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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Some useful regular expressions for programmers
In my blog post, My programming setup, I stressed how important regular expressions are to my programming activities. Regular expressions can look intimidatingContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Centered Product Design
Had not heard of the concept as stated, worth a look:How is AI-Centered Product Design Different?By Amanda Linden in TowardsDataSciencePeople who are interested...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Pandemic Informatics: Variants of Concern (VOC)
Contributions to this post were provided by Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado Boulder), Madhav Marathe (University of Virginia), Melanie Moses (The University...
From Computational Complexity
The Million Dollar Sermon
Illinois Tech has one of the greatest origin stories for a university. In 1890 Frank Gunsaulus, a pastor on the south side of Chicago, gave a sermon where he said...
From insideHPC
ACM SIGHPC’s Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award: Call for Nominations
Nominations are open for the ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing (EWL/TC), a biennial award open to any woman who has engaged in HPC and technical...
From insideHPC
DOE Issues Funding Opportunity for HPC4EI
Washington, DC — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation Initiative will issue a Spring 2021 solicitation in MayDOE...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Ken Turns 40
Every chess master was once a beginner—Irving Chernev Ken Regan obtained his Ph.D. 40 years ago from Oxford, in complexity theory, advised by Dominic Welsh. Ken...
From insideHPC
5 Considerations when Building an AI / GPU Cluster
AI continues to change the way many organizations conduct their work and research. Deep learning applications are constantly evolving and organizations are adapting...
From insideHPC
Unify Your HPC Computing Infrastructure from Edge-to-Core-to-Cloud
In this contributed article, Bill Wagner, CEO of Bright Computing, discusses how the definition of “edge computing” has solidified as “compute at the network edge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton: Planning for AI Risk Governance
Useful thoughts on the concept of governance of AI in the paper linked to below.How Can Financial Institutions Prepare for AI Risks?Apr 13, 2021 Analytics Wharton...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book: End-to-end Encrypted Messaging
Continue to make my way through this excellent and detailed book. Rolf Oppliger's site describes this book and others he has written. Plus his company's ongoing...
From insideHPC
Continuing Arecibo’s Legacy – A Partnership to Save Telescope Data at TACC
Millions of people have seen footage of the famed Arecibo radio telescope’s collapse – due to various hurricanes and other natural disasters – in December 2020....
From insideHPC
HPC Part of Bay Area National Labs Business Partnership Event Series
April 21, 2021 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Costs Rise
Seems like a need for analytical modeling of costs. My former employer needs to step up to the problem.Price hikes on the horizon for P&G as material costs rise...
From insideHPC
Nvidia Romps in Latest MLPerf AI Benchmark Results
What has become Nvidia’s regular romp through MLPerf AI benchmarks continued with today’s release of the latest performance measurements across a range of inference...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows 2021 Application Now Open
The CIFellows 2021 application site is now open. Applicants may start their applications here. Please read the CIFellows 2021 website and FAQs in its entirety before...
From Schneier on Security
On North Korea’s Cyberattack Capabilities
Excellent New Yorker article on North Korea’s offensive cyber capabilities.
From Schneier on Security
Backdoor Found in Codecov Bash Uploader
Developers have discovered a backdoor in the Codecov bash uploader. It’s been there for four months. We don’t know who put it there. Codecov said the breach allowed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Palm Swipe Scanning at Whole Foods
We experimented with a number of ID/payment methods. From Iris to thumbprint to Face. But not palm swipe scanning, installed at Wholefoods now. Contact-less...
From The Eponymous Pickle