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Reminder: Talk Today:  Mixed integer Programming and Machine Learning
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Reminder: Talk Today: Mixed integer Programming and Machine Learning

Highly recommended!   We used Mixed Integer Programming optimization methods for many years in the enterprise.   Especially for complex combinatorial decision making...

Health Data for Personal Use
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Health Data for Personal Use

 Just heard this podcast, was on my reading list, regarding https://Doc.AI  an interesting model  about using health data.   Some good thoughts in the podcast. ...

In China:  Smile to Pay
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In China: Smile to Pay

Seeming to be expanding in China.   Payment here, but to what degree also product recognition and tallying?Smile-to-Pay: Chinese Shoppers Turn to Facial Payment...

Computing Power and a Quest for Intelligence
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Computing Power and a Quest for Intelligence

Interesting piece in MIT news today on their work with IBM and Google to receive a supercomputer,  and get Google Cloud Credits, and the implications of how these...

Including Smart Sensors in Building Design
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Including Smart Sensors in Building Design

Pointing to new studies about smart building architectural design.Using smart sensor technology in building design in TechXplore   by San Diego State University...

Exposure in a Supply Chain
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Exposure in a Supply Chain

Interesting examination of a massive supply chain and its exposure to threats.   Seems any complex supply chain should have this done, and repeated as contextsHere...

AI Reproduce-ability Crisis
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AI Reproduce-ability Crisis

Science requires enough information to reproduce a result that is claimed.   But does not mean that a result cannot be consistently useful even if not formallyreproducability...

New Wifi Standard 6 Released.
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New Wifi Standard 6 Released.

Detailed piece.  Apple mentioned Wi-Fi 6 being supported in the latest phones.   Claims to be faster, and be more efficient for multiple users on a single network...

Autonomous Planning in Food Retail
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Autonomous Planning in Food Retail

Advanced Planning using machine learning techniques are suggested for procurement.   We always had advanced planning, its just how well you could integrate it with...

Building Knowledge Graphs
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Building Knowledge Graphs

Have been looking at means of continuously and coherently connecting company data sources to analytical and AI methods.    Most recently have looked at the idea...

Verizon says 5G Will be Available Everywhere Mobile is
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Verizon says 5G Will be Available Everywhere Mobile is

Not fully understanding this.  I assume your hardware will have to deal with it, and recent announcements by major players have not mentioned it.    Implications...

Certainty is Unusual
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Certainty is Unusual

Jason Brownlee does his usual good job of explaining important concepts.   Here largely non technical.  And this is perhaps the most important.  Often the hardest...

Cooperation is Central Issue of Our Time
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Cooperation is Central Issue of Our Time

It really has been the central issue of all time. Its just now we have to cooperate with so many people/things.   Or at least have the opportunity to.   And weCOOPERATION...

Coaching with AI
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Coaching with AI

Late to noting this, but thought it was interesting.  How might this be more broadly delivered?2019 U.S. Open gets new 'coach' with IBM's A.I. technology   in Yahoo...

Generating Text for All
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Generating Text for All

Should we delight or be worried?The world’s most freakishly realistic text-generating A.I. just got gamified  By Luke Dormehl  in DigitalTrendsWhat would an adventure...

Hardening Encryption for Quantum Computing
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Hardening Encryption for Quantum Computing

Our own early look at QC aimed at very highly combinatorial problems, and some believe this will also provide methods to break encryption.     Now there are efforts...

Improvements for Future Voice Assistants
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Improvements for Future Voice Assistants

Survey of future improvements that could be useful.  Not complete or specific to voice assistants.   But useful thoughts.5 ways that future A.I. assistants will...

Facebook Proposes Building Assistant with Minecraft
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Facebook Proposes Building Assistant with Minecraft

The idea seemed a bit odd at first, but the idea brings together ideas used in agent modeling, where you build a simulation that has agents interact with otherFacebook...

Defining Zero Knowledge Proofs
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Defining Zero Knowledge Proofs

Relatively short, definitional and largely non technical definition of zero-knowledge proofs.  Previously covered here, and under examination.  Useful for any kind...

Stronger Cryptowallet Proposed
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Stronger Cryptowallet Proposed

Recent incidents have shown that the wallet can be a key area of insecurity.Researchers Invent Cryptocurrency Wallet That Eliminates 'Entire Classes' of Vulnerabilities...
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