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Observations on the Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

Observations on the Blog

It was observed to me that this blog is observational rather than original, and that is true.  Most posts in its long (18K posts and 2 million reads)  history quote...

Medium Impacts Message
From The Eponymous Pickle

Medium Impacts Message

Another example of where context of data creation matters.  Podcast and transcript.  Implications for interpretation of language use.User-generated Content: The...

Advances for Google Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advances for Google Assistant

Had been hearing less about what was advancing in Assistant lately.   Formerly was impressed by their multiple primary language approach, which I now frequently...

Writing Computer Code by Voice
From The Eponymous Pickle

Writing Computer Code by Voice

Would have thought this would be very difficult to do, given the required syntactic accuracy required for coding.   So a fascinating case study and demonstration...

Operations and Predictive Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Operations and Predictive Analytics

Useful to think about operations.   Prediction implies we can adjust operations within a process based on future predictions.   Risk also come forward because of...

Discovering the Smart Home
From The Eponymous Pickle

Discovering the Smart Home

Interesting thoughts here.   We are discovering.   After reading this I scanned my Alexa app and there were twenty of so 'smart' things.   There were about half...

Self Reporting Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Self Reporting Data

Have been involved in several projects where this considerably effected the accuracy of results of the model constructed.   Personal data is often misreported. ...

Qualitities of Effective Bots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Qualitities of Effective Bots

Nicely done, list at the link is a good start when considering a Chatbot option for customer service.Few important qualities of highly effective bots     By Juned...

Analytics at the Edge
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics at the Edge

Some introduction thoughts.  Analytics (Or AI) should have as an option the ability to execute close to the edge (the delivery point) of its implementation.   This...

Voice Tech Drives Faster Smart Home Adoption
From The Eponymous Pickle

Voice Tech Drives Faster Smart Home Adoption

Clearly the case, with some motivation and stats: Voice Technology Is The Key To Faster Smart Home Adoption By Meenakshi Tiwari, Forecast Analyst in ForresterSmart...

Alexa Works Better with Windows 10
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Works Better with Windows 10

Indications that Windows is increasing it cooperation with Alexa in latest adjustments to make the Windows 10 PC work like a voice activated speaker.  Note this...

Implementing Guidelines for AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Implementing Guidelines for AI

Good thoughts by fellow CACM blogger Ryan Carrier, with links to lots of practical things underway. Implementing Guidelines for Governance, Oversight of AI, and...

How Bots Fit in the AR/VR Space
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Bots Fit in the AR/VR Space

Finally got to see this talk, given late last year:How Bots Fit in the AR/VR Space  By Anamita Guha   Slides     TalkLead Product Manager, IBM Watson Developeranamita...

Tensorflow 2.0
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tensorflow 2.0

Introduction to the announcement, not too technical.Now TensorFlow 2.0 and its high-level APIs (via TF Dev Summit '19)With TensorFlow 2.0, we are consolidatingSee...

Commercial Drones Very Popular
From The Eponymous Pickle

Commercial Drones Very Popular

Very popular, you see their evidence everywhere.  How soon will the sky fill up?  Some statistics.Commercial drones are way more popular than the FAA expectedExpected...

ONNX: Open Neural Network Exchange Format
From The Eponymous Pickle

ONNX: Open Neural Network Exchange Format

I was just exposed to this.   I will post an introductory presentation on this here when it shortly becomes available.   Great idea.   Their site has lots more:...

Linear Algebra for Large-Scale Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linear Algebra for Large-Scale Machine Learning

Technical paper on machine learning and linear algebra.  Looks to have considerable promise for faster training and retraining systems by using compression techniques...

Fast.ai Students Show Us How to De-Crapify
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fast.ai Students Show Us How to De-Crapify

Some very intriguing image and video filtering and improvement results, with lots of images and audio.   Join their newsletter.From  Fast.AIDeep learning is transforming...

Conversational AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Conversational AI

Conversation is the ultimate kind of collaboration.  It establishes, augments, supports and delivers intelligence.The Impact and Ethics of Conversational Artificial...

Examples of AI Adoption
From The Eponymous Pickle

Examples of AI Adoption

Nice thoughts on this.Three surveys of AI adoption reveal key advice from more mature practices in O'ReillyAn overview of emerging trends, known hurdles, and best...
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