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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 April 2015
Here in New Hampshire we are on school vacation this week. Seems like a lot of places were on vacation last week. Like a lot of teachers I will be spending break...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Anti-Pigeonhole Conjecture
A conjecture about faculty behavior “Dr. Kibzwang” source Colin Potts is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Georgia Tech. His job includes being a member...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chartjunk Tufte Extract
If you have yet to see it, over the years have picked up several copies of the book, have seen Edward Tufte present it a few times, always something new stands...
From insideHPC
Video: Lustre + Linux – Putting the House in Order
In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, James Simmons from ORNL presents: Lustre + Linux - Putting the House in Order. "In the last year great strides have beenVideo...
From insideHPC
Jeff Layton on How 3D Flash is Changing the Market
"For a period of time, it didn't look like flash drives were going to decrease in price very much. Flash cell technology is limited to around 20nm because of cost...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkurious: New Tool for Graph Data Visualization
An interesting new tool I had not heard of, it competes with tools like Gephi (Open source, free) and Polinode, which I have used. Have not had experience with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book: Open Source Operation Research (OR) Tools
New book:Operations Research using Open-Source Tools, Hardcover – April 8, 2015by Jeffrey StricklandThey write: ...Operations Research using open-source tools...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disrupting Markets with Data
Using Big Data technology to disrupt markets. " ... Big data has made a dramatic impact on companies all over America, but running big data programs is only one...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is Operations Research?
Nicely done overview of OR, my formal training and thirty plus years of experience. Closely connected to Analytics, with the inclusion of the decisions needed....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Peak Work Performance
Former P&G and Microsoft executive Bob Herbold on How to Achieve Peak Work Performance. In his insightful blog." ... A couple of years ago a management research...
From insideHPC
Video: Monitoring a Heterogeneous Lustre Environment with Splunk
"Monitoring a large Lustre site, running multiple generations of Lustre filesystems can be a challenge. Some equipment offer vendor specific monitoring interfaces...
From My Biased Coin
Girls Who Code (Newton) Visit to Harvard
My friend David Miller is looking for instructors to help out with the Newton Girls who Code club. Here's an announcement, please connect with him if you're interested...
From insideHPC
SGI Powers Fionn Supercomputer at ICHEC in Ireland
In this video, Niall Wilson describes how ICHEC delivers top-quality technology services and support to universities and enterprises. "Based on the solution’s superior...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New System Modeler Capabilities: Reliability
Wolfram's new SystemModeler version brings new capabilities, examining. I like the mention of 'cyber-physical' systems. Most anything these days can be considered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Consumer Clusters
Coca-Cola rewiring marketing around ‘consumer clusters’ to make sales pop The drinks maker’s chief executive Muhtar Kent let slip the strategic shift today (22 ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Convergence of Retail and Mobile
In Think with Google:In this month's Creative Shortlist, John Boiler, founder of 72andSunny, spotlights digital campaigns from brands such as Target and TopmanTalk...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lack of Broadband Limits Telemedicine
In CWorld: A lack of broadband service is limiting the deployment of telemedicine services in some places of the U.S., and not just remote rural areas, some experts...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Unique Reproductive Habits of the Vampire Squid
Interesting: While most female squid and octopuses have just one reproductive cycle before they die, vampire squid go through dozens of egg-making cycles in their...
From Schneier on Security
Signed Copies of Data and Goliath
You can now order signed copies of Data and Goliath from my website....
From insideHPC