Thursday, March 30, 2017

MIT Technology Review: Apple’s AI Director: Here’s How to Supercharge Deep Learning


Apple's AI Director: Here's How to Supercharge Deep Learning
MIT Technology Review

Apple's director of artificial intelligence, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, believes that the deep neural networks that have produced spectacular results in recent years could be supercharged in coming years by the addition of memory, attention, and general knowledge. Speaking at MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Salakhutdinov said these attributes could help solve some of the outstanding problems in artificial intelligence. Salakhutdinov, who retains a post Read the full story


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Beer-to-beer hiking guide to Flagstaff

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Beer-to-beer hiking guide to Flagstaff

http://azc.cc/2n09URX


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Photos

Sony World Photography Awards 2017: Winning photos
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/29/travel/sony-world-photography-awards-2017-winners/index.html


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BBC News: Vector Institute is just the latest in Canada's AI expansion

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Vector Institute is just the latest in Canada's AI expansion
Canada is experiencing an influx of funding for AI research and commercialisation.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Pricing | TunnelBear

https://www.tunnelbear.com/pricing


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VentureBeat: Intel: Moore’s Law isn’t slowing down


Intel: Moore's Law isn't slowing down
VentureBeat

Intel said that the fundamental progress of the chip industry, which underlies everything electronic, is still on track and that it is still the leader in chip manufacturing technology. The world's biggest chip maker runs its business on Moore's Law — the prediction in 1965 made by Intel chairman emeritus Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on a chip will double every year. And at an event in San Francisco, Intel executive vice president Stacy Smith said that Moore's Law is on track as Read the full story


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The Huffington Post: Bernie Sanders, Top Progressives Announce New 'Medicare For All' Push


Bernie Sanders, Top Progressives Announce New 'Medicare For All' Push
The Huffington Post

WASHINGTON ― In the wake of the Republican failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act on Friday, leading figures in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party are rallying behind a single-payer health insurance and a raft of other bold reforms. ... Read the full story


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VentureBeat: Intel just painted a target on IBM Watson’s back


Intel just painted a target on IBM Watson's back
VentureBeat

GUEST: Intel announced late last week that it has formed a new AI group to consolidate a number of its programs and acquisitions. It's headed by Naveen Rao, the former head of Intel acquisition Nervana. This means Intel is making sure is has a major seat at the table as artificial intelligence and machine learning branch out to touch virtually everything — from autonomous driving to IoT to enhancing corporate systems — over the next 5-7 years. In the short term, the group will focus on research Read the full story


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Monday, March 20, 2017

Ars Technica: Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM


Intel's first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM
Ars Technica

3D XPoint finally has (limited) commercial availability. Read the full story


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fossbytes.com: Which Linux Distribution Is Best For Me — Top 11 Operating Systems


Which Linux Distribution Is Best For Me — Top 11 Operating Systems
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Sunday, March 19, 2017

America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-gawande


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The Wall Street Journal: How Chip Designers Are Breaking Moore’s Law


How Chip Designers Are Breaking Moore's Law
The Wall Street Journal

Microprocessors got smaller, faster and more power-efficient, but as they reach their physical limitations, chip architecture is driving performance gains. Read the full story


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Saturday, March 18, 2017

National Geographic: Formed by Megafloods, This Place Fooled Scientists for Decades


Formed by Megafloods, This Place Fooled Scientists for Decades
National Geographic

Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State. Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientific dogma of his day. Read the full story


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The Road to a Free Europe Goes Through Moscow - POLITICO Magazine

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/russias-plot-against-the-west-214925


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WIRED: Ex-FCC Boss: Gut Net Neutrality and You Gut Internet Freedom


Ex-FCC Boss: Gut Net Neutrality and You Gut Internet Freedom
WIRED

Ted Cruz says net neutrality is Obamacare for the internet. Tom Wheeler looks to the Constitution for his comparison. Read the full story


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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Is being in the United States unlawfully a 'crime'? | PolitiFact Florida

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2017/mar/15/florida-conference-catholic-bishops/being-united-states-unlawfully-crime/

Not everything that's illegal — meaning against the law or violating the law — is a crime," Shapiro said. "There are civil violations, like when you get a parking ticket. 'Unlawful presence' is one of these. You don't go to jail or receive any other criminal punishment for being in the country illegally — you get deported."

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Livemint: DeepMind finds way to overcome AI’s forgetfulness problem


DeepMind finds way to overcome AI's forgetfulness problem
Livemint

London: DeepMind, the London-based artificial intelligence (AI) company owned by Alphabet Inc., claims it overcame a key limitation affecting one of the most promising machine learning technologies: the software's inability to remember. Read the full story


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The real Trump tax scandal: David Cay Johnston

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/03/08/real-trump-tax-scandal-david-cay-johnston/81436212/?hootPostID=8fc02abe1caa943a3d64997a4cf8310c


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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind review – thrilling story, dark message | Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/21/sapiens-brief-history-mankind-review-yuval-noah-harari


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Beyond the Flynn effect: new myths about race, family and IQ? | Education | The Guardian

The answer to the question in the title, Flynn explains, is that your family environment's effect on your IQ almost disappears by the age of 17. An important exception is in the vocabulary component of IQ tests, where the effect persists into the mid-20s and can make a big difference, at least in the US, to the chances of getting into a top university. The home has most influence in early childhood but is swamped by later environments at school, university and work. And they will more closely match your genes because you will seek out (and be chosen for) environments that match your "genetic potential", whether it's basketball, carpentry or mathematics.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/27/james-flynn-race-iq-myths-does-your-family-make-you-smarter


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Monday, March 13, 2017

the guardian: Is the Standard Model isolated?


Is the Standard Model isolated?
the guardian

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN revealed the Higgs boson in 2012, but has led to no comparable discovery since. It is worth asking what we hope to learn from the new data coming soon – and indeed from any particle physics experiment in the near future Read the full story

Powerful though it is, the Standard Model is no 'Theory of Everything'. It does not incorporate gravity, it does not contain an explanation for the preponderence of matter over antimatter that we see around us, and it does not contain a convincing candidate for the 'Dark Matter' needed to explain the rotational speeds of stars in galaxies and other astrophysical observations. And it has nothing much to say about the 'Dark Energy' to which we ascribe the accelerating expansion of the universe

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Intel buys Mobileye in $15.3B deal, moves its automotive unit to Israel | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/13/reports-intel-buying-mobileye-for-up-to-16b-to-expand-in-self-driving-tech/


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Saturday, March 11, 2017

Tech Xplore: Is Qualcomm, Microsoft collaboration a sign of less Intel dominance to come?


Is Qualcomm, Microsoft collaboration a sign of less Intel dominance to come?
Tech Xplore

Judging from technology-watching sites, Intel has something to worry about and it involves a rather well known place on the technology map called Redmond, Washington. Look for the sign that says Microsoft. There. "Intel's dominance could be further eroded as Microsoft looks to alternative chip makers for its cloud hardware," said MIT Technology Review. In brief, said Bloomberg, "Microsoft has developed a version of its Windows operating system for servers using ARM processors." Microsoft Corp. Read the full story


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The Motley Fool: Can Intel Corporation Save the Personal Computer Market With Better Chips?


Can Intel Corporation Save the Personal Computer Market With Better Chips?
The Motley Fool

Probably not, but that doesn't mean Chipzilla shouldn't strive to build better chips at a rapid pace. Read the full story


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Friday, March 10, 2017

Interesting quote from "When Breath Becomes Air"

Hi - I'm reading "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese and wanted to share this quote with you.

""forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race";"

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Thursday, March 09, 2017

Interesting quote from "When Breath Becomes Air"

Hi - I'm reading "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese and wanted to share this quote with you.

"his fierce belief in the moral dimension of his job."

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Tuesday, March 07, 2017

The Motley Fool: 1 Way Intel Corporation Can Improve Power Consumption for 2018 Processors


1 Way Intel Corporation Can Improve Power Consumption for 2018 Processors
The Motley Fool

Migrating this support chip to a newer manufacturing technology could help Chipzilla build more efficient computer processors. Read the full story


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Saturday, March 04, 2017

Do Public Protests Matter in a Democracy? The “outside strategy” as a signal of support to judges and bureaucrats | Just Security

https://www.justsecurity.org/36956/public-protests-matter-democracy-outside-strategy-signal-support-judges-bureaucrats/


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Ben Wittes and Quinta Jurecic on the “Oathless Presidency”—Questions raised by deep distrust in Trump | Just Security

https://www.justsecurity.org/38327/ben-wittes-quinta-jurecic-oathless-presidency-questions-raised-deep-distrust-trump/


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Obama & FISA: Trump Wiretap May Have Been Sought | National Review

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap


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The Dirty Secret Behind the Jeff Sessions Mess

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/the-dirty-secret-behind-the-jeff-sessions-mess/amp


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High US health care spending is quite well explained by its high material standard of living – Random Critical Analysis

https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/high-us-health-care-spending-is-quite-well-explained-by-its-high-material-standard-of-living/amp/


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Obama & FISA: Trump Wiretap May Have Been Sought | National Review

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap


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