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Seeking Better Alerting
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeking Better Alerting

Seems an obvious thing, but the use of alerts has come up in recent interactions as being key to getting things done effectively.  How, How often and Followups....

Intelligence Cards
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intelligence Cards

Had not heard of the term in particular.  We repeat that Recorded Future has been acquired by Insight Partners.Recorded Future Has Over 1 Billion Intelligence Cards...

Permissioned vs Permissionless Blockchains
From The Eponymous Pickle

Permissioned vs Permissionless Blockchains

Was asked this question some time ago, and here a useful comparison  via the Netis Group.The difference between permissionless and permissioned networks  and the...

Microbots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microbots

Smaller and more of them to swarm to a problem.The Microbots Are on Their Way   By The New York TimesA researcher at the University of Pennsylvania has developed...

Healthcare Company Anthem Transforms Digitally
From The Eponymous Pickle

Healthcare Company Anthem Transforms Digitally

Heathcare application is about numbers, analytics,  resources,  ....  So it makes sense to tie it closely to technology for improvement.   Here an example from ...

Monitoring and Improving Process by Trusted Measuring and Adapting
From The Eponymous Pickle

Monitoring and Improving Process by Trusted Measuring and Adapting

Considerable article brought to my attention my Alex Renz. Connecting Distributed Ledgers and Operations Technology,  Ultimately my closest goal.  How do we improve...

What Do We do With AI?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Do We do With AI?

William Vorhies at DSC does a good job of addressing this,Now that We’ve Got AI What do We do with It?Posted by William Vorhies  Summary:  Whether you’re a data...

Managing Bad Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Managing Bad Data

Self correcting data is a good idea, but want to see some examples.   Its similar to removing outliers. It depends on the context and often metadata involved. Researchers...

Life Stories Can be Told to a Google Home
From The Eponymous Pickle

Life Stories Can be Told to a Google Home

A colleague and I talked this recently.  Everyone with a family has a history, can this effectively record them?How AI could be used to record our life storiesEveryone...

Robots and Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots and Work

Overstated, but good points are made.    No doubt we will have to adjust to how we work, and the face of that will be automated.For Lower-Paid Workers, the Robot...

New Senses from States
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Senses from States

The use of simple states would suggest we could do some interesting things here.  Spidey Senses’ Could Help Autonomous Machines See BetterPurdue University News...

Automated Trust?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Automated Trust?

From recent MIT conference.Enterprise level trustAt MIT Technology Review’s recent Blockchain conference, we explored the notion of automating trust of “assetsWatch...

Smart Gloves for Feeling Results
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Gloves for Feeling Results

The broad idea has been around for while, we tried it for tracking a manufacturing process to determine the 'feel' of output based on handling it.   A kind of test...

Public Decentralized Applications Not Broadly  Used
From The Eponymous Pickle

Public Decentralized Applications Not Broadly Used

The idea of a Dapp  (Distributed Application) is often included in the idea of 'smart contracts'.  The idea of inserting a Dapp into a blockchain is often mentioned...

Advances in Automated Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advances in Automated Machine Learning

Automated machine learning is inevitable.  How good will it be, and how much human oversight needs to be applied to ensure confidence in their results is important...

Wal-Mart IRL Store With Virtual Shelves in the Store
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart IRL Store With Virtual Shelves in the Store

This picture through the ACM in the Chicago Tribune.  Shows a scene in Wal-Mart's new smart store, called their IRL.Appears to be a virtual shelf placed on an end...

Healthcare Uses of AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Healthcare Uses of AI

Not sure I would call this 'Top' perhaps common uses of AI in healthcare.  Somewhat limited in scope.   Still some useful ideas to get people started in where the...

Small Racing Drone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Small Racing Drone

Always been interested by the possibilities of the very small drone.  Here aimed at racing, and not meant to swarm to tasks with other drones.  But notably fast...

AI Revolution has not arrived Yet?
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Revolution has not arrived Yet?

Late to this, but always new thoughts depending on the definition of the term and its goals.  Not if its general intelligence, but  if it is assistance or narrower...

Interview with Turing Award recipients on Neural Nets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Interview with Turing Award recipients on Neural Nets

We read some of the earliest work of Hinton and were inspired by the direction.   Also a lesson about hype and the lessons from the fringe of typical research.Reaching...
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