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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Schneier on Security
Joseph Stiglitz on Trust
Joseph Stiglitz has an excellent essay on the value of trust, and the lack of it in today's society. Trust is what makes contracts, plans and everyday transactions...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
When delegating… consider quality, maintenance and learning
John Cook provides some valuable advice today about when to delegate. An important point he raises is that doing a per-hour analysis makes little sense since human...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Invisibility Ideas Discussed
Because invisibility captures the public imagination, and the physical approach can be readily described, it has gathered some intense discussion. Obvious and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Taste Buds
A long time interest that we explored with several research groups. Virtual taste has huge implications. Was relevant when we were still selling foods. It also...
From Computational Complexity
2013 Complexity Year in Review
The complexity result of the year goes to The Matching Polytope has Exponential Extension Complexity by Thomas Rothvoss. Last year's paper of the year showed that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interactive Time Geographic Data Visualization
I like this very simple example of how to visualize time based geographic data. An example in the Tableau Public Gallery. Click on it and play with the interaction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Mastery
I was just reminded of the blog Machine Learning Mastery, which gives technical but non mathematical advice about machine learning. Most recently an itemabout...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Predicts Smarter Things
Not unsurprising. Technology trends IBM has been touting through their excellent 'smarter' series. Most interesting are the links embedded as examples. We all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things v Beer Game
Have played the MIT beer game a number of times for demonstrating supply chain applications. Even used it as a simulation base for gamification tests. Now canCisco...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Sonification
A space I looked at for our information innovation group. A way to use other senses, including sound, as an interface to deliver data and its patterns. AT&T had...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Models for the Data Economy
Just brought to my attention, a topic I am examining:Business Models for the Data Economy by Q. Ethan McCallum and Ken GleasonFree Kindle edition. A 29 page brief...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sharks in the Internet of Things
Sharks triggering tweets in at Australian Beach. A clever idea. Sensors providing warnings in the narrow bandwidth of tweets. This may provide some hints as"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Old Grocery Lists
I worked for some time on the psychology and technology of the simple grocery list. Now it has emerged, Michaelangelo's handwritten grocery list. How much have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data v Spreadsheets v Visualization
From the very beginning I have been involved in leveraging data for value. If you examine what companies have done over the years, starting with the inventionIn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers and Society
Recently talked to Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk about her interdiciplinary computing blog. And her book site: Computers and Society - Computing For Good." ... Computers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More iBeacon Rollout Details
More on the iBeacon. Details of the rollout. Recently took a closer look at similar approaches, and how the data being gathered could be used for tailoring promotions...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Kim Jong Un Tours Frozen Squid Factory
Frozen squid makes him happy. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Step by Step ROI Innovation
Doing it step by step is key: In Forbes: " .... Do you have a great idea for improving your industry? For most people, inventing a new product is foreign territory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
March on: Cost of Bad Online Experiences
A good piece in CIO Insight, with some very useful points. But I have some issues again with the format. The slide show. This is getting more common, apparently...
From The Eponymous Pickle