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FlavorGraph: Food Pairings with AI and Molecular Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

FlavorGraph: Food Pairings with AI and Molecular Science

Combines a number of interests of mine.  Food science and AI, Chemistry and Graph Analytics.   At the link see some impressive graphs that look at the connections...

Labor Intensive Work and Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Labor Intensive Work and Analytics

There will continue to be labor intensive jobs, with key skills required. Labor-intensive factories—analytics-intensive productivityApril 21, 2021 | Article inBy...

Training for Brain on a Chip Using SNN
From The Eponymous Pickle

Training for Brain on a Chip Using SNN

First I had heard of this detailed. Probably worth a look.Brain-on-a-Chip Would Need Little Training  in CNNKAUST Discovery (Saudi Arabia), April 20, 2021Researchers...

Back in the Classroom Again
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Back in the Classroom Again

“What would motivate you to come out of retirement to teach during a pandemic?” That was the question I was asked during an interview for a long term substitution...

Pandemic Eviction Modeling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pandemic Eviction Modeling

 More models accurately done, with the right data, address the results of specific decisions.Modeling Shows Pandemic Eviction Bans Protect Entire Communities From...

Plane Paradox:  More Creativity for Complex Automation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Plane Paradox: More Creativity for Complex Automation

 Operating complex automated systems needs more training to be creative, rather than more training about very the details complex systems.  Or do we just need more...

MIT to Reconcile Data Sharing with EU AI Regulations
From The Eponymous Pickle

MIT to Reconcile Data Sharing with EU AI Regulations

Proposed regulations constraining AI proposed by the EU are over 100 pages long.  What is MIT's view?   Note some other  things also include  'subliminal behavior...

Many Simple Small Robots,
From The Eponymous Pickle

Many Simple Small Robots,

Robot work at Ga Tech, which we visited a number times.   Always liked the idea of small,  multiple and cooperative problem solving doing tasks.  Bur even without...

How and Why to Share Scientific Code
From The Eponymous Pickle

How and Why to Share Scientific Code

Rarely done this consistently, but it is a useful approach to follow.   Add it to a review and follow up of results.   Plans for maintaining models.  How and why...

Overview of Graph Databases
From The Eponymous Pickle

Overview of Graph Databases

Overview of Graph DBs and their uses.  From the CACM.  Below the intro, more at the link. Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Graph Databases     By Alex Williams...

Perspective Brain Hack
From The Eponymous Pickle

Perspective Brain Hack

Good thought, but not always.Perspective Taking: A Brain Hack That Can Help You Make Better DecisionsMar 22, 2021 Opinion North AmericaSupports K@W's Innovation...

Rice Univ. Researchers Claim 15x AI Model Training Speed-up Using CPUs
From insideHPC

Rice Univ. Researchers Claim 15x AI Model Training Speed-up Using CPUs

Reports are circulating in AI circles that researchers from Rice University claim a breakthrough in AI model training acceleration – without using accelerators....

Query Understanding
From The Noisy Channel

Query Understanding

This publication is a series of posts devoted to query understanding. Each post is self-contained, but there is a natural progression. If you’d like to read them...

New Small Drone Rules in US
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Small Drone Rules in US

How full will the skies ultimately become,  with more drone-like and autonomous devices?  Expect it. Note remote ID requirements.New Rules Allowing Small Drones...

More on Amazon's Palm Scanning System
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on Amazon's Palm Scanning System

Amazon Bringing Palm-Scanning Payment System to Whole Foods StoresCNBC, Annie Palmer, April 21, 2021Amazon's palm-scanning payment system will be rolled out to...

Apple Supplier Targeted with Ransomware
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apple Supplier Targeted with Ransomware

Even Apple suppliers are vulnerable.  Note in particular theft of corporate data and plans. Apple Targeted in $50-Million Ransomware Hack of Supplier QuantaBloomberg...

[Book] Anthro-Vision
From Putting People First

[Book] Anthro-Vision

In an age when the business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett presents a...

[Book] Why the world needs anthropologists
From Putting People First

[Book] Why the world needs anthropologists

Why does the world need anthropology and anthropologists? This collection of essays written by prominent academic, practising and applied anthropologists aims to...

EU to Constrain Certain AI Uses?
From The Eponymous Pickle

EU to Constrain Certain AI Uses?

To be expected reaction from EU regulators.Facial Recognition, Other 'Risky' AI Set for Constraints in EUBloomberg, Natalia Drozdiak, April 21, 2021The European...

Super-expensive Supercomputers: UK Met Office in £1B+ Deal for Microsoft Weather System; $3B System in China on Way
From insideHPC

Super-expensive Supercomputers: UK Met Office in £1B+ Deal for Microsoft Weather System; $3B System in China on Way

As widely reported in February, the UK Met Office and Microsoft have come to an agreement to provision a £1.2 billion (over 10 years) supercomputer the Met Office...
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