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Similarity-Sensitive Diversity
From The Noisy Channel

Similarity-Sensitive Diversity

In my work on search engines and recommender systems, I’ve thought a lot about entropy and diversity. I named my first blog, The Noisy Channel, after a seminalClaude...

MIT Workshop on AI Generated Characters
From The Eponymous Pickle

MIT Workshop on AI Generated Characters

Brought to my attention, interesting look at using Virtual characters.   Positive use cases emphasized.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se6eSBT6D1YThis full-day...

HPE Wins $35M HPC DR Deal with Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology
From insideHPC

HPE Wins $35M HPC DR Deal with Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology

Aug. 11, 2022 — Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has purchased a high performance computing system from HPE in a three-year deal for US$35 million. The new system...

Quick Look at AI and Banking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quick Look at AI and Banking

Not too much here, but made me think about the broader problem. AI Is Transforming How We BankBy The Information,  August 11, 2022Crypto is far from the only technological...

McKinsey on the Coming Data Driven, Smart Workflow
From The Eponymous Pickle

McKinsey on the Coming Data Driven, Smart Workflow

From McKinsey; The data-driven enterprise of 2025Rapidly accelerating technology advances, the recognized value of data, and increasing data literacy are changing...

Privacy and Robots in the Home
From The Eponymous Pickle

Privacy and Robots in the Home

 Implications of Amazon's acquisition of iRobot and more:iRobot CEO Colin Angle on Data Privacy and Robots in the Home In light of Amazon’s recent acquisition, ...

SDSC’s Peter Rose Wins COVID-19 NIH/NICHD Award
From insideHPC

SDSC’s Peter Rose Wins COVID-19 NIH/NICHD Award

Aug. 9, 2022 — Peter Rose, director of the Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, was recently presented with...

You’re Invited! Take the insideHPC Reader Survey
From insideHPC

You’re Invited! Take the insideHPC Reader Survey

insideHPC invites you to take our reader survey, your feedback will help us keep publishing relevant content that HPC users and vendors need. In return for your...

Experiment Could Solve Huge Challenge in Quantum Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Experiment Could Solve Huge Challenge in Quantum Computing

Considerable advance?Experiment Could Solve Huge Challenge in Quantum ComputingScienceAlertMichelle Starr, August 8, 2022Scientists at Japan's National Institutes...

Animation Tool for Posing for Videogames
From The Eponymous Pickle

Animation Tool for Posing for Videogames

 Animation and VideogamesVideogames: Posing in 3DUniversity of MontrealSalle De Presse, July 27, 2022An animation tool developed by researchers from Canada's Universit...

DOE Picks Los Alamos Lab for $9.25M Nuclear Energy Research HPC Project
From insideHPC

DOE Picks Los Alamos Lab for $9.25M Nuclear Energy Research HPC Project

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the selection of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to lead a $9.25 million, five-year collaborative project...

Kroger Rolls Out Belt-Driven Self-Checkout Lanes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Rolls Out Belt-Driven Self-Checkout Lanes

Will go to see this example of autonomy. Kroger expanding new belted self-checkout to 20 Tri-State stores Calls test of new high tech lanes a success Kroger...

Update on Autonomous Cars
From The Eponymous Pickle

Update on Autonomous Cars

Still waiting ...Where Are The Autonomous Cars?By Semiconductor Engineering, August 9, 2022Level 5 vehicles, which are self-driving in all road situations, do not...

Content Quality
From The Noisy Channel

Content Quality

Despite its importance, content quality is hard to define without devolving into circularity. What we mean by content quality is a measure or collection of measures...

TSMC Reports 50% Y0Y Revenue Increase
From insideHPC

TSMC Reports 50% Y0Y Revenue Increase

HSINCHU, Taiwan – Aug. 10, 2022 – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC: NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for July 2022: On a consolidatedTSMC...

RMACC Names Poster Winner at HPC Symposium
From insideHPC

RMACC Names Poster Winner at HPC Symposium

BOULDER, CO – Haniye Kashgarani, a graduate student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, has been named the winner of the annual student poster competitionRMACC...

Velocity of Response and Proactivity in Supply Chain Risk Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Velocity of Response and Proactivity in Supply Chain Risk Management

 Good thoughts here,  make them work. Supply Chain Risk ManagementAugust 10, 2022:   By    Russell W. Goodman, in SupplyChainBrainVelocity of response and proactivity...

Found and Displayed from Space
From The Eponymous Pickle

Found and Displayed from Space

Found in Space:    This image of the Cartwheel and its companion galaxies is a composite from the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and...

Argonne’s Polaris Supercomputer Deployed for Scientific Research
From insideHPC

Argonne’s Polaris Supercomputer Deployed for Scientific Research

Argonne National Laboratory announced that the Polaris supercomputer, a 44-petaflops HPE system powered by AMD CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs, is now open to the research...

Travis Humble Named Director of Quantum Science Center at ORNL
From insideHPC

Travis Humble Named Director of Quantum Science Center at ORNL

Travis Humble has been named director of the Quantum Science Center headquartered at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The QSC is a multi...
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