community Cluster Program played a significant role in enabling...
From insideHPC
Manage Reproducibility of Computational Workflows with Docker Containers and Nextflow
"Research computational workflows consist of several pieces of third party software and, because of their experimental nature, frequent changes and updates areManage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Store Formatting by Kroger and other Retailers
In Retailwire: Something we examined in the innovation centers. At both the shelf and broader store design level. Here some interesting views of how this is...
From Schneier on Security
Breaking Semantic Image CAPTCHAs
Interesting research: Suphannee Sivakorn, Iasonas Polakis and Angelos D. Keromytis, "I Am Robot: (Deep) Learning to Break Semantic Image CAPTCHAs": Abstract: Since...
From Putting People First
Markus Giesler on customer experience design
At Experientia, we live the mantra that experience design is always contextual experience design. Understanding and designing for people within a culture, a context...
From Putting People First
Welcome to the ‘unstore’ of the future: retailers go experiential
As technology enables ad blocking online and ad skipping on TV, marketers are increasingly searching for ways to better engage consumers in person, Adrianne Pasquarelli...
From Putting People First