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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
Manipulating Live Faces
Applications? Entertainment I imagine.Via the CACM: " .... Computer scientists from Stanford University and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany say...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon vs Wal-Mart
Walmart vs. Amazon: Can Bentonville Beat a Rival That Values Growth Over Profit?One Seems to Have Upper Hand in Fight for Online Dominance; the Other May Have Secret...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Software Intern at Intel
Intel in Oregon is seeking an HPC Software Intern in our Job of the Week. "If you are interested in being on the team that builds the world's fastest supercomputer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Happy with Hololens Pre Applications
In VRFocus: Indication that Microsoft is getting many applications for their Hololens virtual reality approach. Looking forward to applications for the enterprise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Sound Waves to Hack Data
Not a new idea. Research on this and related ideas were done at the Pentagon in the mid 70s. It has always been a potential security issue.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Thanks for Additivity
A mathematical metaphor for progress Cropped from source Nicole Oresme was a fourteenth-century polymath. He lived in France and became an advisor to King Charles...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Necklace
She's calling it an octopus, but it's a squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics in the Supply Chain
Nicely done overview of the topic. Sounds like an outline of areas I worked in for a long time. I do have to ask: What has changed since we started work in this...
From Schneier on Security
Data and Goliath in German
The German edition of Data and Goliath has been published....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Being ever more productive… is a duty
As we work at something, we usually get better and better. Then you hit a plateau. For most of human history, people have been hitting this plateau, and they just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Feature Engineering Tips
So what is feature engineering? Fundamentally it is the most important part of data science. Or of any analytic method, from the simplest to the most complex....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Pickings and More
In the NYT Books Review:‘Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs,’ by Lisa Randall ... review by Maria Popova who is the founder of BrainPickings.org and an M.I.T. Futures...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Retail Needs Instore Experience
Yes, apparently for at least some customers, and for those customers, to achieve maximum revenue. See also Herb Sorensen's take on this. More here after his...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Folding and Knowledge Processing
Semantic Folding ...Note the mention of Jeff Hawkins, who we connected with long ago. Posts re his Numenta company. Technical, with intriguing implicationsThe...
From insideHPC
Numascale Teams with Supermicro & AMD for Largest Shared Memory System to Date
Last week at SC15, Numascale announced the successful installation of a large shared memory Numascale/Supermicro/AMD system at a customer datacenter facility in...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing the Deep Earth with the Gordon Bell Prize Winners
In this podcast, Jorge Salazar from TACC interviews two winners of the 2015 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, Omar Ghattas and Johann Rudi of the Institute for Computational...
From insideHPC
Video: Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPC Customer Panel at SC15
In this video from SC15, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC moderates a panel discussion with Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPC customers. "Government labs, as well asVideo...
From insideHPC
PRACEdays16 Extends Deadline for Submissions to Dec. 13, 2015
PRACEdays16 has extended the deadline for its Call for Participation to Dec. 13, 2015. Taking place May 10-12, 2016 in Prague, the conference will bring together...
From insideHPC
Video: A Preview of the PASC16 and SC16 Conferences
In this video, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich and John West from TACC discuss the preview the upcoming PASC16 and SC16 conferences. With a focus on Exascale computing...![[Book] Research for Designers: A Guide to Methods and Practice](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
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