#Computing

Miriam Huntley

iam_mir_iam

THREAD: Does bioinformatics need fundamentally different compute platforms? Lots of thoughtful innovation, but adoption is low. Need to balance solving a niche pain point with a domain specific solution, vs

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

Today in pulp l ask the question: should we fear The Singularity - a super-powered artificial intelligence that will evolve to rule over us forever more?I'm going to say no

Alexander Berger

albrgr

I've been thinking the last few months about some of the benefits of scale. There are obvious costs that often seem to get more attention (monopoly, high modernist mistakes a

Jelle Zuidema

wzuidema

What does it take to force a neural network to represent the syntactic structure of natural language? For those of us that take both decades of linguistic research and the

Iñigo Iribarren

inigo_iribarren

Hi my name is Inigo Iribarren and I am taking part in #GlobalScienceShowToday I will be talking about computational chemistry works and what do we do in our daily life

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

2021 predictions () Student loans will (finally) be understood as a bubble on a par with the housing market in 2008. Some of the fallout will be temporarily explained away

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

realchrisrufo

There is a civil war erupting at @SandiaLabs.Following my investigation, a dissident electrical engineer named Casey Peterson emailed all 16,000 employees denouncing critical race theory in the lab and hoping

Steven Sinofsky

stevesi

Today is the 13th anniversary iPhone announcement—easily one of the greatest launch events and moments of technology change in history. What was the "world" like at the time? When something

Niti Bhan used to be The Prepaid Economy.

niti_bhan

In my lived experience, I've always considered the passing of the Patriot Act as the day the shining beacon on the hill turned into a Potemkin village. https://www.aclu.org/other/surveillance-under-usapatriot-act I remember

Hillel

hillelogram

Gonna try to figure some stuff out in a stream of consciousness thread about software configuration and augmentation okay? okaySo I'm a pretty avid Vim fanatic, right? And you get

Kwasi Kwakwa (@RealSci_Nano)

RealSci_Nano

Now we can move on to talking about microscopes proper. For people who don't work with them for a living, you probably haven't seen once since school and you remember

Torsten Hoefler

thoefler

Details on @GoogleAI's DNN supercomputer based on TPUv3. Nice writeup released while first numbers of TPUv4 show up as mlperf results (2.5-3.7x faster)! Some key points and comments below. Including

Alex Krüger

krugermacro

1/ The #Bitcoin bear case has two two components:The macro, and the miners.THREAD 2/ On the macro side, if the dollar reverses its major downtrend and/or real rates

Amandalynne Paullada

amandalynneP

I'm grateful to @ResistanceAI for the opportunity to present some notes from a work in progress in which I consider the question: how does machine translation shift power? Some thoughts

NotTheMacAnon

NotTheMacAnon1

If you shine light of high enough energy on to a metal, electrons will be emitted from the metal. Free radicals are atoms or molecules with an odd (unpaired) number

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

The 2020 US elections were a reality check for how fragile the legitimacy of elections really is. This is something that paper ballot advocates have been beating the drum on

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