The most interesting part of the Gemini failure: this is apparently the best they could come up with for controlling the output.

🌐Exploring Sparse Data with #SparCity's SparseBase & SparseViz!  Join our webinar on March 7 for unique insights and demos. Register now 📷 indico.truba.gov.tr/event/160/ #sparcity #euroHPC #EuroCC2

Nominations for IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award is open: IEEE ComputerSociety IPDPS tc.computer.org/tcpp/awards/

How I fell out of love with academia (this video was an accidental publication/scheduling blunder😬😬 but well uh, happy Friday I guess) youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlG…

Internet and Society: The Trans-Atlantic Research Future. Coming to London, May 10. Hope you can join us! Northeastern U.

Northeastern University’s Internet Democracy Initiative (IDI) is being introduced by 🇺🇦 [email protected] at the Internet Democracy Initiative Conference at Northeastern University London idi.provost.northeastern.edu/event-director… Network Science Institute

Very nice and productive meeting.

Fascinating talk by Michael Bang Petersen. Provides so many ideas as to why most answers to misinformation have not been working.

GrAPL Workshop kicked off with a great keynote by Tarek Abdelzaher from UIUC! Come join us in room Waterfront B. #IPDPS24

Nobody has their slides ready a week before! 🫠

A very convenient summary.

If all knowledge is conjectural and subject to improvement, then protecting the means of improving knowledge is more important than any particular piece of knowledge. David Deutsch

I spent an extremely enjoyable hour with Kara, looking back at the wild landscape of my last two decades in tech, and discussing just how different what's next for tech has got to be, for all our sakes❤️👇 megaphone.link/VMP1340571392

🧵of sources on our just posted experiments finding pervasive negative effects of DEI pedagogy regarding racism, Islamaphobia and caste. 1. National Review "A new study found that diversity, equity, and inclusion materials have a wide range of negative consequences, including

China's "Global Scheduling Ethernet" appears to have the same motives as Ultra Ethernet Consortium GSE has been deployed in a large cluster in China - claim of substantial network performance improvements during training of a #LLM theregister.com/2024/11/26/glo… #AI #HPC via The Register

I see a lot of confusion about Google's Monday press release about quantum supremacy, so let me try to clarify a few things. They say they did a computation on a ca 100 qubit chip much faster than a conventional (super)computer could do. The particular calculation in question is

openai.com/index/announci… 100 - 500 billion. Only two years ago we thought one billion for a supercomputer was a lot.

Another Quantum Computing Company Accused of Fraud An anonymous report on Scribd (an online document-sharing platform) alleges that the publicly traded company Quantum Computing Inc (Nasdaq: QUBT) deliberately deceives investors. According to its website, the company produces

How is it even news that LLMs won't get us to AGI, reasoning or not. I thought we'd settled this last year.