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Gen. Nakasone on US CyberCommand
Really interesting article by and interview with Paul M. Nakasone (Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, Director of the National…
From Computational Complexity
I think ze was confused -- in favor of genderless pronouns
You've probably heard the following: At first I didn't want to get an X but now that I have it, I can't imagine life without one. X could be telegraph...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Has Sure Changed
Last week, I was reading some old code. I wrote it in 1975. It was in FORTRAN IV and it was on punch cards. Really bad code. One character, meaningless variable...
From insideHPC
The State of High-Performance Fabrics: A Chat with the OpenFabrics Alliance
In this special guest feature, Paul Grun and Doug Ledford from the OpenFabrics Alliance describe the industry trends in the fabrics space, its state of affairsThe...
From insideHPC
Moving Mountains of Data at NERSC
Researchers at NERSC face the daunting task of moving 43 years worth of archival data across the network to new tape libraries, a whopping 120 Petabytes! "EvenMoving...
From insideHPC
Dr. Omar Ghattas Receives 2019 SIAM Geosciences Career Prize
Dr. Omar Ghattas from the University of Texas at Austin has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 SIAM Geosciences Career Prize. He is being recognized for...
From insideHPC
HPC in the Hands of Every Engineer – With Software Containers
In this special guest feature, Wolfgang Gentzsch from The UberCloud writes that we’ve never been so close to ubiquitous computing for researchers and engineers....
From The Eponymous Pickle
BERT for Natural Language Understanding
Was just introduced to this again, worth a a look:BERT Technology introduced in 3-minutes By Suleiman Khan, Ph.D. in MediumGoogle BERT is a pre-training method...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Podcast, “Catalyzing Computing,” Episode 2
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released the first episode of the “Catalyzing Computing” podcast, and episode 2 is available now. The podcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Warnings about Risks in Algorithms
Quite interesting view. But it exists in all analytic systems. Not much mention of my favorite warning, changes in context over time. And that's just one...
From insideHPC
Video: Speeding up Programs with OpenACC in GCC
Thomas Schwinge from Mentor gave this talk at FOSDEM'19. "Requiring only few changes to your existing source code, OpenACC allows for easy parallelization and code...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Contracts as Mechanisms
Thoughtful short piece that explains SC's as neither smart nor contracts, but rather mechanisms, from a legal perspective. ... In FreedometoTinker:Abstract:This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An AI Reading List
Good examples in the space. Some I have seen and read, some not. Worth a selective look.An AI Reading List - From Practical Primers to Sci-Fi Short StoriesThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trusting the Blockchain
Recent article just brought to my attention. Schneier, a well known security technologist that I have followed for years. Criticizes public, consensus algorithm...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain and Government
Maybe so, but in recent conversations was struck by how nervous government was regarding the whole idea, especially how it seemed to be hiding certain uses of currency...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self-Driving Cars May Cruise Rather than Park
This points to the possibilities of 'unintended consequences', which we have to watch for when building in autonomous tech. But this alarmist view suggests that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Governance and Knowledge Graphs
Knowledge Graphs and Data GovernanceA Note from TopQuadrant's CEO, Irene Polikoff As 2018 comes to a close we took a look back at key topics that were of most interest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sentiment Analysis and Merchandising Calls
Quite a range of information is described. Can sentiment analysis improve merchandising calls? by Brian Kilcourse in RetailwireThrough a special arrangement,Marketers...
From insideHPC
Argonne Looks to Singularity for HPC Code Portability
Over at Argonne, Nils Heinonen writes that Researchers are using the open source Singularity framework as a kind of Rosetta Stone for running supercomputing code...
From insideHPC
Video: Frontiers of AI Deployments in HPC on Arm
In this video from Arm HPC Asia 2019, Elsie Wahlig leads a round table panel discussion on Frontiers of AI deployments in HPC on Arm. "Topics at the workshop covered...
From The Eponymous Pickle