In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back at the HPC-AI on Wall Street conference.
We discuss the well-received Cryptocurrency panel that he moderated, the challenges of using of AI in financial services, the emerging computational storage, and advanced HPC-class modeling that helps venture capital investors decide whether to invest in a startup.
Check out Shahin’s blog on the panel and top-10 crypto topics of the day here:
Top-10 Topics to Discuss at a Crypto/Blockchain Panel
- Why? What’s the big deal?
- Blockchain or Crypto?
- ICOs
- Political Support
- Libra
- Apps
- Security
- Other Coins
- Digital Assets
- Smart Contracts
Further highlights include:
- Henry actually has good security news this week, about a Man Who Hired Deadly Swatting Gets 15 Months. An Ohio teen who recruited a convicted serial “swatter” to fake a distress call that ended in the police shooting an innocent Kansas man in 2017 has been sentenced to 15 months in prison. “Swatting” is a dangerous hoax that involves making false claims to emergency responders about phony hostage situations or bomb threats, with the intention of prompting a heavily-armed police response to the location of the claimed incident.
- Shahin talks about France and Germany planning to block the Libra cryptocurrency. Henry and Dan think this is a good time to say “we told you so”! Nobody’s surprised, though Shahin thinks this is the beginning of this, not the end.
- Henry doesnt know whether to laugh or cry as he describes some of the “ignoble” prize winners and wonders how they ever got funded.
- Dan talks about the call-center scammer whose plea deal backfires.
