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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 insideHPC
Hyperion Research Announces Winners of 2022 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
ST PAUL, Minn., November 29, 2022 — Hyperion Research, the globally recognized premier industry analyst and market intelligence firm covering high performance computing...
From Schneier on Security
Charles V of Spain Secret Code Cracked
Diplomatic code cracked after 500 years: In painstaking work backed by computers, Pierrot found “distinct families” of about 120 symbols used by Charles V. “Whole...
From Computational Complexity
Would you be more productive if you didn't log on? It worked for Christopher Havens!
There are times when NOT having computer access (is that possible anymore?) can make you MORE productive. 1) I did a lot of my Muffin Work when I was in MexicoTexas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leap-Second Gets a Considerable Pause
Surprising and oddly considerable pause in a natural measurement is agreed to. Rarely see this kind an event. Implications? Network-Crashing Leap Seconds to ...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for White Papers: Mid-cycle Robotics Roadmap Update
Through support from the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the US National Robotics Roadmap was first created thirteen years ago by a group of 120 people from...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Generic number compression (zstd)
I have done a lot of work that involves compressing and uncompressing data. Most often, I work on data that has specific characteristics, e.g., sorted integers....
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Generative AI Could Create Assets for the Metaverse
Have my doubts of how effectively , but interesting thought ... How Generative AI could Create Assets for the Metaverse | Jensen HuangCheck out the on-demand sessions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Driverless Trucks
A likely future of Supply ChainsThe Long Road to Driverless TrucksBy The New York Times, November 28, 2022Companies know the technology is a long way from theIn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Microscopy
More on the topic inQuantum-enhanced nonlinear microscopy in NatureCatxere A. Casacio, Lars S. Madsen, Alex Terrasson, Muhammad Waleed, Kai Barnscheidt, BorisNature...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Does Consciousness Change the Rules of Quantum Mechanics?
Hmm... Does consciousness change the rules of quantum mechanics?Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally...
From Schneier on Security
Computer Repair Technicians Are Stealing Your Data
Laptop technicians routinely violate the privacy of the people whose computers they repair: Researchers at University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, recovered logs...
From insideHPC
AWS Announces Water Positive Commitment by 2030
Nov. 28, 2022 — LAS VEGAS– Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced it will be water positive...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Pepper’s Ghost: an 1860s illusion used in ‘head-up displays’ ^JB
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (first published in 2007) When Pepper’s Ghost first appeared on the stage as part of one of Professor Pepper’s shows...
From The Noisy Channel
Attention, Expertise, Trust
I’m old enough to remember when the web was new, and honest enough to admit that I was a skeptic at the time. Fortunately, I was wrong, and I owe my career to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tiny, Private Houses
Noted change ... Pallet is making $7,500 prefab tiny homes that can be setup in 1 hour to help solve the homelessness crisis — see inside a unit at a Washington...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI is Solving Classical Computing's Quantum Problem
Intriguing mix of domains.AI is Solving Classical Computing's Quantum ProblemBy R. Colin Johnson, Commissioned by CACM StaffNovember 22, 2022The number of equations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Protests at IPhone Factory
Leading to some phone outages.China Covid: Angry protests at giant iPhone factory in Zhengzhou in the BBCPublished, 4 days agoProtests have erupted at the world's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lost Something? Search 91.7 Million Files from the '80s, '90s, 2000s
Seeing it all?Lost Something? Search 91.7 Million Files from the '80s, '90s, 2000s By Ars Technica, October 21, 2022The files on Discmaster come from the Internet...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (November 26 2022)
Molière’s famous play, Tartuffe, the main characters is outwardly pious but fundamentally deceitful. Are people who insist on broadcasting their high virtue better...
From The Eponymous Pickle