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April 2022


From The Eponymous Pickle

Updates in Chrome OS

Updates in Chrome OS

Lots useful new in Chrome? Exploring

Celebrating update 100 with new Chromebook features

Mar 30, 2022, By Alexander Kuscher,  Director of Chrome OS Software

Three illustrated Chromebooks float on a white background. The middle Chromebook…


From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Robotics Changing Logistics

AI and Robotics Changing Logistics

Short piece on the implications.

Watch: How Are AI and Robotics Changing Logistics?

March 30, 2022 Robert J. Bowman, in SupplyChainBrain

Oliver Hedgepeth, professor of logistics with American Public University System online, offers…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Clocks of War

Clocks of War

Wars invite the establishment of clocks of action, expectations and results.  And here?   By each of  the major players.

The Ukraine War's Three Clocks   in Rand (who we used over the years as consultants)

As the war in Ukraine…


From The Eponymous Pickle

War and Crypto

War and Crypto

As expected.

War Is Calling Crypto's 'Neutrality' Into Question

By Wired, March 10, 2022

Whose side is cryptocurrency on? If you had asked Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous person (or persons) who created the Bitcoin platform in…


From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Efficiently Fixes Mistakes in Error-Prone Quantum Computers

AI Efficiently Fixes Mistakes in Error-Prone Quantum Computers

AI Efficiently Fixes Mistakes in Error-Prone Quantum Computers

By New Scientist, February 11, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) can eliminate errors from a group of quantum bits, thanks to Lorenzo Cardarelli and colleagues at Germany's…


From Computational Complexity

A Ramsey Theory Podcast: No Strangers at this Party

 BILL: Lance, I am going to blog about the Ramsey Theory Podcast called 

                            No strangers at this party

LANCE: Oh, so that will be your April Fools Day post? That is to unbelievable so it won't work as a…


From insideHPC

NVIDIA in Partnership to Build Taiwan’s 1st HPC System for Medical Research

NVIDIA in Partnership to Build Taiwan’s 1st HPC System for Medical Research

NVIDIA and Taiwan-based Asustek Computer have announced a partnership with Taiwan’s National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) to develop Taiwan’s first AI biomedical research supercomputer. According to an article in Digitimes…


From insideHPC

ICPP 2022 Call for Papers

ICPP 2022 Call for Papers

ICPP, the International Conference on Parallel Processing, provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel and distributed…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Cybersecurity Workers Needed

Cybersecurity Workers Needed

Qualified workers needed for talent pipeline. 

 Hackers' Path Eased as 600,000 U.S. Cybersecurity Jobs Sit Empty

Bloomberg, Olivia Rockeman, March 30, 2022   in Boomberg

Cybersecurity jobs search platform CyberSeek estimates roughly…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Cashierless on Campus

Cashierless on Campus

Cashierless pushes on in new environments.

Cashierless stores graduate to college campuses   by Matthew Stern  in Retailwire

Automated grocery stores have been slowly but surely popping up worldwide since the launch of Amazon Go…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Can AI Help Casinos Cut Down on Problem Gambling?

Can AI Help Casinos Cut Down on Problem Gambling?

Other kinds of related detection of behaviors?

AI Technology Aimed at Gambling Addiction

By The New York Times, March 11, 2022

Researchers are looking to artificial intelligence (AI) as a way to potentially identify and predictOne…


From insideHPC

@HPCpodcast: The GTC Cornucopia

@HPCpodcast: The GTC Cornucopia

Last week’s rendition of NVIDIA’s bi-annual GTC extravaganza unveiled a raft of new HPC/AI announcements, the latest public performance of a company in its prime led by a leather-clad CEO generally regarded as a master marketer…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Mysterious Cyberhack

Mysterious Cyberhack

Wathching the infrastructure for changes  

Mysterious Satellite Cyberhack       By Wired

March 28, 2022

The attack only impacted fixed broadband customers and didn’t cause disruption to airlines or Viasat’s US government clients…


From BLOG@CACM

Biases in Author Recognition

Biases in Author Recognition

When reading papers, we make simplifications and have assumptions about author roles and relative contributions.


From The Eponymous Pickle

Training the Metaverse with Sim Eye Movements

Training the Metaverse with Sim Eye Movements

Simulated Human Eye Movement Aims to Train Metaverse Platforms

Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, Ken Kingery,  March 7, 2022

Virtual eyes developed by computer engineers at Duke University could be used to train virtual…


From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

An Ozone Hole in Logic

Set Theory proved to be perpetually paradoxigenic… Poem and analysis src Mr. Apollinax might have made a good escort for Lofa Polir, had she lived a hundred years ago. The titular character of a poem written circa 1915 by Thomas…

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