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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
IBM Quantum Promises 4,000-Qubit Processor in 2025, Envisions ‘Quantum-Centric Supercomputing’
At its Think 2022 conference this week, IBM declared its intent to deliver a 4,000+ qubit processor (“Kookaburra”) built with multiple clusters of scaled quantum...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Differential Privacy
I’m low-key. I like my privacy—Kemba Walker. Avrim Blum, Irit Dinur, Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim, and Adam Smith, received the ACM 2021 Paris Kanellakis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Together Caregiving
Newly announced, recalls work we saw in Japan, which also connected multiple people, as needed, to the eldercare dynamic.Alexa Together will let caregivers remotely...
From insideHPC
Classiq Announces $25K Quantum Circuits Challenge
TEL AVIV – May 11, 2022 – Quantum computing software company Classiq today announced the Classiq Coding Competition, rewarding those that create highly-efficient...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Earthquake Detection Algorithms
Relates to our previous examination of work done on earthquake detection. Makes sense such work is out of Japan.Gravity signals could detect earthquakes at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Context In Machine Intelligence
I often make this point ... context is everything ... in fact I like to make the expansion of this as well: 'Context is everything', and its always changing" Advancing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interactive Big Data Journalism
Finding information and useful interaction with it. Though unclear what a 'big data journalism' means here. Interactive Tools May Help People Become Big DataBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Achaeological Artifact Visualization
Thinking of some other uses of creation and identification. DIY Digital Archaeology: Methods for Visualizing Small Objects, ArtifactsMax Planck Institute for the...
From Computational Complexity
Queen Elizabeth is the 3rd longest reigning monarch; The problem with definitions
A few days ago Queen Elizabeth passed Johann II of Liechtenstein to be the third longest reigning monarch (see here). A summary of the top 4:4) Johann II, Liechtenstein...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Faster bitset decoding using Intel AVX-512
I refer to “bitset decoding” as the action of finding the positions of the 1s in a stream of bits. For example, given the integer value 0b11011 (or 27 in decimal)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Blames Russia For Satellite Hack
In the BBC, more examples of tech warfare and implications.UK blames Russia for satellite internet hack at start of war By Chris Vallance, BBCTechnology Reporter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM's Plan for Quntum
Reasonable? See links in the article to former quantum roadmaps. IBM wants its quantum supercomputers running at 4,000-plus qubits by 2025 By A. Tarantola in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ricardian Contracts vs Smart Contracts
Brought to my attention, unsure as yet how broadly the definition is used at this time, can see the need for the understanding of such an agreement by human and...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Peter’s Face
Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding—Bill Thurston. Peter Weinberger is a computer scientist who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Government Authority Falls Due to Algorithm
Regulation 0f algorithms causes Dutch Tax Authority to fail. An unusual event. Fairness and impacts. The Dutch Tax Authority Was Felled by AI—What Comes Next?...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reducing COVID-19 Patient Breathing Effort
Respitatory Support for COVID Patients with computational modelingReducing COVID-19 Patients' Breathing Efforts Could Be Key to Success of Non-Invasive Respiratory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swarms of Drones for Forestry
Recal my previous mentioning the use of drones in Forestry, with the potential of advanced sensors and cooperation with mapping and multitasking activity. WeChinese...
From insideHPC
Tesla: Cooling Tech Engineer Stole Dojo Exascale Supercomputer Secrets
Theft of secret information about Tesla’s in-house supercomputer, the exascale-class “Project Dojo” system due to be up and running this year, are at issue inTesla...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Interpretability, Towards Language
Yes, with training in the questions we need to ask to shape the results we need for a given context. Not always easy. Beyond Interpretability: Developing a Language...
From The Eponymous Pickle