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Asking the right question is more important than getting the right answer
Schools train us to provide the right answers to predefined questions. Yet anyone with experience from the real world knows that…
From Computational Complexity
Super Asymmetry on The Big Bang Theory: How Realistic?
The TV show The Big Bang Theory portrays academia so I am naturally curious how realistic it is. I have posted about this before (see here) in the context of whether...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Transposing
On the arithmetic complexity of the matrix transpose [ KKB ] Michael Kaminski, David Kirkpatrick, and Nader Bshouty are complexity theorists who together and separately...
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A Tribute to Scott Krulcik
Yesterday morning, I read a news article that my former student Scott Krulcik had died. Surely they’ve got the wrong guy, I thought. Scott on an apple-picking Scott...
From insideHPC
Video: How OpenACC Enables Scientists to port their codes to GPUs and Beyond
In this video SC18, Jack Wells from ORNL describes how OpenACC enables scientists to port their codes to GPUs and other HPC platforms. "OpenACC, a directive-based...
From insideHPC
Equus Rolls out G2660 2U 2xGPU Server for HPC & Ai
Today Equus Compute Solutions rolled out its new G2660 2U 2xGPU server, ideal for artificial intelligence and deep learning environments. This GPU platform offers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Asking Questions to Gather Knowledge
The Game of Questions, once again looking at a means of questioning to gather knowledge ... we explored this idea from a game perspective.Back in 2013, posted about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen and Microsoft Strategic Data Alliance
Making data more intelligently available to analytics. Integrating data assets.Nielsen, Microsoft Unveil Strategic Data AllianceNielsen and Microsoft have jointly...
From The Noisy Channel
I recommend the links at the bottom of Peter Norvig’s post: https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
I recommend the links at the bottom of Peter Norvig’s post: https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
From The Eponymous Pickle
AINow Publishes Recommendations
Followup with AINow, promoting regulation and transparency in the AI development space.After a Year of Tech Scandals, Our 10 Recommendations for AI (Outline Overview)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Opsgenie for Incidents in Process Modeling
In the process of looking at modeling processes that link to and handle incident driven operations, I was pointed to:Atlassian: OpsgeniePlan and prepare for incidents...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Best
I like the pieces from Think with Google, good to follow.We often addressed the problem when dealing with the term 'Optimal', which often followed with the question...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (December 8th 2018)
The energy density of lithium-ion batteries doubled between 1995 and 2005 but only increased by about 15% between 2005 and 2015. It is estimated that there is relatively...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Scientist Creates New Materials
Machines doing design, and the creative process. How do they interact with people?A Robot Scientist Will Dream Up New Materials Technology Review By Will Knight...
From The Eponymous Pickle
R&D in the Age of Agile
Pharma R&D in the ‘age of agile’ From McKinseyAs innovation reshapes the pharma landscape, pharma companies will need to revisit their R&D operating models toSent...
From insideHPC
Video: Arm + Lustre in HPC
In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Brent Gorda from ARM presents: Arm + Lustre in HPC. At the show, DDN announced that its Whamcloud division is delivering professional...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Software Developer at the HDF Group
The good folks at the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) Group in Champaign, Illinois is seeking an HPC Software Developer in our Job of the Week. "The HDF Group provides...
From Schneier on Security
Problems with the Squid Emoji
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has some problems with the squid emoji. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Report from the Stanford AI100 Study
Initial report from this work:Stanford: One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)Stanford University has invited leading thinkers from several...
From Schneier on Security
Back Issues of the NSA's Cryptolog
Five years ago, the NSA published 23 years of its internal magazine, Cryptolog. There were lots of redactions, of course. What's new is a nice user interface for...
From The Eponymous Pickle