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ACM-W Connections–February 2019
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Replication Crisis in Science
Following this for some time. Reproducing results is often context dependent. It is a serious problem, especially in the social sciences, but elsewhere too...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How do the Great Winemakers Sell?
Intriguing view of selling. Works if you already have the established brand equity: real, bought or imagined.Should You Ignore What Your Customers Want? The Great...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Great Finishes
Simple point, made well. From Queue ACM.The Importance of a Great FinishYou have to finish strong, every time.By Kate MatsudairaHave you ever felt super excited...
From insideHPC
Seeking Seed Money? Creative Destruction Lab offers Incubator Streams for Quantum, Blockchain, and Ai
The Creative Destruction Lab is now accepting applications for their 2019 Quantum Machine Learning and Blockchain-AI Incubator Streams. As a seed-stage programSeeking...
From insideHPC
Video: Introduction to Intel Optane Data Center Persistent Memory
In this video from the 2019 Stanford HPC Conference, Usha Upadhyayula & Tom Krueger from Intel present: Introduction to Intel Optane Data Center Persistent Memory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speak, Spell, Language Training?
An instructive article in Penn Language Lab on the 'Speak and Spell' toy reminded me of using as it model for training. Could still see this as possible. "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
eBay Sponsoring Retail Revival
Seems tough direction to compete, small retailers will still look for the volume of traffic at Amazon. See the article for more detail. We visited eBay some...
From insideHPC
Designing Convergent HPC and Big Data Software Stacks: An Overview of the HiBD Project
DK Panda from Ohio State University gave this talk at the 2019 Stanford HPC Conference. "This talk will provide an overview of challenges in designing convergent...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at the University of Chicago Center for Research Informatics
The University of Chicago Center for Research Informatics is seeking an HPC Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week. "This position will work with the Lead...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Holographic Car Assistant
In Indiegogo. A Future of car assistants?EyeDrive: All New Holographic Car Assistant.Display navigation, music & calls on your windshield. Control them usingDesigned...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (February 16th, 2019)
In their new book Empty Planet, Bricker and Ibbitson argue that within the next 30 years, Earth’s population will start to rapidly decline. They believe that official...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Surveillance at Parkland
Accuracy and invasiveness are being questioned. Back to the transparency of algorithms involved.Parkland School Turns to Experimental Surveillance Software That...![[Book] The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West by Payal Arora Harvard University Press, 2019 280 pages A digital anthropologist examines the online lives[Book]...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Sharp-Eared Enope Squid
Beautiful photo of a three-inch-long squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu Launches Blockchain with Smart Contracts
Quite intriguing notion of what this is, and the method by which it reaches consensus. The Smart Contract or DDE (decentralized application) would appear to be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
JP Morgan Declares a Cryptocurrency?
In what seemed like a considerable endorsement, of the kind that puts your money where your hype may be, JP Morgan yesterday declared it was setting up to test...
From insideHPC
EuroHPC Takes First Steps Towards Exascale
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched its first calls for expressions of interest, to select the sites that will host...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Modernizing the Electric Grid with HPC
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at how Lawrence Livermore National Lab is working to simulate and help modernize the electric grid. They discussPodcast...
From insideHPC
HPC Boosts Art and Design at Virginia Tech
Students at Virginia Tech are using HPC for their creative work to build robust project portfolios. "The School of Visual Arts in Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture...
From insideHPC