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Retail and AI
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Retail and AI

Thoughts from NRF.    How technologies of many kind will improve shopping.Tech lets shoppers say ‘Optimize Me’ when ordering groceries   by Al McClain in Retailwire...

Predicting What you Will Say
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predicting What you Will Say

A kind of prediction classification assumption.      What exactly you will say, or rather how what you will say is readily classifiable as well?  Implications in...

Survey of the Use of Face Recognition in Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Survey of the Use of Face Recognition in Business

Despite the issues, its in use and expanding, it is inevitable globally, net it will protect everyone, expect more.  Here an outline of uses.The most exciting facial...

AWS Challenges the Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

AWS Challenges the Blockchain

See Amazon's writeup on their QLDB (Quantum Ledger Database) .   Do note that their approach has nothing to do with Quantum computing.  A bad choice of name which...

The Electronic Pill
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Electronic Pill

Not a new idea,  was presented to us in the 80s.   Advanced monitoring takes this further.Electronic Pill Slowly Delivers Drugs, Monitors Health    by Kenny Walter...

Reverse Deep Learning Engineering in Pharma
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reverse Deep Learning Engineering in Pharma

If workable, quite a coup.  Its back to the idea that it is all patterns.A.I. finds non-infringing ways to copy drugs pharma spends billions developing  By Luke...

Can a Neural Net Catch a Virus?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Can a Neural Net Catch a Virus?

The question struck me,  so follow the link below for more.  Yes, in one general sense, but probably not in the way they are being used today.  Good basically non...

Nike Store of the Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nike Store of the Future

Good example of in store retail experimentation.Inside Nike's Store of the FutureBloomberg   By Eben Novy-Williams in BloombergNike has opened a new flagship store...

Holoforge for Historical Experience
From The Eponymous Pickle

Holoforge for Historical Experience

Saw a number of examples early on of using VR to effectively show historical data,  good example for use, for both teaching and for interacting with complex data...

Cortana as a Skill in other Assistants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cortana as a Skill in other Assistants

Good, as opposed to having assistants competing,  have them work together by addressing particular contexts.   Not Sure how this will work with Cortana exactly,...

Democratizing AI in Health Care
From The Eponymous Pickle

Democratizing AI in Health Care

Perhaps surprising because of the particularly technical aspect of healthcare data.   Interpretation of results are also most important.Democratizing artificial...

Design Tips for Modelers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Design Tips for Modelers

Nice thoughts.   I am not a design modeler, but can these also be applied to other forms of modeling?   I often think of 'Sketching' as the first step of design...

ISSIP Newsletter, January 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle

ISSIP Newsletter, January 2019

At the link is lots of detailed information, past presentation details and future schedule, challenges,  research details, etc. Join us.International Society of...

AI Changing Music Industry
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Changing Music Industry

Better ways to re-use, enhance, even creatively construct to goals.   Sounds like a method we could use on data assets to improve their value.How AI Is Changing...

Communications Between People and Smart Buildings
From The Eponymous Pickle

Communications Between People and Smart Buildings

Every interaction between people and machines is a conversation.   And we are starting to be able to sculpt that conversation in ways that it can be most efficient...

Hotel Loses Love for Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hotel Loses Love for Robots

Followed this early on,   but missed on a potential for an early visit.   They seem to now be working on what makes more practical sense.   Was set up in 2015 near...

Towards Democratizing Data Science
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Towards Democratizing Data Science

Nice thought, though I wonder how the use/presentation of the results can spin the outcome.  Note the use of Bayesian methods, which we also used extensively to...

Rolling Driverless Convenience Stores
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Rolling Driverless Convenience Stores

Look forward to seeing something like this. Stop & Shop to Test Driverless Mobile Markets  in ThePackerStop & Shop customers in the Boston area will be able to...

Kroger CEO Makes Predictions for Retail's Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger CEO Makes Predictions for Retail's Future

Kroger wants to closely follow the technical future of retail.Kroger CEO makes predictions for retail's future  in FoodnavigatorThe retail of the future will look...

Microsoft on How AI can Transform Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft on How AI can Transform Business

Click through to interact.   Always thinking about how businesses can usefully interact with assistance in doing their work.   AI can be a part, but also things...
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