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Young Sheldon gets two things spot-on/Am I more famous than.../Might YS become TS?

 Young Sheldon  is a TV show that I used to only watch on airplanes, but then i got into it and am now up to date. The wonders of technology! Note that catching...

Book excerpt: Metrics chasing engagement
From Geeking with Greg

Book excerpt: Metrics chasing engagement

(This is an excerpt from the draft of my book. Please let me know if you like it and want more.) Let’s say you are in charge of building a social media website...

TSMC September Net Revenue Down 13% YoY
From insideHPC

TSMC September Net Revenue Down 13% YoY

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Oct. 6, 2023 – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for September 2023:TSMC...

Revolutionizing Bioscience Research: Creating an Atlas of the Human Body
From insideHPC

Revolutionizing Bioscience Research: Creating an Atlas of the Human Body

Making healthcare and life science (HCLS) discoveries is time-consuming and requires considerable amounts of data. HPC enterprise infrastructure with AI and edge...

Deepfake Election Interference in Slovokia
From Schneier on Security

Deepfake Election Interference in Slovokia

Well designed and well timed deepfake or two Slovokian politicians discussing how to rig the election: Šimečka and Denník N immediately denounced the audio as fake...

Infratil and L&G Capital Increase Investment in  Kao Data
From insideHPC

Infratil and L&G Capital Increase Investment in Kao Data

London, October 5th, 2023 – Kao Data, developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has announced that infrastructure...

Political Disinformation and AI
From Schneier on Security

Political Disinformation and AI

Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each other...

From nudge to sludge: a book, and now an academy and an audit
From Putting People First

From nudge to sludge: a book, and now an academy and an audit

Sludge is friction through unnecessary red tape. Cass R. Sunstein wrote a book about it and the OECD is currently exploring the contribution that behavioural science...

NVIDIA, Intel and Google Alums Form Lemurian Labs, Raise $9M for 20X AI Throughput Boost
From insideHPC

NVIDIA, Intel and Google Alums Form Lemurian Labs, Raise $9M for 20X AI Throughput Boost

Toronto – October 4, 2023 — Lemurian Labs today announced it has secured $9 million in seed funding to develop an accelerated computing platform tailored for AI...

Heidelberg Laureates Warn Against a False Sense of Security with Current Encryption Methods
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Heidelberg Laureates Warn Against a False Sense of Security with Current Encryption Methods

During the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum last week, I had the opportunity to interview several of the laureates to hear their perspectives on current and future...

Keshav Pingali to Receive ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
From insideHPC

Keshav Pingali to Receive ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award

New York, October 4, 2023 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE Computer Society have named Keshav Pingali, the W.A.”Tex” Moncrief Chair of Grid...

Dell Teams with NVIDIA on Generative AI
From insideHPC

Dell Teams with NVIDIA on Generative AI

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announced today it is partnering with NVIDIA and its Tensor Core GPUs -- including the coveted  H100 -- to expand its generativeDell...

Malicious Ads in Bing Chat
From Schneier on Security

Malicious Ads in Bing Chat

Malicious ads are creeping into chatbots.

From Computational Complexity

The Lyadov Lesson

I've seen many brilliant students, those who flew though high school and undergrad with great grades and little effort. As PhD students, they often feel they still...

New Open Source Event: AI.dev, Dec 12-13 in San Jose, Co-located with Cassandra Summit
From insideHPC

New Open Source Event: AI.dev, Dec 12-13 in San Jose, Co-located with Cassandra Summit

Oct. 3, 2023 — The McEnery Convention Center in San Jose will be the site of a new conference, the AI.dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit, Tuesday and Wednesday,...

Hacking Gas Pumps via Bluetooth
From Schneier on Security

Hacking Gas Pumps via Bluetooth

Turns out pumps at gas stations are controlled via Bluetooth, and that the connections are insecure. No details in the article, but it seems that it’s easy to take...

NSA AI Security Center
From Schneier on Security

NSA AI Security Center

The NSA is starting a new artificial intelligence security center: The AI security center’s establishment follows an NSA study that identified securing AI models...

IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and ISC Join on Access to ISC Research Papers
From insideHPC

IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and ISC Join on Access to ISC Research Papers

By Nages Sieslack, ISC Communications Team Oct. 2, 2023 — I had the opportunity to talk with Prof. Michela Taufer, the ISC 2024 Program Chair, to get an updateIEEE...

HPC News Bytes 20231002: Lisa Su on AMD-NVIDIA GPU Competition; ASML EUV at Intel Fab in Ireland; AI Job Elimination; SC23 Coming up
From insideHPC

HPC News Bytes 20231002: Lisa Su on AMD-NVIDIA GPU Competition; ASML EUV at Intel Fab in Ireland; AI Job Elimination; SC23 Coming up

A happy October morning to you! Our lineup of quick (4:36) commentary on recent HPC news includes: AMD's Lisa Su on the AMD-NVIDIA GPU competition; ASML EUV atHPC...

HPC, AI, ML and Edge Solutions Drive Duos Railcar Inspection System Powered by Dell Technologies and Kalray
From insideHPC

HPC, AI, ML and Edge Solutions Drive Duos Railcar Inspection System Powered by Dell Technologies and Kalray

Industries such as railways are moving from traditional inspection methods to using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to perform automatedHPC...
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