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My test for client discussions have been ongoing. In my last post on this I mentioned that Amazon currently has very different behavior between home and Echo Auto behavior in the car, making the experience bumpy. They should…
Interesting and quite technical view of forecasting and classification that is worth a look. Of course accurate and timely forecasting is important for most businesses. Considerable piece here, below an intro with much more…
It's likely the diamondback squid. There's a video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
What is particularly good here is that the means to test this will be obvious. I get USGS reports on earthquakes via an App, can filter them to mag 4.5 and higher, minutes after they occur. So comparison to predictions should…
Last month, I gave a 15-minute talk in London titled: "Why technologists need to get involved in public policy." In it, I try to make the case for public-interest technologists. (I also maintain a public-interest tech resources…
I think the even more interesting case for using supply or demand is where supply vastly outstrips demand and most intents are in the tail, e.g., searching through a vast catalog books or scholarly articles. In those cases, demand…
Points to some marketing reports available for a fee. At the link.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patent Portfolio Strategies of Amazon & Qualcomm, and AI Investments of Tencent | 2019 Overview & Examination Report
October 18,Research…
Today Codeplay announced the world's first fully-conformant SYCL 1.2.1 Solution. "As a non-proprietary alternative to the incumbent CUDA, SYCL is an open standard developed by the Khronos Group that enables developers to write…
"The goal of this BoF is to discuss the landscape for advanced scientific computing after the United States achieves the exascale milestone. What are possible future breakthroughs? What are promising computing and mathematics…
DK Panda from Ohio State University gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "This talk will focus on challenges in designing HPC, Deep Learning, Big Data and HPC Cloud middleware for Exascale systems with millions of processors…
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As one of the Grand Challenges of our time, climate modeling typically requires long run times and huge computational resources. Sandia National Laboratories has awarded Kelsey DiPietro a Jill Hruby Fellowship to tackle this
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The latest Analytics Mag from the Informs Group. Below some quick summaries of key articles, plus lots more at the link. Always informative.
Beyond Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining
Data people come in all shapes…
Grip is a big thing in robotics. This will be a big deal for classic smart home applications for eldercare. And in factory manufacturing applications.
Giving robots a faster grasp
An algorithm speeds up the planning process robots…
This group of tutorials via DSC looks good. And to get full access you need to join as a member, which I always recommend. Its free. If you like self-study, its a great era we live in, lots of free and detailed information…
Interesting proof of concept: At the CS3sthlm security conference later this month, security researcher Monta Elkins will show how he created a proof-of-concept version of that hardware hack in his basement. He intends to demonstrate…
Interesting claim, but a formal one?
Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system in Fastcompany
In China, scoring citizens’ behavior is official government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing…
Starting PhD students over time would always assume that the computer science academic job market would be a strong or as weak when they graduate as it is when they were starting, and they would always be wrong. That may have…
I had not heard they were specifically hiring people with autism for RPA and process modeling jobs, is there specific data out there indicating this is a particularly good match? Or it is it a more general diversity effort…
Nominations are now open for the James Corones Award, honoring a scientist or engineer who demonstrates integrity and engagement in their field. "The James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building and Communication recognizes…
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Christian Marcazzo, VP and general manager at IDBS highlights trends in life sciences research and development. "As can be seen across most industries, organizations…
Today ColdQuanta announced it has been awarded $1M from NASA’s Civilian Commercialization Readiness Pilot Program. The program will enable ColdQuanta to develop significantly smaller cold atom systems with a high level of ruggedness…
In this video, Cortical.io CEO Francisco Webber demonstrates how the company's software running on Xilinx FPGAs breaks new ground in the field of natural language understanding (NLU). "Cortical.io delivers AI-based Natural Language…
Via Retailwire, the state of the Retail supply chains from Eft. At the link you can sign in and get the full report. Key takeaways below not new or unexpected, have existed for some time, details and solutions.
Eft’s 2020 State…
Happened on Steve Gibson's SQRL, read through a bit of his site, below the WP description. He has a very useful weekly podcast on security called 'Security Now'. That I have followed for several years. A good place to stay…
This timely article from our friends over at Univa examines how the cloud is attractive for organizations that need fast access to specialized resources, and that want to avoid the cost and complexity of on-premise infrastructure…
Happened into Pew Research of late. Here is their blog/site on data topics, I plan to dive in from time to time and point to things of interest.
The "how" behind the numbers, facts and trends shaping your world.
Pew Research
We…
Amazon is crowd sourcing Alexa skills for its infrastructure. Have worked my way through several training outlines like the below. Which show the direction they are moving, worth a look. Still not what I would call very…
This is interesting research: In a BGP hijack, a malicious actor convinces nearby networks that the best path to reach a specific IP address is through their network. That's unfortunately not very hard to do, since BGP itself…
Interesting results. Some odd questions. Could have had more and broader questions. Indicates the challenges for things like understanding topics like privacy and transparency by the general public. Our own work with decision…
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