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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
High Precision 3D Printers
I have looked at several 3D printers now, mostly on the consumer end, and their precision was poor. Now new printer examples are emerging, with higher precision...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apps Emerging to Get Car Data
In Technology Review: " ... Courting App Makers to Unlock Your Car’s Powerful Data Trove Startups like Automatic are trying to interest developers in gadgets...
From Schneier on Security
More on Chris Roberts and Avionics Security
Last month ago I blogged aboutsecurity researcher Chris Roberts being detained by the FBI after tweeting about avionics security while on a United flight: But to...
From insideHPC
HPC Appliance Computing Goes Virtual
Altair’s HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual Appliance goes fully into the cloud with an Amazon-hosted option that lets users get started with HPC in just minutes. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning
A technical look, by David Barber, A free online version. Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning by David Barber is an ebook that is designed for final-year undergraduates...
From insideHPC
Barcelona Team to Build ARM Cluster at ISC Student Cluster Competition
A team of six undergraduate students from Barcelona School of Informatics involved in the Mont-Blanc project have been selected to take part in the 4th HPCAC-ISC...
From insideHPC
Thinkmate Offers Free Xeon Phis with Your Server
We don't normally report on pricing, but a free Intel Xeon Phi from ThinkMate sure sounds like a great deal. "Now through June, Thinkmate is installing Intel Xeon...
From insideHPC
Deep Learning at Scale
"We present a state-of-the-art image recognition system, Deep Image, developed using end-to-end deep learning. The key components are a custom-built supercomputer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Expanding Computing Education–Are We Forgetting Rural Schools
One big announcement last week was College Board and Code.org announc[ing] an alliance to improve diversity in computer science. The plan is to partner with the...
From Writing
A productive development environment with Docker on OS X
In this post, I'm going to explain why the way most programmers install, configure, and manage software in development, testing, and production environments is...
From Computational Complexity
Theory Jobs 2015
In the fall we list theory jobs, in the spring we see who got them. Like last year, I created a fully editable Google Spreadsheet to crowd source who is going where...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Practical Advances
A little late, but a good podcast on the topic:Roger Dooley writes, introducting their podcast:" ... In the past, Elissa Moses was Chief Research Officer with the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Seeking Ad Fraud
In Adage. A visit to a Google site that is devoted to identifying Ad Fraud. All this has evolved quite a bit. Been attacked a few times myself. Now the attackers...
From My Biased Coin
What makes a well-attended conference? (STOC 2017 Discussion)
I've always been impressed how the SIGCOMM conference accepts a very small number of papers, but many hundreds of people attend the conference. (This is true for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SPSS as an Enhancement to R
It was just pointed out to me that SPSS can be linked to R. Had known this but not the details. Worth a closer look. Upcoming Webinar on May 26 on the topic. ...
From insideHPC
Bright OpenStack Distribution Manages Private Clouds
Today Bright Computing announced Bright OpenStack, a fully integrated software stack for deployment, management, and maintenance of private clouds. The post Bright...
From insideHPC
Video: A Bioinformatics Pipeline for Analyzing Patient Tumours
In this video from WestGrid in Canada, Dr. Yussanne Ma from the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre describes how high performance computing supports her research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Testing Buy Button
In Retailwire: Is this the ultimate challenge for retail? Everyone searches. So making the buy as easy as possible is powerful. Embedded discussion is useful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sample R Packages for Input, Wrangling, Visuals
A nice survey by Sharon Machlis, it is always good to have examples of things you know you need to do, in a language that is relatively new to you. This is aGreat...
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