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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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Augmented Reality at Metaio
Some interesting thoughts in ReadWriteWeb on the status of Augmented Reality leader Metaio which has the package Junaio that I have looked at on Smartphones. They...
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Science of Sharing
Sharethis comments on the science of sharing. Some interesting, but rather self-serving statistics.
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Quantum Machine Learning
Google Research blog on quantum machine learning. Machine learning is the essence of artificial intelligence ... make a machine that learns and you can set it loose...
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Challenging the Tipping Point
In Mind Hacks: Looking at the work of Duncan Watts. And by implication challenging the methodology of many kinds of simulations and predictive analytics in general...
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When Data Does not Match Theory
Have seen this many times, especially in the realm of marketing, where people sometimes just search for data that matches the results they want. So its naturalThis...
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On-Line Retailers and Neuromarketing
An NYT article on the use of NM concepts in online retailing. Includes quotes from Martin Lindstrom:
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On the Consumer Power of Price Checking
Herb Sorensen in Retailwire writes about mobile price checking. Some further thoughts of my own: I saw a number of price checking devices installed at a local retailer...
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Lowering Your Information Standards
Tom Davenport makes an interesting point and expands on it: ' ... As information grows in quantity, consumers of it are willing to accept lower quality. I call...
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On the Future of Analytics
Eric Siegel on the future of analytics in the SAS COM Blog.-
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Global Networks
The value of understanding a dynamic system as a quantifiable network with a distinct architecture has always intrigued me. Very early on we constructed networks...
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Being Honest with Yourself
On the consequences of fooling yourself. With implications for private label purchasing decisions?
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Reinvention of BI
Good piece in Information Management by David M Raab: The Reinvention of BI as We Know itTotal cost of ownership analyses must be expanded to properly capture the...
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Virtual Gifts do Better than Banner Ads
So called 'virtual gifts', which are basically ads that are passed along in social networks, appear to be more effective than banner ads. Some good examples and...
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WolframAlpha Year-end Update
An update on what WolframAlpha has done and plans to do in the coming year. I like their direction, but they still have far to go. They have very impressive demonstrations...
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Auto Wifi
Wired view of the current state of using cars as mobile hotspots and their planned usage. New specific work by Ford is detailed. I am less interested in how I could...
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Groundswell on Social Tech
I saw this Forrester/Groundswell post on the growth of social tech lately, it describes the participation growth from 2007-2009 based on Forrester's useful classifications...
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Decline of RSS Readers
In ReadWriteWeb, a look at the decline of RSS readers. I still use them, but agree I see them used less and less either in or outside of the enterprise. There is...
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Digital Building Data Delivery
Brought to my attention: Archaio ' ... Our expertise is delivering software that accurately depicts building data and automated decision support tools to improve...
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User Experience Matters
In the Noisy Channel, a look at the UXmatters Blog. ' ... user experience is
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