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Asking the right question is more important than getting the right answer
Schools train us to provide the right answers to predefined questions. Yet anyone with experience from the real world knows that…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Operations Research Simulation Engineer at Raytheon in Tucson
Raytheon in Tucson is seeking an Operations Research Simulation Engineer in our Job of the Week. "Our Modeling, Simulation and Analysis Center (MSA) headquarters...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (November 24th 2018)
There is no association between birth order and personality traits: The results of both within- and between-family research designs revealed no consistent evidence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power of the Small Design
Always been intrigued by the power of the very small. There are big advantages of power and manipulation. Whether in the body or in space. Involvement ofInsect...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Proposes Social Credit System
Podcast and text ... excerptBeijing to Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020 in Bloomberg China capital plans ‘social credit’ system by end of 2020...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Thanksgiving Treat
Another proof that there are an infinite number of primes of a special form Cropped from Packard Fellow src Trevor Wooley is a professor of mathematics at the University...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Good Squid Fishing in the Exmouth Gulf
The conditions are ideal for squid fishing in the Exmouth Gulf in West Australia. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Furhat: a Social Robot from Sweden
Been following the social aspects of robotics for some time. Furhat looks at it differently. But since its is not meant to have any particular purpose in mind...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Polinode Documentation
I see that Polinode has updated their documentation. Impressive, worth a look." ... PolinodeCollect, Visualize and Analyze Connected DataNetworksUpload connected...
From insideHPC
Micron Joins CERN openlab
Last week at SC18, Micron announced that the company has joined CERN openlab, a unique public-private partnership, by signing a three-year agreement. Under theMicron...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Court Fight Over Commas
Although oddly its irrelevant, I worked at the Language Lab at Penn, followed Language Log Blog since it was a newsletter, So for unconnected reasons the complexity...
From insideHPC
Dr. Eng Lim Goh Fireside Chat on the Convergence of HPC & Ai
In this video from SC18, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE describes the Convergence of HPC and Ai. "Data analytics and insights are fueling innovation across scientific...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scalable Intelligent Systems
Quite valuable and a considerable challenge, see the full article.Scalable Intelligent Systems by 2025 in the ACM By Carl Hewitt, who is an emeritus professor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ditch the term Blockchain?
I agree, when hype exceeds reality you have to take great care. Start with a good business case.Via Fortune, a short talk by execs.Time to Ditch the Word 'Blockchain'...
From Schneier on Security
Using Machine Learning to Create Fake Fingerprints
Researchers are able to create fake fingerprints that result in a 20% false-positive rate. The problem is that these sensors obtain only partial images of users'...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Problem With CS Education Research
There is some research in who t teach computer science (OK, mostly its about teaching programming but that’s important too) but not a lot of teachers or professors...
From insideHPC
Univa and WekaIO team to speed HPC Workloads in the Cloud
Last week at SC18 in Dallas, Univa announced a partnership with WekaIO, a high-performance scale-out file system storage company, to help enterprise customers accelerate...
From insideHPC
Singularity Containers Power NVIDIA Full Galaxy Simulation
In this video from the NVIDIA Showcase event at SC18, Jensen Huang hosts a demo of Singularity containers running a full galaxy simulation. "This has to be theSingularity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On IOTA in Forbes
Update on IOTA, I continue to follow, primarily different because of its innovative means of updating and validating its chain and contents.IOTA - Fulfilling the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Plane with No Moving Parts
Still a prototype only suitable for drones, but quite a development.MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving partsThe silent, lightweight aircraft doesn...
From The Eponymous Pickle