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The threat of technological unemployment
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

The threat of technological unemployment

There is a widely reported threat to our economy: robots are going to replace human workers. It is nothing new… In 1930, Keynes, the famous economist introduced...

Maxeler Dataflow Engine Speeds Compliance Capture and Analytics for Financial Institutions
From insideHPC

Maxeler Dataflow Engine Speeds Compliance Capture and Analytics for Financial Institutions

"As financial institutions acknowledge the importance of data as an asset and as they continue to deploy sophisticated analytics to realize the benefit of thatMaxeler...

Supercomputing Subatomic Particle Research on Titan
From insideHPC

Supercomputing Subatomic Particle Research on Titan

By using multiple grids and separating the modes in the problem onto the various grids most efficiently, the researchers can get through their long line of calculations...

Nimbus Data Patents Parallel Memory Architecture
From insideHPC

Nimbus Data Patents Parallel Memory Architecture

Today Nimbus Data announced the award of a patent for its non-blocking all-flash architecture. Nimbus Data’s Parallel Memory Architecture scales capacity and performance...

Podcast: Deep Learning 101
From insideHPC

Podcast: Deep Learning 101

In this AI Podcast, Host Michael Copeland speaks with NVIDIA's Will Ramey about the history behind today's AI boom and the key concepts you need to know to getPodcast...

Wireless Augmented Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wireless Augmented Reality

In Kickstarter  (Prototype) .Makes sense, if we want to improve our reality we should not have to be on a wire tether. OKULARION: The First Wireless Mixed Reality...

From Computational Complexity

Hidden Figures

Yesterday in our tradition of seeing math movies on Christmas, we saw Hidden Figures, the story of African-American women who worked as "computers" at NASA in...

Notion AI to Improve Email and Communications
From The Eponymous Pickle

Notion AI to Improve Email and Communications

Years goal is to improve email capabilities.  Was just introduced to the Notion AI system.   In particular because it can be linked to the Echo voice system.  Notion...

Understanding Cognitive Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Understanding Cognitive Systems

Jim Spohrer of the Cognitive Systems Institute has started a useful curriculum, click through the below for  more information.   I recently passed along this comment...

Wearables for Eldercare
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wearables for Eldercare

Some obvious solutions, but improved usability will also be important.   Many improved sensory approaches too.  These methods also align with memory applications...

NCI Australia Joins OpenPOWER Foundation
From insideHPC

NCI Australia Joins OpenPOWER Foundation

Australia’s National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) has become the first Australian organization to join the OpenPOWER Foundation, a global open technical community...

Video: How GPUs are Remaking Cloud Computing
From insideHPC

Video: How GPUs are Remaking Cloud Computing

In this video from the Nvidia Booth at SC16, Jonathan Symonds from MapD presents: How GPUs are Remaking Cloud Computing. "This video discusses how price/performance...

Hilton Builds Connie Assistant with Watson
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hilton Builds Connie Assistant with Watson

More hotel chains thinking about the usefulness of virtual assistants.   Notably includes Watson, and looking at the notion of conversation via a humanoid bot called...

Reality on Your Table Spaces
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reality on Your Table Spaces

Saw a similar idea which showed architectural drawings represented in front of a client on a table.   This will likely advance to provide both demonstration level...

Jülich Installs New QPACE3 Supercomputer for Quantum Chromodynamics
From insideHPC

Jülich Installs New QPACE3 Supercomputer for Quantum Chromodynamics

A new supercomputer has been deployed at the Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) in Germany. Called QPACE3, the new 447 Teraflop machine is named for "QCD Parallel...

Beauty Meets HPC: An Overview of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center
From insideHPC

Beauty Meets HPC: An Overview of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center

"The multidisciplinary research team and computational facilities –including MareNostrum– make BSC an international centre of excellence in e-Science. Since its...

Advanced Analytics and Productivity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advanced Analytics and Productivity

I like the fact that the word  'Analytics' is used, its not just data science, its what we do with it.   Its not all about science its about understanding process...

We Need To Talk About How We Talk About Science
From updated sporadically at best

We Need To Talk About How We Talk About Science

A while ago, Brian Burg commented on Twitter that he would like to see more discussion of marketing in academia. I decided I'd rather write a meta-post about how...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squidmas Cards
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squidmas Cards

Merry Squidmas. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....

What is the Blockchain and Why is it So Important?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What is the Blockchain and Why is it So Important?

Good piece with graphical descriptions and links.In Open Data Science:What is the Blockchain and Why is it So Important?" ... Simply put, the Blockchain is a shared...
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