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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
My most popular posts in 2015… (part I)
Programming If you want the world to get progressively better, you have to do your part. Programmers can’t wait passively for hardware to get better. We need to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disease Diagnosis, Data Analysis
Instructive, technical piece on disease diagnosis using Bayesian analysis. Includes R code for implementation. Cautionary analysis of the results. Particular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Philip Tetlock and Super Forecasting
Recently covered in the BBC with an introductory article and broadcast. About the gradual improvement of forecasting and the use of tournaments to drive them...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Introduces Open Location Codes
Long time fascination with maps and location. Google Earth and Google Maps, linked to satelite imagery amazed me in the way they brought interactive maps toFurther...
From Schneier on Security
NSA/GCHQ Exploits Against Juniper Networking Equipment
The Intercept just published a 2011 GCHQ document outlining their exploit capabilities against Juniper networking equipment, including routers and NetScreen firewalls...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 December 2015
I just realized that this will be the last interesting links post of 2015. What a year it has been. Last week I spent less time online or thinking about schoolThe...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: InterCloud-HPC 2016 in Austria
The InterCloud-HPC 2016 conference has issued its Call for Papers. As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2016)...
From insideHPC
Video: The SeqAn C++ Library for Efficient NGS Sequence Analysis
"SeqAn (www.seqan.de) is an open-source C++ template library (BSD license) that implements many efficient and generic data structures and algorithms for Next-Generation...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Why Is Discrete Math Hard To Teach?
A new approach to teaching discrete math René Descartes and François Viète are mathematicians who have something in common, besides being French. Let’s get back...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Book: On Causes
Reading excellent book that addresses a favorite, fundamental topic. Non Technical.Why: A Guide to Finding and Using Causesby Samantha Kleinberg"Kleinberg expertly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Homekit Thermostat for a Smart Home
The humble home thermostat has always been a model for the sensing device. Even for the future of pattern matching AI. Have been examining examples like thea...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats a Data Lake?
Nicely done overview. In a world of cheaper storage, more data and metadata, better BI and deep analytics, toward automated modeling methods .... makes much...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Signage 2.0 Advances as Data Art
Good overview of the advance of digital signage. We spent much time trying to understand its effective in store use. Beyond retail grocery retail? Perhaps. "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Big Data Visualization
From InsideBigData:In this special guest feature, Jans Aasman Ph.D., psychologist and expert in cognitive science as well as CEO of Franz Inc., discusses the use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Localized Web Pages for Beacons and Search
In Retailwire: With obvious applications to beacon interactions and segmentation attached to locations. Other integrations with analytics? What is the best"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Science of Skylines
When suggestions were being made as to the change of the Cincinnati skyline I recall talking to an architect on the implications. And how technology of the time...
From insideHPC
HPC Facility in London Named After Dr Rosalind Franklin
A new high performance computing and cloud facility has been unveiled by scientists in London, named after Dr Rosalind Franklin, the unsung heroine of elucidating...
From insideHPC
Video: InfiniBand Trade Association Update
Bill Lee presented this talk at the Mellanox booth at SC15. "The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) was founded in 1999 and is chartered with maintaining and furthering...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Workshop for Network Theory
A recent meeting on network theory by the Santa Fe Institute. We used these approaches for supply chain models, and for marketing decisions. Looking for more...
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