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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 Schneier on Security
Cory Doctorow on Software Security and the Internet of Things
Cory Doctorow has a good essay on software integrity and control problems and the Internet of Things. He's writing about self-driving cars, but the issue is much...![[Report] Easier Said Than Done](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Report] Easier Said Than Done
Easier Said Than Done: Why we struggle with healthy behaviours and what to do about it By Nathalie Spencer RSA, December 2015 Many of us know what we should be[Report]...
From Putting People First
[Book] The People’s Platform
The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age By Astra Taylor Picador, 288 pages April 2015 The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented...
From Putting People First
The technophiles unhappy about the tech revolution
Joel Achenbach reports in the Washington Post on how digital dissenters say human needs are getting lost in the digital revolution and start to fight the tech establishment...
From Putting People First
Ethno-writing about digital infrastructure
Data & Society is a NYC-based research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development. The institute that...
From Writing
A Look Back at 2015
To paraphrase Bill Gates, most people overestimate what they can do in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. I definitely underestimated my 2015 and...
From Writing
A Look Back at 2015
To paraphrase Bill Gates, most people overestimate what they can do in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. I definitely underestimated my 2015 and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
LG Announces Smart Home Hub
Looks like an Echo cylinder with a small screen and speaker. But is not voice activated. In the past have been impressed by LG's experiments with smart appliances...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning is optimization
It is nice to be reminded that the math part of Machine Learning is optimization. Because that was my original training, in the form of 'Operations Research'.O'Reilly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need Better Metadata Services
Favorite topic stemming from recent consulting interaction. Creative look at the implications. I always more broadly define metadata as also including contextual...
From insideHPC
Podcast: HPE and Intel Alliance for High Performance Computing & Big Data
In this Chip Chat podcast, Bill Mannel, Vice President and General Manager for HPC and Big Data from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) describes the High Performance...
From insideHPC
China’s HPC Vendors Look to US and European Markets
Who are the world’s most important vendors of supercomputers, at least as measured by the number of systems they have in the Top500? HP is the leader with a 31China...
From insideHPC
Dispelling the Myth “OpenMP Does Not Scale”
Ruud van der Pas from Oracle presented this talk at OpenMPcon. "Unfortunately it is a very widespread myth that OpenMP Does Not Scale – a myth we intend to dispel...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Code in Different Languages
The other day I found an older blog post by Rob Underwood called Code Syntax Compared. In it he wrote a very simple program in 5 different languages. He used Python...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My most popular posts in 2015 (part II)
Techno-optimism For several years now, I have grown more optimistic about the power of human innovation. Despite the barrage of bad news, the fact is that we are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning for Decision Making and Control
Robot Deep Learning.Deep Learning for Decision Making and ControlPublished on Mar 18, 2015A remarkable feature of human and animal intelligence is the ability to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
No UI is the New UI
A novel look at conversational, messenger style interfaces. Implies that the US can well understand context and even intent. What are the implications of error...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Face Watch: Thief Recognition
Already much in use in Vegas casinos. Categorizing facial images in real time based on stored images. Implications of false positives? Experiments described...
From Schneier on Security
Another Scandal Resulting from E-mails Gone Public
A lot of Pennsylvania government officials are being hurt as a result of e-mails being made public. This is all the result of a political pressure to release the...
From The Eponymous Pickle