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A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process
From Writing

A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process

I originally posted this article on Y Combinator’s blog on January 22, 2016 (Internet Archive link), but it seems like they have taken it down, so I’m reposting...

From Computational Complexity

Does Lance dislike Ramsey Theory Because he's colorblind?

BILL: Lance, my wife asked if you dislike Ramsey Theory because you are colorblind.LANCE: (laughs) It's why I don't like Ramsey Theory talks--impossible for meTen...

Peter Landin: Elegance from Logic
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Peter Landin: Elegance from Logic

Celebrating LGBTQ+ Greats Thousands of programming languages have been invented in the many decades since the first. But what makes a good language? A key ideaContinue...

UK is Ordering Apple to Break its Own Encryption
From Schneier on Security

UK is Ordering Apple to Break its Own Encryption

The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a “technical capability notice” as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring...

Thread-safe memory copy
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Thread-safe memory copy

A common operation in software is the copy of a block of memory. In C/C++, we often call the function memcpy for this purpose. But what happens if, while you are...

Friday Squid Blogging: The Colossal Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: The Colossal Squid

Long article on the colossal squid. Blog moderation policy.

@HPCpodcast: Addison Snell on the Present and Future of HPC-AI, Quantum, DeepSeek, Interconnects, Leadership Supercomputing
From insideHPC

@HPCpodcast: Addison Snell on the Present and Future of HPC-AI, Quantum, DeepSeek, Interconnects, Leadership Supercomputing

We delve into current market sizing for HPC-AI (the conjoining of the two being a relatively new focus), a look ahead at the rest of the year and the decade, the...

Screenshot-Reading Malware
From Schneier on Security

Screenshot-Reading Malware

Kaspersky is reporting on a new type of smartphone malware. The malware in question uses optical character recognition (OCR) to review a device’s photo library,...

Barcelona Supercomputing Center Unveils Quantum Systen Developed with 100% European Technology
From insideHPC

Barcelona Supercomputing Center Unveils Quantum Systen Developed with 100% European Technology

Feb. 6, 2025 — The Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) – has presented what it said is the first quantum computer developed...

DOE Office of Science: Applications for Graduate Student Research Awards Due May 7 
From insideHPC

DOE Office of Science: Applications for Graduate Student Research Awards Due May 7 

Feb. 7, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting...

Sandia Rolls out Custom Instance of ChatGPT — SandiaAI Chat
From insideHPC

Sandia Rolls out Custom Instance of ChatGPT — SandiaAI Chat

In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories began providing its employees with a large language model chatbot, called SandiaAI Chat, which the lab said is the first...

MOSTLY AI Releases Open Source Toolkit for Synthetic Data Creation 
From insideHPC

MOSTLY AI Releases Open Source Toolkit for Synthetic Data Creation 

4 February 2025, Vienna – Austrian synthetic data startup MOSTLY AI announces the release of the world’s first industry-grade open source toolkit for producingMOSTLY...

IQM, Riverlane and Zurich Instruments to Launch Quantum Error Correction Platform
From insideHPC

IQM, Riverlane and Zurich Instruments to Launch Quantum Error Correction Platform

Cambridge, UK; Espoo, Finland; Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 6, 2025 – IQM Quantum Computers, Riverlane, and Zurich Instruments have announced the launch of the SurgeonQ...

A puzzle, spies … and a beheading
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

A puzzle, spies … and a beheading

A puzzle about secrets Ayo wants to send her friends Guang and Elham who live together secret messages that only the person she sends the message to can read. She...

AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic
From Schneier on Security

AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic

Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer...

Supermicro Launches Rack-Scale Systems with NVIDIA Blackwell
From insideHPC

Supermicro Launches Rack-Scale Systems with NVIDIA Blackwell

San Jose, Calif. – February 5, 2025 – Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) announced full availability of its AI data center Building Block Solutions  accelerated by...

On Generative AI Security
From Schneier on Security

On Generative AI Security

Microsoft’s AI Red Team just published “Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products.” Their blog post lists “three takeaways,” but the eight lessons in...

With Accelerator SOC, South Korean Institute Says Country on Track to Become 5th HPC Manufacturer
From insideHPC

With Accelerator SOC, South Korean Institute Says Country on Track to Become 5th HPC Manufacturer

The ETRI said that after its commercialization, this technology "will be a game-changer for Korea to become the world’s fifth nation to manufacture supercomputers...

Trane Expands Thermal Management with Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling
From insideHPC

Trane Expands Thermal Management with Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling

DAVIDSON, N.C., Feb. 4, 2025 – Trane – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate company, announced the expansion of its thermal management systems. ATrane...

Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election
From Schneier on Security

Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election

Interesting analysis: We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project (source for our analysis), which tracked known...
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