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May 2023


From insideHPC

At ISC 2023: Addison Snell on the Return of Healthy, Pre-Pandemic Growth for HPC-AI

At ISC 2023: Addison Snell on the Return of Healthy, Pre-Pandemic Growth for HPC-AI

At ISC 2023, we talked with Addison Snell, CEO of HPC-AI industry analyst firm Intersect360 Research, about the firm’s latest market update, released before the conference. Snell said the top-line finding from Intersect360’s …


From insideHPC

At ISC 2023: Intel on its Support for Multi-Architecture Computing and the oneAPI Standard

At ISC 2023: Intel on its Support for Multi-Architecture Computing and the oneAPI Standard

At ISC 2023, we caught up with Joe Curley, Intel vice president and general manager, Software Products and Ecosystem, who updated us on Intel’s strategic support for multi-architecture computing. Our discussion highlighted the…


From insideHPC

HSBC and Quantinuum Explore Quantum Computing in Financial Services

HSBC and Quantinuum Explore Quantum Computing in Financial Services

CAMBRIDGE, UK and BROOMFIELD, CO, May 30, 2023 – Quantum computing company Quantinuum and London-headquartered bank and financial services group HSBC have announced exploratory projects looking at potential benefits of quantum…


From The Eponymous Pickle

NVIDIA and ServiceNow

NVIDIA and ServiceNow

Good direction.

ServiceNow and NVIDIA Announce Partnership to Build Generative AI Across Enterprise 

Built on ServiceNow Platform With NVIDIA AI Software and DGX Infrastructure, Custom Large Language Models to Bring Intelligent…


From insideHPC

AlixPartners and NAX Group Partner on AI and Corporate Data Sets

AlixPartners and NAX Group Partner on AI and Corporate Data Sets

NEW YORK, May 30, 2023 — AlixPartners, a global consulting firm, and AI software company NAX Group, today announced a partnership to build a platform designed to unlock the value of AI and corporate data sets. The partnership…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Integrating LLM into the Wolfram Language

Integrating LLM into the Wolfram Language

Outline of examples of 

LLM interaction as 

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/05/the-new-world-of-llm-functions-integrating-llm-technology-into-the-wolfram-language/

Examples of computational Chemistry

https://blog.wolfram…


From insideHPC

ArangoDB Announces Release of ArangoDB 3.11 for Search, Graph and Analytics

ArangoDB Announces Release of ArangoDB 3.11 for Search, Graph and Analytics

SAN FRANCISCO – May 30, 2023 – Graph data and analytics platform company ArangoDB today announced the GA release of ArangoDB 3.11 to accelerate its performance across search, graph, and analytics use cases. ArangoDB 3.11 includes…


From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Will Augment SEO

AI Will Augment SEO

AI Will Augment SEO,    By R. Colin Johnson

Commissioned by CACM Staff, May 24, 2023

"I fully expect that future personalized AI-enhanced search engines will allow you to query any corpus of information by requesting that the results…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Want to Keep AI From Sharing Secrets? Train It Yourself

Want to Keep AI From Sharing Secrets? Train It Yourself

Have come up with companies thinking this.

Want to Keep AI From Sharing Secrets? Train It Yourself MosaicML delivers a secure platform for hosted AI  MATTHEW S. SMITH

On 11 March 2023, Samsung’s Device Solutions division permitted…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Now Modern Males Are Behind

Now Modern Males Are Behind

 Good piece from Irving, I thought I was the only one who noticed this,  excerpt with many links within.   

Why Men and Boys Are Falling Behind

A few weeks ago, Richard Reeves was Ezra Klein’s guest in his NY Times podcast “The…


From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Former CCC Council Member, Kevin Fu, Appointed to White House PCAST Working Group

Former CCC Council Member, Kevin Fu, Appointed to White House PCAST Working Group

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) recently created a working group on physical resilience. The working group is made up of cyber-security experts from across academia, government and industry…


From The Eponymous Pickle

LangChain intro at Work

LangChain intro at Work

Taking a look at LangChain, see below, with link to detail.

Getting Started with LangChain: A Beginner’s Guide to Building LLM-Powered Applications

A LangChain tutorial to build anything with large language models in Python

From…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Advantage

Quantum Advantage

 Quantum Advantage

Disentangling Hype from Practicality: On Realistically Achieving Quantum Advantage

By Torsten Hoefler, Thomas Häner, Matthias Troyer

Communications of the ACM, May 2023, Vol. 66 No. 5, Pages 82-87    10.1145/3571725…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Researchers from UC Berkeley Introduce Gorilla LLM

Researchers from UC Berkeley Introduce Gorilla LLM

 And more implementations. 

Researchers from UC Berkeley Introduce Gorilla: A Finetuned LLaMA-based Model that Surpasses GPT-4 on Writing API Calls

By Tanya Malhotra

A recent breakthrough in the field of Artificial IntelligenceThough…


From insideHPC

NWP Development with Nearly 10x Higher Performance Provided by Huawei OceanStor Pacific Scale-Out Storage

NWP Development with Nearly 10x Higher Performance Provided by Huawei OceanStor Pacific Scale-Out Storage

ISC is an annual global event in which high performance computing (HPC) users and technology providers come together to discuss the prospects of HPC in different areas. One particular area that concerns us all is weather forecasting…


From Schneier on Security

Brute-Forcing a Fingerprint Reader

Brute-Forcing a Fingerprint Reader

It’s neither hard nor expensive:

Unlike password authentication, which requires a direct match between what is inputted and what’s stored in a database, fingerprint authentication determines a match using a reference threshold…


From The Eponymous Pickle

WPP Partners With NVIDIA to Build Generative AI-Enabled Content Engine for Digital Advertising

WPP Partners With NVIDIA to Build Generative AI-Enabled Content Engine for Digital Advertising

Despite all pausing and hand wringing,   AI enabled Generation Ad production goes on. All resonsibe? 

WPP Partners With NVIDIA to Build Generative AI-Enabled Content Engine for Digital Advertising

Groundbreaking Engine Built on…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Nvidia taps into Israeli innovation to build generative AI cloud supercomputer

Nvidia taps into Israeli innovation to build generative AI cloud supercomputer

Nvidia taps into Israeli innovation to build generative AI cloud supercomputer

Chip giant says Israel-1 supercomputer valued at several hundred million dollars is a ‘major investment’ that will boost next-generation AI workloads…


From The Eponymous Pickle

OpenLLaMA is a fully open-source LLM, now ready for business

OpenLLaMA is a fully open-source LLM, now ready for business

Brought to my attention.   in   the-encoder.com

OpenLLaMA is a fully open-source LLM, now ready for business

OpenLLaMA is an open-source reproduction of Meta’s LLaMA language model and can be used commercially.

Since the unveiling…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Sound Vibrations Can Encode, Process Data Like Quantum Computers

Sound Vibrations Can Encode, Process Data Like Quantum Computers

Remarkable ...

Sound Vibrations Can Encode, Process Data Like Quantum Computers

By New Scientist, May 25, 2023

University of Arizona researchers demonstrated that trapping sound in a simple mechanical device can imitate certainThe…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Can China overtake the US in the AI Marathon?

Can China overtake the US in the AI Marathon?

ChatGPT: Can China overtake the US in the AI marathon?

By Derek Cai & Annabelle Liang in  BBC News

Artificial intelligence has emerged as enough of a concern that it made it onto what was already a packed agenda at the G7 summit…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Light-Field Sensor for 3D Scene Construction with Unprecedented Angular Resolution

Light-Field Sensor for 3D Scene Construction with Unprecedented Angular Resolution

Light-Field Sensor for 3D Scene Construction with Unprecedented Angular Resolution

By NUS News (Singapore),   May 18, 2023

A large scale angle-sensing structure comprising nanocrystal phospors, a key component of the sensor, illuminated…


From The Eponymous Pickle

A Boost for the Quantum Internet

A Boost for the Quantum Internet

 A Boost for the Quantum Internet

Universitat Innsbruck (Austria)

May 23, 2023

Researchers at Austria's University of Innsbruck transmitted quantum information with a quantum repeater node operating at telecommunication networks'…


From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Black in Data

Black in Data

Careers do not have to be decided on from day one. You can end up in a good place in a roundabout way. That is what happened to Sadiqah Musa, and now she is helping make the paths easier for others to follow, particularly for…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Demystifying AI

Demystifying AI

Seems interesting,  Agree there is mush understanding. More at the link.  Will read.

Dataiku Ebook

Demystifying AI.. 

Where to Draw the Line Between Myth and Reality

First things first: Why exactly has AI become such a nebulous term…


From BLOG@CACM

Education is always changing: We need to define CS to keep the good stuff

 Hype and fashion cycles drive education change. Let's protect the good stuff.


From Computational Complexity

On Nov 10, 2014 the TV show Scorpion mentions Software that is like ChatGPT for Music


Scorpion is a TV show that ran from 2014 to 2018. It involves a group of brilliant (to say the least) but socially awkward (to say the least) people who help the government battle threats and/or solve crimes. 

The episode Risky…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Computers Compared

Quantum Computers Compared

Useful, see link to full article linked to below there are 24 processors!

 Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Los Alamos National Laboratory compared leading quantum computers using the Quantum Computing UserThe…


From The Eponymous Pickle

How Generational Differences Affect Consumer Attitudes Towards Ads

How Generational Differences Affect Consumer Attitudes Towards Ads

As a big advertiser, something we thought about. 

Meta Research

How generational differences affect consumer attitudes towards ads

By: Melanie Beer Zeldin

Our research study, in collaboration with CrowdDNA, aims to understand people's…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Demolishing the Journalism Industry Using AI?

Demolishing the Journalism Industry Using AI?

Demolishing the Journalism Industry Using AI?

By Futurism, May 12, 2023

Google's new search interface, built on a model trained on unpaid-for human output, will swallow even more human-made content and spit it back out to information…

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