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Meta, formerly Facebook, announced it has designed and built what it calls the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), “the fastest AI supercomputers running today and will be the fastest AI supercomputer in the world when it’s fully…
Our experience with reflection pre-learning in a MOOC on computational thinking that we developed and currently teach.
Colonel Stok: Do you play chess? Harry Palmer: Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating.—Funeral in Berlin Ken Regan is well known to us all, and is the co-author of this blog. He is in the Department of Computer…
AI and learning physical writing. Like the interplay interplay of the old and new skills.
Artificial intelligence: Digital pen helps people learn to write
by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
A smart digital pen that helps people…
The story of Viennese engineer Curt Herzstark and the world's smallest mechanical calculating machine, the Curta.
Although many vendor-reported figures for the fourth quarter aren’t available yet, high performance computing (HPC) market analyst firm Hyperion Research said “it’s clear 2021 will be an exceptionally strong growth year for the…
Like the implied visualization
New Scientist, Alex Wilkins, January 10, 2021
Researchers at the Chinese…
In comic books, most superheroes have a secret identity, usually to protect their friends and family from retribution. However, today’s computer technology would make it impossible for a superhero to maintain their secret identity…
Fascinating piece, with it seems big implications, see the full thing in QuantaMag pointed to below. Look forward to see the implications in such futuristic machines.
Computer Scientists Eliminate Pesky Quantum Computations
By…Is it an irony that Lipton's 1000th post and 75th bday are close together? No. Its a coincidence. People use irony/paradox/coincidence interchangeably. Hearing people make that mistake makes me literally want to strangle them…
Repeated after reading, well done. Did a big project on related questions and how they drove decisions.
Monetizing Your Personal Data, By Keith Kirkpatrick
Communications of the ACM, January 2022, Vol. 65 No. 1, Pages 17-19,…
Not till it can become very adaptive to many contexts. Replacing if it does better than teachers perhaps.
Many contexts are at play. Selective humans are still the most adaptive teachers. Great Question.
Will AI Destroy Education…
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Russia), January 19, 2022 in SkolTech
A customizable brain activity recording…
ACM TECHNEWS
Amazon looks further in the complexity of checkout, aims to be seamless.
Amazon Opening 30,000-Sq.-Ft. Store with QR Codes, Palm-Scanning Checkout
By The Washington Post, January 21, 2022 in CACM
Amazon will open a…
Where are we going?
What’s Ahead for the U.S. Economy in 2022
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Not too different from other kinds of knowledge loss, though accelerated. Tried many efforts to address this, rarely effective ..... '
The Great Resignation: How to Combat the Knowledge Drain Effect
One of the greatest threats…
It is common to want to parse long strings of digits into integer values. Because it is a common task, we want to optimize it as much as possible. In the blog post, Quickly parsing eight digits, I presented a very quick way to…
Related to above, considerable piece brief intro below.
How Reliable Is Smartphone-Based Electronic Contact Tracing for COVID-19?
By Philipp H. Kindt, Trinad Chakraborty, Samarjit Chakraborty
Communications of the ACM, January 2022…
Intriguing concept, Complete capabilities and how it is meant to integrate with consumer's behavior and status is unclear.
Yale researcher teams develops wearable clip to detect COVID
The clip is intended to complement at-home…
Business Intelligence is not only about reporting; you should be telling a story through data.
January 20, 2022 — Berkeley, CA — Atom Computing, maker of a quantum computer made of nuclear-spin qubits from optically-trapped neutral atoms, today announced closure of a $60M Series B round. Third Point Ventures led the round…
After SC21, Patrick Kennedy at Serve the Home got a scoop when he met with Raja Koduri, SVP/GM of Intel’s Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group, to discuss Intel’s zettascale projections and plans, anticipating…
NFTs getting a further indication of reality. A deepening of generalized asset fungification?
Meta reportedly plans to bring NFTs into Facebook and Instagram, BY KYT DOTSON in SliconAngle
Meta Platforms Inc., formerly Facebook…
Boon to future research by opening data.
Cloud-Based Platform Opens Genomics Data to All
By Johns Hopkins University, January 19, 2022
A team co-led by a Johns Hopkins University computer scientist has created a cloud-based platform…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced today that a new version of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model, or E3SM, is two times faster than an earlier version released in 2018. Earth system models have weather-scale resolution…
More examples of autonomy in use.
John Deere debuts fully autonomous tractor at CES
BY DUNCAN RILEY in SiliconAngle
Agricultural hardware maker John Deere today debuted a fully autonomous tractor at the 2022 Consumer Electronics…Mathematics is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature—Shakuntala Devi. source—note MoMath cap Peter Winkler is featured in the current issue of the New Yorker magazine. Peter is a famous Dartmouth mathematics…
What will it cover and what are the implications?
EXPLAINER: How sweeping EU rules would curb tech companies in TechExplore by Kelvin Chan
Online companies would have to ramp up efforts to keep harmful content off their platforms…
Fundamental question. Always thinking back to the complexity question being posed.
How Fast Can Quantum Computers Process Information?
By The Jerusalem Post, December 29, 2021
Physicists at Germany's University of Bonn and the…
Quantum is in the news this week, with IBM today announcing new research on its “entanglement forging” simulation method and Multiverse Computing launching a quantum-based method for financial institutions to calculate the fair…
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