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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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Identifying Asymptomatic Virus from Cough Prints
Most interesting, depending upon how well it works in practice.MIT Open Voice Model Used to Identify Asymptomatic COVID-19 Patients From Cough Recordings By BRET...
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Virus Tracing Apps have Problems
Privacy, but then what value do they deliver?Virus-Tracing Apps Are Rife with Problems. Governments Are Rushing to Fix ThemThe New York TimesNatasha Singer; Aaron...
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Honeywell Provides Quantum as a Service
More available services for quantum available.Honeywell Introduces Quantum Computing as a Service with Subscription Offering By ZDNetThe tech world may have to...
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Data Commons now Available via Google Search
Brought back to my attention. From Google: Data Commons is an open knowledge repository that combines data from public datasets using mapped common entities. It...
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The Dilemma of Ransomware
Been more educated of late regards the danger of ransomware. In my early days in the government I remember all the mag tapes we loaded for analysis and backup...
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Illusory Perceptions
In our early work in this area we thought we found such 'illusions'. Based on the text here, these were not the same thing as mentioned here, but we named them...
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Crop Inspection
Recall my interest in crop and forestry inspection and improvement. See the related tags. Here another example in play to improve production.Alphabet Trialing...
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Waymo Self-Driving Stats Revealed
Quite impressive. 61 million miles, 21 months, 47 collisions and near misses. By far most caused by other cars. No one seriously injured. Better than human....
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Garbage in - Garbage Forever?
Of course the well known phrase is applicable to many kinds of 'intelligence', analytics, AI and forecasting and inference. Here we just make sure it goes beyond...
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Spying via Body Movements on Video calls
Anther example of patterns from one kind of transmission (body movement) to another kind (typing) that could leak specific information. In the 70s we worked similar...
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Robotic Ships
Looked at robotic ships for a supply chain project now sometime ago there and were movements then. See the tag re 'autonomous ships'. IBM was involved. Then...
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On Auction Theory
A favorite topic we used for supply chain decision modeling. Nicely overviewed here in Kellogg. Below a good reminder to me of its outline , and there follows...
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Restock Kroger Proves it Worth in Pandemic
Quite some good details here.It took three years, but Restock Kroger is finally proving its worth.The grocery chain reported first-quarter revenue of $40.55 billion...
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Here Comes the No-Code Generation?
Been a long time follower of automating coding. What will it mean to the future? Hardly superpowers. In fact when it finally fully arrives, you will hardly...
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Brazil AI Center
Visited Brazil to outline their retail technology advances. Especially regarding food supply chains. Was impressed with their efforts. Now they have established...
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Custom Live Data Drama in Excel
Though its now quite outdated, we used to do lots of things in spreadsheets, remember this could have been very useful. Drama? Well maybe. Microsoft Excel spreadsheets...
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Estimation Theory at Work
Rarely hear about this, we used it for retail analysis, it is useful to understand. Link to it below and a Wikipedia article definition. What makes a good estimator...
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Replaying Memory to Retain it
Fascinating play. Remember this similarity being brought up in a talk about short vs long term memories. Now being brought into play?How a Memory Quirk of ...
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IBM Study on the Efficacy of Chatbots
But AI is still in action, especially in speeding simpler customer interactions:IBM study highlights rapid uptake and satisfaction with AI chatbots in AINewsAMost...
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