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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
Superforecasting with Tournaments
I m a student of unusual markets and frecasts, and this forecasting approach with tournaments is described in some detail in a recent Edge article. Quite an"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telling a Brands Story with Graphics
In MIT Sloan: Experiments with graphic presentation of data are making it easier for sales people to see how they’re performing right in the field, according to...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Anatomy Class
Beautiful diorama. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Schneier on Security
Mickens on Security
James Mickens, for your amusement. A somewhat random sample: My point is that security people need to get their priorities straight. The "threat model" section...
From Schneier on Security
The Benefits of Endpoint Encryption
An unofficial blog post from FTC chief technologist Ashkan Soltani on the virtues of strong end-user device controls....
From insideHPC
Video: Big Data Powers Climate Research at BSC
In this video from the Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Big Data is presented as a key challenge for researchers studying global climate change. "Changes in theVideo...
From insideHPC
Video: Present and Future Leadership Computers at OLCF
In this video from the 2015 OLCF User Meeting, Buddy Bland from Oak Ridge presents: Present and Future Leadership Computers at OLCF. "As the home of Titan, theVideo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines as Talent
(More comments to follow)Machines as Talent via DeloitteCollaboration, not competitionThe impact of computing on work is not new, but it is accelerating. The...
From insideHPC
GENCI to Collaborate with IBM in Race to Exascale
Today GENCI announced a collaboration with IBM aimed at speeding up the path to exascale computing. Created in 2007 by the French government, GENCI with the aim...
From insideHPC
Arithmetic Intensity of Stencil Operations
Applications that use 3D Finite Difference (3DFD) calculations are numerically intensive and can be optimized quite heavily to take advantage of accelerators that...
From Schneier on Security
German BfV - NSA Cooperation
The German newspaper Zeit is reporting the BfV, Germany's national intelligence agency, (probably) illegally traded data about Germans to the NSA in exchange for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Exploitation Lagging
Good piece, the situation has been the case for some time. Technology leads, innovation exploitation is lagging .... There is a growing, perhaps even an overwhelming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Networks and the Nature of the Firm
Note the use of graph analytics to address this problem, often mentioned here, see the tag below. Do we need a way to quickly categorize a particular kind of...
From insideHPC
The Price of Open-source Software – a Joint Response
"Ultimately, we must accept that research is best served through using a combination of open-source and proprietary software, through developing new software and...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
HLF2015 / John Hopcroft, Diversity, and One of the First Computer Science Courses
This blog post originates from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Blog. The 3rd Heidelberg Laureate Forum is dedicated to mathematics and computer sciences, and takes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Product Design
The Future of Product Design (Free EBook via Autodesk with registration) How Emerging Technologies Are Disrupting the Product Lifecycle By Jonathan FollettDesign...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cancellation is a Pain
How to avoid the pain of estimating tough sums Cricketing source Andrew Granville is a number theorist, who has written—besides his own terrific research—some beautiful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Viz Description of Machine Learning
From R2D3:Very nicely designed scrolling and animated visual of specific machine learning methods. An introductory, intuitive and clear look, with no need for...
From insideHPC
Video: Stunning Simulation Shows Comet in the Solar Wind
In what has to be one of the most beautiful simulations I've ever seen, this video from the European Space Agency shows simulated interaction of solar winds with...
From The Eponymous Pickle