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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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What and Why are ARCH and GARCH?
When you do time series forecasting you almost always get changes in variance over time. Sometimes enough to invalidate your decisions and conclusions. We used...
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Seeking Stages of Smart
Great piece in DSC about 'creating smart'. What does it mean, anyway? To begin with we are doing lots of misusing of the term, since it includes intention and...
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LG Innovation in Appliances
Been a while since I monitored appliances, but their continued evolution as part of the smart home remains interesting. Quite a detailed piece with overview of...
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Podcast, Book: Applied Empathy
Empathy is always a good idea, with customers, clients and colleagues. But how is it best applied?Author Michael Ventura talks about his book, 'Applied Empathy...
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Sankey Diagrams, Generation and Code
I recently happened on a need and means to generate flow diagrams. A useful way to portray flow in systems. WP includes links to generators and coding examples...
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Quantum Simulation from D-Wave
Been watching D-Wave closely through advances and challenges, since their inception, here another advance, in particular linking to material science.D-Wave Demonstrates...
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Home Robots that Hug You
With some connections to other 'family' home robots, that claim to be family friendly. By taking it further to the tactile level. We examined work going in in...
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Tableau Announces Smarter Analytics
Report at the link. We were early users of their systems.Tableau Advances the Era of Smart AnalyticsA look at Tableau's intelligent data prep, discovery, recommendation...
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Looking at Sorting in Multiple Spaces in a New Way
I did much work in the area of sort algorithms, so this is interesting. Its not quite conveyed why this is useful. We do know how to sort very disparate data very...
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Jupyter and Data Driven Decision Making
Excerpts from JupyterCon, in O'Reilly.Jupyter is where humans and data science intersectDiscover how data-driven organizations are using Jupyter to analyze data...
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Organization as a Network of Conversations
Can better organized conversations create intelligence?Organization as a network of conversations.In MIT Sloan Review" ... In 2004, when Brad Mills became theMills...
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IOTA as Permissionless Distributed Ledger
Bought to my attention, examining: IOTA: A permissionless distributed ledger for a new economyAn Open-Source Distributed LedgerThe first open-source distributed...
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Process Automation at Anthem
I never liked the full term RPA (Robotic Process Automation) since it is not really about robots the way we mostly use the term 'Robot' today. So I am now using...
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Chatbots, Assistants and Beyond
Good thoughts, we need to think of the whole problem, not just answering simple questions. Autonomous implies knowing much about context and strategy and process...
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Auto Tune Model: Automating Machine Learning
Given the way such models are constructed, this is not unexpected. For some time humans will still be needed to guide the process. In particular to understand...
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July/August 2018 Analytics Magazine
PreviewLatest Informs Analytics Magazine July/August 2018Supply Chain and Manufacturing: When Optimization Models Fail, how to avoid Chaos ... "
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Procter Olay Uses AI for Skin Advisor
Worked previously with a company seeking to determine physical age via AI classification methods. Here another. Note too the long history of P&G with advisory...
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Strategy for the Digital World
Developing a Strategy for the Digital WorldNEW BOOK: A new book by Sunil Gupta, "Driving Digital Strategy," explores how traditional businesses can make the leap...
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Google Insights on Voice Technology, Conversation
From the Google Blog. Their take on voice, conversation and expectations.Five insights on voice technologyBy Scott Huffman VP, Engineering, Google AssistantOver...
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