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Amazon's Ad Business Booming
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Amazon's Ad Business Booming

This completely surprised me, from CNBC. What does it mean for other Amazon Channels? Much more stats in the article." ... Amazon's ad business is booming. Some...

Cisco Joins Blockchain Alliances
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Cisco Joins Blockchain Alliances

In a further indication of their seriousness in the space, Cisco has joined more BlockChain alliances.  Ecosystems are key and that is what Cisco is about.  They...

Facebook Hatches a Portal
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Facebook Hatches a Portal

Not so much an assistant, but multi person video chat.  Still an incomplete idea, the revue says, but with hints it can be enhanced from the hardware.   No attempts...

Linkedin Adds Glint
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Linkedin Adds Glint

Nice to see additions added to the capabilities of Linkedin.   Have long thought there were lots of useful enterprise resources that could leveraged by the quantity...

Whats an Inspector General?
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Whats an Inspector General?

My college roommate writes.Who you gonna call? Inspectors General.  By John F. Sopko in The Hill In 1984, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd popularized that line – “Who...

Startups aim to Disrupt Consumer goods
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Startups aim to Disrupt Consumer goods

Startups shook up the sleepy razor market. What’s next?  NEW YORK (AP) — What do you hate shopping for? Toothpaste? Sunscreen? The guys who founded Harry’s shaving...

Escorting Customers Through Buying Journeys
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Escorting Customers Through Buying Journeys

Like the term 'escorting' here, the details of this view at the link.   More common for complex decisions.Escorting Your Customers Through the Buying JourneyBen...

Amazon Brand Registry
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Amazon Brand Registry

Saw that Amazon was pushing this concept lately.  Also that my former employer, P&G is a participant.  What other kind of information patterns can be derived from...

Dynamic Programming Methods
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Dynamic Programming Methods

Below was given earlier this week, Patrick Madden is developing an APP to analyze problems so you can determine what methods will work well.  Below the fold are...

Splunk Used by Carnival Cruise
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Splunk Used by Carnival Cruise

Been a while since I have looked at Splunk.  But here now, emphasizing data democratization:Carnival gets data into all hands on deck with Splunk  By R. Danes in...

Rethink Robotics Shuts Down
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Rethink Robotics Shuts Down

We followed this effort for some time,  notably the Baxter robot, but it may well depend on how you define collaborative robotics.  Where does the task begin and...

Quantum Computing Workplace
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Quantum Computing Workplace

Technology continues to generate new jobs. The prime question remains application to real world problems. No doubt that such systems are being built.  A bit like...

Alchemy.Codes for eCommerce Experience
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Alchemy.Codes for eCommerce Experience

Brought to my attention.  Via Procter & Gamble   Alchemy.codes  Much more at the link.  Note the mention of the Olay Skin Advisor, which I have written about here...

Amazon Alexa Redesigns App, Interface
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Amazon Alexa Redesigns App, Interface

Good idea, the former design, which we used to implement our smart home,  was confusing.  We will be using the redesign to update a more multi room interaction....

Manipulating P Values
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Manipulating P Values

More from Vincent Granville in DSC on P-Values and their misuse.  I recall the repeating experiments as a trick in an early statistical analysis course.  perhaps...

Defining Cyber Battlespace
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Defining Cyber Battlespace

Interesting view.    Also to the extent it can be integrated with some measure, and prediction of risk.    Classic approaches for risk analysis calculates likely...

Honda Smart Intersection View
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Honda Smart Intersection View

Clever, we are starting to see better collaboration between people and machines.  Here a good example.  Will kind of car augmentation delay complete self-driving...

Roles Driving AI Projects
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Roles Driving AI Projects

In Forbes, this follows on some of my breadth points. Think of any technical roles being able to either be one of ...  these roles or influence them.Top 3 Roles...

Rethinking Sales and Marketing
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Rethinking Sales and Marketing

Have always been interested in how resources are delivered, and a big part of that is how the resources are organized and classified for useful application. Rethinking...

Difficulties in Commonsense Reasoning
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Difficulties in Commonsense Reasoning

Abstract of good overview survey paper.Commonsense Reasoning and Commonsense Knowledge in Artificial IntelligenceBy Ernest Davis, Gary MarcusCommunications of the...
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