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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
Challenge and Value of Simplicity
Simplicity is challenging, but essential. A look from the retail perspective. In Retailwire: " .... For the third straight year, Aldi ranked first in Siegel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PurePredictive Automating Data Science
Another data science automation play that is worth a look." ... Visualization tools are good. But they can only tell you where you've been.Let PurePredictive Help...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts on Gartner BI Conference Next Week
Brought to my attention. The Gartner BI conference next week. Noted in particular the list of exhibitors. Wide view of corporate needs there. Who do you bet...
From insideHPC
Debugging Slow Buffered Reads on the Lustre File System
"Buffered read performance under Lustre has been inexplicably slow when compared to writes or even direct IO reads. A balanced FDR-based Object Storage Server can...
From insideHPC
Bull Supercomputer Aids Discovery of Gravitational Waves
The discovery of gravitational waves, announced by an international team of scientists, including Cardiff University’s Gravitational Physics Group, was verified...
From insideHPC
IBM Watson CTO Rob High to Keynote GPU Technology Conference
Today Nvidia announced that Rob High, IBM Fellow, VP and chief technology officer for Watson, will deliver a keynote at our GPU Technology Conference on AprilIBM...
From insideHPC
OpenMP and SIMD Instructions on Intel Xeon Phi
"Vector instruction sets have progressed over time, and it important to use the most appropriate vector instruction set when running on specific hardware. The OpenMP...
From Schneier on Security
Hidden Credit Card Skimmers
New credit card skimmers are hidden inside the card readers, making them impossible to spot....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grocery Runners Home Delivery
Brought to my attention via a door nob hanger: The Grocery Runners. A third party company that delivers grocery items from Kroger markets. Kroger recently started...
From The Eponymous Pickle
This Blog and the Future of the Supermarket
A nicely done article in Epicurious on technology and the supermarket. Also speculation about what form the market will take in the future. Proud to say that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Interactive Graphs in R
In DSC: A good example of interactive use of R. The package has an amazing number of alternatives. Just a matter of learning some of the options and details.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
David Johnson: 1945-2016
David just passed away David Johnson was a computer theorist who worked on many things, with special emphasis on the care and treatment of hard computational problems...
From Schneier on Security
Plagiarism in Crossword Puzzles
Yet another fraud discovered through data analysis....
From insideHPC
Slidecast: How to Make MPI Awesome – MPI Sessions
In this slidecast, Jeff Squyres from Cisco Systems presents: How to make MPI Awesome - MPI Sessions. "As a proposal for future versions of the MPI Standard, MPI...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Create a Trusted Hub to Engage
Not unknown. Have to do it well. In Adage: " ... L'Oreal Creates Unbranded Content Hub to Woo Beauty Fans ... Beauty Site Called Fab Even Covers Rival Brands...
From insideHPC
Paving the Way for Theta and Aurora
"One of the ALCF’s primary tasks is to help prepare key applications for two advanced supercomputers. One is the 8.5-petaflops Theta system based on the upcoming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Possibilities for the Amazon Echo
The NYT talks about the Amazon Echo. " ... This time it may be different. A bit more than a year after its release, the Echo has morphed from a gimmicky experiment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clearing the Fog in Neuroscience
Clearing the Fog on NeuroscienceElissa MosesCEO, Ipsos Neuro and Behavioral Science CenterAs an advocate and practitioner of applied neuroscience, I want to address...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominate for NSA Best Cybersecurity Paper Competition
The National Security Agency is seeking nominations for its Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition. The 4th competition is open for nominations...
From The Eponymous Pickle