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Artificial Intelligence: Using Affordances can make AI Smarter

By Dick Weisinger

A concept from psychology called affordances is being used to improve the capability of AI algorithms. Affordances are simply object properties that list types of actions that can be taken on an object by some some agent that is capabile…

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October 20th, 2020
Category: Artificial Intelligence
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Computing: Super Computers Confront Climate Change

By Dick Weisinger

Researchers are using supercomputers to see the future — at least the future of weather. High-powered computers are poised to take weather prediction to a new level of accuracy. New exascale super computers are being rolled out by a number…

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October 19th, 2020
Category: Computing
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Java JDK: Users Flee from Oracle Support

By Dick Weisinger

After January 2019 Oracle discontinued posting Java SE updates that could be used commercially. Now commercial users are required to purchase support for Oracle Java. The consequence of Oracle’s decision is that many products that use Java already have or…

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October 18th, 2020
Category: Code Development
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Containers: Security isn’t Keeping Pace with Devop Rollouts

By Dick Weisinger

Container technologies, like Docker, have many advantages over VMs. They are considerably more lightweight and can quickly start up. Depending on the physical server, container start times might be on the order of only 50 milliseconds compared to 30 to…

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October 16th, 2020
Category: Containers
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Deep Learning: Roadblocked Unless More Efficient Algorithms Can Advance the Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Deep Learning has enabled impressive AI results, but the technique may be hitting a roadblock. Research from a group at MIT said that scaling up Deep Learning beyond it’s current capabilities is limited by computational power. To push the capabilities…

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October 15th, 2020
Category: Deep Learning
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