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Real Time Data and in Store Experience
From The Eponymous Pickle

Real Time Data and in Store Experience

by Ritika Puri in Big Data Hub:" ... Today's shoppers are more connected than ever. Mobile technology blurred the lines between digital and offline experiences,...

D-Wave Quantum Computing Claims Leap
From The Eponymous Pickle

D-Wave Quantum Computing Claims Leap

In CACM:   " ... D-Wave Systems, which makes computers with some quantum properties, announced its latest device, the D-Wave 2X, which the company claims is upAn...

Illustrated Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Illustrated Science

In the Verge:   I honestly like illustration that is more to the point and less artistic." ... Learning about science can be tedious at times. Scientists aren't...

Enterra Solutions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enterra Solutions

Enterra: Brought to my attention, a company offering cognitive solutions:" ... Enterra is bringing the promise and power of Big Data Analytics and Insights to industry...

Jaunt VR Camera Rig
From The Eponymous Pickle

Jaunt VR Camera Rig

In Wired: Fully immersive 3D filmmaking for virtual reality." ... Jaunt VR officially announced Neo, which it’s calling “a series of professional-grade camera systems...

SIGACT Meeting, Some Stuff
From My Biased Coin

SIGACT Meeting, Some Stuff

As some of you know, I was recently elected to the position of SIGACT (ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory) Chair.  So some part ofpreview...

Friday Squid Blogging: Calamari Ripieni Recipe
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Calamari Ripieni Recipe

Nice and easy Calamari Ripieni recipe, along with general instructions on cooking squid: Tenderizing squid is as simple as pounding it flat -- if you're going to...

SUPER Project Aims at Efficient Supercomputing for Scientists
From insideHPC

SUPER Project Aims at Efficient Supercomputing for Scientists

"SUPER builds on past successes and now includes research into performance auto-tuning, energy efficiency, resilience, multi-objective optimization, and end-to-end...

Cognitive Systems Institute: Request for Engagement
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognitive Systems Institute: Request for Engagement

Been writing at the Cognitive Systems Institute Linkedin site for more than a year.  Based on my experiences with Enterprise AI.   The site is a good place to see...

NSA Plans for a Post-Quantum World
From Schneier on Security

NSA Plans for a Post-Quantum World

Quantum computing is a novel way to build computers -- one that takes advantage of the quantum properties of particles to perform operations on data in a very different...

Video: Computer Science – America’s Untapped Opportunity
From insideHPC

Video: Computer Science – America’s Untapped Opportunity

"Software and computers are everywhere, revolutionizing every field around us. But the majority of schools don't teach computer science. Code.org believes every...

Interview: An Exhibits Preview of SC15
From insideHPC

Interview: An Exhibits Preview of SC15

With Summer winding down, SC15 is just around the corner. With a smaller exhibits space than previous years, the SC15 Exhibits Chair Trey Breckenridge was faced...

Video: Intel Announces Collaborative Cancer Cloud
From insideHPC

Video: Intel Announces Collaborative Cancer Cloud

In this video from IDF 2015, Intel and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announce the Collaborative Cancer Cloud, a precision medicine analytics platform...

Bottom-Up Advocacy
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Bottom-Up Advocacy

If you look back through American history for examples of successful grassroots movements that led to policy changes you may notice a few common threads. TradeContinue...

Learning Machine Learning for Programmers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning Machine Learning for Programmers

May have mentioned this before, but here is a good post by Jason Brownlee.  Somewhat pictorial.   This takes it to a process 'how' level, but not all the way to...

SS7 Phone-Switch Flaw Enabled Surveillance
From Schneier on Security

SS7 Phone-Switch Flaw Enabled Surveillance

Interesting: Remember that vulnerability in the SS7 inter-carrier network that lets hackers and spies track your cellphone virtually anywhere in the world? It's...

How I Spent My Summer Break From School
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How I Spent My Summer Break From School

I'm in school today - first day back for teachers. I guess that means that summer is over for me. Every fall and through the year I always tell myself that I’mSimpleK12...

IRI on Private Label and National Brands
From The Eponymous Pickle

IRI on Private Label and National Brands

In Retailwire:  And discussion." .... IRI in their latest Times & Trends report offers this advice: "Ensure that price is a lever that creates demand without diminishing...

Lessons from Google's Anouncement
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lessons from Google's Anouncement

In Bob Herbold's Blog.  Quite a considerable interest in this lately.  Here from a former Microsoft and Procter&Gamble executive.  Insiders perspective.

Significance and Uncertainty
From The Eponymous Pickle

Significance and Uncertainty

In Flowingdata: Short lesson in significance.   Is the p value being misused to determine publishable significance for correlation?  ( I don't know the truth of...
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