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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Case Against Cases
How to avoid too many cases at least some of the time Theon of Alexandria was history’s main editor of Euclid’s Elements. Today I want to talk about case analysis...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
#CSK8 has been nominated for a Bammy Award in Education
#CSK8 is the Twitter chat community and online discussion that is being run by the CSTA K8 task force. In a short period of time it has built a large communityAbout...
From insideHPC
Video: Lustre Network (LNET) Router Configuration and Tuning
"n this session, Seagate covers configuration guidelines and tuning of LNET Routing from InfiniBand to Ethernet using Lustre 2.1 through 2.6 server/clients as well...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning to Love Your Robot Colleagues
In the WSJ: A historic view about how workers dealt with classic factory robots. But this goes beyond history and robotics. With the emergence of new, smarter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge Based Trust
Some of Google's work on knowledge-based trust is reviewed. But it is still unclear what this is. Are we trusting Google to determine truth? You could say they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ineffectiveness of Time Management Training
In the HBR: " ... The problem’s not just that we’re getting distracted from work; it’s that we’re getting distracted from important work by other work. How many...
From Computational Complexity
The New Oracle Result! The new circuit result! which do you care about?
You have likely heard of the new result by Ben Roco, and Li-Yang on random oracles (see here for preprint) from either Lance or Scott or some other source: Lance's...
From Schneier on Security
"Hinky" in Action
In Beyond Fear I wrote about trained officials recognizing "hinky" and how it differs from profiling: Ressam had to clear customs before boarding the ferry. He...
From insideHPC
NERSC to Install Cori Phase 1 Supercomputer this Summer
Today NERSC announced that their Cori Phase 1 system will be the first supercomputer installed in the new Computational Research and Theory Facility, which is now...
From insideHPC
Introduction to the Lustre File System
Although there are a number of truly huge implementations of Lustre today, the community is still far from reaching the maximum configurations that the Lustre architecture...
From insideHPC
RCE Podcast Looks at SaltStack Scalable System Configuration Manager
In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Mike Place about SaltStack, a fast and scalable systems and configuration management software for predictive...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Challenge Winners Examine Nanotech for Fighting Cancer
This week LANL announced that high school students Meghan Hill and Katelynn James took the top prize in the 25th New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge. Their research...
From insideHPC
TACC’s “Wrangler” Uses DSSD Technology for Data-Intensive Computing
Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center announced that the Wrangler data analysis and management supercomputing system is now in early operations for the open...
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Field Report from LUG2014
In this podcast, Rich Brueckner reports back from the LUG 2015 Lustre User Group Meeting. With something like 188 attendees this year, LUG reflects a user community...
From XRDS
CHI Day 2
The second day of CHI started off quite happily for me as I was presenting my new work on Proprioceptive Interaction (sorry for shameful link!) at the muscle-interfaces...
From XRDS
CHI day 1
The first day of CHI started with a great opening plenary by Lou Yongqi (check keynotes here and yes, check out WHO is the closing plenary!), which came forward...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More HoloLens Intro
More on Microsoft HoloLens. Impressive examples shown. You can sign up for alerts. Currently examining business and personal applications. When will this come...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Airplanes
Imagine this: A terrorist hacks into a commercial airplane from the ground, takes over the controls from the pilots and flies the plane into the ground. It sounds...
From The Eponymous Pickle
R Clustering and Data Visualization Example
Nice technical piece on advanced use of clustering and data visualization. Gives you an example of the kinds of choices being made by data scientists, and their...
From The Eponymous Pickle