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Animation Tool for Posing for Videogames
Animation and Videogames
University of Montreal
Salle De Presse, July 27, 2022
An animation tool developed…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Negative incentives in academic research
In the first half of the XXth century, there were relatively few scientists, and these scientists were generally not lavishly funded. Yet it has been convincingly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Webb Space Telescope Has Profound Data Challenges
Useful example to consider.The Webb Space Telescope's Profound Data ChallengesBy IEEE Spectrum, July 15, 2022The Lagrange points are equilibrium locations where...
From insideHPC
Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) Meeting July 21-22
July 21, 2022 — The next meeting of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), the federal advisory committee for the U.S. Department of Energy...
From insideHPC
MemVerge to Host CXL Forum at the Flash Memory Summit Aug. 2
MILPITAS, Calif. – July 21, 2022 – Big memory software company MemVerge will host a full-day forum during the Flash Memory Summit on Tuesday, Aug. 2. The forum,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BCI Startup Implants First Device in U.S. Patient
Do I recall this having been done elsewhere? Checking. Note the many kinds of brain tasks mentioned. Considerable capabilities implies. BCI Startup Implants First...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Car Charging Robot
I have been looking at the supply chain aspects of EV ChargingThis Car Charger Bot Will Also Hold Your Spot Meet Ziggy, the EV charging robotLawrence Ulrich, IEEE...
From insideHPC
The More You Scale, the Less You Pay … No, Really
Ansys Cloud, the managed cloud service provided by Ansys and enabled on Microsoft Azure, recently announced availability of 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors with AMD...
From Computational Complexity
What is known about that sequence
In my last post I wrote:---------------------------Consider the recurrencea_1=1for all n\ge 2, a_n = a_{n-1} + a_{n/2}.For which M does this recurrence have infinitely...
From insideHPC
At ISC 2022: Vik Malyala Puts the Spotlight on Supermicro’s AMD-based Servers
In this interview with Supermicro’s Vik Malyala, he discusses the company’s latest editions of its AMD-based server products, the third generation of AMD processors...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How quickly can you convert floats to doubles (and back)?
Many programming languages have two binary floating-point types: float (32-bit) and double (64-bit). It reflects the fact that most general-purpose processors supports...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What AI Still Can't Do
Thoughtful PieceWhat AI Still Doesn't Know How to Do, By The Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2022A few weeks ago a Google engineer got a lot of attention for a dramatic...
From insideHPC
Quantum: Claims Solving 3,854-Variable Optimization Problem in 6 Minutes for BMW
LEESBURG, Va., July 20, 2021 – Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) today announced it has solved an optimization problem with over 3,800 variables in six minutes by applying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Storing Genomes
Makes sense, encoding. Blockchain Can Secure, Store GenomesYaleNews, Bill Hathaway, June 29, 2022The SAMchain technology developed by Yale University scientists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating the Voices of the Dead
Consider the complexity ... Raising the Voices of the Dead By Tim Hornyak, Commissioned by CACM Staff July 19, 2022Artificial intelligence experts andChanneling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do AI Systems Really Have Their Own Secret Language?
Vocabulary vs Language, implications for IP to be considered. Do AI systems really have their own secret language? by Aaron J. Snoswell, in Techexplore ...
From insideHPC
The Evolution of HPC Storage: More Choices Yields More Decisions
[SPONSORED CONTENT] The past few years have brought many changes into the HPC storage world, both with technology like non-volatile memory express (NVMe) or persistent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will AI Remove Submarine Stealth?
Has to be considered, along with many other kinds of stealth and related implications for that.Better detection will make the oceans transparent—and perhaps doom...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DNA Typewriter
Quite interesting. DNA Typewriter Taps Out a Record Inside CellsHoward Hughes Medical Institute News, July 8, 2022Researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Freedom To Teach Computer Science Our Way
Mike Zamansky had another interesting post (CS - it isn't all that) that got me thinking. The last three paragraphs started me going. For exampleAs CS becomes more...
From insideHPC