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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
At ISC: Dion Harris on NVIDIA’S HPC/AI and Quantum Strategies; LANL’s Upcoming ‘Venado’ 10 Exaflops HPC/AI System; and GPU Distinctions
We spoke at ISC 2022 with NVIDIA’s Head of Technical Marketing for HPC/AI and Quantum Dion Harris across a range of topics, including: The 10 exaflop (HPL-AI benchmark)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taking a Look at Binge Times
Reading this book, quite good so far, can it be used as a predictor of future times and Technologies? Predictably just a 'black swan' event, or more? More toBinge...
From insideHPC
Phase 1 of Pawsey’s Setonix Supercomputer Now Available to Users
Perth, Australia — The first phase of the Pawsey Supercomputing Center‘s Setonix supercomputer is now available, designed to offer a faster, user-friendly interface...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Toward Customizable Timber, Grown in a Lab
Not sure I would build with Zinnia Elegans, but assume that's a test plant. Fascinating direction. Toward Customizable Timber, Grown in a LabMIT News, Adam Zewe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Era of Borderless Data Is Ending
How will control be applied? Era of Borderless Data Is EndingThe New York Times, David McCabe; Adam Satariano, May 23, 2022More than 50 countries, including France...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Computer Science–Moving atoms not pixels
On my first visit to the Lifelong Kindergarten Group and the MIT Media Lab, I notices a message on the windows. “Some people would rather move atoms than pixels...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Says No to AI Patents
Contrary to the US it currently seems.UK decides AI still cannot patent inventions By Chris Vallance in the BBC, Technology reporterThe UK's Intellectual Property...
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Harvard Predicts Happiness
How specific or Even Specifically Useful?Harvard Developed AI Identifies the Shortest Path to Human HappinessTOPICS:Artificial IntelligenceHarvard Medical SchoolMachine...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Welcome New Computer Science Teachers
Spring is an interesting time on social media. I help moderate a couple of CS teacher groups on Facebook and let me tell you, membership is booming! Why? Well,Computer...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Fallows of Medium Data
Who will curate less-prominent datasets? Presidential Biography src Samuel Fallows was a bishop in the Reformed Episcopal Church. He was born in 1835 and headed...
From Geeking with Greg
Making it more difficult to shill recommender systems
Lately I've been thinking about recommender algorithms and how they go wrong. I keep hitting examples of people arguing that we should ban the fewest accounts possible...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Cigdem Sengul selected as the next ACM-W Communications co-Chair
Cigdem Sengul, current communications chair and secretary of ACM-W Europe, will be the next Communications Co-Chair of ACM-W, effective July 2022. Cigdem is a Senior...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meta and Self Supervised AI
More Meta AI?Meta’s AI Takes an Unsupervised Step Forward In the quest for human-level intelligent AI, Meta is betting on self-supervised learning BY ELIZA...
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Don't Fall for Quantum Hype: Hossenfelder
Another excellent short Youtube talk here: By Sabine Hossenfelder Don't Fall for quantum Hype https://youtu.be/b-aGIvUomTACheck out the physics courses that IWhat...
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Using Light, Sound to Reveal Rapid Brain Activity in Detail
Faster detail in photo microscopy. Note also use of sound. Using Light, Sound to Reveal Rapid Brain Activity in Unprecedented Detail By Duke Biomedical Engineering...
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Quadcopter Drone does Air, Water, Over and Under, Even Hitches a ride.
Expecting many more updates in drone autonomy, flexibilityA quadcopter that works in the air and underwater and also has a suction cup for hitching a ride on ...
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Cognitive Bias in Software Development
Intro to research paper in ACM, considerable, technical, worth understandingCognitive Biases in Software DevelopmentBy Souti Chattopadhyay, Nicholas Nelson, Audrey...
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We are Training Much Faster Now
Faster, better training is here outlined and described. We’re Training AI Twice as Fast This Year as Last New MLPerf rankings show training times plunging By...
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Microsoft AI Spots Ransomware?
Have not heard much of this elsewhere.How Microsoft's AI spots ransomware attacks before they even get started in ZDNetMicrosoft is targeting human-operatedWritten...
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