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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Frogs and Lily Pads and Discrepancy
A breakthrough result shows the power of “almost” Cropped from Quanta Magazine source Terry Tao has done it again. In two beautiful papers with modest titles, he...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Frogs and Lily Pads and Discrepancy
A breakthrough result shows the power of “almost” Cropped from Quanta Magazine source Terry Tao has done it again. In two beautiful papers with modest titles, he...
From Schneier on Security
Living in a Code Yellow World
In the 1980s, handgun expert Jeff Cooper invented something called the Color Code to describe what he called the "combat mind-set." Here is his summary: In White...![[Free eBook] Understanding the Connected Home](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Free eBook] Understanding the Connected Home
Understanding the Connected Home: Thoughts on living in tomorrow’s connected home By Peter Bihr and Michelle Thorne Berlin, September 2015 Available on GitBook[Free...
From insideHPC
Out of Core Solvers on a Cluster
One of the most used algorithms in numerical simulation is the solving of large, dense matrices. Thermal analysis, boundary element methods and electromagneticOut...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Are Google and Apple About to Pivot?
The ability to pivot is a sign of agility. As technology continue to rapidly advance, how close are Google and Apple to pivoting? The post Are Google and AppleBLOG...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metro Group Accelerators
One of the largest global retailers, Metro Group, pushes innovation via technical accelerators." .... The METRO Techstars Accelerator moves into its hot phase:...
From My Biased Coin
This Year's Andreessen-Horowitz Meeting
Andreessen Horowitz had another Academic Roundtable, which I've written about in previous years (here, here). For me, the most exciting session was on VirtualMatthew...
From Putting People First
[Video] Genevieve Bell on finding the ‘why’ in a complex, data-driven world
Our world is continuing to become more complex, more intense and more data driven. Yet counter-intuitively, this is making the human element more and more important...
From Putting People First
Is it time to forget Big Data and focus on real people?
Big data opens up whole world of insight for designers, but only if we focus on the actual users behind the numbers, writes Maya Nix, the Marketing Content Producer...
From Putting People First
Using business anthropology for strategic cost reduction
When business anthropologists work with the C-suite of large companies, the clients or employers tend to be the chief marketing officer (for consumer research),...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Beyond the Code: A Day of Diversity and Inspiration
Monday was a day of inspiration and diverse voices. It was the second annual Beyond the Code conference in Ottawa, a labour of love for a group of volunteers mostly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gaining Visual Insights
A favorite topic we worked in a number of contexts for years. In one case analyzing and reapplying advertising copy. In another tagging consumer photos for ad...
From Computational Complexity
21st Century Problems
My youngest daughter, Molly, a high school senior talking colleges with a woman about ten years her senior. The woman remembered all her friends watching the clock...
From insideHPC
LBNL to Improve Batteries with Electrolyte Genome Project
A new breakthrough battery — one that has significantly higher energy, lasts longer, and is cheaper and safer — will likely be impossible without a new material...
From insideHPC
Video: HPC Tools to Discover New Drugs
"Intelligent Pharma is a biotechnology company dedicated to developing, commercializing and using new computational technologies for drug discovery. According to...
From insideHPC
Planning for the Convergence of HPC and Big Data
As an open source tool designed to navigate large amounts of data, Hadoop continues to find new uses in HPC. Managing a Hadoop cluster is different than managing...
From insideHPC
HPC Across the Enterprise: How HPC Transforms the Corporate IT Ecosystem
Thomas Leung from the GE Global Research Center presented this talk at the PBS Works User Group. "The commercial world uses significant HPC resources for simulation...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The “consensus” is sometimes wrong
Anyone who has a critical mind and who attended college long enough, knows not to trust textbooks. They are full of mistakes. Because textbooks tend to copy each...
From The Eponymous Pickle