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AI and Video Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Video Marketing

Fascinating Ways AI is Intersecting with Video MarketingArtificial intelligence and big data have played a major role in video marketing over the past few years...

Wireless System Can Power Devices inside the Body
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wireless System Can Power Devices inside the Body

With personal applications:Wireless system can power devices inside the bodyNew technology could enable remote control of drug delivery, sensing, and other medical...

Quantum Computing Approaching
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Computing Approaching

Was involved in scoping early uses, are we now approaching next phase?  Good thoughts on this:Why Quantum Computing Should Be on Your Radar Now  By Lisa Morgan,...

Upcoming CSIG Talk: Predictor for Architecture Searches
From The Eponymous Pickle

Upcoming CSIG Talk: Predictor for Architecture Searches

June 7, 2018 10:30 AM EDT     TAPAS: Train-less accuracy predictor for architecture searchesZoom meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/7371462221Slides and Recording ...

DNA Data Privacy Implications
From The Eponymous Pickle

DNA Data Privacy Implications

Recent solution of crimes using cached DNA samples and analyses and storage brings up the security and privacy issues in giving away this 'data'. Especially asAncestry...

AI and Everyday Products
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Everyday Products

In MIT News, some interesting directions, good view of whats happening in academia linked to practical applications.Revolutionizing everyday products with artificial...

How to Outflank the Competition with Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

How to Outflank the Competition with Analytics

Brought to my attention:How to Outflank the Competition with Analytics  from iiAnalytics Blog   By Thomas H. DavenportCIOs can help drive business value by following...

Homekit Adds a Button
From The Eponymous Pickle

Homekit Adds a Button

Been pointing out that buttons are being added to smart home applications.   With some similarities to the Dash Button that I have had in my smart home since its...

Wal-Mart Combines Texting, Shopping with Jetblack
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Combines Texting, Shopping with Jetblack

Note the interesting inclusion of AI to develop intelligence about what to recommend.    The resulting knowledge base could provide a starting point to better understand...

Hands Free Coding Assistance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hands Free Coding Assistance

Like examples where hands-free produces a new and better channel towards a result.   What are they in business?   Does this work in this case?  Amazon's Virtual...

Effective Location Awareness
From The Eponymous Pickle

Effective Location Awareness

Location task is distributed here.Researchers Devise More Effective Location Awareness for the Internet-of-(many)-Things  By Tufts Now Tufts University researchers...

Mckinsey: AI, Automation, Future of Work
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Mckinsey: AI, Automation, Future of Work

AI, automation, and the future of work: Ten things to solve for in McKinsey InsightsAs machines increasingly complement human labor in the workplace, we will all...

Alexa Discovers Relevant Skills
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Discovers Relevant Skills

An interesting claim, that Alexa will discover the right needed skill for you.  And you will not need to use Alexa-Speak.  Ultimately an essence of conversations...

Machine Learning vs Statistical Modeling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning vs Statistical Modeling

Good thoughts here, its not always best to follow the hype.    Fairly technical, useful.Road Map for Choosing Between Statistical Modeling and Machine Learning ...

Berners-Lee on Past and Future of the Web
From The Eponymous Pickle

Berners-Lee on Past and Future of the Web

Agree, if only for the construction of the Wikipedia, it would have been worth inventing and Building the Web.   When we experimented with early hypertext knowledge...

Advances in Footstep Recognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advances in Footstep Recognition

Not new,  but the accuracy is better defined. Likely can be linked with other biometrics.AI Footstep Recognition System Could Be Used for Airport Security  By University...

Alexa will Now Remember Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa will Now Remember Things

Every conversation assumes we can remember some context,  both from the current conversation and previous ones. And the context of  domain knowledge.  So remembering...

Imagining Large Human Spaces by Satellite
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Imagining Large Human Spaces by Satellite

Impressive patterns revealed.Imagining gigantic places with satellite imagery   Data Visualization and Statistics by Nathan YanArtist Marcus Lyon imagines worlds...

Crowd Flower is now Figure Eight
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crowd Flower is now Figure Eight

Formerly Crowdflower has been renamed Figure Eight, with a new web presence.  Impressed by what I have seen there so far.   Putting humans in the loop of machine...

Fake Wines (and other drinks/foods/products?)
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fake Wines (and other drinks/foods/products?)

Can complex, pricey wines be replicated far more cheaply by recreating them with equivalent mixtures of tastes using chemistry?  A similar approach was used when...
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