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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
Experience versus Innovation
General look in Innovation Excellence. A simplistic way to look at this is it is a form of 'generate and test'. With inexperienced youth generating and experienced...
From insideHPC
Video: Using Google Compute Engine Pre-Emptible VMs for Cancer Research
In this video from the HPC in the Cloud Educational Series, Marco Novaes, Solutions Engineer with the Google Cloud Platform team explains how the Broad Institute...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID and Beacons
We experimented with this in lab settings to test in store product interactions. More likely meaningful in areas like apparel. A further enablement of Beacons...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Business Value Through Graph Analytics
Graph Analytics is an interesting topic, but how it creates value is often hard to describe. A well known vendor Neo4j, provides some good examples of its value...
From Putting People First
The grand illusion of empowerment
Financial times journalist/anthropologist Gillian Tett deconstructs the idea that the internet hands power to the people. In fact, she writes, in most countries...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Slopegraph Visualizations
Have seen them often, but was unaware of the term. Most packages today support them, from Tableau to Python to R. I like the simplicity. In ForumOne:...
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A Look at Bayes Theorem
In Sciam: Bayesian thinking is growing. Here a largely non technical look at its value and limitations. Nice read. In general I find methods driven by Bayesian...
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Watson and Vineyards
IBM has been talking much about weather data and internet of things. So it is natural to see this piece about a process control style application to the watering...
From insideHPC
SDSC Health Division to Create Cancer Research Infrastructure
The Health Cyberinfrastructure Division of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is participating in a multi-million dollar project with City of Hope Cancer...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Program Director at Engility
engilityEngility in California is seeking an HPC Program Director in our Job of the Week. "Engility is recruiting for a Sr. HPC Program Director to lead a large...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Martin Lindstrom: Small Data
I see that former colleague Martin Lindstrom has a new book forthcoming: Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends . Have not seen it yet, but I like...
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Answering Why
Why? A Discussion about Cognitive Architectures and Deep Thinking!Jack Park from TopicQuests Foundation " ... a foundation dedicated to the support and evolution...
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New Google Glass
In CWorld: Look at the possible evolution of Google Glass, and likely competitors. Still just attentive (and intrusive) rather than VR immersive.
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Remembering Photos with Deep Learning
In CACM: Deep learning photo memorability" ... Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...
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Three Hundred Thousand Drones Registered with the FAA
In CWorld: Look to the skies today, they will be changing. More unexpected consequences will be arriving.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Have some Raspberry Pi
Just starting this book. Not very technical, but you need to be somewhat geeky to engage. Quite an impressive amount of software comes along: Starting with Scratch...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: North Coast Squid
North Coast Squid is a local writing journal from Manzanita, Oregon. It's going to publish its fifth edition this year. As usual, you can also use this squid post...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Innovation at Electrolux
Open Innovation at Electrolux. Appliance manufacturer we worked with for a while. The how is always interesting, but also the kinds of application being addressed...
From Schneier on Security
UK Government Promoting Backdoor-Enabled Voice Encryption Protocol
The UK government is pushing something called the MIKEY-SAKKE protocol to secure voice. Basically, it's an identity-based system that necessarily requires a trusted...
From insideHPC