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Turn a Single Image into a Looping Video:  Uses?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Turn a Single Image into a Looping Video: Uses?

 Experimented with something like this.  Took a single image of part of a machine or process, then applying some images of specific known maintenance issues,  and...

MLCommons Launches MLPerf Tiny AI Inference Benchmark
From insideHPC

MLCommons Launches MLPerf Tiny AI Inference Benchmark

Today, open engineering consortium MLCommons released a new benchmark, MLPerf Tiny Inference to measure trained neural network AI inference performance for low-power...

DeepMind Learns Football from Motion Capture
From The Eponymous Pickle

DeepMind Learns Football from Motion Capture

Intriguing, with the implication that you can go from direct motion capture to broader contexts.   Team work, which implies both individual skills, planning and...

Redefining What a map Can be With New Information and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Redefining What a map Can be With New Information and AI

Google re-defining mapping.   Very nicely done.   Started with Google maps, and the ability to link in data as needed for usage contexts.   And AI being used to...

Exascale Computing Project Update: Director Kothe Talks Progress, Annual Meeting Highlights
From insideHPC

Exascale Computing Project Update: Director Kothe Talks Progress, Annual Meeting Highlights

In this recent interview, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Director Doug Kothe provides an update on the effort to deliver a capable...

Inobtrusive Wearables Monitoring Health
From The Eponymous Pickle

Inobtrusive Wearables Monitoring Health

Interesting out of Purdue, where we connected in the retail modeling world.  Here it seems novel methods of self powering.    We called it 'smart clothing'.   Got...

Adjusting Algorithms
From The Eponymous Pickle

Adjusting Algorithms

Algorithm, Malgorithm, Jalgorithm?   Fairness in Judgement. Right, algorithm just means a standardized method.    Like iany tool can be used or misused. Good piece...

Amazon Continues Grab-and-Go Rollouts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Continues Grab-and-Go Rollouts

 Amazon still thinks the 'Go' concept is a good one, perhaps with locational interests, now a roll out in London. Amazon will open the doors to a grab-and-go, checkout...

Ansys RedHawk-SC™ on Azure: Hold on to Your Socks
From insideHPC

Ansys RedHawk-SC™ on Azure: Hold on to Your Socks

This article describes the extensive evaluation testing of the optimal operational configuration for running Ansys RedHawk-SC Electronic Design Automation (EDA)...

Getting Excited for CSTA 2021
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Getting Excited for CSTA 2021

As a member of the CSTA Conference Committee, I attended the first of two presenter training sessions today. Wow! CSTA 2021 will be good. Now I have read most of...

ECP and ALCF to Host June 21 Twitter Chat on Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack
From insideHPC

ECP and ALCF to Host June 21 Twitter Chat on Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack

On June 21 at 2 p.m. ET, the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a chat on ECP’s Twitter account (@exascaleproject)...

Great Innovative Idea: Computing for Computational Biology and Digital AI
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Great Innovative Idea: Computing for Computational Biology and Digital AI

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Somali Chaterji, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University...

IBM Open Sources Hyperledger
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Open Sources Hyperledger

 Had examined this sometime ago, seems IBM wants it and blockchain to succeed.  This will promote it it be be better tested. IBM Donates Code Improvements to Open...

VPNs and Trust
From Schneier on Security

VPNs and Trust

TorrentFreak surveyed nineteen VPN providers, asking them questions about their privacy practices: what data they keep, how they respond to court order, what country...

Andrew Appel on New Hampshire’s Election Audit
From Schneier on Security

Andrew Appel on New Hampshire’s Election Audit

Really interesting two part analysis of the audit conducted after the 2020 election in Windham, New Hampshire. Based on preliminary reports published by the team...

Welcome from the ACM-W Chair – June 2021
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Welcome from the ACM-W Chair – June 2021

We’ve reached the end of another year of programming for ACM-W. And what a year it has been!  In spite of the challenges we’ve faced, ACM-W activity worldwide continued...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Thursday—June 17th—A Debate on Program Correctness

There are two ways to write error free programs; only the third one works–Alan Perlis Perlis on Coding Joy source Alan Perlis, the first Turing Award winner, summarized...

Graphcore and SiPearl Form Euro Partnership to Combine AI and HPC
From insideHPC

Graphcore and SiPearl Form Euro Partnership to Combine AI and HPC

Graphcore, the British maker of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for artificial intelligence workloads, and SiPearl, the Franco-German company building an...

Global Chip Shortages Leading to Fakes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Global Chip Shortages Leading to Fakes

 Chip shortages leading to fakes and safety in the operation of systems.The Global Chip Shortage is Creating a New Problem: More Fake Components   By ZDNetFrom...

Subzero Engineering and Armstrong World Industries Partner to Serve U.S. Data Center Market
From insideHPC

Subzero Engineering and Armstrong World Industries Partner to Serve U.S. Data Center Market

San Antonio, TX, June 15 , 2021 – Subzero Engineering, a maker of data center containment solutions, and Armstrong World Industries (AWI), a designer and manufacture...
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