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Addressing Information Overload from Polarization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Addressing Information Overload from Polarization

Although mostly we had too little data to address a problem, the idea of finding data, determining its value in context and then prepping for sub tasks involved...

State and Future of IBM
From The Eponymous Pickle

State and Future of IBM

Former exec and colleague Bob Herbold talks IBM in his blog: IBM: Finally, A Bold Move Provides Some HopePosted on August 6, 2020   by Bob HerboldOne financialIBM...

Voice Assistant for Doctors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Voice Assistant for Doctors

Podcast of interest: Patient engagement,Voice AssistantHarjinder Sandhu Founder and CEO of Saykara a Voice Assistant for Doctors – Voicebot Podcast Ep 161Harjinder...

More Intelligent Retail Clouds
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Intelligent Retail Clouds

More data, more interactions with parts of the business, new patterns to leverage in a changing world.How is Artificial Intelligence Changing the Retail Landscape...

Huma-Like too Low a Bar
From The Eponymous Pickle

Huma-Like too Low a Bar

Good cautious point is made here.  But I respond that in most cases we are assisting a human,  or doing something rather narrow that a human does today.    ButWhy...

Ethical Questions about AI Surgery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ethical Questions about AI Surgery

Wondered at first where the ethical questions were coming from.  Access to advanced methods?  No, it seems privacy was once again involved.Researchers examine the...

Testing Self Driving in Germany
From The Eponymous Pickle

Testing Self Driving in Germany

The idea of autonomous vehicles moves on.Mobileye wins permit to test autonomous vehicles in Germany   By Kyle Wiggers in VenturebeatMobileye, Intel’s driverless...

Google Updates Audio Settings
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Updates Audio Settings

Had noticed that that Google assistant seemed to better understand.    Via Google:' .... We recently updated the setting for voice and audio recordings in yourThe...

The Many Sat Nav Systems in Orbit
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Many Sat Nav Systems in Orbit

The continued increase of GPS systems.   Will the data from multiple systems be commonly be shared?  Or more likely withdrawn in conflict?China Celebrates Completion...

Robotic Bricklayer
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robotic Bricklayer

A great deal of human engineering has been done on bricklaying, that could be used to carefully compare the work involved under varying contexts. Robotic Bricklayer...

Questions on the Value of Speaking Robotish
From The Eponymous Pickle

Questions on the Value of Speaking Robotish

What is the meaning behind declaring something a language?    We have many computing and many human languages.  How much does their form influence the nature of...

Opinions on State of the Art of Automated Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Opinions on State of the Art of Automated Machine Learning

Very useful piece here,  the individual comments at the link are most interesting, the key takeaways are mostly obvious. State of the Art in Automated Machine Learning...

Google Suites to be Modified
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Suites to be Modified

Have now had to use G-Suites for a number of interactions, especially of university project communications.   Always thought they were less logical, especiallyGoogle...

Google-Style Map of the Brain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google-Style Map of the Brain

As suggested brains vary considerably.   So its not a map in a true geographic sense. a more probabilistic map.  How easy is it to navigate, link to behavior, data...

Cisco on Post Quantum Security
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cisco on Post Quantum Security

Full considerable article at the link, a good overview of the direction of quantum Crypto, with predictive time line.It’s Not Too Early to Start Thinking AboutBy...

Downsizing of Retail
From The Eponymous Pickle

Downsizing of Retail

Retailwire does a good job of examining current trends and process in retail.Has retail permanently downsized?By George Anderson in RetailwireThe number of people...

Need for Data Observability
From The Eponymous Pickle

Need for Data Observability

Never called it that in particular, but yes it is important, and is worth the included tag.  And I add, the changes and non-changes in data should also be 'observable'...

Corona App Gateway for the European Commission
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Corona App Gateway for the European Commission

Continued work to privately digitize the understanding of contact tracing.SAP, Deutsche Telekom to Build Corona App Gateway for European CommissionReutersBusvine...

Google Partners with ADT
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Google Partners with ADT

A perhaps unexpected move, to address increasing concern about issues of security in the smart home.Google Invests $450M in ADT to Begin Smart Home Security Partnership...

Landing, Exploring Venus with Steam Punk Sensors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Landing, Exploring Venus with Steam Punk Sensors

Quite a curious idea, more and images at the link.   Applicable in other contexts?Steampunk Venus Rover Ideas Win NASA Contest to 'Explore Hell' With ClockworkSpace...
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