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Drones of all Types in the Smart City
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drones of all Types in the Smart City

Good general piece on the topic.  Inevitable.  Their form, security, management and capabilities are still to be worked out in sufficient detail.   Also the further...

AWS CodeGuru Available
From The Eponymous Pickle

AWS CodeGuru Available

Had not seen this yet, worth a close look.    When we coded we had experts review its quality along a number of metrics.  Automating this process should ensureAWS...

Get Started with the Alexa Skills Kit
From The Eponymous Pickle

Get Started with the Alexa Skills Kit

Another introduction to how skills work in Alexa.Get Started with the Alexa Skills KitLearn how Alexa skills work and how you can build one using the Alexa Skills...

Overview of Federated Learning for Privacy Critical Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Overview of Federated Learning for Privacy Critical Learning

A look at federated learning  (Via O'Reilly).  Intro useful for anyone, then technical.Federated learning enables machine learning in privacy-critical applications...

Challenge and Workshop for Open Domain Question Answering
From The Eponymous Pickle

Challenge and Workshop for Open Domain Question Answering

Answer questions based on open domain Knowledge.  Good general statement of the most important part of useful AI.   Details at the link.Presenting a Challenge and...

VR System to Turn Smells into Temperatures
From The Eponymous Pickle

VR System to Turn Smells into Temperatures

Here is quite an interesting play,  hacking your nose to get a temperature experience?  Skiing VR  experiences?  Thinking about the reality of this.    Temperature...

Microphone Signature Tracking of Covid Exposure
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microphone Signature Tracking of Covid Exposure

Interesting approach,  with approval of the phone owner I assume, they could the release of such 'random tokens', and another phone within some radius, would pick...

Cognixion: Unlocking Speech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognixion: Unlocking Speech

Was reminded today of Cognixion,  formerly Smartstones,  and founder Andreas Forsland, which I have a connection with.  Their site features a system called: Speakprose...

McDonald's Adapts Menus to Consumers
From The Eponymous Pickle

McDonald's Adapts Menus to Consumers

Been observing McDonald's operational marketing for some years, after making a short analysis of their data and how it interacted with how they did in-store, real...

Sweat Powering Wearables
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sweat Powering Wearables

Have heard this being proposed from time to time over the years,  but it never happened.   The power involved was always too low and the electricity too cheap. ...

Voice Mental Health from Microsoft
From The Eponymous Pickle

Voice Mental Health from Microsoft

Mental health likely a more useful direction using voice.Microsoft Pilots Voice AI-Based Senior Mental Healthcare Program in South Korea Eric Hal Schartz on July...

Something Missing in Remote Work?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Something Missing in Remote Work?

Nice view of the very nature of remote work.  What is essential, what is a waste of time?Remote Work is Surprisingly Productive, But For Many… Something Is Missing...

Advance of Automated Trucking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advance of Automated Trucking

Looked at this topic last year, it continues to advance.Are automated freight trucks ready to carry retail’s heavy load?  in Retailwire  by George AndersonTuSimple...

Safety and Leadership in a Time of Change
From The Eponymous Pickle

Safety and Leadership in a Time of Change

Good overview of current and future considerations.Psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and leadership in a time of fluxTwo renowned scholars and two McKinsey...

Covid Changing the Way we Eat?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Covid Changing the Way we Eat?

Implications for food related industries.How COVID-19 has changed the way we eat, according to five expertsTop executives from General Mills, Impossible Foods, ...

Drone Deployed Sterile Mosquitoes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drone Deployed Sterile Mosquitoes

My son Steve is an expert at drone deployment and photography,  Need any help in that domain, let me know and I will introduce you.Drone-Deployed Sterile Mosquitoes...

NBA Uses Smart Tech Wearables
From The Eponymous Pickle

NBA Uses Smart Tech Wearables

Expect continued use of wearable sensors.    Here another example.   Brings to mind the question of who owns the captured and derived data.   Similar agreements...

Purpose
From The Eponymous Pickle

Purpose

I often follow university and lab work of interest that matches my long problem solving experience.  Sometimes I mention it for my own future purposes, or if I...

Manufacturing Cost Predictor
From The Eponymous Pickle

Manufacturing Cost Predictor

Overall a good idea, especially if a process model of existing manufacturing systems are maintained and this can be used to price out changes.Manufacturing Cost...

Measuring Network Effects
From The Eponymous Pickle

Measuring Network Effects

Had mentioned this once before, the topic has come up again, so I repeat it again.  Good overview.Andreessen Horowitz16Ways to Measure Network Effectsby Li JinNetwork...
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