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Does Bad Code Lead to Good Learning?
Last week a teacher posted an interesting problem. They were looking for an explanation of why to code produced the answer that…
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Trends this Year
Irving Wladawsky-Berger does a good job of looking at trends likely to continue this year. With lots of useful links. Below the intro: Trends That Will Likely...
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IBM towards Secure Enterprise Data
Hyperledger towards business goals with sharing secure enterprise data How IBM is using blockchain to transform the potential of enterprise dataChris O'Brien @obrien...
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Rental Fees
Wow, now here is something, have quite a bit of retail equipment. Thinking this ... It’s Finally Illegal for ISPs to Charge Rental Fees for Equipment You OwnBy...
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Data Lineage Tools
This problem was brought to my attention. I don't buy that these are the best, but they are reasonable examples I will examine. Especially with regard to...
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U.S. Army Looks to Improve Quadrotor Drone Performance
Changes in flight capabilities for in context dynamic needs. U.S. Army Research LaboratoryDecember 8, 2020The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's...
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The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: BioTeam’s Ari Berman Talks HPC-Driven Life Sciences Research
Both Dr. Ari Berman and the consulting company of which he is CEO, BioTeam, stand at the crossroads of scientific research and HPC. As the company says of itself...
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Amazon Pantry Discontinued
Following this a while because some of our products were typically included. Seems to have decreased in use, and created anther level of unneeded complexity....
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Benford's Law in the Universe
We used Benford's law to detect potential fraud. I have mentioned it here a number of times. Turns out its much more broadly observed. Which is fairly obvious...
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Lopsided Digital Transformations
Can confirm this in the large enterprise. Broadly done in supply chain world, uncommon in marketing. Depends on things like data access, expectations around automation...
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FPGA Maker Achronix to List on Nasdaq Through Merger With ACE Convergence
Jan. 7, 2021, Santa Clara, CA – Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, maker of high-performance field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP...
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Portable Device Can Quickly Detect Plant Stress
Powerful idea. Here wondering how well the measure of stress works for various crops.Portable Device Can Quickly Detect Plant StressMIT News, January 4, 2021...
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Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation
Quantum Internet is quickly approaching. Implications?Fermilab and Partners Achieve Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation University of Chicago News...
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Limitations of a Fremium Approach to Marketing
Thoughtful examination of the approach of free ... and the idea of freemium. Don’t Count on Free Trials to Win You Customers in HBR, by Sadat Reza, Dixon Ho, Rich...
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UK Antitrust Agency to Probe Nvidia Acquisition of Arm
Nvidia’s intended acquisition of chip maker Arm from SoftBank, the biggest tech deal of 2020 and one with major implications for HPC and AI, is now under investigation...
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Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research...
From Schneier on Security
Changes in WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy
If you’re a WhatsApp user, pay attention to the changes in the privacy policy that you’re being forced to agree with. In 2016, WhatsApp gave users a one-time ability...
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Generating Visual Images from Text Descriptions
Something we could have used to test visual understanding of products and their use. OpenAI’s latest neural network creates images from written descriptions By...
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Mining Private Data: Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
Schneier has mentioned this as a privacy issue: Just reading the Berkeley BAIR paper that develops this (see short excerpt below) And the source technical paper...
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Digital Product Development from Visualization
And forward to product design and development, from visualization. Visualization Adds Transparency to Digital Product DevelopmentFraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Germany)...
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