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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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The Angst Overhead
In high school, our crew coach often reminded us to relax our faces. Crew is a sport based on precision and pain. Though frowning is often the natural response,...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
It is easy to lose sight of why we do things…
I like to write and publish research papers. I think it can be tremendously useful. A research paper serves as a reference describing what was done and what was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mismeasure of Uncertainty
Stephen Few thoughtfully reviews Willful Ignorance: The Mismeasure of Uncertainty, by Herbert Weisberg.Modern science relies heavily on an approach to the assessment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driving Everyone Towards an Innovative Firm
In Innovation Management: Innovation is very much the word of the moment. We hear it used in science, the arts, in politics, in society, and often for good reason...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Social Media Insights
On Using IBM Watson Analytics for Advanced Social Media Insights - SHIFT Communications PR Agency ... " ... As marketers and communicators, we must alwaysUntil...
From Putting People First
How the World Bank is ‘nudging’ attitudes to health and hygiene
Many of the problems governments and NGOs in developing countries are trying to fix are at least partly behavioural. This is where nudge theory comes in. It isHow...
From Putting People First
McKinsey on customer experience
McKinsey just published no leas than six articles on customer experience: From touchpoints to journeys: Seeing the world as customers do To maximize customer satisfaction...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Whale Mistaken for Squid
A purported giant squid that washed up on the shore in Norfolk, England, is actually a minke whale. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
From Schneier on Security
Sabotaging Bicycle Racks
This is the first time I've heard of this clever hack. Bicycle thieves saw through a bicycle rack and then tape it back together, so unsuspecting people chain their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Impacting Jobs
In K@W: Interview with Martin Ford, author of "Rise of the Robots"." ... Today, robots are increasingly handling many jobs in manufacturing that were done byBut...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Continues to Work at Automatic Replenishment
Printer ink, detergent, other essentials for the smart home. As they continue to make headway in making the home smarter. From shopping list updates to directFurther...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Dell’s Imminent Acquisition of EMC
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Dell's acquisition of EMC, which is expected to close soon pending regulatory approval. "The transaction combines...
From insideHPC
Interview: Why Co-design is the Path Forward for Exascale Computing
"Co-Design is a collaborative effort among industry thought leaders, academia, and manufacturers to reach Exascale performance by taking a holistic system-level...
From insideHPC
With GPUOpen, CGG Fuels Petroleum Exploration using AMD FirePro GPUs
Today AMD announced that CGG, a pioneering global geophysical services and equipment company, has deployed AMD FirePro S9150 server GPUs to accelerate its geoscience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner on Customer Journey Analytics. Then Thinking Beyond.
A manifesto, on customer journies. Nicely thought out. Then this made me think beyond the customer domain. Suppose I mapped the journey of an employee in an enterprise...
From insideHPC
Video: Panel Discussion on Exascale Computing
In this video from the 2016 Stanford HPC Conference, Gilad Shainer from the HPC Advisory Council moderates a panel discussion on Exascale Computing. "ExascaleVideo...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Theoretical Foundations for Social Computing Workshop Report
Contributions to this post were made by Jenn Wortman Vaughan, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and a member of the workshop’s organizing committee. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Industrial Simulation vs Agent Models
Had thought about this difference for some time. A new examination brought this paper up. A good technical, practitioner eye view. Here DES means Discrete Event...
From Schneier on Security
Data Is a Toxic Asset
Thefts of personal information aren't unusual. Every week, thieves break into networks and steal data about people, often tens of millions at a time. Most of the...
From Putting People First