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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
Smarter Toys as Virtual Assistants
A kind of extension to the virtual assistant idea. Toys that can engage, inform, aid, teach. It is already here with advisors like Cortana, Alexa and Siri on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data as a Trillion Dollar Asset
A favorite topic. It is not only about the data, but how the data can be combined with other data in given contexts. It need not be 'big' in any sense, but valuable...
From insideHPC
Video: Blazegraph Accelerates Graph Computing with GPUs
“Analytics applied over complex, many-to-many data relationships hit the ‘Graph Cache Thrash’ bottleneck and grind to a halt, failing to deliver good performance...
From Wild WebMink
Winter Music
If you’d like some music for the dark nights (& days) that’s not so “traditional”, try these albums: Strange Communion by Thea Gilmore (previously covered) Wild...
From insideHPC
Oracle Acquires StackEngine Startup to Automate Docker
On December 18, Oracle closed an agreement to acquire StackEngine, an Austin-based startup focused on Docker automation. All StackEngine employees will be joining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Glucose Tracking Device
An example of new health sensor development by Google and Dexcom. Disposable device to track glucose levels.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford Winter Crowd Research Program
Via ACM. Register until the end of December.Stanford Crowd Research Winter ProgramAre you a designer, hacker, engineer, aspiring researcher? - come join the Stanford...
From insideHPC
How Much Does it Cost to Run an HPC Server in the Cloud?
In this video, David Bolton from Slashdot Media looks at the costs of running high-powered servers in the Cloud from three providers: AWS, Google and Microsoft....
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Solutions Architect at Intel
Intel is seeking an HPC Solutions Architect in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Solutions Architect at Intel appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Half of Psych Studies Cannot be Reproduced
So what does reproduce ability mean? Look first at the kinds of bias involved.In the Verge: " A surprising number of psychology studies can’t be reproduced ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Virtual Customer Experience
According to research by Gartner, 89 percent of executives are betting on customer experience as their primary mode of competition before the end of 2016.However...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Legal Aide
Another example of cognitive assistance:" ... Boaz Carmelli gave an excellent presentation today on "Argumentor" as part of our Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Pay Goes to China
In CWorld: " ... Apple partners with UnionPay to bring Apple Pay to China .... "China is an extremely important market for Apple and with China UnionPay and...
From Apophenia
What If Social Media Becomes 16-Plus? New battles concerning age of consent emerge in Europe
At what age should children be allowed to access the internet without parental oversight? This is a hairy question that raises all sorts of issues about rights,...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Penguins Fight over Squid
Watch this video of gentoo penguins fighting over a large squid. This underwater brawl was captured on a video camera taped to the back of the second penguin, revealing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Architecture of Data Science
Nicely done piece by Vincent Granville, about the 'architectural' considerations of data science. In roughly the order you should progress, but understanding you...
From Schneier on Security
GCHQ Holiday Puzzle
If you like puzzles, GCHQ has one for you. Just don't let it distract you from fighting the UK legislation giving the GCHQ new surveillance powers....
From insideHPC
Enabling New Frontiers in CFD Research at Argonne with Allinea DDT
Scientists from the Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center (CTTC) at the Technical University of Catalonia in Spain have harnessed the extreme performanceEnabling...
From insideHPC
Video: Seeking Submissions for New Papers Track at PASC16
In this video, David Keyes (KAUST) and Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich) discuss the new papers track at the PASC16 conference. After issuing their Call for Papers,Video...
From insideHPC