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E-Ink New Digital Paper
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E-Ink New Digital Paper

We worked with e-ink for a time in the lab.E Ink’s new digital paper lets you draw with almost no lag in Thenextweb.Almost like the real thing.The hypotheticalJustWrite...

E-Skin Functions as Bionic Compass
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E-Skin Functions as Bionic Compass

New idea, with details at the link:E-Skin Functions as a Bionic Compass in IdeaConnectionAn electronic skin able to detect motion relative to the Earth’s magnetic...

Amazon Opens it Internal Machine Learning to All for Free
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Amazon Opens it Internal Machine Learning to All for Free

Nice, especially with regards to how machine learning links to its own devices.  I am noting Amazon Comprehend.Amazon Opens Its Internal Machine Learning Courses...

Extracting Information from Unstructured Medical Text
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Extracting Information from Unstructured Medical Text

Announced at Amazon Invent this week.  This was just pointed out to me.  (Via Walter Riker)  I had heard of this being used in conjunction with assistant styleAmazon...

Smart Contracts for Supply Chains
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Smart Contracts for Supply Chains

Still some details about exactly how.    But no doubt there will be applications using this ongoing.  Be ready for it. Smart Contracts: Has Blockchain's Killer ...

Decision Trees with Python
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Decision Trees with Python

With a full conceptual implementation in Python:A breath of fresh air with Decision Trees in MediumA very versatile decision support tool, capable of fitting complex...

Berners-Lee Solid Project
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Berners-Lee Solid Project

More on Berners-Lee's SOlid Project, aimed to save the Web.  Informative.  Un-wall the gardens?  Better privacy and identity?   Too late?Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid...

A Toy Car for Reinforcement Learning
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A Toy Car for Reinforcement Learning

Amazon shows come clever ways to demonstrate development for Reinforcement learning.  Toys, carefully designed and implemented can be an innovative easy to learn...

AI and the Barrier of Meaning: Human level AI?
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AI and the Barrier of Meaning: Human level AI?

Excerpt from NYT Op Ed, Good thoughts.  Human level AI is the intelligence of context.Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of MeaningMachine learning algorithms...

AI Disrupting Job Markets
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AI Disrupting Job Markets

Jobs and AI.  Voices in AI – Episode 74: A Conversation with Dr. Kai-Fu Lee   By Byron Reese in GigaOMAbout this EpisodeEpisode 74 of Voices in AI features host...

Target: Its About the Data
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Target: Its About the Data

Useful view of how Target has addressed Online dataOn Target: Rethinking the Retail Website  In HBS Working Data  Target is one big-brand retailer that seems to...

Amazon Debuts Inferentia Chip
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Amazon Debuts Inferentia Chip

Amazon loads up the AWS cloud with Chips for prediction for machine learning.Amazon debuts Inferentia, a custom machine learning prediction chip  in SiliconAngle...

New Way to Think About Cooling With Shade
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New Way to Think About Cooling With Shade

Clever idea.  With images.A new way to provide cooling without powerDevice developed at MIT could provide refrigeration for off-grid locations.David L. Chandler...

Analytics Solutions  for Monitoring Conduct Risk
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Analytics Solutions for Monitoring Conduct Risk

Risk should be considered in any kind of decision process.  Even seemingly very simple decisions can have high risk.  So, this means they are not simple decisions...

Adjusting the Level of Goals
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Adjusting the Level of Goals

Goals make  me think of specific numerically defined measures, so if we measure a goal, which this piece suggests we can, can we use optimization techniques, and...

ACM Tech Talk: From Media to Meaning: Classic Machine Learning
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ACM Tech Talk: From Media to Meaning: Classic Machine Learning

Good piece.   With frightening implications of the combination surveillance, neural methods,  and the use of high speed video generation to fake anything we want...

The Evolution of Machine Learning
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The Evolution of Machine Learning

Abstract of a good paper, describes well the reasons neural network methods evolved from our early uses in the 90s to the current day.  Would not have guessed its...

Bitcoin for Real World Payments Drops 80%
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Bitcoin for Real World Payments Drops 80%

Ultimately Bitcoin has to be usable for real-life exchange.  Its use there has dropped considerably.   More evidence towards a cryptocurrency winter.  At leastBitcoin...

Cryptocurrency Winter Upon Us?  Blockchain  Still Rising
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Cryptocurrency Winter Upon Us? Blockchain Still Rising

Once again,  I am promoting MIT Tech Reviews Chain newsletter.   Lots of useful introductory links in their newsletter link below.   I won't do this forever, suggest...

Wal-Mart has a Toy Lab
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Wal-Mart has a Toy Lab

In a completely different domain, we asked the same question:  How can we get consumers to feel they are very involved with us,  are our special customer?   Special...
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