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From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartstones: Human and Natural Technology

A message from the Smartstones Startup, to which I have provided some help." ... Do you believe #tech should be more #human? Are you sick of all the menus, passwords... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 11, 2015 at 04:00 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Free Field Guide to Data Science

This appears to be very nicely done. By its title assumes a practical orientation with practitioner uses mentioned. The Field Guide to Data Science, In several... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 11, 2015 at 03:38 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Turning on Twitter Analytics

This was pointed out to me, a means of turning on Twitter analytics. Have not yet seen any associated reports. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 11, 2015 at 03:35 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Regression using R and a Start-up Kit

Via Vincent Granville. Good place to get started, since even beginning data analysts know what regression is and how to use it with other packages, Like Excel... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 11, 2015 at 03:20 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

30 Under 30: Young Scientists Who Are Changing The World

The Forbes 30 Under 30, is a tally of the brightest stars in 20 different fields under the age of 30. What these young men and women have accomplished in their... Helen Vasaly
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | February 11, 2015 at 03:12 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Using GMail for Business

A lengthy look at GMail, which I used during early tests in the enterprise. It is a good system I have grown to be accustomed to, it does not solve the basic email... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 11, 2015 at 02:45 PM

From Writing

Hello, Startup

Today, I'm excited to announce the early release of my book, Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams.http://www.hello... Yevgeniy Brikman
From Writing | February 11, 2015 at 02:41 PM

From Writing

Hello, Startup

Today, I’m excited to announce the early release of my book, Hello, Startup: A Programmer’s Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams.
From Writing | February 11, 2015 at 02:41 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Winning on the Digital Shelf

A look at winning on the digital shelf. On packaging e-content. Some interesting thoughts, but this is a promotion. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 11, 2015 at 02:40 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtual Reality Emerges

Peter Fader, Wharton Marketing Prof, and others weigh in on the wearable-enabled, virtual reality marketplace. Lengthy detailed piece. Will this finally make... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 11, 2015 at 02:01 PM

From insideHPC

Skoda uses HPC to Accelerate Automotive Innovation

Škoda Auto, was in need of scalable, high performance computing systems to perform complex product performance and safety analysis. In this case study we learn... staff
From insideHPC | February 11, 2015 at 12:34 PM

From insideHPC

A Merit Based Priority Scheme to Optimize the Use of Computing Infrastructure

"Following up on the “Streamlining Research Computing Infrastructure: A Small School’s Perspective”, this talk will discuss how a researcher’s priority in a shared... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 11, 2015 at 12:30 PM

From insideHPC

HPC’s Future Lies in Remote Visualization

Remote visualization is at the intersection of cloud, big data, and high performance computing. And the ability to look at complex data sets using only a mobile... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 11, 2015 at 11:39 AM

From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Lectures are the lazy person’s approach to education

Roger Schank is a famous computer science professor. His take on lectures is just brilliant: We still have lectures for one main reason. They are the lazy person... Daniel Lemire
From Daniel Lemire's Blog | February 11, 2015 at 11:03 AM

From insideHPC

Video: HPC Transforms SC Student Volunteers

In this video, former SC Conference Student Volunteer Christine Harvey describes how volunteering led to her current career at Mitre Corporation. Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 11, 2015 at 10:47 AM

From Schneier on Security

Understanding NSA Malware

Here are two essays trying to understand NSA malware and how it works, in light of the enormous number of documents released by Speigel recently.... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | February 11, 2015 at 07:33 AM

From Computational Complexity

Richard Hamming Centenary

Richard Hamming was born a hundred years ago today in Chicago. He worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, moved to Bell Labs after the war and started... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | February 11, 2015 at 07:23 AM

From Putting People First

Privacy is fast becoming the real disruptive force in digital technology

Data harvesting, data mining and analysis has transformed the way we look at our mobile devices and computer screens. Content is now adaptive and responsive to... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 11, 2015 at 07:18 AM

From insideHPC

Video: Recent Developments in Cooling, Power Management, and Usability

"As HPC systems and solutions become more focused on specific workloads, the need to address system level power, cooling, and power management while maintaining... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 11, 2015 at 07:00 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Google and Neural Nets

A look at what Geoffrey Hinton has been doing at Google with artificial neural nets. We examined his work in the 80s. Used it to mimic some things that had been... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 11, 2015 at 05:55 AM