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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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How Games can Build Leaders
An interview with Stanford Prof Byron Reeves of Seriosity. " ... On Leadership: Stanford professor Byron Reeves on how online multiplayer games like 'World of Warcraft'...
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Fewer Shopping Trips
Progressive Grocer reports on the continuation of fewer shopping trips and fewer purchases per trip. Interesting statistics.
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Interested in a Procter Franchise?
I recently posted about P&G doing franchising of product oriented processes. Well known products like Tide and Mr Clean. As part of the Procter alumni networkYou...
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Interview with Zakta
An interview with long time connection Sundar Kadayam about his very innovative search and knowledge system Zakta. We used some of Sundar's previous systems. Also...
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Foundation of Semantic Web Technologies
I had a very good conversation today with Prof Pascal Hitzler. Author of the books: Semantic Web - Grundlagen and Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies. He is...
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Brand Names in Scrabble Games
In the BBC: Proper nouns are now allowed in new versions of the Scrabble board game. Think of the opportunity for product placement! Though how many people play...
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Procter and Gamble Franchises
An overview of P&G's activities in the world of franchising. Including Mr. Clean car washes and Tide Dry Cleaning.
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Observational Models Fed to my Phone
There are some things that terrestrial observers can learn from astrophysics. Even if you are mostly interested in commercial applications. Its an example of how...
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Stain Brain App Updated
I see that Procter & Gamble's Stain Brain IPhone application has been updated. Recall I described here how this is an application that has evolved over a dozen...
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1913 Tax Form
Have seen this many times, but it is worth repeating, often. Mark Perry posts the US 1913 tax form, and comments: ' ... There were only four pages total including...
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Collapse of Complex Business Models
I agree they should be as simple as possible, but are often patched up affairs to match the expectations of those that believe in them. Clay Shirky does make some...
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Predictive Analytics as a Game Changer
In Forbes, a short article about how a number of companies are using predictive analytics to change the game. I again do not consider this to be very new, we did...
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Bayesian Information Retrieval
In the Noisy Channel: Information Retrieval using a Bayesian Model of Learning and Generalization. Well written, good piece with many instructional background links...
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Grand Unified Theory of AI
In MIT News, quite intriguing, though I don't quite understand how it can be applied immediately to real problems I am acquainted with. ' .. A new approach unites...
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Best of TDWI: Business Intelligence
Best of a number of good articles on Business Intelligence from TDWI. I have mentioned a few of these before, here they all in one piece. The download does require...
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Videotaping the Shipment
In StorefrontBackTalk: Discussion of an Amazon patent that videotapes a shipment box as it is filled and sealed. Then attaching a link to that video clip to the...
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Simulated Car Racing
From the University of Wurzburg, simulated car demolition derby using artificial intelligence controllers. Still a believer that there is value in using gaming...
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Twitter Predicting Movie Box Office
Good overview of social media prediction opportunities, based on the HP social computing lab paper: Predicting the Future with Social Media. Of course a Twitter...
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Watching You Read
In the NYT: Theory of Mind and brain scanning, applied to fiction. Literary scholars turn to science.-
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