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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 …
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Exascale Computing Project BoF Days May 10-12
May 9, 2022 — The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) 2022 Community Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Days will take place Tuesday, May 10–Thursday, May 12, with six to eight...
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Better Mouse?
New Logitech Mouse. Better? We did many explorations of data and process entry in varying contexts. l mouse that’s easier to graspA trimmer build and left-handed...
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A Look at Ransomware
No End in sight?Researchers Share In-Depth Analysis of PYSA Ransomware GroupApril 18, 2022Ravie Lakshmanan in ThehackerNewsAn 18-month-long analysis of the PYSA...
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Pentagon Needs More Nerds
(In another time, between some other wars, I was a nerd at the Pentagon. Even now with much smarter devices, we need more hard and software, even beyond thefrom...
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Europe's Future Beyond Energy
For example in tech ...McKinsey Global InstituteSecuring Europe’s future beyond energy: Addressing its corporate and technology gap May 4, 2022 | ArticleBy Sven...
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War and Technology
Good piece on the topic and related implications. War and Tech (and ACM)By Moshe Y. Vardi Communications of the ACM, May 2022, Vol. 65 No. 5, Page 9 10.1145/3528570...
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Behavior Generation Method
I see that BJ Fogg, who we worked with at Stanford, always full of good ideas, is giving a free training session on his wanding behavioral method, I plan to attend...
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Grabbing With Feeling
Deeper sensors for haptic interaction.A Flexible Way to Grab Items with FeelingMIT News, Rachel Gordon, April 15, 2022The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's...
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AI and Synthetic Biology
Excellent topic we explored. Here a very good, largely non technical intro paper in the current ACM. I see this as a very direction in the years to come. Artificial...
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Trees in Wolfram
I see that the Wolfram language has added new and improved features using Trees. Below a good intro. As usual, Their capabilities, which we used in house, are...
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Generating Product Reviews with AI
Generating opinionated product reviews. Nice general idea, but how well? Everyone Has Opinions, Even AIDartmouth College, David Hirsch, April 25, 2022Dartmouth...
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Fast bitset decoding using Intel AVX-512
In software, we often use ‘bitsets’: you work with arrays of bits to represent sets of small integers. It is a concise and fast data structure. Sometimes you want...
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Introducing Quantum Sensing
Also new to me, quite the revelation that quantum effects can greatly improve how we sense. Sensing makes for more and more accurate data, here a short intro...
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General Dynamics IT Unit Wins $89.5M EPA HPC Contract
May 6, 2022 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded an $89.5 million contract to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a unit of aerospace...
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Meta Opens its OpenAI for Inspection
Seeking to take a deeper view. Examination can reveal key flaws. Home/News/Meta Has Built a Massive New Language AI—And It's Free in ACM NEWSMeta Has BuiltBy...
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A view of Industry 4.0
Manufacturing pulls together all the tech, data and process, a good read.McKinsey Talks Industry 4.0 and MoreDigital transformations are notoriously difficultSent...
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A Stone Could hold the key to Quantum Computing?
Completely New to me. An Ancient Namibian Stone Could Hold The Key to Unlocking Quantum Computers?DAVID NIELD 19 APRIL 2022 in ScienceAlertOne of the ways we can...
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Behavioral science driven public policy “led astray”
Many behavioral scientists propose and test interventions that attack policy problems by seeking to change individual behavior (adopting an “i-frame”) rather than...
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Security Now on Future Open Source
This week a very good podcast session in TWIT:Security Now: https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/869?autostart=false Regarding the future of security,...
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