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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 …
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Kahn Academy Has an App
In FastCompany: Look forward to taking a closer look. Will this prove to be a fundamental change in the educational process?" ... Khan Academy, the wildly popular...
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Daylight Savings Time and Costs
MJ Perry on Daylight Savings Time. Including an analysis of its cost. I find the Wikipedia article on the topic also quite interesting.
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Allostatic Load and Post Traumatic Stress
Some time ago I got the chance to interact with Allostatix, the best known practitioner of the measurement of Allostatic Load, a multiple component human health...
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Quantifying the Patient of the Future
More on quantifying the patient. Back to who owns the data and can ultimately leverage it. Can you afford the sensors needed? The quantified self movement's practitioners...
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Linkedin Acquires Rapportive
Have used Rapportive for years. If you have many contacts it usefully provides information about them on a right hand column in GMail. It makes sense thatthey...
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Big Data and the Stalker Economy
Correspondent Jerry Michalski comments in Forbes on Big Data and the Stalker Economy. Based in part on our conference call about Big Data from this Monday. ...
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Demographics of Digital Platforms
Colleague Dean DeBiase on this topic. Good points, Dean. " ... One of the most interesting aspects of the analysis issued recently by Nielsen company NM Incite...
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Priceonomics
Priceonomics. 130 million prices to buy or sell just about everything. I wonder why this kind of data has not been provided before.
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Gamification Examples
I have now given several talks on the use of game dynamics for engagement and dreary task completion. I am often asked ... give me some real practical examples...
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Science of Storytelling
In Forbes: A favorite research topic of mine. A form of neuroscience because we all do love the enchantment of a good story. What is a good ad if it is not...
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P&G Hosts Digital Future
Yesterday P&G hosted a number of top Silicon Valley execs in their downtown offices. Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon, Nokia, Coke. .. etc.press...
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Branding the Brain
A critical review of consumer neuroscience. Quite a lot of worthwhile interesting detail in both the scientific and commercial aspects ... " ... To appreciate...
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Migrating to the Cloud
In Computing Now: About Testing, quality and security concerns for migration to the Cloud. . Some useful comments on important considerations.
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Beauty Packaging to Link Real and Virtual Worlds
This was an area we explored at length. During a visit to China in 2003 I saw a remarkable number of examples in retail spaces. Now QR codes and smartphones...
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Cray Takes on Big Data
Via Mark Montgomery of KYield. ... Supercomputing and big data appliances. Venerable Cray take a plunge into the thirst for big data understanding and analytics...
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Watson Tries Finances
In another move forward for AI-style interactions, IBM is working with Citicorp:" ... IBM and Citigroup recently announced plans to explore how America's favorite...
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Free Shopper Centric e-Book
From DemandTec. This was precisely the approach we emphasized for many years within the enterprise. It is all about how the shopper behaves in their increasingly...
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Uplift Modeling
A new term? The term perhaps, but we have been doing this new thing for years. It deserves attention, now being lionized as the next big thing in predictive...
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Key to Focus
A good interview by Todd Henry with Peter Bregman. On focus and priorities. " ... In this interview, Peter describes how he came to his 18 minute methodology,...
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