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Does it Pay to be a Whistlebower? and ChatGPTs General Answer.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Does it Pay to be a Whistlebower? and ChatGPTs General Answer.

In HBS Working Knowledge and Podcast ... Business Research for Business LeadersTopics, Sections 14 FEB 2023 COLD CALL PODCAST follows ... Does It Pay to Be a Whistleblower...

James Barr von Oehsen Named Director of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
From insideHPC

James Barr von Oehsen Named Director of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

James Barr von Oehsen has been selected as the director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and...

Microsoft's AI Chatbot is Going Off the Rails
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft's AI Chatbot is Going Off the Rails

Quality very Important.  My own examinations of these methods found nothing so egregious.Microsoft's AI Chatbot is Going Off the RailsBy The Washington Post,  February...

Malicious ChatGPT Use
From The Eponymous Pickle

Malicious ChatGPT Use

As usual, interesting piece on security issues.Twit.tv   Security Now,   Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteSecurity Now episode 910  Ascon - Malicious ChatGPTMore...

NSF Welcomes Newly Appointed National Science Board Members
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Welcomes Newly Appointed National Science Board Members

Last week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) welcomed the eight newly appointed National Science Board (NSB) Members to NSF headquarters to identify issues...

Surfing Research Data Waves
From The Eponymous Pickle

Surfing Research Data Waves

 Key Data and Metadata gathered and collected for future use.Surfing the Research Data WaveUniversity of Stuttgart (Germany), February 10, 2023A new data exchange...

Fines as a Security System
From Schneier on Security

Fines as a Security System

Tile has an interesting security solution to make its tracking tags harder to use for stalking: The Anti-Theft Mode feature will make the devices invisible to Scan...

Above and Beyond Scholarship – Lauren Cairco Dukes, PhD
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Above and Beyond Scholarship – Lauren Cairco Dukes, PhD

Year of Scholarship and Conference Attendance: ACM symposium on virtual reality software and technology, 2007 Country of residence at the time of receiving the...

From Computational Complexity

It is more important than ever to teach your students probability (even non-stem students)

You are a college president. An online betting company says  We will give you X dollars if you allow us to promote online gambling at your University.I suspecthere...

Edie Schlain Windsor and same sex marriage
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Edie Schlain Windsor and same sex marriage

Edie Schlain Windsor was a senior systems programmer at IBM. There is more to life than computing though. She led the landmark US Supreme Court Case that was a...

Talking to Chat AI.  Early Chats:
From The Eponymous Pickle

Talking to Chat AI. Early Chats:

 Have been running ChatGPT from OpenAI for a couple of weeks now. Nicely done, reasonably accurate so far for  general questions.  Here I asked about the uses of...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Thanks to Rich

Richard DeMillo deserves, in my opinion, an award for his decades of research. A difficulty I believe is that he has worked on multiple areas and made important...

An Examination of Bing Chat's Secret Modes
From The Eponymous Pickle

An Examination of Bing Chat's Secret Modes

Shaky implementation, getting access.  These kinds of applications have to be very good, else they are worthless..   An examination of Bing Chat's Secret Modes ...

Tesla Autopilots Still a Problem
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tesla Autopilots Still a Problem

Seems a fundamental are of their autopilot system.  No resulting injuries known. Tesla recalls 363,000 cars over self-driving software  in the BBCTesla is updating...

Uses of Digital Twins in the Warehouse
From The Eponymous Pickle

Uses of Digital Twins in the Warehouse

Thoughtful look  at Twin based modeling.  5 Cases.Uses of Digital Twins in the Warehouse   in SupplyChainBrainThe digital twin of a warehouse — a real-time, 3D1...

Bing Chat  Vulnerable to Attacks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bing Chat Vulnerable to Attacks

 Implications unclear, but Bing Chat appears not to be unstable under attacks.  Still just in preview, but needs work.Microsoft's ChatGPT-Powered Bing Reveals Its...

NVIDIA GTC  Developer Conference: Metaverse: AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

NVIDIA GTC Developer Conference: Metaverse: AI

 NVIDIA GTC  Developer Conference March 20-23, 2023Keynote March 21Metaverse/AI Developer sessions.Here are short developer descriptions of developer sessions, ...

Considering Ambient IoT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Considering Ambient IoT

Good intro and discussion, and in particular thoughts about how this finally implements 'smart' cheaply and with easier integration of sensors and low power requirements...

The Promise and Difficulty of Geothermal Energy
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Promise and Difficulty of Geothermal Energy

 Have a long time interest in Geothermal Energy.  I see that Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder has a good state of the technology view of this effort in Youtube at:...

Tech Talk:  The State of Data Mesh
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tech Talk: The State of Data Mesh

New to me, may attend, details below and at the link.ACM TechTalksMarch 7 Talk, "State of Data Mesh" with Data Mesh Creator Zhamak Dehghani, CEO of NextdataRegister...
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