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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Supercomputers + Graphic Processing for Parameter Simulation
Another example of the use of simulation, and much faster computing to check proposed solutions. We used just such methods in the enterprise, though well before...
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IBM Gives Cancer AI to Open Source
Like the potential of clearly beneficial approaches being shared this way. What outcomes have come out of this work to date?IBM Gives Cancer-Killing Drug AIZDNet...
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Robotic Lenses
In New Scientist, complete article requires subscription:A robotic lens can be controlled by simply looking around or blinking By Leah CraneBlink twice to zoom...
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On the Further Emergence of the Very Small
Good piece on the emergence fo the very small devices aimed at tasks for many purposes.Micro machines: How the next big thing in robotics is actually quite small...
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Defining, Measuring Cleanliness
Worked early on in grocery.How do consumers define cleanliness in grocery stores? by Tom Ryan in RetailwireCleanliness in grocery stores means much more than “clean...
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Sensor Based Skin for Prosthetic Touch
New advances in touch. We experimented with devices on the shelf to let consumers touch-engage with a product. So this might be a way to quantitatively test...
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Integrating Machine Learning and Graph Algorithms
Just attended the Neo4j webinar for Improving Machine Learning Predictions Using Graph Algorithms. Nicely informative. Click below to watch a recording of the...
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Regulations Needed for Digital Ledgers
Regulations for Blockchain systems and contractsColumbia DataScience (@DSI_Columbia)How is blockchain technology affecting the securities market and what regulations...
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Smart Assistive Driving Tech Allows Control of Multiple Trucks
New look at how to make supply chains more efficient.EMERGING TECHSmart assistive driving tech allows one truck driver to control multiple trucks By Luke Dormehl...
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Powering Drones for Days with Ultralight Photovoltaics
Something like this might fill the skies. The efficiency increase seems small, but perhaps is key to the task at hand.Drones will fly for days with new photovoltaic...
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Google Gives Out 100K Google Minis to the Paralyzed
Google is giving out free devices for the paralyzed. Great effort and also a way to illustrate the particular value of assistants for paralytics and other related...
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Captioning Audible Books
The idea below is a kind of captioning of audio from a a book being read to you. Gives you two streams, audio and visual, for a given book. I would find this...
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Gut vs Brain
Perhaps a radical view, but things other than out brain do think for us, should we use them as models for intelligence as well?Questioning the Cranial ParadigmA...
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Google Assistant Rolls Out in Waze
Continued better integration of Google methods within their Assistant.The Google Assistant is now available in WazeAustin ChangDirector, Google AssistantThink about...
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Odds vs Probability
Good thought, since I am from an engineering background, I hear probability rather than odds.Are you mixing up odds with probability? in TowardDataScienceOddsKeith...
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Pricing Smart Products
Towards business models of smart products.5 Questions to Consider When Pricing Smart ProductsNicolaj Siggelkow, Christian Terwiesch in HBRImagine you are the CEO...
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Alexa Introduces third Startup Class
Interesting list of developers follows:Amazon’s Alexa Accelerator introduces its third startup class By Kyle WiggersA year to the day after Amazon revealed the...
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Alexa Prize Primary Tools
Sciences used in the Socialbot Grand Challenge.AI Tools Let Alexa Prize Participants Focus on Science By Anu VenkateshMarch 4 marks the kickoff of the third Alexa...
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Hierarchical Clustering Example
Here a good technical, but readily understandable, example of hierarchical clustering. With Code. We used similar methods in the enterprise, but not for crime...
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