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How fast can you sort arrays of integers in Java?
Programming languages come with sorting functions by default. We can often do much better. For example, Downs has showed that…
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New CCPA Addresses Dark Patterns
First I had heard of this, the definition of 'dark patterns' seems quite loose. California Passes Regulation Banning 'Dark Patterns' Under Landmark Privacy Law...
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Towards Deception Detection? In Humans, in Machines? In Crowds?
Following this in the Language Log Blog for some time. We even looked at large databases of human comments on products. But could such comments really be marked...
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TensorFlow3D and Audio
More on Google 3D Scene understanding inTensorFlow3D with links to audio. Quite interesting, why not build a broader notion of context? Like the direction...
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Future of Today's Retail
All will have an impact, demise no, efficiency yes. The future of retail: Do robots, A.I., and AR spell demise for stores? By Jeremy Kaplan, in DigitalTrends...
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Measuring Microfailures (Again)
Not really a new thing, but thinking about effectively measuring them is. Which we attempted to deal with directly. ... Elsevier: Business Horizons Volume...
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Good Overview of Blockchain
Very nice non-technical video overview. Passing this on for a talk I am giving. What is BLOCKCHAIN? The best explanation of blockchain technology6 minute Youtube...
From CERIAS Blog
So You Have to Learn a 3rd Programming Language?
I recently found myself in a conversation where someone made a comment about "Being so old I've programmed in Pascal!" I'm considerably older than that person, ...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 27th 2021)
Scientists, including climate-science researchers, often travel to faraway places for conferences. Attending a live conference is time consuming and expensive.Continue...
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Fewer UK Troops, More Tech
Another inevitable thing. How do we make sure the decisions are applied in the right way? Fewer Troops, but More Tech: U.K. Military Downsizes as it Shifts to...
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Microsoft Launches Identity Platform on Bitcoin’s Blockchain
Via Walter Riker. Microsoft is working a number of strategies in identity I am exploring. Microsoft Launches Identity Platform on Bitcoin’s BlockchainBy Emmanuel...
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Unilever on Our Brave New Post Pandemic Work Future
Lots of future predictions, here from the CPG world we studied. Fit for the postpandemic future: Unilever’s Leena Nair on reinventing how we workAs Chief HumanSent...
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Anomaly Detection
Humans in conversation also look for anomalies to build a model of the interaction and its direction and value. Explainable AI (XAI) design for unsupervised deep...
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DARPA Subterranean Challenge
Always intriguing, how can robotic systems autonomously navigate complex and messy environments, like virtual tunnels, caves, underground urban environments, or...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $29 Million for Data Analysis Tools
March 26, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $29 million to develop new tools to analyze massive amounts of scientific information, including...
From insideHPC
HPC User Forum: Virtual Event Coming Up in May
The HPC User Forum has been reconfigured as virtual events for 2021 and registration is now open for the May meeting at: www.hpcuserforum.com or directly at: https...
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Chipotle Wants to use Autonomous Nuro Delivery
Surprising to me, given the number of delivery services out there. Note the use of Nuro, which many retailers have tested. Still...
From insideHPC
Preparing for Exascale: ALCF’s Aurora Early Science Program and Visualizing Cancer’s Spread
Scientists are preparing a cancer modeling study to run on Argonne’s upcoming Aurora supercomputer before it goes online in 2022. The U.S. Department of Energy’s...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Congrats Avi and Laci on the Abel Prize
The joy of knowing, understanding, and creating is common to all the sciences.—Vera Sós. Dorit Aharonov is a researcher in quantum computation. She was a Ph.D....
From insideHPC
José Correia, University of Porto, Wins PRACE Best Poster Award at EuroHPC Summit
PRACE has selected the winner of the PRACE Best Poster Award at PRACEdays21 during the EuroHPC Summit Week 2021 Digital from 22 to 26 March. The winner is JoséJos...
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