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Intelligent Quantum Machines?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intelligent Quantum Machines?

We studied the perceptron neural model mentioned in this piece.  An early first look at how biological neurons might be built in computers.  Now an indication that...

Tari: Imagining the Future of Digital Assets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tari: Imagining the Future of Digital Assets

Been looking at the management of digital assets, the podcast below is a good introduction  The approach is still in development. I like the idea of using rules...

Conversting Wifi to Electricity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Conversting Wifi to Electricity

Converting Wi-Fi signals to electricity with new 2-D materialsDevice made from flexible, inexpensive materials could power large-area electronics, wearables, medical...

Laser Created Audio by MIT
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Laser Created Audio by MIT

Cures for deafness, secret communications?  The future for audiophiles?deliver secret messages directly to your ears   By Luke Dormehl —  in DigitaltrendWhat’s“We...

Data Preprocessing with NVIDIA Dali
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Preprocessing with NVIDIA Dali

Came across DALI in the NVIDIA developers blog.    Nice idea, below is the intro, much more tech detail at the link, with coding usage examples.  As in all data...

Alibaba Future Hotel
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alibaba Future Hotel

Somewhat unusual player in the hotel space. But will help test other AI related interactions.  Note recent indications that players in the hospitality space have...

State of AI  as Technology in 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle

State of AI as Technology in 2019

What looks to be a very good piece is starting in TheVerge.  As a practitioner of analytics, business AI and Consumer augmentation,   all with claims of intelligence...

Japan Hacks its own Population to Promote Security
From The Eponymous Pickle

Japan Hacks its own Population to Promote Security

In preparation for olympics to promote security.  Or will it just guide black hats to the best places to go?  Japan plans to hack into millions of its citizens’...

New Retail is Here
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Retail is Here

Good piece in Forrester on Retail in China that sums up and charts progress in ChinaFuture of Retail is Here   Xiaofeng Wang, Senior Analyst  ForresterThe future...

What exactly is Artificial Intelligence?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What exactly is Artificial Intelligence?

I believe I mentioned this piece before, but worth pointing to again.What Exactly is Artificial Intelligence and Why is it Driving me CrazyPosted by William Vorhies...

Cable Cutting Skill
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cable Cutting Skill

Direct competition between companies using skills that include AI?   Interesting, but can this lead to some legal embattlement?DirecTV encourages cable cutting ...

IBM and VMWare
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM and VMWare

Hybrid clouds.Also see IBMs info on this:    https://www.ibm.com/cloud/vmwareA question I would ask:  How does Watson assistant link to this for a company?  What...

Ops 4.0 Continuous Improvement Cycle
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Ops 4.0 Continuous Improvement Cycle

Transformation that does not stop, and has to react to fast  changing context of many types.In McKinsey: Ops 4.0 helps businesses understand their greatest challenges...

Efficiency of Urban Farming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Efficiency of Urban Farming

A topic of my interest, still followingUrban farms could be incredibly efficient—but aren’t yetCasual farmers overwork, buy fertilizer, and use municipal water....

Scale Free Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Scale Free Networks

Technical but interesting view here, we examined and experimented with the SantaFe Institute about using consumer networks to market and advertise,  To some success...

Modern Elders in a Multi-Generational Workforce
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Modern Elders in a Multi-Generational Workforce

Am one myself.   Also a kind of diversity, but hardly emphasized these days.    Here a podcast and transcript on the topic of inter-generational workforces andWisdom...

Japans Rush to Consumer Cryptocurrency
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Japans Rush to Consumer Cryptocurrency

A serious step forward, heading towards the olympics.  Premature?Will People Ditch Cash for Cryptocurrency? Japan Is About to Find Out Technology Review by Mike...

Seeing Around the Corner
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Seeing Around the Corner

More examples of seeing normally hidden objects.Program Allows Ordinary Digital Camera to See Round Corners The Guardian   by Ian SampleBoston University researchers...

Ensemble Models for Deep Learning
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Ensemble Models for Deep Learning

Ensemble models are now commonly used in all sorts of analytics.  You use the results of multiple models and combine the results.  Jason Brownlee shows how this...

Customer Experience Metrics
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Customer Experience Metrics

Good metrics matter.    A good recent survey.Does it matter which customer experience metric you choose?   By Alyona Medelyan in CustomerThinkAre you responsible...
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