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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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in the Gulf of Thailand
Long article about a very lucrative squid-fishing industry that involves bribing the Cambodian Navy. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Correctness of Classification Models
A nice, short, all the basics piece on classification models, from DSC. Quality and correctness measures emphasized. A very classic and common machine learning...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Would an artificial intelligence “grow old”?
Old software tends to fail. If you upgrade to the last version of Windows, your old applications may fail to run. This is typically caused by a lack of update and...
From Schneier on Security
Rabbit Beating Up Snake
It's the Internet, which means there must be cute animal videos on this blog. But this one is different. Watch a mother rabbit beat up a snake to protect her children...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Uses of SmartPhone Beacons
A slideshare on the effective use of beacons. " ... Movintracks: We have chosen the top 5 stories from June, 2015 to get your creative juices flowing. These...
From insideHPC
Video: Intel Vector Advisor Unlocks Code Performance
In this video, Rick Leinecker from Slashdot Media describes the Vectorization Advisor, one of the new additions to Intel Parallel Studio XE suite. "Vectorization...
From My Biased Coin
The High Cost of Conferences
At some point, I'm convinced the "conference structure" is going to fall apart.Case in point -- I haven't bought my tickets yet for SIGCOMM because, unless I'm...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers in Film
I am a long time student of how technology is presented in film. In Computerworld, a list of a number of movies that, as it says, (mostly) get it right and computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recycling Online Content
This came up recently as I searched for years-old mention of technology in email posts. Some good thoughts on the process.
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG Needs Consumer Trust
In Supermarket NewsCPG execs: Consumer trust is key industry value, challengeBuilding consumer trust is a core value for more than 60% of business leaders in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Survey Results
A very common need. But how do you do a simple thing? It turns out you do it simply and cleanly. It is too common to try to add too many things, make too many...
From Schneier on Security
Clever System of Secure Distributed Computation
This is really clever: Enigma's technique -- what cryptographers call "secure multiparty computation" -- works by mimicking a few of the features of bitcoin's decentralized...
From insideHPC
VSC-3 Cluster Achieves 1.02 mPUE Rating with Green Revolution Cooling
Today Green Revolution Cooling announced that VSC-3 Vienna Scientific Cluster has achieved a mechanical Power Utilization Effectiveness (mPUE) rating 1.02, making...
From XRDS
Summer at XRDS: Issue on “Computational Biology” a comprehensive preview!
I am very pleased to introduce the June issue for XRDS on computational biology. I had the privilege to work as Issue Editor for this issue alongside Guest Editor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Grocery Automat
An ATM-style, robotic grocery store could be coming Des Moines, Iowa, might be the first market to test a standalone grocery store that is a cross between "an ATM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zapaday: A Calendar Store
Interesting concept, calendar as a forward looking event monitor. I worked with Recorded Future, which had some similar intent, but is more analytical. Some calendar...
From Schneier on Security
Details of the NSA's XKEYSCORE
The Intercept has published a highly detailed two-part article on how the NSA's XKEYSCORE works, including a huge number of related documents from the Snowden archive...
From insideHPC
New OpenPOWER Acceleration Center Opens in France
Today IBM announced the establishment of a new POWER Acceleration and Design Center in Montpellier, France. Launched in collaboration with Nvidia and Mellanox,New...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connected Products
In CGT: A natural outgrowth of the Internet of things. New kinds of connections and opportunities. . " ... To help IT and non IT leaders in manufacturing justify...
From Putting People First