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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
Clara Schedules Meetings for You
Another example of AI assistance. Via Jim Spohrer. The improvement of Email and communications is a huge opportunity.If You CC This Robot, It Will Schedule Meetings...
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Uber, Big Data and a Process Controlling Things
How Uber uses Spark and Hadoop. Good useful piece in Datanami. instructive as to what is possible, with a well understood business process plan. Good example...
From Computational Complexity
Is Kim Davis also against Nonconstrutive proofs?
Recall that Kim Davis is the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples and was cheered on by Mike Huckabee and other Republican...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
JavaScript and fast data structures: some initial experiments
Two of my favorite data structures are the bitset and the heap. The latter is typically used to implement a priority queue. Both of these data structures come by...
From insideHPC
Video: Infinite Memory Engine (IME) Burst Buffer Experience at CSCS
Hussein Harake from CSCS presented this talk at the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference. “IME unleashes a new I/O provisioning paradigm. This breakthrough, software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reshaping the Workspace With AI
Liked this TechCrunch piece because it addresses workspace and workflow in ways that AI claims usually do not. Not only 'What' will be done with cognitive, but...
From insideHPC
Users to Test DataWarp Burst Buffer on Cori Supercomputer
NERSC has selected a number of HPC research projects to participate in the center’s new Burst Buffer Early User Program, where they will be able to test and run...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Samsung Opens Devices to Internet of Things
Samsung recently announced that it will allow more of its products to interact with its competitors’. Starting with this year’s Gear S2, a smart watch, all future...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Foolish enough to leave important tasks to a mere human brain?
To the ancient Greeks, the male reproductive organ was mysterious. They had this organ that can expand suddenly, then provide the seed of life itself. Today, much...
From insideHPC
Seagate to Lead Sage Storage Project for Exascale Horizon 2020
"We are excited that the H2020 SAGE Project gives us the opportunity to research and move HPC storage into the Exascale age,” said Ken Claffey, vice president and...
From insideHPC
Video: Intel Commitment to Lustre
"For High Performance Computing users who leverage open-source Lustre software, a good file system for big data is now getting even better. Building on its substantial...
From insideHPC
New Paper: Can 3D-Stacking Topple the Memory Wall?
Can 3D-stacking technology topple the long-standing "memory wall" that's been holding back HPC application performance? A new paper from the Barcelona Supercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and Game Based Training
Wal-Mart using game based training, Note the embedding and short format. Warehouses are a good place to start, often have a safety problem. " ... Warehouses...
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Photoship Fix
Reported in Verge. Most of the commonly used capabilities in Photoshop are now free with Photoshop Fix. I had a corporate account for years, but when leaving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printed Glass
3D Printed glass, first I had head of ths group at MIT" .... Humans have been making glass in various forms for thousands of years, from glassblowing techniques...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at the Grand Challenges of NSCI
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new round of Grand Challenges targeted by the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). The conversation...
From Schneier on Security
Automatic Face Recognition and Surveillance
ID checks were a common response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, but they'll soon be obsolete. You won't have to show your ID, because you'll be identified automatically...
From insideHPC
ESnet Releases Code for Building Online Interactive Network Portals
ESnet has released open source code for building online Interactive Network Portals. "Now that the libraries are made available, the team hopes that other organizations...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 5 October 2015
School is really rolling along for me. Last week we had our first progress reports due. This was followed up by a number of kids looking to make up missing work...
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