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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 Schneier on Security
How to Surrender to a Drone
The Ukrainian army has released an instructional video explaining how Russian soldiers should surrender to a drone: “Seeing the drone in the field of view, make...![[Book] Co-Cities](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] Co-Cities
A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services.
From Computational Complexity
Voter Suppression, Harvard Style
The following appeared on Harry Lewis's blog, here, hence it is written in his voice, though it is a co-authored. You'll see why later. I then have some comments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Europe, Germany, Gets first Exascale Super Computer
Europe get a big computing push. See here for more about the specs of Exascale computing.EUROPE GETS AN EXASCALE SUPERCOMPUTER Germany will host JUPITER, Europe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Augmented Reality Talent Sources
Agree, this is not common, perhaps in the game space? Appreciate the lack of connective knowledge. We spent some time at this in two very different domains....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generative AI and Games
Intriguing approach .The Generative AI Revolution in GamesExcerpt from James Gwertzman and Jack Soslow in a16z.com, Andreessen HorowitzAI, machine & deep learning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New AI Speeds Computer Graphics by Up to 5x
New AI Speeds Computer Graphics by Up to 5xBy IEEE Spectrum, December 1, 2022Examples of two-dimensional images rendered in three dimensions.Nvidia Instant NeRF...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trust in Online Content Moderation Depends on Moderator
See also previous note about this topicFairly obvious if the background of moderators is accurately provided. By Cornell Chronicle, November 3, 2022A human andNearly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fake News, Echo Chambers & Polarization: How Bad Is Social Media?
Sabrine Hossenfelder does a good job in covering a number of research papers on this important topic, and analyzes them. A fairly balanced look as I see it. ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding with ChatGPT–Armstrong Numbers
Trying out ChatGPT seems to be all the rage these days in certain geek circles. I may even be late to the game but I tried a few things over the last couple ofnarcissistic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Tiny Robotics
Still hard, but advancing. Minuscule Sensing Suite Is a Big Step Toward Robotic Gnats Tiny flying robots need even tinier flying sensors By Evan Ackerman in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Water Worlds?
The breadth of planet types is beginning to be seen ... Scientists may have found the first water worlds?Density suggests these "super-Earths" are more like giant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RIP Passwords Again?
Security advances. RIP Passwords? Passkey support rolls out to Chrome stableWith a huge list of caveats, initial Google passkey support is here.RON AMADEOPasskeys...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hololens Use Example in Healthcare
An example that as recently described to me in more detail. HoloLens Headsets Connect Patients, Metropolitan DoctorsBy ABC News (Australia), October 31, 2022HoloLens...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid in Concert
Squid is performing a concert in London in February. If you don’t know what their music is like, try this or this or this. As usual, you can also use this squid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overture Maps to Emerge to Compete with Google
Nice to see Competitive Geographical mapping, been using Google for some time. Google has done a great job, but want to see yet more creative things. Open...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Fails to Gain Traction in the Enterprise
More on Enterprise Blockchain, MaerskBlockchain Fails to Gain Traction in the EnterpriseThe Wall Street JournalIsabelle Bousquette, December 15, 2022BlockchainFull...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US-China Chip War Continues
A Space I am watching, regards the players and supply chain. Point me to other relevant information.US-China chip war: How the technology dispute is playing out...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Every Company Uses Software, but are they a Software Company?
Even more so now that we have things like ChatGPT, but we still need to understand increasingly deeper context when using the algorithms involved. Caution is...
From The Eponymous Pickle