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Where is Cortana Going?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Where is Cortana Going?

Long time follower of the concept of an 'assistant'.   Have played with Cortana in a number of forms.  TheVerge does a good update below on where it is and they...

Business Models for IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Models for IOT

A general kind of thought.   But there are specific ideas by type of technology which are useful to think about.The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here...

GM Delays Self Driving Car
From The Eponymous Pickle

GM Delays Self Driving Car

Now have been asked this question a number of times:  When?GM won't deliver self-driving cars by the end of the year after allIts self-driving car subsidiary Cruise...

How Much Data do we Generate?
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Much Data do we Generate?

Usually not a fan of infographics, but this one makes the case well, click through for it.  Sounds good, but experience tells me its still not that all the data...

Hybrid Google Cloud and Blockchain Smart Contract Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hybrid Google Cloud and Blockchain Smart Contract Apps

In the Google Cloud Blog, they suggest we can create cloud-Blockchain hybrids, and integrate them with smart contracts. Want to see some real life examples of this...

Technology of Choice and Defining Selections
From The Eponymous Pickle

Technology of Choice and Defining Selections

Though I have never worked in the apparel space.  I have worked in spaces where consumers make many choices in context, and companies aim to insert new choicesStitch...

Ecology of Machine Intelligence.   When?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ecology of Machine Intelligence. When?

Classic question, when will machines have our general intelligence?  What will this coexistence then look like?   And what is the resulting 'Ecology'?    In the...

Known UnKnowns: Uncertainty in AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Known UnKnowns: Uncertainty in AI

Ultimately is always an issue.  Consider it early.  Test it often.Known Unknowns: Designing Uncertainty Into the AI-Powered Systemfrom ODSC - Open Data ScienceUncertainty...

Explaining Simplistic Forecasts to Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Explaining Simplistic Forecasts to Management

Recall this kind of thing coming up many times.   We addressed it by installing a clickable pop up to anticipate the question and make the case for the forecast...

Component Identification, Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Component Identification, Learning

Quite interesting project.  A way to further connect data to parts and then wholes?    A kind of basic semantic representation?     Can think of a number of ways...

Dialogue Mapping Talk
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dialogue Mapping Talk

Will be attending.CSIG (Cognitive Systems Institute Group) Talk - July 25, 2019 -10:30-11am US Eastern   Talk Title: Dialogue Mapping with IBIS for More Productive...

On Innovation Labs
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Innovation Labs

We had multiple major innovation labs. I helped design and implement and run them.   Have lots of opinions about them.  Agree to what is stated below, and moreWhy...

Clothing Brand uses IOTA Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Clothing Brand uses IOTA Blockchain

IOTA, which does a novel kind of blockchain consensus model, using a directed acyclic graph (DAG).  Have been following it for a while for its potential in smart...

AI Drug Hunting for Phama
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Drug Hunting for Phama

Note the mention of simulations as a means of determining the effectiveness of prospective drugs.AI Drug Hunters Could Give Big Pharma a Run for Its Money Bloomberg...

Machine Learning vs AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning vs AI

Good set of examples for Marketing and related terminology  ....The Difference Between AI and Machine Learning and How Marketers Use Them to Increase ROI  by Alain...

Secure Cloud Architecture for Smart Cities
From The Eponymous Pickle

Secure Cloud Architecture for Smart Cities

Having seen how municipalities are being attacked by malware, this is becoming essential.A Secure Cloud Architecture for Smart CitiesGovernment Computer NewsStephanie...

Wal-Mart Integrates Online and In-Store Teams
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Integrates Online and In-Store Teams

The direction of Wharton here seems to be first a kind of re-training, and also a means of understanding customers in multiple contexts.    Should be powerful to...

Database Archive with Map Interface
From The Eponymous Pickle

Database Archive with Map Interface

Free spatio-temporal database archive.    The world map interface is interesting, you can play with the data on the map, then download data as needed.   You can...

Very Tiny, Vibration Powered Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Very Tiny, Vibration Powered Robotics

Power of the very small.Vibration-Powered Robots Are the Size of the World's Smallest Ant Georgia Tech Research HorizonsBy John ToonResearchers at the Georgia Institute...

Papers and Diaper Tech War: Smart Diapers?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Papers and Diaper Tech War: Smart Diapers?

Have not seen a play in this area for some time,  early on Apps popped up.  Is this appealing to parents making a diaper choice?  Baby tech: Pampers to deliverby...
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