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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
Wireless Earpods
When I think of wearables I do not normally think of earpods, but here is a piece that claims knowledge of IOS and future iPhones possibly including new kinds of...
From XRDS
The Pythonic Way
Python is a very powerful programming language that understands structural, functional and object oriented programming paradigms. New comers to Python from other...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What thirty years of technology looks like: the early high-school years
Thirty years ago, I was attending a high school. My oldest son is preparing to attend a similar high school. There was a meeting at my son’s future school, andContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Proof
In the first wave of AI considerable attention was paid to the concept of 'automating proofs'. With the idea that we could take rules about expertise, and then...
From insideHPC
Video: Shifter – Containers in HPC environments
"Containers wrap up software with all its dependencies in packages that can be executed anywhere. This can be specially useful in HPC environments where, often,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Principle Components of Data Science
Using my favorite machine learning tool, Principle components analysis (PCA) on the tools of data analysis themselves. Dimension reduction. Instructive exercise...
From insideHPC
IBM Bluemix Garage in France Fuels Cloud Development
This week IBM announced the opening of a Bluemix Garage in Nice, France to help European organizations of all sizes and industries accelerate the development and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Freestyle Machine as IOT
We were early examiners of late stage differentiation in the Coke Freestyle machine. Now its common to see, Thought of it as a way to understand how consumers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Pushes New Data Vis Tool SandDance
Recent corporate experience made me marvel about the strong competition among data visualization tools. Different parts of large corporations even recommending...
From insideHPC
Using Xeon + FPGA for Accelerating HPC Workloads
"The Exascale computing challenge is the current Holy Grail for high performance computing. It envisages building HPC systems capable of 10^18 floating point operations...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Bias In The Primes
Casinos beware—the primes are not random Quanta source (K.S. at left) Robert Lemke Oliver and Kannan Soundararajan have observed that the primes fail some simple...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at Mount Sinai Health
Mount Sinai Health Systems in New York is seeking an HPC Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at Mount...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge About AI
In Gizmodo. Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong ... Thoughtful piece. Well not maybe wrong, but debatable. Do get ready for some surprises...
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Next Inflection in Big Data
In O'Reilly: Data analytics over the past 25 yearsAs the volume of data has grown over the past 25 years, data comprehension for decision-making has consisted of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple, Intel and Realsense
Some time ago I looked at the use of Intel's Realsense. But had not heard anything from that direction for a long time. The potential application used interactive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu Big Data Lab
Big Data Lab (BDL)." .... BDL is led by Dr. Tong Zhang. BDL focuses on large-scale machine learning algorithms and applications in areas such as predictive analytics...
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Baidu Understanding Crowds
In the CACM: An approach that has been used to design retail environments." ... Baidu's Big Data Lab has devised an algorithm that can predict crowd formation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hololens Ted Talk
Good Ted talk introduction to the expectations for the Hololens virtual reality capability soon to be delivered by Microsoft.
From The Eponymous Pickle