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Healing a Supply Chain with Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Healing a Supply Chain with Machine Learning

Some instructive thoughts about direction.  Finding patterns in anything can be a first step to its improvement.How machine learning can heal a supply chain   By...

US Funds Three  States for Car Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

US Funds Three States for Car Research

I see Ohio is included, will look to see what it might take to be involved.  Or at least see where the results are to be published for review.U.S. Gives 3 States...

Robot Record Sales
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Record Sales

Expect to see robotics in many new places.World Record Sales for Robots as Sector Reaches $16.5 Billion in Investment   in ZDNet  By Greg NicholsThe International...

The AI Work of the Future Report
From The Eponymous Pickle

The AI Work of the Future Report

Having been seeing the AI hype of late, and getting questions from colleagues and clients as to that tt really means.  This piece from MIT, pointed to by O'Reilly...

Tracking Drugs with Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tracking Drugs with Blockchain

Another example of blockchain use for secure tracking and thus tracing.    The regulation implied is not to specifically use blockchain, but to ensure secure tracking...

Snorkel for Building Data for ML
From The Eponymous Pickle

Snorkel for Building Data for ML

This was new to me.  But handling and selecting the data is the most important aspect of machine learning projects.   In a recent project it included over 75% of...

Company Building Brands to Sell only on Amazon
From The Eponymous Pickle

Company Building Brands to Sell only on Amazon

A direction we may see more of.How one company is building brands to sell only on Amazon    By Cale Guthrie Weissman in ModernRetailMany digital brands are allergic...

Optimal Neural Architecture
From The Eponymous Pickle

Optimal Neural Architecture

Thoughtful and useful piece.    Though I don't seen how this is necessarily universally optimal, which is usually a broad claim.  Link to full and technical paper...

Material Holes Create Amazing Properties
From The Eponymous Pickle

Material Holes Create Amazing Properties

An interesting discovery of the use of  'holes'.  Consider all the advantages we have gotten from material science.Researchers catalog defects that give 2-D materials...

Self-Flying Cargo Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Self-Flying Cargo Drones

Emergence of such capabilities will change transport.Bell's New, Self-Flying Cargo Drone Hauls a Heavy Load in WiredThe all-electric APT 70 can tote up to 70 pounds...

Podcast Intervew with Hilary Mason on GigaOM
From The Eponymous Pickle

Podcast Intervew with Hilary Mason on GigaOM

Another AI practitioner talks about the advances and future of AI:Voices in AI – Bonus: A Conversation with Hilary Mason   By Byron ReeseOn this Episode of Voices...

Advances in AI Earthquake Prediction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advances in AI Earthquake Prediction

We attended some early neural net applications meeting where this was proposed, and added some of our own thoughts.   Nice to see this is evolving.   Are thereAI...

Alexa Skills for Productivity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Skills for Productivity

Still, I think not good enough to really make me have a standard device on my desk at work.   What can be done to really make it essential?Review: 18 Alexa skills...

Learning and Revealing Private Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning and Revealing Private Data

Been looking at past articles of the Berkeley AI Group, and found an interesting aspect of data privacy examined.  Can a neural network, while being trained,  inadvertently...

5G Coverage for IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

5G Coverage for IOT

Was recently asked to give an opinion of 5G use in the Cincinnati area for potential IOT applications,  with mobility implications,  and was pointed to this map...

Information Latency Study for DOD
From The Eponymous Pickle

Information Latency Study for DOD

I  suggest that there are important latency conditions in many parts of large networked systems.  For example in supply chains it can greatly change costs, effective...

Do we Know How the Brain Works?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Do we Know How the Brain Works?

Have had  conversations of late with people who have said:  Look at neural nets they are modeled after brains.    But the answer is still, no we don't.  And weNeuralink...

Structured Signals for Model Training
From The Eponymous Pickle

Structured Signals for Model Training

Technical but interesting point about how to add structured knowledge into otherwise non transparent networks.  Examining further. Posted by Da-Cheng Juan (Senior...

Sensing and AR/VR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sensing and AR/VR

Good to see AR/VR linked strongly to sensing capabilities.     As is suggested this is the way we construct models of the word.  Whether they be virtual or real...

Apple Shows Interest in Blockchain Tech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apple Shows Interest in Blockchain Tech

The fact that Apple is following this is significant.  Apple Pay at least could have future implementations to consider.    Comments below.Cryptocurrency Has ‘Long...
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