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High Performance Codes
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High Performance Codes

As the volume and complexity increase, and as we try to improve more complex processes we need more high performance computing (HPC).  Its a complex thing to build...

Amazon Automates with Algorithms
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Amazon Automates with Algorithms

Most companies that have gone deeply digital have or are starting to automate some of these processes, especially in areas like supply chain and other operations...

Tableau Acquires AI for Data Understanding
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Tableau Acquires AI for Data Understanding

Makes sense to integrate visualization with analytical methods and AI methods.  Visualization is a form of human understanding,  AI augments these human methods...

Introduction to Game Theory
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Introduction to Game Theory

We used Game theory linked methods to try to understand competitive activity.   We used these methods not necessarily to solve for a best strategy, but to think...

Retail Re-imagining Post-Amazon
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Retail Re-imagining Post-Amazon

Interesting Podcast and transcript:Retail Reimagining: Why Being Great Is no Longer Good Enough The retail industry is undergoing a major repositioning as legacy...

The AI Need for Forgetting
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The AI Need for Forgetting

Hackernoon discusses the need for forgetting.Forgetting. A long time concept, and true in its essence, but forgetting needs to be in context, like remembering,Forgetting...

Artificial Synapses
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Artificial Synapses

Synapses are where the learning takes place.  Energy efficient is good, learning faster and more useably, better yet.AI Could Get 100 Times More Energy-Efficient...

Simulating the Universe
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Simulating the Universe

And how can we simulate business process?  We did, but not enough.The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It  In Quanta Magazine In the early...

Google Home now Handles Three Requests at Once
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Home now Handles Three Requests at Once

Assistants getting more capabilities to multitask.  Another step towards more complex conversations and dialog.    How much will this be used?  Looking towardsGoogle...

CSIG Talk on Predicting Surgical Outcomes
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CSIG Talk on Predicting Surgical Outcomes

 Collecting Movement Data and Predicting Surgical Outcomes in the Age of Deep LearningTalk Link: https://zoom.us/j/7371462221   June 14, 10:30 AM EDTSlides and ...

Smart Contract
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Contract

Part of a larger look at Blockchain:  in O'ReillyThe concept of smart contracts in O'Reilly.While the initial blockchain implementation (bitcoin) wasn't intended...

Look at Microsoft Teams
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Look at Microsoft Teams

Would think that Teams would be a good thing to connect to Skype, Linkedin and Office tools.  Is it becoming that?Microsoft Teams: Its features, how it compares...

AI, Machine Learning and their role in Automation
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AI, Machine Learning and their role in Automation

Very thoughtfully done piece.   Its not all about Machine Learning.  ML is usually just a focused element of the overall goal.  A key question that should be asked...

Google Deals with Carrefour Retailer to Sell Groceries Online
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Google Deals with Carrefour Retailer to Sell Groceries Online

We worked with Carrefour in our innovation spaces and in France and China.  Looks like Home and Google Assistant will be utilized. Emphasis on fresh foods.  Competition...

Boosting Memories by Electrical Reintroduction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Boosting Memories by Electrical Reintroduction

The measures, accuracy,  scope and specificity of this ability would be interesting.Thanks For The Memories  By Joe Dysart in CACMResearchers have found a way to...

MIT Testing Smart Contracts and Oracles
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MIT Testing Smart Contracts and Oracles

Been looking for more reviews in this area.   Following this in Reddit as well.MIT Researchers Test Oracles and Smart Contracts on Bitcoin Lightning    | by Kent...

Self Driving Dataset
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Self Driving Dataset

As in all intelligent  learning situations, you need lots of data to define the context, more than you think you need.  But smaller amounts can help you start defining...

Key AI for Smarter Phones
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Key AI for Smarter Phones

A good forward look about how smart phones are evolving to an expectation of smarter phones and telecom in the near future.  Conversation, value driven services...

Tutorial on Association Rules
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Tutorial on Association Rules

Good piece in KDNuggets,  the approach is useful because it is transparent and thus easily visualized. Here is a further technical definition,  from the approach...

Google Creates Doodle Games with Garden Gnomes
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Google Creates Doodle Games with Garden Gnomes

Once again Google leverages their search page to present a clever yet simple gaming idea.  I like their use of their entry page to teach about history, technology...
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