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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
ALPINE/zfp Addresses Analysis, Visualization and Data Reduction Needs for Exascale Science Applications
With the advent of the exascale supercomputing era, computational scientists can run simulations at higher resolutions, add more detailed physical phenomena, increase...
From insideHPC
Flare Gas Data Center Company Crusoe Picks HPE for Green GenAI
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced its HPE Cray supercomputers were selected by Crusoe, a builder of modular data centers, to power new cloud...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Fairness and Sampling
A talk by Sruthi Gorantla while visiting Georgia Tech Sruthi Gorantla is a fourth-year PhD candidate in computer science at the Indian Institute of Science and...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Randomness in programming (with Go code)
Computer software is typically deterministic on paper: if you run twice the same program with the same inputs, you should get the same outputs. In practice, the...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces 2024 ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge, Pre-proposals Due Nov. 13
Oct. 16, 2023 — The ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) is an allocation program for projects of interest to the Department of Energy (DOE), with an emphasis...
From insideHPC
Two Columbia Univ. Researchers Awarded John von Neumann Theory Prize
BALTIMORE, Oct. 16, 2023 – The 2023 John von Neumann Theory Prize, awarded by INFORMS, is bestowed to Christos H. Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis for their...
From insideHPC
DOE Selects JLab to Be High Performance Data Facility Lead
Oct. 16, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of the High Performance Data Facility (HPDF) hub, which will create a new scientific...
From insideHPC
Texas Tech HPC Center Chooses CIQ for HPC Infrastructure
RENO, Nev.—October 16, 2023—CIQ, the company building software infrastructure for enterprises running performance-intensive workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise...
From Geeking with Greg
Cory Doctorow on enshittification
Another good piece by Cory on enshittification, with details about Facebook, some on how A/B testing optimizes for enshittification, and updated with how Musk's...
From insideHPC
Phison Introduces Signal Conditioner IC Products, Expands PCIe 5.0 Ecosystem
SAN JOSE – October 16, 2023 – Phison Electronics (8299 TT), a NAND controllers and storage company, announced that the company has expanded its portfolio of PCIe...
From Schneier on Security
Coin Flips Are Biased
Experimental result: Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies of the process. In a preregistered study...
From insideHPC
Federated GPU Infrastructure for AI Workflows
[Sponsored Guest Article] With the explosion of use cases such as Generative AI and ML Ops driving tremendous demand for the most advanced GPUs and accelerated...
From Computational Complexity
Paper is a tech-free way to preserve writing. Is there a tech-free way to preserve sound (e.g., music)
I blogged about ACM going mostly paper-free, and had some PROS and CONS about paper-free, in this blog here. One of my many astute readers named Abigail pointed...
From insideHPC
E4 Computer Engineering Partners with NVIDIA for Launch of Grace Hopper Superchips in Italy
Scandiano, RE (Italy), October 12, 2023 – E4 Computer Engineering announced a partnership with NVIDIA for the Italian launch of NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip, the...
From The Noisy Channel
Critical Thinking and Generative AI
Critical Reasoning and Generative AIOne of the formative experiences in my mathematics education was a time I struggled to compute an integral in a calculus class...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Possible Impossibilities and Impossible Possibilities
A livestreamed talk by Yejin Choi at TTIC on Monday 10/16, 11:30am CT MacArthur Foundation source Yejin Choi is a professor and a MacArthur Fellow at the Paul G...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Intelligence
Article about squid intelligence. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog...
From insideHPC
NTT Reports Increase in Optical Transmission Capacity, Reduced Power Consumption
Tokyo – Oct. 12, 2023 – NTT Corporation (NTT) said it successfully demonstrated technology that expands transmission capacity while reducing energy use by 67 percent...
From Geeking with Greg
To stop disinformation, stop astroturf
(this is a version of an excerpt from my book, if you like it please let me know) There's a lot of discussion of removing disinformation as censorship lately....
From Schneier on Security