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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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Replication Crisis in Science
Following this for some time. Reproducing results is often context dependent. It is a serious problem, especially in the social sciences, but elsewhere too...
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How do the Great Winemakers Sell?
Intriguing view of selling. Works if you already have the established brand equity: real, bought or imagined.Should You Ignore What Your Customers Want? The Great...
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Great Finishes
Simple point, made well. From Queue ACM.The Importance of a Great FinishYou have to finish strong, every time.By Kate MatsudairaHave you ever felt super excited...
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Speak, Spell, Language Training?
An instructive article in Penn Language Lab on the 'Speak and Spell' toy reminded me of using as it model for training. Could still see this as possible. "...
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eBay Sponsoring Retail Revival
Seems tough direction to compete, small retailers will still look for the volume of traffic at Amazon. See the article for more detail. We visited eBay some...
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A Holographic Car Assistant
In Indiegogo. A Future of car assistants?EyeDrive: All New Holographic Car Assistant.Display navigation, music & calls on your windshield. Control them usingDesigned...
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Advanced Surveillance at Parkland
Accuracy and invasiveness are being questioned. Back to the transparency of algorithms involved.Parkland School Turns to Experimental Surveillance Software That...
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Baidu Launches Blockchain with Smart Contracts
Quite intriguing notion of what this is, and the method by which it reaches consensus. The Smart Contract or DDE (decentralized application) would appear to be...
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JP Morgan Declares a Cryptocurrency?
In what seemed like a considerable endorsement, of the kind that puts your money where your hype may be, JP Morgan yesterday declared it was setting up to test...
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Knowledge Graphs and Governance Webinar
Will be attending. Ultimately a crucial next step for AI and integration of Semantic data with enterprise data and metadata.From TopQuadrant:Join us for a webinar...
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Edge AI
Being able to process AI functions on the 'Edge', will make it increasingly useful and visible. Some details about the challenge.Exploring Artificial Intelligence...
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Resolution Limits for Image Analysis
Brought to my attention for a particular healthcare application. Technical. Comments? Resolution limit of image analysis algorithmsBy Edward A. K. Cohen, Anish...
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Interpreter Mode on Google Home
Have now been using bilingual mode on a Google Home for some time. It works well, even picks up many expressions on the edge of slang. Now I see in the following...
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Blockchains From a Distributed Computing Perspective
The underlying idea of blockchains is not new, and this paper makes the point. An introduction to those who want to understand its relationship to other forms...
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Being Recognized Everywhere
Good piece about this Another example of the implications of the inevitable. Voice, not as often mentioned is also a dimension of this.Being Recognized Everywhere...
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Vuzix Smart Glasses Again
Been intriqued by this, mentioned it several times, for a couple of years now, especially how it claims to eventually integrate with assistant systems like Alexa...
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Doing Pre Data Science
Nicely put piece, that I have passed it along before to others, worth considering again. Especially good as it includes the business parts more explicitly than...
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Kroger Pay Launching
Seems like a very late launch, Kroger is linking its loyalty card with smartphone based systems. Starting in Columbus Ohio. From the Kroger company:Kroger Pay...
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Bring them Back to the Store?
More players in the space.Retail Technology Aims to Bring Customers Back to the Store United Press InternationalBy Nicholas Sakelaris in UPITwo startups, Pensa...
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