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Surveillance as a Condition for Humanitarian Aid
Excellent op-ed on the growing trend to tie humanitarian aid to surveillance. Despite the best intentions, the decision to deploy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins Grow Up
"Digital Twins Grow Up," by Samuel @samthewriter Greengard, says that digital twins, or exact #virtual representations of physical objects and #systems, are revolutionizing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Magnetic Precise Drug Delivery
Seems a very good advance. Do we know the exact implications of precise delivery of pharma? Practical issues?A new way to deliver drugs with pinpoint targeting...
From insideHPC
Cerebras Systems Unveils the Industry’s First Trillion Transistor Chip for AI
Today AI startup Cerebras Systems unveiled the largest chip ever built. "The Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) is the largest chip ever built. 56x larger than any...
From insideHPC
UPMEM Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Apps to Run 20 Times Faster
Today UPMEM announced a Processing-in-Memory (PIM) acceleration solution that allows big data and AI applications to run 20 times faster and with 10 times lessUPMEM...
From insideHPC
Video: Unboxing the NVIDIA DGX-1 Supercomputer at Georgia Tech
In this video, Oded Green from NVIDIA unboxes a DGX-1 supercomputer at the College of Computing Data Center at Georgia Tech. "And while the DGX-1 arriving at Georgia...
From insideHPC
Simulating Shock Turbulence Interactions on Stampede II
In this special guest feature, Jorge Salazar from TACC writes that Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputers to better understand shock turbulence interactions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stop and Shop has Robots in the Aisle
How they are being used is still unclear, but this could get customers used to the idea of robots in the aisle. Pictures of the bots show an attempt to be humorous...
From Schneier on Security
Influence Operations Kill Chain
Influence operations are elusive to define. The Rand Corp.'s definition is as good as any: "the collection of tactical information about an adversary as well as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Home Sensors for Alexa
A good look, many from Samsung. Not enough in the way of collaborative capabilities and skills for these. I want to see more collaboration, predictive AI and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Motivation and Goodwill
Intriguing motivation augmentation via goodwill? How universally and continuously does this work with other goals?New Tool Shows Goodwill May Trump Profit as Work...
From insideHPC
Micron Starts Volume Production of 1z Nanometer DRAM Process Node
Today Micron Technology announced advancements in DRAM scaling, making Micron the first memory company to begin mass production of 16Gb DDR4 products using 1z nm...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brief History of Blockchain
Very nicely done, mostly non-technical. Good visuals of the concepts. With some forward predictions. This emphasizes Blockchain-Ledger rather than cryptocurrency...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Galactic Winds with Cholla
Using the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a team of astrophysicists created a set of galactic wind simulations of the highest resolution ever...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
And So It Begins–School year 2019 2020
Tomorrow (Monday) I will meet the new freshmen in my study hall. And I’ll finish getting my room ready for the new school year. First day of real classes is Tuesday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Patents a Blockchain Digital Currency
Wal-mart has already experimented with the underlying tech for produce tracking. Is this beyond that? Or an extension of distributed ledger? Intriguing all around...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots for Lonliness
Have followed the Japanese eldercare efforts, pushed by Japan's demographics, for some time.Bringing robots home eases lonelinessBy Ikuko Mitsuda / Yomiuri Shimbun...
From The Noisy Channel
Martin, thanks for the kind words.
Martin, thanks for the kind words. The TunkRank that Jason Adams implemented has been down for a while. I’m not aware of any other implementation that is available...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine to Machine Interfaces
Fascinating piece. ultimately it is all about machines cooperating seamlessly. We take it for granted they will be designed to do that, but its not entirely...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (August 17th 2019)
Google may soon release an augmented-reality version of Google Maps for mobile phones. I have always found it difficult to identify the streets I see in an unfamiliar...
From The Eponymous Pickle