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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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Publishing in the Digital Era
Fascinating statistics and surveys in this study by Bain & Company: Publishing in the digital era by Bain partner Patrick B
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Unified Intelligence from Attivio
Had to miss this today, but find it interesting:Unified Intelligence: Closing the Loop on Unstructured Data, by James Taylor of AttivioAnd here's a link to a PDF...
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Calculating the Amount of Information in the World
In Engadget: An overview of a USC Annenberg study. Quite a few exabytes, and growing. The current capacity for digital is about 295 exabytes they say ... An...
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Progress in Artificial Intelligence
A good non technical overview of the progress of AI in the NYT. Quite naturally people have hopes and fears of this world. The broad expectations of the early...
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Organizational Design and Structure
A post in the HBR on the importance of thinking about organization.
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Watson Jeopardy Competition Review
I saw the first half hour of this competition between two former Jeopardy champions and the Watson IBM Supercomputer. . Far too small a sample to make much ofIBM's...
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Alone Together
Just reading: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, by MIT technology and society prof Sherry Turkle. I have missed her...
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Mining Published Research
Article on mining published research from the University of Chicago. Some intriguing ideas: " ... Metaknowledge researchers are using natural language processing...
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Book Citation App
A simple idea that has a smartphone App create citations for books in papers. The idea is good, though they say there are some issues with choosing the right style...
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The Value of Text Analytics
Good overview piece on the value of text analytics and current approaches. We started using it when it was still called content analysis and can vouch for its...
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Significance of Watson and Jeopardy
In KurzweilAI: a good piece on the artificial intelligence of the upcoming Jeopardy challenge using the IBM Watson computer. Ray Kurzweil on the meaning of computer...
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SEO Gaming by JC Penney
Engadget comments on a NYT article on JC Penney gaming the search process of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on Google Search. I fail to see how anything wrong...
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Considering Wal-Mart Bias
The bizarre bias against Wal-Mart in the NYC area. I understand the arguments, but they are essentially against efficiency.
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Country Favorability Ratings
Gallup has published a favorability rating of countries to people in the US. Both the methods used and the graphics are interesting. Trends of the rating over...
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Word Cloud for this Blog
I created a wordcloud using Wordle, using the RSS feed for this blog. Scanning this, it is clear that it is using only a small subset of recent words in the...
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Word Clouds
A favorite topic of mine, pictures that represent compact, useful and easily scannable visualizations of real data. Here Doug Lautzenheiserdiscusses the Wordle...
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Modernist Cuisine
Not sure how long this link will work, but a foodie friend sends me the article from the WSJ: The Game-Changing Cookbook: Nathan Myhrvold's 2,400-page 'Modernist...
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Retail is Ready for Mobile
Good piece with statistics in E-Commerce Times. Useful statistics. If you give the shopper the right kind of choices and offers , at the right time and place,...
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Rhymes for Our Times
I see that former P&G colleague and renowned advertising exec Norm Levy has set up a blog: Rhymes4ourtimes in conjunction with his book: Rhymes for Or Times: Skews...
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