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Parsing 8-bit integers quickly
Suppose that you want to parse quickly 8-bit integers (0, 1, 2, …, 254, 255) from an ASCII/UTF-8 string. The problem comes up…
From Apophenia
Still Trying to Ignore the Metaverse
Perhaps surprisingly, I don’t particularly like technology. And certainly not technology for technology’s sake. My brother was always the one who picked up every...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Should These Quantities Be Linear?
Drastic proposals for revamping the chess rating system Jeff Sonas is a statistician who runs a consulting firm. He also studies skill at chess. He has advised...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 2023 Squid Oil Global Market Report
I had no idea that squid contain sufficient oil to be worth extracting. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From insideHPC
IT Services Company phoenixNAP Expands AI and Cloud Services with HPE Ampere-based Servers
HOUSTON – Aug 3, 2023 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that phoenixNAP, a global IT services provider, is expanding its Bare Metal Cloud...
From insideHPC
DOE Awards $135M for Research by 93 Early Career Scientists
Aug. 4, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of 93 early career scientists from across the country who will receive a combined...
From Schneier on Security
Political Milestones for AI
ChatGPT was released just nine months ago, and we are still learning how it will affect our daily lives, our careers, and even our systems of self-governance. But...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Frequency Analysis for Fun
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Frequency Analysis, a technique beloved by spies for centuries, and that led to the execution of at least one Queen...
From The Noisy Channel
Upcoming Search Classes this Fall
I hope that everyone has been enjoying the summer. I took a sabbatical from teaching, but I’m looking forward to new students this fall.Are you excited to learn...
From insideHPC
Hyro Survey: Generative AI to Transform Healthcare Sector
NEW YORK – August 3, 2023 — Healthcare conversational AI company Hyro today announced the publication of a report, “State of Healthcare Call Centers, 2023.” The...
From Schneier on Security
The Need for Trustworthy AI
If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Keeping secrets on the Internet – encryption keeps your data safe
How do modern codes keep your data safe online? Ben Stephenson of the University of Calgary explains When Alan Turing was breaking codes, the world was a pretty...
From insideHPC
McKinsey on the Future of Compute: The Rise of Domain-Specific Architectures
There’s more to the rise in HPC and AI of domain-specific architectures (DSAs), starting with GPUs, than the superior throughput they can deliver. Yes, the deceleration...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Committees Respond to NSF Request for Information on New Technology, Innovations, and Partnerships Directorate: Seek Additional Community Input
In April 2023, the National Science Foundation (NSF) published a Request for Information (RFI) to inform the development of a roadmap for the recently established...
From Computational Complexity
The College Visits
My wife's cousin and her daughter came and visited Chicago. The daughter, between junior and senior year of high school, is on the tail end of college tour season...
From insideHPC
PCI-SIG Exploring PCIe over Optical Interconnects
BEAVERTON, OR. – August 2, 2023 – PCI-SIG today announced the formation of a workgroup to deliver PCI Express (PCIe) technology over optical connections. The PCI...
From insideHPC
ISC 2024 Announces Contributed Program Categories and Committee Leaders
HAMBURG, August 2, 2023 – The ISC 2024 HPC conference has announced the contributed program categories for next year’s event (May 12-16) in Hamburg along with committee...
From insideHPC
Sylabs Partners with Carahsoft on Software Container Services for the Public Sector
Reno, Nv. – August 2, 2023 – Sylabs, a provider of tools and services for high performance container technologies, announced a partnership with Carahsoft Technology...
From insideHPC
QuEra Expands Access to Quantum Computers
BOSTON, August 2, 2023 – QuEra Computing, a developer of neutral-atom quantum computers, today announced it now supports new ways of accessing its quantum computers...
From Schneier on Security
New SEC Rules around Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures
The US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules around the disclosure of cybersecurity incidents. There are two basic rules: Public companies must...
From insideHPC