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Space Weather Implications for Technology
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Space Weather Implications for Technology

Space weather, and further implications of solar activity can have huge implications for tech on earth.  The ability to monitor it  will be important.  NASA's launch...

Examining Smart City Backlash
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Examining Smart City Backlash

A look at how people are reacting to 'smart' and trust, and surveillance and privacy stretching that are parts of smart city plans and implementations.  Is it best...

Comments on:  Echo Auto Gets an Unexpected Ad Stream
From The Eponymous Pickle

Comments on: Echo Auto Gets an Unexpected Ad Stream

Been now using the Auto Echo for several months, this lets you connect with the Echo infrastructure cheaply from most cars.  The capability was advertised as providing...

Consumer Experience and Trust
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consumer Experience and Trust

Probably mostly because trust contains many components.  Both long and short term aspects.    Both experience and influencer based.Why is CX Not Impacting Trust...

Language and AI:  Steve Omohundro
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Language and AI: Steve Omohundro

Language interaction continues to evolve.Linghacks Keynote: "Language and AI: Hacking Humanity's greatest invention"On March 30-31 the wonderful “Linghack” organization...

Race to Quantum
From The Eponymous Pickle

Race to Quantum

Useful sort view from Europe on quantum efforts underway.   There are very big stakes.   Solving the most complex, wicked problems in new ways.By  Katia Moskvitch...

Google Overviews Accessibility Efforts
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Google Overviews Accessibility Efforts

Have always though of accessibility as having a goal of augmentation.   If its an assistant or simple access adjustment.  Good examples here.Making technology accessible...

Review of Gary Marcus' Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
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Review of Gary Marcus' Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

Just reading this book.   Found the below non technical overview/review quite useful.  Mostly agree with this, and the outline of chapters is useful.   Saving it...

IBM Introduces Sterling Supply Chain Suite
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IBM Introduces Sterling Supply Chain Suite

Our earliest work in supply chain, from supplier to plant to consumer, was supported by IBM optimization methods.   Recently saw some of their proposals for integrating...

Kroger Selling its Marketing Technology
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Kroger Selling its Marketing Technology

Excerpt from ModernRetail: Why Kroger’s advertising program remains a nascent opportunityBy Cale Guthrie Weissman " ..... Kroger — which boasts over 443,000 employees...

Tracking Your Data: Exist
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tracking Your Data: Exist

Brought to my attention:Exist: Track everything together. Understand your behaviour.By combining data from services you already use, we can help you understandBring...

The Future of Malicious Online Activity
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The Future of Malicious Online Activity

Recent events have been troublesome here.     We like to trust our machines, but the more autonomous and 'intelligent' they are,  leads to lest trust and more complexity...

Standardizing Deep Learning Model Deployment
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Standardizing Deep Learning Model Deployment

Got this more detailed invite late,  and the talk is over,  but below you can follow along on slides and talk, see below:Nick Pentreath, IBM , "Standardizing deep...

Rolling Your Own Neural Network
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rolling Your Own Neural Network

Seen several of these tutorials now interlaced with all concepts, math and code.  This one seems nicely done.   When we first played with these in the 80s we wrote...

New Reinforcement Training Frameworks
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New Reinforcement Training Frameworks

Good to see the kind of open source development being done.DeepMind Has Quietly Open Sourced Three New Impressive Reinforcement Learning FrameworksThree new releases...

What is Watson? A Significant Part of the Future of AI
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What is Watson? A Significant Part of the Future of AI

Thoughtful piece.   Despite recent criticism as not having attained enough, Watson is a genuine accomplishment.    We saw it early on and remarked about how itThis...

Writing Smart Contracts
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Writing Smart Contracts

Now have seen some very contradictory views of how well a 'smart contract' could truly model an actual legal contract, except for the most trivial ones.     Maintaining...

Personalized Games
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Personalized Games

Much like the general idea,   Could it be applied to other kinds of tasks.   Could it be used to allocate resources to problems.   Connect with the right kindsResearchers...

Standardizing Deep Learning Model Deployment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Standardizing Deep Learning Model Deployment

Tomorrow of interest:Join @MLnick on Oct 10,  8:30am US Eastern (note unusual time) -  Nick Pentreath:  Principal Engineer, CODAIT (Center for Open-Source Data"Standardizing...

Causation to Provide the Why
From The Eponymous Pickle

Causation to Provide the Why

Basic causation is a great start.   Why did this happen? We are doing it all the time.  Its one of our basic knowledge processing capabilities that lead to learning...
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