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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Pill Image Recognition Challenge
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), recently published a Federal Register Notice for a national Pill Image...
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted: HPCAC Swiss Conference in Lugano, March 21-23
The HPC Advisory Council has posted the speaker agenda for the HPCAC Swiss Conference. The event takes place March 21-23 in Lugano, Switzerland. The conferenceAgenda...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Crusade Against Multiple Regression Analysis
In the EdgeYes, well known, but often ignored, is all the context in the model? Again in the realm of misusing statistics. A lengthy conversation withRichard...
From insideHPC
Video: HPE Solutions for Data-Driven Organizations
"As a result of a new alliance with Intel, HP is offering its HPC Solutions Framework based on HP Apollo servers, which are specialized for HPC and now optimized...
From The Noisy Channel
I agree with the widely expressed concern that the ubiquity of AIs gendered as female is…
That said, I understand the desire to humanize AIs, and gender is part of what makes us human. I just wish we could approach humanization…Continue reading on Medium...
From The Noisy Channel
I agree that the last thing we need in the tech industry is a reinforcement of gender stereotypes.
But to answer your question, yes, the AIs to create the calendar invitations. And I wouldn’t even have seen most of the conversation had I…Continue reading on Medium...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Cultivating weirdness
The simplest and safest way to live your life is by cultivating “sameness”. Look around at what successful people do, and do the same thing. All your cool friends...
From Schneier on Security
Survey of the Dark Web
Interesting paper on the dark web: Daniel Moore & Thomas Rid, "Cryptopolitik and the Darknet," Survival, 2016. (Technical annex here -- requires the Tor browser...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 February 2016
What a week. No school Monday because of snow. Stayed home sick on Friday. The first is a a lot more common than the second. I really hate missing school. I’m feeling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Storytelling
Good piece. Though I retain my opinion that the accuracy and ability to interact with the data is more important. Your story still has to first be an accurate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Rules of Data Visualization
In the National Geographic: Interview with Alberto Cairo. Interesting thoughts, But I still believe in simplification, accuracy and interactivity the most....
From Computational Complexity
∑{p≤ n} 1/p = ln(ln(n)) + o(1). read it here because....
(Last April fools day I posted four links to stories that seemed absurd and asked which one was false. They all were true. I recently came across five stories...
From insideHPC
Comparing FDR and EDR InfiniBand
Over at the Dell HPC Blog, Olumide Olusanya and Munira Hussain have posted an interesting comparison of FDR and EDR InfiniBand. "In the first post, we shared OSU...
From insideHPC
Video: Parallella Supercomputing
In this video from the 2015 RubyConf event in Columbia, Ray Hightower presents: Parallella Supercomputing. "Parallella is a single-board supercomputer smaller than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ensemble Methods for Tuning Results
Good overview. We used these methods before they were well understood. Modern coding makes this much easier to do, and even to adapt as your data changes. In...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Air Cargo
Some interesting thoughts, though speculations, embedded in this article. Makes sense for Amazon to test, control and optimize larger parts of its supply chain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simplicity Should Break Ties.
In Gartner Blog: Completely agree. And I will take the argument a step further. Simplicity should also guide your ordering of methods under consideration. Keep...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Travel by Hyperloop?
In the BBC: Supply chain and travel in a low pressure pipe at up to 1000 Km/Hr? All it may need is some infrastructure. In process.
From Writing
Startup Ideas and Validation
Every startup begins with an idea. This is a talk I did as part of NerdWallet’s NerdTalks Series that discusses how to come up with startup ideas and validation...
From Writing