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Deep Reinforcement Learning based Online Scheduling Policy for Deep Neural Network Multi-Tenant Multi-Accelerator Systems
Francesco G. Blanco, Enrico Russo, Maurizio Palesi, Davide Patti, Giuseppe Ascia, Vincenzo Catania
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08950

Deep Reinforcement Learning based Online Scheduling Policy for Deep Neural Network Multi-Tenant Multi-Accelerator Systems
Currently, there is a growing trend of outsourcing the execution of DNNs to cloud services. For service providers, managing multi-tenancy and ensuring high-quality service delivery, particularly in meeting stringent execution time constraints, assumes paramount importance, all while endeavoring to maintain cost-effectiveness. In this context, the utilization of heterogeneous multi-accelerator systems becomes increasingly relevant. This paper presents RELMAS, a low-overhead deep reinforcement le…

The way a bank refuses to let you put a comma in a value, subverting an an attempt to cut-and-paste the correct amount, yet in the confirmation screen for the transfer formats the value with the comma reinstated.
Most software is just so shitty now. Was it ever better? I dunno, but I blame the vast open source packaging ecosystem for outsourcing quality.

"We lose so much of what learning should be if the goal of education becomes to pass it to an AI and then fiddle with the content it outputs. We are outsourcing a real part of our humanity, our creativity, to a machine, and not recognising the cost.
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Most profoundly, as someone who must live in the world, I’m troubled about living in a society where meaninglessness is the norm. Among other issues, fascism and authoritarianism thrive on meaningless because people who lac…

A senior security analyst at a large U.S-based MSSP notices an outsourcing trend where numerous colleagues have been laid off and replaced by team members in India. This shift impacted work quality negatively and caused customer complaints. He's considering other roles in the security sector less prone to outsourcing. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1cjau8v/

Enc2DB: A Hybrid and Adaptive Encrypted Query Processing Framework
Hui Li, Jingwen Shi, Qi Tian, Zheng Li, Yan Fu, Bingqing Shen, Yaofeng Tu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06819

Enc2DB: A Hybrid and Adaptive Encrypted Query Processing Framework
As cloud computing gains traction, data owners are outsourcing their data to cloud service providers (CSPs) for Database Service (DBaaS), bringing in a deviation of data ownership and usage, and intensifying privacy concerns, especially with potential breaches by hackers or CSP insiders. To address that, encrypted database services propose encrypting every tuple and query statement before submitting to the CSP, ensuring data confidentiality when the CSP is honest-but-curious, or even compromise…

«the point [of students writing essays] is even deeper – it is to make them go through the process of figuring out for themselves what they think, and to wrestle with putting those thoughts into words so that they can clarify things to themselves and improve their ability to share those thoughts clearly. This process cannot be short-circuited by outsourcing it to AI; to do so removes the entire fucking point.»
Applies to writing, coding, research, really any creative production…

"AI" requires more human supervision than a human just doing that task themselves
It is nothing more than an attempt to expand remote outsourcing to the service industry by inserting a fake computer interface in the middle
https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-a

Amazon Abandons Grocery Stores Where You Just Walk Out With Stuff After It Turns Out Its "AI" Was Powered by 1,000 Human Contractors
Amazon is giving up with its unusual "Just Walk Out" technology, which allowed customers to simply walk out with their stuff.

Byron Donalds, potential VP pick, once attacked Trump and praised outsourcing, privatizing entitlements (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/29/politics/kfile-byron-donalds-trump-criticisms/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240329/p14#a240329p14

Decisioning Workshop 2023
Mario Lezoche (CRAN), Sanabria Freddy Mu\~noz (LIFIA, UNQ), Collazos Cesar (LIFIA, UNQ), Torres Diego (LIFIA, UNQ), Agredo Vanessa (LILPA), Ruiz Pablo (LILPA), Hurtado Julio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05495

Decisioning Workshop 2023
In a knowledge society, the term knowledge must be considered a core resource for organizations. So, beyond being a medium to progress and to innovate, knowledge is one of our most important resources: something necessary to decide.Organizations that are embracing knowledge retention activities are gaining a competitive advantage. Organizational rearrangements from companies, notably outsourcing, increase a possible loss of knowledge, making knowledge retention an essential need for them. When …

@… So you know how outsourcing is a total pain because you have to go through the whole vendor procurement bureaucracy?
AI is the solution! You just type text into a box, and behind the scenes someone else has dealt with picking the absolutely cheapest data entry vendor on your behalf.

Sony Pictures Entertainment strikes a deal to manufacture, distribute, and market Disney's DVD, Blu-ray discs, and other physical media in the US and Canada (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/disney-son…

Disney Strikes Deal for Sony to Take Over DVD, Blu-ray Disc Business
Disney is outsourcing part of its home entertainment division to Sony, which will manufacture, distribute and market the Mouse House's physical media.

Stop Stealing My Data: Sanitizing Stego Channels in 3D Printing Design Files
Aleksandr Dolgavin, Mark Yampolskiy, Moti Yung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05106

Stop Stealing My Data: Sanitizing Stego Channels in 3D Printing Design Files
The increased adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) and the acceptance of AM outsourcing created an ecosystem in which the sending and receiving of digital designs by different actors became normal. It has recently been shown that the STL design files -- most commonly used in AM -- contain steganographic channels. Such channels can allow additional data to be embedded within the STL files without changing the printed model. These factors create a threat of misusing the design files as a cover…

Wildest Dreams: Reproducible Research in Privacy-preserving Neural Network Training
Tanveer Khan, Mindaugas Budzys, Khoa Nguyen, Antonis Michalas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03592 …

Wildest Dreams: Reproducible Research in Privacy-preserving Neural Network Training
Machine Learning (ML), addresses a multitude of complex issues in multiple disciplines, including social sciences, finance, and medical research. ML models require substantial computing power and are only as powerful as the data utilized. Due to high computational cost of ML methods, data scientists frequently use Machine Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) to outsource computation to external servers. However, when working with private information, like financial data or health records, outsourcing …

SecGraph: Towards SGX-based Efficient and Confidentiality-Preserving Graph Search
Qiuhao Wang, Xu Yang, Saiyu Qi, Yong Qi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19531 …

SecGraph: Towards SGX-based Efficient and Confidentiality-Preserving Graph Search
Graphs have more expressive power and are widely researched in various search demand scenarios, compared with traditional relational and XML models. Today, many graph search services have been deployed on a third-party server, which can alleviate users from the burdens of maintaining large-scale graphs and huge computation costs. Nevertheless, outsourcing graph search services to the third-party server may invade users' privacy. PeGraph was recently proposed to achieve the encrypted search over…

chainBoost: A Secure Performance Booster for Blockchain-based Resource Markets
Zahra Motaqy, Mohamed E. Najd, Ghada Almashaqbeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16095

chainBoost: A Secure Performance Booster for Blockchain-based Resource Markets
Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology provide an innovative model for reshaping digital services. Driven by the movement toward Web 3.0, recent systems started to provide distributed services, such as computation outsourcing or file storage, on top of the currency exchange medium. By allowing anyone to join and collect cryptocurrency payments for serving others, these systems create decentralized markets for trading digital resources. Yet, there is still a big gap between the promise of th…

Cybersecurity as a Service
John Morris, Stefan Tatschner, Michael P. Heinl, Patrizia Heinl, Thomas Newe, Sven Plaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13965 https:…

Cybersecurity as a Service
With the increasing sophistication and sheer number of cyberattacks, more and more companies come to the conclusion that they have to strengthen their cybersecurity posture. At the same time, well-educated Information technology (IT) security personnel are scarce. Cybersecurity as a service (CSaaS) is one possible solution to tackle this problem by outsourcing security functions to managed security service providers (MSSP). This chapter gives an overview of common CSaaS functions and their prov…