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Parsing short hexadecimal strings efficiently
It is common to represent binary data or numbers using the hexadecimal notation. Effectively, we use a base-16 representation…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Reason Why Circuit Lower Bounds Are Hard
And a possible approach to avoid this obstacle Valentine Kabanets is a famous complexity theorist from Simon Fraser University. He has been at the forefront of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Graph Algorithms Book
My favorite analytics methods.Hidden Data Patterns Only Relationships Can Find - Free O’Reilly BookGraph analytics use relationships to reveal structural and predictive...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is in a name?
It’s been said that the three hardest things in programming are naming things and off by one errors. For some reason, this semester, my students are having the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is it still about Paper Coupons?
Worked with paper coupon redemption analytics from the very beginning at very big CPG. Is it about their physical nature? Will there always be room for the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WiFi as Hospitality, Retail Value
Now having experienced Wifi in Hospitality since its inception, I recall having a conversation with a Hotel Chain innovation group. At the time they were unconvinced...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Recommender Systems: A Healthy Obsession
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Barry Smyth, the Digital Chair of Computer Science at University College Dublin and the Director of the Insight Centre...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DJ's Spin Code
I changed the title, they will likely not write code in the future, they will create algorithms by some interface other than 'writing code'. Coding, as it has...
From insideHPC
Video: Managing large-scale cosmology simulations with Parsl and Singularity
Rick Wagner from Globus gave this talk at the Singularity User Group "We package the imSim software inside a Singularity container so that it can be developed independently...
From insideHPC
Video: The Human Side of AI
In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, Dan Olds from OrionX discusses the human impact of AI with Greg Schmidt from HPE. The industry buzz about artificial...
From insideHPC
Sign up for ISC STEM Student Day
Young people looking to further their careers in HPC are encouraged to sign up for the ISC STEM Student Day program. As part of the ISC High Performance Conference...
From insideHPC
Making Python Fly: Accelerate Performance Without Recoding
Developers are increasingly besieged by the big data deluge. Intel Distribution for Python uses tried-and-true libraries like the Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spying on Your Smart Home
Have now had a smart home lab for a long time. Could have used this for some time, in particular to understand how the home interacts with external contexts, like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Employee Surveillance is Data
Not an unexpected thing. Its another form of data and is naturally part of efficiency considerations. Even its 'architecture', like those mentioned in recent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Silo Syndrome
Its really always about silos. The silos are formed in part by the data that exists within them. But also more fundamentally by the trust that exists within decision...
From Computational Complexity
Physics of Everday Life
Based on Scott's review, I read through Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment Now. I can't top Scott's exposition of the book, but it is pretty incredible how far humanity...
From Schneier on Security
New DNS Hijacking Attacks
DNS hijacking isn't new, but this seems to be an attack of uprecidented scale: Researchers at Cisco's Talos security division on Wednesday revealed that a hacker...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Machine Learning with Azure
This example was sent to me, a straight forward example of using Azure. Always looking for useful examples of better automating at least initial tests of a machine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Faster and Smaller Neural Nets
Fascinating development. Smaller usually means faster with training nets. Smaller can also mean easier implementation at the IOT edge. Now will they be asMorphNet...
From insideHPC