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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast base16 encoding
Given binary data, we often need to encode it as ASCII text. Email and much of the web effectively works in this manner. A popular format for this purpose is base64...
From The Eponymous Pickle
'Jetson' Robots in Hospitals
What exactly is the Jetson Style? How will people react? ACM TECHNEWSJetsons-Style Robots Invading Chicago-Area HospitalsBy Chicago Tribune, December 21, 2022...
From insideHPC
Hyperion: Concerns about Trajectory of Classical HPC Helping to Drive Quantum R&D
In the face of tremendous complexities and uncertain progress, quantum computing continues to draw significant investments and R&D efforts from countries and companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scientists Apply ML Method to Help Diagnose Deadly Respiratory Illness
Machine Learning for Healthcare analysis ...' Scientists Apply ML Method to Help Diagnose Deadly Respiratory IllnessUC San Diego Today, Emerson Dameron, December...
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Process Allows 3D Printing of Microscale Metallic Parts
Aimed at very small parts.Process Allows 3D Printing of Microscale Metallic PartsCalifornia Institute of TechnologyRobert Perkins, November 30, 2022California Institute...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking the JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch System
Two men have been convicted of hacking the taxi dispatch system at the JFK airport. This enabled them to reorder the taxis on the list; they charged taxi drivers...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $33M Funding Opportunity for ML, AI and Data Resources for Fusion Energy Sciences
The DOE SC program in Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) has announced its interest in applications in the areas of machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NIST Revises Guidelines for Digital Identification in Federal Systems
Security of ID from NIST NIST Revises Guidelines for Digital Identification in Federal SystemsU.S. National Institute of Standards and TechnologyDecember 16, 2022The...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Announces Ampere ARM-based Servers
SAN JOSE, Dec. 21, 2022 — Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) has announced ARM-based series of servers as part of the MegaDC family. Using Ampere Altra and Ampere AltraSupermicro...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microscale 3D Printer for Multi-Level Anticounterfeiting Labels
Counterfeiting often a big deal in retail. Microscale 3D Printer for Multi-Level Anticounterfeiting LabelsUniversity of Hong Kong, December 13, 2022University of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Recognition Technology Scans Your Ear
First I have seen of this approach, reasonable.Facial Recognition Technology Scans Your EarUGA Today, Olivia Randall, December 8, 2022University of Georgia (UGA)...
From Schneier on Security
Critical Microsoft Code-Execution Vulnerability
A critical code-execution vulnerability in Microsoft Windows was patched in September. It seems that researchers just realized how serious it was (and is): Like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyber Sprint for Chemical
NIST Security for the Chemical SectorAnnouncement of 100-Day Cyber Sprint for Chemical Sector By Cyberscoop, October 27, 2022The sprint comes as the Department...
From insideHPC
Intel Annouces Restructuring of Accelerated Computing Group, Koduri Named Chief Architect
Intel announced today a restructuring and leadership change of its AXG (Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group). The organization’s EVP, Raja Koduri,Intel...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The size of things in bytes
storing 1 GiB/month on the cloud 0.02$US web site of my twitter profile (@lemire), HTML alone 296 KiB web site of my twitter profile (@lemire), all data 3.9 MiB...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Miami gets Robotic Uber Eats
Might provide an interesting example of how people interact with robots providing simple services. How much might this compete with fast food better than normal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Tabula Rasa: Reincarnating Reinforcement Learning
Intriguing, Agents learning from 'tabula rasa', from scratch. Makes me think of agent models we used to gather data and feed it to a process ... towards reinforcing...
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Flying Snakes to Help Design Robots
Always interested in examples of biomimicry ... here an unusual direction. Flying Snakes Help Scientists Design RobotsAIP Publishing, December 13, 2022Researchers...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Fusion Breakthrough or Increment?
And could a barrier be lurking? Her DoE page Jennifer Granholm is the U.S. Secretary of Energy in President Joe Biden’s cabinet. Last week, she said at a press...
From The Eponymous Pickle