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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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GE Working on Detecting COVID from a Smartphone
More detail, here from GE on their work on detecting COVID from a smartphone.GE Scientists Developing Technology to Add COVID-19 Virus Detector to Your Mobile Device...
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MBRL Tuning for Partially Understood Environments
Below is very technical, but I do like some of the background statements such as 'solving tasks in a partially understood environment ...'. And the idea ofThe...
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Database of World Management Practices
This came to my attention. Could have been useful, depending on how precise the practices were detailed, in past modeling efforts. This effort under way for...
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Facebook Research Allocates Ad Funding (without AI)
Struck me because we did something similar and also quite different for advertising fund allocation very early on. We the results of integer optimization models...
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Autonomous Driving from a Different Contextual View
From the most recent CACM Mag. An Arab oriented view of the problem. Instructional.Autonomous Driving in the Face of Unconventional Odds By Hesham M. Eraqi...
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Electrified Urban Transport
Recall we experimented with Segways in our innovation center, and observed them being used in locations like the grocery store 'Jungle Jims'. Here more about...
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The Army Studies Real Time Conversation
Considerable, interesting piece on the topic. Leads to the open question about how we converse with our robot assistants. And leads on to other kinds of hybrid...
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Hybrid Work Disrupting
Microsoft writes on the Next Great Disruption, interesting stats and more, at the link;The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work—Are We Ready?Over the past year,...
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Laugh More, Lead Better
Recall some of our own experiments in humor-augmented management. Laugh more, lead better in McKinseyNaomi Bagdonas and Connor Diemand-Yauman, lecturers at Stanford...
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Investing in Eco
How can more people become involved in Crypto?Investing in Eco, Cryptoby Katie Haun and Arianna Simpson in Andreessen HorowitzOne of the challenges in any new...
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Building 3D Earth Models
For those with interest in the recent eruptions in Iceland and also those with interest in Photogrammetry 3D models of the earth, here is a 3D model of the eruptions...
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Evolution of Ransomware and Related Extortion
Thoughtful podcast and transcript from Recorded Future, Telling the evolution of extortion methods and responses.Ransomware and Extortion Evolve More Brazen Tactics...
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First Multi-Node Quantum Network Paves the Way for the Quantum Internet
Though still a small number of qubits, but the connectivity into a 'quantum internet' appears to be a big step forward. First Multi-Node Quantum Network Paves...
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Grants for Taming Big Data
Key aspects to manage and manage large unwieldy data from may sourcesDOE Will Spend $10M on Research to Tame Massive Data Sets By U.S. Department of EnergyThe...
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Uses of AI for Small Business
Fairly obvious, but the stats show you that small business understands the needs and possibilities.The Growing Importance of AI for Small BusinessesAI has become...
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Phonons and Quantum Monte Carlo
More looks at material science.A Successful Phonon Calculation Within the Quantum Monte Carlo Framework By Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ...
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Cyber Threats to Supply Chains
Schneier reports on the DNI annual assessment. With lots of interesting comments and other coverage in his blog. Would also like to emphasize supply chain implications...
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Quanta Magazine: Brain Rotates Memories to Save Them
Made me think of how this kind of structure could be used in machine learning to perform a kind of maintenance and change managemebt as new data is acquired. ...
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Microsoft and AI Company Nuance
A good piece on why Microsoft is squiring Nuance, which also reminded me I had tested and used their package Dragon for speech recognition applications. ButWhy...
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