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Microsoft Aims to Make Low-Code Easier
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Microsoft Aims to Make Low-Code Easier

Been examining some of the evolving Low and No code options for delivering coded logic Here Microsoft's aims in the space.Microsoft to make coding 'in plain English'...

AI driven with Analogies
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AI driven with Analogies

We Followed Melanie Mitchell's work, Especially with regard to Analogies. A Good direction,  working with advertising we liked the idea of their use, but the approaches...

Emergency and Crisis Software Development?
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Emergency and Crisis Software Development?

 ACM writes about fast, even emergency software development.   We had something like that at the start of the pandemic.  How (and how well) was it done. How could...

GitHub Previews AI Tool that Makes Coding Suggestions
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GitHub Previews AI Tool that Makes Coding Suggestions

More steps towards automation of coding.  With the potential to strengthen security and efficiency of code. GitHub Previews AI Tool That Makes Coding Suggestions...

Towards Communal Computing
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Towards Communal Computing

 Good thoughts, having now been involved in many smart home setups and updates,  the direction needs to be much broader.   And these adaptations also need to learned...

Hyperconnectivity
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Hyperconnectivity

 New term to me.  As I understand it is here today. Further implications?  Great efficiency or just less security? Hyperconnectivity, Not Well Understood, Ties ...

Pollination Robotics
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Pollination Robotics

An example I had not seen before.Buzz Off, Bees. Pollination Robots Are Here.By The Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2021Farmers have long relied on insects, windAcross...

AI and Design Thinking
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AI and Design Thinking

Interesting point.   I say all systems, analytics, processes, management have a 'design problem', they need to be applied properly to provide value.     All statistical...

Training Game Playing Agents with ML
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Training Game Playing Agents with ML

From the Google AI Blog.  Below just the intro.  Something we proposed wayback, but now have seem several interesting examples.  Certainly you can consider anyQuickly...

Emerging Threats of Autonomous War
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Emerging Threats of Autonomous War

Will be attempts at strong regulation, but inevitable at all sorts of operational levels.  Offensive and Defensive. U.S. Says Humans Will Always Be In Control of...

Problems with Distributed Computing
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Problems with Distributed Computing

Via O'Reilly.  Reading these through, based on how they are stated, would state them more as cautions than always being wrong.  It all depends upon the contextual...

A True Transformation of Logistics?
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A True Transformation of Logistics?

 Another excellent piece by  Irving Wladawsky on work on the future of logistics, with lots of pointers in  the original at the link below.   Retail Analytics for...

Microsoft Better Tighten Up
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Microsoft Better Tighten Up

Good, they have gotten to some real issues far too late.  Being the premier general computational systems provider, they need to fix threats better and faster, ...

Entanglement
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Entanglement

More on entanglement its meaning and implications.    How  things at very great distances communicate, influence?Untangling Quantum EntanglementTwo quantum particles...

Algorithm Could Help Enable Next-Generation Deep Brain Stimulation
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Algorithm Could Help Enable Next-Generation Deep Brain Stimulation

New means to stimulate brains.  As I read it, this may require quite a bit of regulation. Algorithm Could Help Enable Next-Generation Deep Brain Stimulation Devices...

Spy Agencies look to Science
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Spy Agencies look to Science

When there are no direct solutions, look to emerging tech.  But do they have the same goals?   Same limitations? Spy Agencies Turn to Scientists as They Wrestle...

Bio Neurons versus Computational
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Bio Neurons versus Computational

When we first learned of the use of the patterns of brain neurons to potentially use as reasoning devices, we took a course from actual neuroscientists.  We very...

Evolving Bio Intelligence
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Evolving Bio Intelligence

Can this kind of generalized AI take us towards more generalized AI?   A new shift in direction? Potcast:  Bio Eats World: Evolving Embodied Intelligence    byBy...

China Rise in Smart-Cities
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China Rise in Smart-Cities

Are we too regulated, too cautious of uses of automation?  Interesting smart city stats. A Global Smart-City Competition Highlights China's Rise in AI,By Wired,...

Document Data Model
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Document Data Model

Good overview .... and reminder of usefulness.WHITE PAPERWhy the Document Data ModelBuilt around JSON-like documents, document databases are both natural and flexible...
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