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How the First Transistor Worked
From The Eponymous Pickle

How the First Transistor Worked

 How far we have come.HOW THE FIRST TRANSISTOR WORKEDEven its inventors didn’t fully understand the point-contact transistorBy GLENN ZORPETTE in Spectrum.ieee A...

Regarding an NFT Bubble
From The Eponymous Pickle

Regarding an NFT Bubble

This surprised me,  below is an outline, and then beyond.  Legit?  Following up.  I will remove if I find this invalid. From DSHR Blog:   https://blog.dshr.org/...

Chinese Drones in Restricted Spaces
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chinese Drones in Restricted Spaces

Of course there are now many drones in that area, many Chinese built. But still a valid concern.  In American Military News: Hundreds of Chinese-made drones have...

Making all your integers positive with zigzag encoding
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Making all your integers positive with zigzag encoding

You sometimes feel the need to make all of your integers positive, without losing any information. That is, you want to map all of your integers from ‘signed’ integers...

Optimal Decision Making
From The Eponymous Pickle

Optimal Decision Making

 Technical, but quite interesting point being made.  Optimality may be a good thing,  but how do I embed it in useful real time decisions?  Notably too the consideration...

What authors want from AI ‘ghostwriters’
From The Eponymous Pickle

What authors want from AI ‘ghostwriters’

I was recently introduced to some examples of this, quite impressive.What authors want from AI ‘ghostwriters’Compute me a storyOctober 7, 2022 - 12:09 pmIn Sept...

@HPCpodcast: An SC22 Retrospective
From insideHPC

@HPCpodcast: An SC22 Retrospective

https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/044@HPCpodcast_SC22-Postview_20221123.mp3 In this SC22 post-view, Shahin and Doug go over what happened at the supercomputing...

Quantum Microscope
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Microscope

Intro, see also in Sabine Hossenfelder's  Youtube here:   https://youtu.be/fkXSCNDfj14 The quantum microscope revolution is here    in CosmosMagazine   By Lauren...

MITRE Attack Framework
From The Eponymous Pickle

MITRE Attack Framework

 When I worked with the Govt in the past, worked with MITRE,  impressive overall. I noted this recent introduction to their 'Threat actors' capability.  (whichIntroduction...

Seoul Patrols Streets with Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seoul Patrols Streets with Robots

Interesting approach but unlikely to be tolerated today in the West. Self-Driving Robot Patrols Seoul StreetsEuroNews, Roselyne Min, November 19, 2022South Korea...

Alternatives to Twitter
From Geeking with Greg

Alternatives to Twitter

About five years ago, I moved most of my blogging from here to microblogging on Twitter. In part that was from the shut down of Google Reader. In part I was finally...

[Book] Voices in the Code
From Putting People First

[Book] Voices in the Code

In Voices in the Code, scholar David G. Robinson tells the story of how one community built a life-and-death algorithm in a relatively inclusive, accountable way...

[Book] The Human Side of Innovation
From Putting People First

[Book] The Human Side of Innovation

PepsiCo’s award-winning chief design officer reveals the secret to creating life-changing innovations: putting human needs at the center of any design process.

2022 HAI Fall Conference on AI in the Loop: Humans in Charge
From Putting People First

2022 HAI Fall Conference on AI in the Loop: Humans in Charge

At the "AI in the Loop: Humans in Charge" conference, which took place Nov. 15 at Stanford University, panelists proposed a new definition of human-centered AI...

Consider the Chip Sandwich
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consider the Chip Sandwich

Chip Sandwiches improve Data TransmissionChip Sandwich Pushes Boundaries of Computing, Data Transmission Efficiency  By California Institute of Technology, November...

Energy Harvesting from 5G
From The Eponymous Pickle

Energy Harvesting from 5G

Requirements to run IOT Systems.  Energy harvesting: energy-autonomous IoT communication in 5G networks Press release / November 09, 2022 Minimal vibrations, ...

Morning Coffee Tech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Morning Coffee Tech

An Area I worked in, some details here, will dig somewhat deepedMorning Coffee Tech  By Luana Ferreira in the BBC   Business reporter, BrazilFor an estimated one...

The US Has a Shortage of Bomb-Sniffing Dogs
From Schneier on Security

The US Has a Shortage of Bomb-Sniffing Dogs

Nothing beats a dog’s nose for detecting explosives. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough dogs: Last month, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released...

Quoted in the Washington Post
From Geeking with Greg

Quoted in the Washington Post

I'm quoted in the Washington Post today in an article titled "It’s not your imagination: Shopping on Amazon has gotten worse." I'm talking about how Amazon used...

Relief for the Solution Architect: Pushing Back on HPC Cluster Complexity with Warewulf and Apptainer
From insideHPC

Relief for the Solution Architect: Pushing Back on HPC Cluster Complexity with Warewulf and Apptainer

[SPONSORED CONTENT]  How did you, at heart and by training a research scientist, financial analyst or product design engineer doing multi-physics CAE, how did you...
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