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AI Breakthroughs
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Breakthroughs

 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEAI that makes images: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023AI models that generate stunning imagery from simple phrases are evolving into powerful...

Wearable Sensor Provides Cardiac Imaging on the Go
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wearable Sensor Provides Cardiac Imaging on the Go

I have a similar implanted device, but without the imaging and other smarts detailed here.  Wearable Sensor Provides Cardiac Imaging on the GoBy UC San Diego Today...

Reduce Costs while Accelerating Data-intensive HPC Workloads
From insideHPC

Reduce Costs while Accelerating Data-intensive HPC Workloads

Access virtually unlimited infrastructure with HPC optimized instances and quick interconnect speeds to run more complex (FEA) simulations faster. Reduce product...

Mary Queen of Scots Letters Decrypted
From Schneier on Security

Mary Queen of Scots Letters Decrypted

This is a neat piece of historical research. The team of computer scientist George Lasry, pianist Norbert Biermann and astrophysicist Satoshi Tomokiyo—all keen...

Behavioural change to reduce energy use
From Putting People First

Behavioural change to reduce energy use

Six reports on behavioural change and energy use: potential impact, obstacles, the role of policy makers, and how to best communicate to citizens.

Improving Ways to Search Visually
From The Eponymous Pickle

Improving Ways to Search Visually

Have tried this a number of times, still learning, like the idea, but it is hard to separate different elements of form effectively.   Any good guidance out there...

Google Maps Getting More Immersive and Stable
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Maps Getting More Immersive and Stable

As mentioned in todays event ... New ways Maps is getting more immersive and sustainableFeb 08, 2020 Chris Phillips, VP & General Manager, GeoLast year, we shared...

Microsoft will let Companies Create their own Custom Versions of ChatGPT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft will let Companies Create their own Custom Versions of ChatGPT

Make Sense to have tailored versions to enforce local uses and securityMicrosoft will let companies create their own custom versions of ChatGPT, source saysFebruary...

Reactions to todays Google/AI Bard Event
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reactions to todays Google/AI Bard Event

Nicely done, worth taking a look, should still be available om the Google Youtube site.Here my very early impressions.  Based on building systems that did this.Not...

NetApp Announces Flash Storage Data Center Product Line
From insideHPC

NetApp Announces Flash Storage Data Center Product Line

SAN JOSE — February 7, 2023 — NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced the upcoming availability of the NetApp AFF C-Series, a family of capacity flash storage options...

China's Baidu's ERNIE Plans to Compete
From The Eponymous Pickle

China's Baidu's ERNIE Plans to Compete

Have followed Ernie as an assistant style chatbot for some time, and saw chatbot style approaches like 'Ernie' in a visit to China.   Previously mentioned here....

Meta, Yet Another Contender in the AI Rush?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Meta, Yet Another Contender in the AI Rush?

Is Meta poised for this too?     Must this be VR oriented? Meta, Long an A.I. Leader, Tries Not to Be Left Out of the Boom  By The New York Times, February 8, 2023...

Using Causal Trees
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Causal Trees

Should always be thinking in this direction.   Usefully integrating analysis and reality with process.Understanding Causal Trees       Towards Data Science by Matteo...

SolarWinds and Market Incentives
From Schneier on Security

SolarWinds and Market Incentives

In early 2021, IEEE Security and Privacy asked a number of board members for brief perspectives on the SolarWinds incident while it was still breaking news. This...

Bit Hacking (with Go code)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Bit Hacking (with Go code)

At a fundamental level, a programmer needs to manipulate bits. Modern processors operate over data by loading in ‘registers’ and not individual bits. Thus a programmer...

ZeroPoint Raises EUR 3.2M to Cut Data Center Energy Consumption
From insideHPC

ZeroPoint Raises EUR 3.2M to Cut Data Center Energy Consumption

Gothenburg, Sweden, Feb. 7, 2023 — ZeroPoint Technologies AB announced today closed a EUR 3.2 million seed round in late January from climate tech investor Climentum...

atNorth to Open 5MW Data Center Campus in Helsinki
From insideHPC

atNorth to Open 5MW Data Center Campus in Helsinki

Helsinki, Finland – February 7th, 2023 – Iceland-based atNorth, a pan-Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider...

On the Front Lines of AI: Training Large Language Models on New Tasks – without All the Retraining
From insideHPC

On the Front Lines of AI: Training Large Language Models on New Tasks – without All the Retraining

Sometimes, machine learning models learn a new task without seeming to have learned – or been trained – to do it. That’s the findings of researchers at MIT, Stanford...

Google AI/Bard Event Tomorrow
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google AI/Bard Event Tomorrow

 This Google AI/Bard event will be live streamed on YouTube tomorrow morning, February 8th at 8:30 ET.  I plan to attend and report.   They also plan to talk about...

D-Wave Quantum Annealing Solving Protein Folding
From The Eponymous Pickle

D-Wave Quantum Annealing Solving Protein Folding

 Have mentioned our linking with D-Wave for very large search problems, recently some new news about their work in other spaces we also examined:  Protein Folding...
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