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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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Games Teaching us About Brains
Games are simplified interactions of brains and context. Neural Networks Playing Video Games Teach Us About Our Own BrainsBy California Institute of Technology...
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Robots Planting Trees
Note the use of robotics and LiDARRobot Foresters Could Plant Thousands of Trees a Day By New Scientist in ACM Two types of autonomous robot foresters developed...
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Using AI to Find New Uses for Existing Medications
As I have observed, this is a common thing. Making it faster or more precise could be very useful.Using AI to Find New Uses for Existing Medications By Ohio...
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Connecting Cows and More to the Web
Powerful direction for much more connections yet. Implications for the use of data and what is forecast. Tiny Satellites Will Connect Cows, Cars, Shipping Containers...
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Remaking the Web
We need a remake. With caution to include freedom of communication. He Created the Web. Now He's Out to Remake the Digital World.The New York Times, Steve Lohr...
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OpenProject
Introduced to OpenProject. An open source project management system. Nicely done, their introductory blog is here, Which attaches to many component descriptions...
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Samsung's Home AI Offers to Nag and do General Chores
CES is virtual this year but is putting out some interesting things, with the usual warning that they are concepts rather than imminent realities. Looks likeSamsung's...
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CIOs Have Expanded Role
Quite expected. But it is just more work, or a truly expanded role?CIOs Enter 2021 with Expanded RoleThe Wall Street Journal, By Angus LotenInformation technology...
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Intel Launches on-device Facial Recognition
So could most any device recognize us? Bias considerations depend on usage modes. Intel launches RealSense ID for on-device facial recognition By Kyle Wiggers...
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Europe Bets on China’s ‘Unhackable’ Tech for Encryption
China and its secure communication broadbandEurope Bets on China’s ‘Unhackable’ Tech to Win Space Race By Helene Fouquet Jan 05 2021 (Bloomberg) -- Europe’s...
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Machine Learning Algorithms You Should Know
A nice piece which covers the basic concepts of the most used data science algorithms. Not enough to know how to use them, but good for knowing when and why. All...
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Picture Pile Platform to Crowdsource Data for Image Classification
Towards more classification examples for AI models.Crowdsourced Image Classification Will Train AI Models By International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis...
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Trends this Year
Irving Wladawsky-Berger does a good job of looking at trends likely to continue this year. With lots of useful links. Below the intro: Trends That Will Likely...
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IBM towards Secure Enterprise Data
Hyperledger towards business goals with sharing secure enterprise data How IBM is using blockchain to transform the potential of enterprise dataChris O'Brien @obrien...
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Rental Fees
Wow, now here is something, have quite a bit of retail equipment. Thinking this ... It’s Finally Illegal for ISPs to Charge Rental Fees for Equipment You OwnBy...
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Data Lineage Tools
This problem was brought to my attention. I don't buy that these are the best, but they are reasonable examples I will examine. Especially with regard to...
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U.S. Army Looks to Improve Quadrotor Drone Performance
Changes in flight capabilities for in context dynamic needs. U.S. Army Research LaboratoryDecember 8, 2020The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's...
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Amazon Pantry Discontinued
Following this a while because some of our products were typically included. Seems to have decreased in use, and created anther level of unneeded complexity....
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Benford's Law in the Universe
We used Benford's law to detect potential fraud. I have mentioned it here a number of times. Turns out its much more broadly observed. Which is fairly obvious...
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