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Reducing Quantum Noise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reducing Quantum Noise

Worked with folks at Argonne, impressive group.   Regarding using simulations or agent process forimproved understanding.  Data lost to noise is an interestingArgonne...

Conversations in Assistants with Mood
From The Eponymous Pickle

Conversations in Assistants with Mood

Interesting points are made.  Though the analysis of mood from text is fairly straightforward, wondering if there are liabilities once one classifies mood in real...

AI and Customer Experience
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Customer Experience

Now involved with a couple of projects in this space.    In the past we discovered the concept fit well to customer solutions,  but the contextual details are complex...

Defining Customer Journies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Defining Customer Journies

This reminds me of the similar issue to defining business process.   Its a good idea to be in agreement with others doing the same thing kind of analysis in your...

Google Plus is Going and Soon will be Gone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Plus is Going and Soon will be Gone

You will note that the G+ option for forwarding these posts is gone.  I did not do this, Google did,  and it is completely removing the system called Google Plus...

Who is a Citizen Data Scientist?
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Who is a Citizen Data Scientist?

When I saw the term at first, I wondered too.  In part part because of the 'scientist' part.    Does this assume the particular 'method' we know, or does it just...

Thoughts about Validity of Trends
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Thoughts about Validity of Trends

Or at least how we might contextually define a 'trend'.  Usually a descriptive measure.Five questions to find the truth in a trend     by Mark P. McDonald   in ...

Strategic Roadmap for Using Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Strategic Roadmap for Using Blockchain

Good piece.   Podcast and transcript which introduces a reasonable approach to assessing and implementing this over-hyped emergent technology. Using Blockchain:...

Google Open Sources ClusterFuzz
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Google Open Sources ClusterFuzz

Interesting example of automating certain kinds of testing,  always useful idea to automate repetitive operations that need to be complete.Google Open Source Blog...

Helping Alexa Assistant to Learn
From The Eponymous Pickle

Helping Alexa Assistant to Learn

Fascinating piece in the Alexa Dev blog on memory measures for Alexa Assistant, am examining.  See the full technical paper linked to below.  LengthyHow Alexa May...

Who Will Win the SmartHome Wars?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Who Will Win the SmartHome Wars?

Have now been using and testing both the Amazon and Google home ecosystems in the Smart Home since their inception.  As a user, designer  and developer.   And before...

IBM Predicts Power Disruptions
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Predicts Power Disruptions

Intriguing application, one that is using data from IBM's acquisition.     Not much detail here, except for Watson and Weather data.    Will edit in later findings...

Blockchain Online Encyclopedia
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Blockchain Online Encyclopedia

Been a long time follower of online knowledge.   Early on we used the Wikipedia as an architectural model for internal wikis, and also as a concept for contextual...

Backpropagation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Backpropagation

Continuing the advanced tech theme this morning.  .. In the early days you had to code your own backpropagation, now you don't.   Still good to know what is going...

Combining CNN and RNNs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Combining CNN and RNNs

Made me think .... Technical.Combining CNNs and RNNs – Crazy or Genius?   by William Vorhies  Summary: There are some interesting use cases where combining CNNs...

JP Morgan's AI Initiatives
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JP Morgan's AI Initiatives

A Podcast and transcript. Useful case study. in Knowledge@Wharton Apoorv Saxena, global head of AI and machine-learning services for JPMorgan Chase, discusses the...

Experiments with Quantum Computers
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Experiments with Quantum Computers

Technical piece.  We are starting to tease out how we might utilize quantum effects in computers.    We saw some examples we might use in combinatorial analytic...

Amazon Vine Trades Free product for Data
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Amazon Vine Trades Free product for Data

Link contains pointers to other articles mentioned.   I would think that Vine will provide a good platform, especially for new and novel products.  And result in...

UpComing Webinar on Knowledge Graphs
From The Eponymous Pickle

UpComing Webinar on Knowledge Graphs

Its important to link knowledge with other forms of semantic databases.   As we use these methods they become easier to link and maintain to AI style applications...

Nuance Project Pathfinder
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nuance Project Pathfinder

Back to still the biggest problem for assistant AI.   How do we create and manage context rich, memory enabled conversations between people and machines?  HereNuance's...
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