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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
CNET Smarthome Experiences Fragmentation
Now that we finally have a large number of potential interactive components for the smart home, how will they work together? CNET discovers, as I have, that...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture
A kind of hierarchy collapse? Cropped from father-son bio source Garrett Birkhoff was a mathematician who is best known for his research on lattices, and also his...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Lost my bet: the PC isn’t dead… yet
I can’t predict the future, nobody can… but I think betting on the future is a good intellectual workout. It forces you to think beyond your day-to-day activities...
From Geeking with Greg
Tablets replacing PCs: Resolving the $100 bet
In 2012, Professor Daniel Lemire and I bet $100 over the question of whether tablets would replace PCs. Specifically, the bet was, "In some quarter of 2015, the...
From updated sporadically at best
What My PhD Was Like
Recently, I have been talking to many prospective PhD students about choosing graduate institutions and advisors. In addition to excitement, there is fear and confusion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fintech Evolves, and this Blog Does too.
I just noticed that the term Fintech had never been used in this blog before this year. So is it that a new term? I have just updated the text tagsFintech toFintech...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Financial Revolutionist
Newly discovered, the Financial Revolutionist weekly newsletter on Fintech. I admit even the term Fintech (Financial Technology). Was new to me. Nicely done...
From insideHPC
Video: HPC, Deep Learning and GPUs
"From image recognition in social media to self-driving cars and medical image processing, deep learning is everywhere in our daily lives. Learn about recent advancements...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Supercomputing Systems Administrator at Lockheed Martin
"This Lockheed Martin Enterprise Business Services (EBS) position performs as a Systems Administrator supporting Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Information Technology...
From XRDS
From Human Brains to Computer Brains
Intelligent Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Recommenders, Machine Learning and the list of endless fancy words that popup here and there over websites will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Selling Diapers Under a new Name
It remains interesting that Amazon will attempt to compete in classic private label brands:In Retailwire:" ... Parents don't take diapers lightly. Amazon discovered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dialog Connection LTD
From Maria Aretoula Dialog Connection. Voice Recognition application, Speech IVR, Voice User Interface (VUI), Design, Testing, Tuning and Optimisation. ......
From The Eponymous Pickle
Elements of Python Style
Via O'Reilly some interesting technical aspects of Python programming. An introductory tutorial, On Fluid code. and more videos.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Books v eBooks
Still buy them both, but moving towards eBooks. Even my public library provides them. Bit I like the feel of the physical book, and its at a glance browse-ability...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Traffic Light Project in Several Acts
Dawn DuPriest posted an interesting project on her blog - Teaching event-based programming – a traffic light. I like it a lot. It’s a good way to introduce state...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Energy Converter Inspired by Squid
Engineers have invented a wave energy converter that works in the same way that squid propel themselves through the water. As usual, you can also use this squid...
From insideHPC
Registration Open for MSST Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology
Registration is now open for the 32nd International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST 2016). As the premier conference for massive-scale...
From insideHPC
Bull Builds Bura Supercomputer at University of Rijeka
Today Bull Atos announced it has successfully installed the most powerful supercomputer in the Adriatic region. Named after the Croatia North Wind, the new Bura...
From Schneier on Security
Notice and Consent
New Research: Rebecca Lipman, "Online Privacy and the Invisible Market for Our Data." The paper argues that notice and consent doesn't work, and suggests how is...
From The Eponymous Pickle