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Learning Python Part 2: Distracted by a Turtle
I cracked a book and found out that Python supports turtle graphics. I love drawing pictures with graphics. I have since I was…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction
Weapons of Math Destruction has been out for a couple of years now and it is one of those books that a lot of people reference. I finally got around to reading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Alexa-Live Next Week
Am an invited remote participant at the Amazon Skill Developer event: Alexa-Live on July 22 next week. In particular to represent a project with voice assistant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Capital One's AI Assistant
Had not seen this assistant example before. Much more at the link.How Capital One’s AI assistant achieved 99% NLU accuracyVB Staff in VentureBeatLike almost every...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Implications of Working Without an Office
Worth while look based on a broad survey, analysis of the results, with some surprising results. The Implications of Working Without an Office HBR Big IdeaHBR...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Dividend Plan
We worked on a number of projects that linked to 'data as an asset' ideas, and was reminded of this project in Wired. Its value, limitations are and issues worth...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Found on Provincetown Sandbar
Headline: "Dozens of squid found on Provincetown sandbar." Slow news day. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Downloading files faster by tweaking headers
I was given a puzzle recently. Someone was parsing JSON files downloaded from the network from a bioinformatics URI. One JSON library was twice as fast at the other...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japanese Robots Learn Food Prep: Resemble Kangaroos
Note the proposal that at first the food will be prepared by humans remotely, and those motions will be learned. Then the system will use that learning to prepare...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Politeness of Machines
Do we expect the same politeness from machines? Are we polite to them? They can detect some aspects of our demeanor by the words we use. Will we begin to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revamped GMail to Compete
Used GMail since we tested it in the enterprise. Later because we collaborated with universities who got it for free. Always liked it, and the following GSuite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Adds Cortana to Outlook on Android
Been following Microsoft and what they are doing with Cortana. Had always thought they could do more, but perhaps because of some early and recent problems with...
From insideHPC
Argonne Claims Largest Engine Flow Simulation Using Theta Supercomputer
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have conducted what they claim is the largest simulation of flow inside an internal...
From insideHPC
The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Supercomputing Populist Merle Giles on the Business Realities of Commercial HPC
This interview is with Merle Giles, founder and CEO of Moonshot Research and a tireless advocate for HPC’s role as an accelerator to industrial innovation. While...
From Schneier on Security
Twitter Hackers May Have Bribed an Insider
Motherboard is reporting that this week's Twitter hack involved a bribed insider. Twitter has denied it. I have been taking press calls all day about this. And...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The cost of runtime dispatch
For high-performance software, it is sometimes needed to use different functions, depending on what the hardware supports. You might write different functions,Continue...
From insideHPC
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Goes to Tel Aviv University Graduate
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) today announced that Dor Minzer receives the 2019 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, “On Monotonicity...
From insideHPC
Core Scientific Acquires Atrio, Adds to its AI Capabilities as the Cloud for Data Scientists
Core Scientific, an infrastructure and software solutions provider for AI and blockchain led by CEO Kevin Turner, the former COO of Microsoft, announced the acquisition...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM SIGARCH BLOG: Genesis and Reflections on the Return of Industry Products to ISCA 2020
The following is from CCC Chair Emeritus Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Computing is a field with substantial interaction between academia...
From insideHPC
Chenbro Unveils 2U 8-Bay Rack Mount Server for HPC, Data Center
Chenbro has launched the RB23708, a Level 6, 2U rackmount server barebone designed for mission-critical, storage-focused applications in data center and HPC enterprise...
From Putting People First