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Beauty Marketing
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Beauty Marketing

Its about the dimensions of digital, and the better ability to manipulate those dimensions.  Digital and thus numerical, can be sliced, attached, personalized,Via...

Kuri  Rolling Assistant Stops Manufacturing
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Kuri Rolling Assistant Stops Manufacturing

The family friendly rolling assistant Kuri has stopped manufacturing and is refunding new orders.    Was called 'adorable' by some.   Have followed it here since...

Data Understanding
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Data Understanding

Good and broad look at data understanding.Sharpening your Data Instincts     By Peter Gleeson in MediumWriter on topics in data science, statistics and programming...

Google Adds AI to G Suite
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Google Adds AI to G Suite

More assistant services, in places that make sense.  Have used Suite for university group interactions.Google adds AI features to G Suite, including ‘Smart Reply...

Google Glass is Back, AI on the Factory Floor
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Google Glass is Back, AI on the Factory Floor

Like the direction of this, it is where we experimented with the idea.   Look forward to seeing this in action.  Like the connection to the notion of an 'Assistant'...

Review:  The Fourth Age by Byron Reese
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Review: The Fourth Age by Byron Reese

The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity: by Byron ReeseGood book.  I have been an explorer and practitioner in this spaceSuperintelligence...

Scientific Paper is Obsolete
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Scientific Paper is Obsolete

Should the scientific paper be a distributed 'package' of statements, data, descriptive need for advances, collaborative linkages, proposed tests, results?  ......

ISSIP Board Meeting
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ISSIP Board Meeting

From the ISSIP Board meeting today      See ISSIP.orgThe International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, ISSIP (pronounced iZip),  is a 501 (C) (3) professional...

Figure Eight and Google for AutoML Training
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Figure Eight and Google for AutoML Training

Yes, this is the Grail ... good training data, initially and ongoing, is essential.  Also sufficient contextual metadata.   We had projects fail because we didFigure...

Skim view or Deep Dive?
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Skim view or Deep Dive?

I like Mckinsey's new method of providing a 5 minute overview of a technical topic,  and the ability to take a fifty minute look at the same topic.  You choosean...

Amazon and Private Label
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Amazon and Private Label

Watched this early on and it seemed the were digging deeply here.Supermarket chains can breathe easy — for now, at least — about Amazon’s grocery push on one front...

Electronic IOT Stickers
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Electronic IOT Stickers

Simple, cheap?.  Easily attachable and removable.  Sensing contextual environment.  Security?Electronic stickers on a set of blocks. Electronic Stickers to Streamline...

Campbell's and Alexa Voice
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Campbell's and Alexa Voice

Had looked at Campbell's skill early on.  As an avid cook, the use of recipes as elements of communication have always fascinated me.    They have a preestablished...

How Health Care Companies are Exploring Blockchain
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How Health Care Companies are Exploring Blockchain

Short look at possible applications, starting  with assured identity and security.US health care companies begin exploring blockchain technologiesFinding ways to...

Collaborating Effectively
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Collaborating Effectively

An HBR Video:The Explainer: How to Collaborate Effectively If Your Team Is RemoteClarity and consistency are key. For more, read How to Collaborate Effectively...

Echo Mod for Sign Language
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Echo Mod for Sign Language

When I saw this, would appear that this is a hard thing to do, and apparently the range of signs and capabilities are still limited, but a remarkable possibility...

Original Content Generation for Assistants, Collaboration
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Original Content Generation for Assistants, Collaboration

Can content write itself in a useful way?  Note this neural method is research,  technical and apparently incomplete. Yet still points to some useful directions...

Google Making Quantum Computing Dev Easier
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Google Making Quantum Computing Dev Easier

Have to respect Google for helping the entire industry to advance emerging technologies.  I took a brief look at this space and was struck by how hard it was to...

Combining Bayesian Network and Machine Learning
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Combining Bayesian Network and Machine Learning

Interesting because of the analytics design, but the domain is something I looked at in a previous area of work.  Probably useful when thinking more broadly about...

Innovation Tracking
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Innovation Tracking

 Monthly lists of survey based innovation scoring and reporting.   Full reports require membership/payment.PSFK Retail Innovation TrackerThrough a brand survey,...
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