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Robot Arm Advances for Human Proximity Tasks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Arm Advances for Human Proximity Tasks

Fraunhofer at the Hannover Messe Preview 2022Safe and powerful robotics for near-human tasksResearch News / March 16, 2022Robots mowing lawns is a form of robotic...

Consider AI Worst Case
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consider AI Worst Case

AI’s 6 Worst-Case Scenarios.  Who needs Terminators when you have precision clickbait and ultra-deepfakes?   By NATASHA BAJEMA in IEEE Expert HOLLYWOOD’S WORST-CASE...

The Brain Rotates Memories
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Brain Rotates Memories

How might we utilize this this? Beyond just tagging memories with a time stamp?The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations  By Jordana Cepelewicz...

Writing out large arrays in Go: binary.Write is inefficient for large arrays
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Writing out large arrays in Go: binary.Write is inefficient for large arrays

Programmers often need to write data structures to disk or to networks. The data structure then needs to be interpreted as a sequence of bytes. Regarding integer...

Truman and Hruby 2022 Fellows at Sandia Explore Their Possibilities
From insideHPC

Truman and Hruby 2022 Fellows at Sandia Explore Their Possibilities

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Postdoctoral researchers who are designated Truman and Hruby fellows experience Sandia National Laboratories differently from their peers. Appointees...

DOE: $50M for Fusion Energy Research Opportunities
From insideHPC

DOE: $50M for Fusion Energy Research Opportunities

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide up to $50 million to support U.S. scientists conducting experimental research in fusion energy science...

Robot Dogs Join NY Fire Department
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Dogs Join NY Fire Department

I recall they were rejected for any  police work, but fighting fires is OK.  It seems the same 'Spot' style systems from Boston Dynamics.   Would like to see the...

Algae as Energy Source
From The Eponymous Pickle

Algae as Energy Source

 Had heard of this some time ago, is it reasonably useful? AI Predicts Algae Potential as Alternative Energy SourceBy AgriLife Today, March 17, 2022Scientists at...

Advances in Flexible Drone Warefare
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advances in Flexible Drone Warefare

 It has been been mentioned in a number of press sources that so-called 'Switchblade' drones are now being used and provided by the US, and are being used in the...

Microsoft and the Topological Qubit
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft and the Topological Qubit

Msoft Says it will arrive, and it will even scale.Microsoft announces progress on a completely new type of qubitTopological qubits don't exist yet, but the company...

Quantum Announces Smart Video Surveillance Servers
From insideHPC

Quantum Announces Smart Video Surveillance Servers

SAN JOSE, March 15, 2022 —  Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO), the leader in solutions for video and unstructured data, today announced the Unified Surveillance...

NEC: First Unit Cell for Scaling up to a Fully-connected Quantum Annealing Architecture
From insideHPC

NEC: First Unit Cell for Scaling up to a Fully-connected Quantum Annealing Architecture

Tokyo, March 17, 2022 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has developed the world’s first LHZ scheme (*1) unit cell facilitating scaling up to a fully-connectedNEC...

AlmaLinux OS Foundation Announces New Members
From insideHPC

AlmaLinux OS Foundation Announces New Members

PALO ALTO, Calif. — March 17, 2022 — AlmaLinux OS Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the community owned and governed open source CentOS replacement AlmaLinux...

Catching Falling Satellites with Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Catching Falling Satellites with Robots

Good to see such 'mundane', garbage collection type problems being addressed as we continue to fill our local area of space. To Catch a Falling SatelliteBy IEEE...

Tracking with GPU Fingerprinting
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tracking with GPU Fingerprinting

 A challenge for privacy online GPU Fingerprinting Can Be Used to Track You Online   By Tom's Hardware February 2, 2022An international team of researchers from...

Drawback of Machine Learning and Self-Driving Cars
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drawback of Machine Learning and Self-Driving Cars

Good piece by Lance Eliot.Strict Literal Interpretation Is A Hardheaded Drawback Of Machine Learning And Likewise Bad For AI Self-Driving CarsLance Eliot Contributor...

From Computational Complexity

The War and Math

During the early parts of the cold war of the 20th century, we saw two almost independent developments of computational complexity, in the west and in the thenJuris...

Content Annotation
From The Noisy Channel

Content Annotation

Content understanding requires both holistic and reductionist approaches, just like query understanding. The previous post focused on content classification asentity...

Edge. Retail AI. Digital Twinning. Oh My!
From insideHPC

Edge. Retail AI. Digital Twinning. Oh My!

[SPONSORED POST] Attending NVIDIA’s GTC? While you’re there, join Lenovo - Diamond sponsor - to connect, learn, and get inspired by some of the world’s brightest...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Meta Wishes

When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. Neil...
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