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The System Knows Who You Are
True confession – give me an app that plays with interesting and personal data and I’ll play for a while. The amount of dataGuessing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numba: Speeding up Python
Just brought to my attention. Python use for numerical algorithms can be an issue when speed is required. Technical.Accelerate Python FunctionsNumba translates...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Networks in the Enterprise
Podcast and more about the use of internal networks. Talking the podcast side we established some internal podcasts channels to talk to people about how emergent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taiwan Improves Manufacturing with AI
Some good details here about what is going on in Taiwan, notably integration with big data and AI capabilities.From plastic toys to Industry 4.0: How Taiwan isThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Frontier in AI Training
We always need to consider the outlier case. Its often in current and future training.... I like the idea of thinking about broadening the training to include...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: SCALE 2020 Scalable Computing Challenge for Cash Prizes
The IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2020) has issued its Call for Papers. "Are you doing real-world problem-solving using computing thatCall...
From insideHPC
Video: Reasoning About Biology With Data-Driven Approaches
Adam Riesselman from Insitro gave this talk at DOE CSGF 2019. "Biology is quickly becoming a data-driven discipline, in which thousands of biological hypotheses...
From Putting People First
Design thinking in the future of cities: what approach to use for better services?
The design thinking approach offers many tools to design creative solutions to solve the most pressing problems affecting complex ecosystems such as cities. That's...
From Putting People First
Three narratives that stymie social change and what we can do about it
Nat Kendall-Taylor studied nearly 40 different social issues and the cultural models people use to understand them. He found three cultural models that stymie social...
From Putting People First
A brief history of UX design and its evolution
When you think about user experience design it is a term that we instantly associate with apps and websites. And especially when considering a typical job description...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Halting No Go Theorem
Using the halting problem to prove positive theorems. Cropped from “Turing’s Lost Letters” source Alan Turing proved the undecidability of the Halting Problem in...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (January 25th 2020)
Scientists found a way to increase the production of new neurons in the brains of mice, effectively rejuvenating the brains of old mice. (Source: Nature) How many...
From insideHPC
Jack Dongarra presents: Adaptive Linear Solvers and Eigensolvers
Jack Dongarra from UT Knoxville gave this talk at ATPESC 2019. "Success in large-scale scientific computations often depends on algorithm design. Even the fastest...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC User Support Technician at NREL
NREL is seeking an HPC User Support Technician in our Job of the Week. "Your job will be front-line support for the High Performance Computing user community which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sim Swapping Insecurity
Had read about this. The details here are that those responsible for the most minimal security are not taking it seriously. Poor security is not the right term...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electronic Skin
Note the long history of this kind of effort.Integrate Microchips for Electronic SkinLeibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (Germany)JanuaryGerman...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: More on the Giant Squid's DNA
Following on from last week's post, here's more information on sequencing the DNA of the giant squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting Humans in the AI Loop
I argue that they are always in the loop. Just how effectively are they placed there. Always a very useful question. Starting with existing process helps.Can AI...
From insideHPC
OpenFabrics Alliance to Expand Hands-On Tutorial Offerings at Its 2020 Workshop
In this special guest feature, Paul Grun from the OpenFabrics Alliance provides a preview of the upcoming OFA Workshop. "We are especially excited about how this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Show Devices Can Now Recognize
Just brought to my attention, Alexa 'Show' devices, that is, those that have an embedded camera, can now be asked to recognize things. Apparently only in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle