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Securing Elections
Elections serve two purposes. The first, and obvious, purpose is to accurately choose the winner. But the second is equally important…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Enough with the intrusive updates!
This week-end, I went to my gaming PC in my living room. The PC did not respond when I grabbed the mouse. Puzzled, I pressed the “on” button on the PC. Then I saw...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 22nd, 2018)
You probably can’t write the two forms of the letter g, even if you have seen them thousands and thousands of times. Some neurodegenerative diseases might result...
From insideHPC
Containers Using Singularity on HPC
Abhinav Thota, from Indiana University gave this talk at the 2018 Swiss HPC Conference. "Container use is becoming more widespread in the HPC field. There are various...
From insideHPC
Call for Submissions: SC18 Workshop on Reproducibility
Over at the SC18 Blog, Stephen Lien Harrell from Purdue writes that the conference will host will host a workshop on the hot topic of Reproducibility. Their Call...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Humana Partnership
New partnerships, and in-store implications.5 Ways A Walmart-Humana Partnership Could Change Everyone’s In-Store Experience By Bryan Pearson If Walmart’s reported...
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Emerging Markets Innovation
Chief executive says the company’s innovation pipeline may be the strongest it has ever been. By Keith Nunes in Food Business News.Emerging markets, innovation...
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Casinos Watching for Weapons
Good to watch what the Casinos are doing, as we did, they have immediate risk with regard to assets, so are closer to investing logically in advanced methods in...
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NASA Using Smart Contracts
Been examining applications of smart contracts in general, and also as implemented by Blockchain architectures. Here something new from work by NASA. NASA...
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Real Time Data, Real Time Decisions
Useful introduction. Note the usefulness in many domains, from supply chain to manufacturing to finance. There were some also some recent suggestions that this...
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What is AI Anyway?
A definition we also struggled with. Back then it was rule bases and much simpler learning analytics and updating. Much has improved, but the expectations are...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at D.E. Shaw Research
D.E. Shaw Research is seeking an HPC System Administrator in our Job of the Week. "Our research effort is aimed at achieving major scientific advances in the field...
From insideHPC
Using the Titan Supercomputer to Develop 50,000 Years of Flood Risk Scenarios
Dag Lohmann from KatRisk gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. "In 2012, a small Berkeley, California, startup called KatRisk set out to improve the quality...![[Book] An Introduction to Service Design](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
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[Book] An Introduction to Service Design
An Introduction to Service Design: Designing the Invisible By Lara Penin Bloomsbury Visual Arts, May 2018 344 pages A comprehensive introduction to designing services...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins for Personalized Medicine.
Reminds me in the human sense of agent based models. And their use to address group behavior. Interesting, but not necessarily predictive. The article quotes...
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What Machine Learning Engineers Need to Know
Useful piece. What machine learning engineers need to knowThe O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Jesse Anderson and Paco Nathan on organizing data teams and next-generation...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Prices Rise as Catch Decreases
In Japan: Last year's haul sank 15% to 53,000 tons, according to the JF Zengyoren national federation of fishing cooperatives. The squid catch has fallen by half...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pattern Recognition in Road Tracing
We had a similar challenge when we managed roads and their quality in Alberta. We were mostly interested in if the roads had degraded, and needed to manage resources...
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Alibabas AI Chips
Much more at the link. Alibaba is developing its own AI chips, too in Technology Review The Chinese e-commerce giant will join a raft of other tech firms in designing...
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Upgrades RAIDEN at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Fujitsu reports that the company has significantly boosted the performance of the RAIDEN supercompuer. RAIDEN is a computer system for artificial intelligence research...
From The Eponymous Pickle