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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 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...
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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
The Big Picture of Big Data
Good overview interview of the state of big data, with a number of industry examples that I had not seen before. There is much more in this blog on the topic,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikipedia's Data Trove for Trends
I have talked to several people who are using the Wikipedia as an ontology of knowledge. Surely there is much more data to be mined there. But what statistics exist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Online Returns
In Retailwire: A discussion of online returns. Easy returns are becoming a big issue for online purchases. How can they be better addressed? " ... With free...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dell and Dropbox
A interesting interaction. In my own experience I am seeing more people using Dropbox as a standard tool, working well on all the standard devices. I often...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Showrooming at Best Buy
I had not realized I was part of BestBuy's showrooming strategy. I was there for the first time in months last week. But they did not ultimately convert me.In...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fastest way to compute the greatest common divisor
Given two positive integers x and y, the greatest common divisor (GCD) z is the largest number that divides both x and y. For example, given 64 and 32, the greatest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NFL Tackling Big Data
In our recent executive briefing we used the work by the NBA using video imaged game recording for gathering big data to understand the detail of game and player...
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Showrooming and Webrooming
A retail story, Inspired by a post by correspondent Herb Sorensen. I relate our experience: .... We were recently in local Costco buying a relatively expensive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Engines
Data Engines. A reminder of this topic, which I had forgotten about. You want to perform some analytic process, but where is the required data? Often a big issue...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Re-gifting An Old Theorem
An old theorem re-packaged? Emily Post was America’s premier writer on etiquette for much of the 20th Century. The Emily Post Institute, which she founded in 1946...
From Computational Complexity
To Write, or Not to Write, That Is the Question
Guest post by Vijay Vazirani Our field has been blessed with some great books: classics such as Knuth's volumes and Garey & Johnson literally got the field going...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Too Many Images
Very useful ideas, especially when we have more happening on mobile and thus smaller spaces.Online Shopping Choices: Less Is Sometimes Better Than More Online shopping...
From Schneier on Security
Operation Vula
"Talking to Vula" is the story of a 1980s secret communications channel between black South African leaders and others living in exile in the UK. The system used...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson