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Quick overview if decision trees.
Decision Tree Algorithm, Explained
All you need to know about decision trees and how to build and optimize decision tree classifier.
By Nagesh Singh Chauhan, Data Science Enthusiast on February…Machine Learning Vision
MIT Advances Unsupervised Computer Vision with ‘STEGO’
By Oliver Peckham
Training machine learning models often means working with labeled data. For computer vision tasks, this might look, for instance, like…FROM ACM TECHNEWS
Self-Driving Microscopes Discover Shortcuts to New Materials
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are training microscopes to find new materials faster using an intuitive…Inspection for defects
AutoInspect takes the quality of industrial inspection processes to a new level Research News / May 02, 2022
In the AutoInspect demonstrator, the car body is transported to the inspection stations on©…Never say anything in an electronic message that you wouldn’t want appearing, and attributed to you, in tomorrow morning’s front-page headline in the New York Times—Colonel David Russell. Rafail Ostrovsky is a professor of computer…
Costs Interacting in many ways.
Gas Prices Raise Costs In 8 Surprising Ways
Bryan Pearson in CustomerThink
There’s a reason the price of chewing gum is up 7% from last year, and it’s not all related to supply and demand. It turns…Quite a simple surprise.
Some top 100,000 websites collect everything you type—before you hit submit
A number of websites include keyloggers that covertly snag your keyboard inputs.
LILY HAY NEWMAN, WIRED.COM - 5/14/2022, 7:00When…The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the Kapor Center are conducting a survey of K-12 computer science teachers in the United States. The CS education landscape continues to evolve, and we want to hear directly…
Edinburgh, United Kingdom – May 12, 2022 – WHPC, an entirely volunteer-run organisation that strives to encourage more women into the field of high performance computing (HPC) through fellowship, education and support is proud…
Interesting view here. But in particular if you see VR as a means of interacting with lots of complex visual contextual data, its like interacting with data in a structured Web.
ACM TECHNEWS
World Wide Web's Creator Wants…Good piece, have followed Ng for some time.
Meet Andrew Ng, a 2022 Datanami Person to Watch
Alex Woodie in Datanami
Andrew Ng is one of the most influential individuals in big data and AI. He’s also one of the busiest, with stints…And want to see more, especially that saves time, records things, organizes things intelligently. Give us us an after Covid present. Here for customer service ....
Zoom is driving further into the customer service market
ByVideo…Globus, a platform for research data management created by researchers at the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, was named the Best Integrated Software Experience Award…
There are various ways in software to handle error conditions. In C or Go, one returns error code. Other programming languages like C++ or Java prefer to throw exceptions. One benefit of using exceptions is that it keeps your…
Not so stable in this context.
ACM NEWS
Cryptocurrencies Melt Down in a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Fear and Panic
By The New York Times, May 13, 2022
The price of Bitcoin plunged to its lowest point since 2020. Coinbase, the large cryptocurrency…Value of intelligently positioned disruption. From Deloitte
To achieve the benefits and scale of AI and MLOps, data must be tuned for native machine consumption, not humans, causing organizations to rethink data management,…Leveraging competitive intelligence.
How to Use Competitive Intelligence to Uncover your Competitors…As HPC enters the exascale era, watchers of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers will look to see if the updated list, to be released this month at the ISC conference in Hamburg, will include systems that…
Reported in Schneier ... which points to an article mentioning use by SF Police. Makes sense for a number of reasons. Can be any kind of autonomous vehicles. Its mentioned that it includes the generation of large amounts…
Reported on this before, unexpected connection.
Ancient Art Meets AI for Better Materials Design
Argonne National Laboratory, John Spizzirri, April 7, 2022
University of Southern California (USC) researchers combined kirigami…ARMONK, N.Y., May 11, 2022 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), with plans to offer a broad array of its software catalog as Software-as…
Quite interesting development. I had to talk the nature and implications of What a 'black box' (BB) . was for management many times. A BB is simply a method that is not precisely know in its operation. Usually such an algorithm's…
STARFLEET ACADEMY —
Entrepreneurs create a space “academy” as commercial space flourishes
This is a bet that the long-promised space economy continues taking off.
ERIC BERGER 5/10/2022
A group of astronauts, engineers, and business…May 12, 2022 — Cambridge, UK-based semiconductor design company Arm Ltd. today reported 2021 total revenues were up 35 percent to $2.7 billion with growth in both royalty and non-royalty revenue. The company reported 2021 licensing…
Cheaper and increasingly autonomous, they will be in our future. For war and for humanitarian aiding in its aftermath.
By Esther Shein, Commissioned by CACM Staff, May 10, 2022
North American professional drone…In VentureBeat
Artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing many changes to the enterprise, none of which is more vital to its success than infrastructure. Changing the nature of workloads – not just how they are generated and processed…This exclusive Q&A interview was conducted by Nages Sieslack of the ISC 2022 conference organization, with Eric Eppe, head of portfolio and solutions, HPC & Quantum at France-based HPC systems vendor Atos. Nages Sieslack: How…
At its Think 2022 conference this week, IBM declared its intent to deliver a 4,000+ qubit processor (“Kookaburra”) built with multiple clusters of scaled quantum computing processors. The updated quantum plan comes a year after…
I’m low-key. I like my privacy—Kemba Walker. Avrim Blum, Irit Dinur, Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim, and Adam Smith, received the ACM 2021 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. They worked on and studied the…
Newly announced, recalls work we saw in Japan, which also connected multiple people, as needed, to the eldercare dynamic.
Alexa Together will let caregivers remotely set up routines for aging loved ones
A person receiving support…