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(Updated) Graph Databases for Dynamic Recommender Systems and Outlier Detection
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(Updated) Graph Databases for Dynamic Recommender Systems and Outlier Detection

Interesting ideas  Slides and recording now at link below:Talk by: Denis Vrdoljak & Gunnar Kleemann  at Cisco & UC Berkeley“Graph Databases for Dynamic Recommender...

Critical Privacy Influences Analytic Products
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Critical Privacy Influences Analytic Products

How to build analytic products in an age when data privacy has become criticalPrivacy-preserving analytics is not only possible, but with GDPR about to come online...

Dealing with a Big Stream of Analytics Data
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Dealing with a Big Stream of Analytics Data

An interesting piece that deals with the process of working with large data streams.   The particular solution experience is useful.By Alban Perillat-Merceroz in...

Google Duplex Calling Will Let You know its an AI
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Google Duplex Calling Will Let You know its an AI

The presentation of the Google Duplex calling service, demonstrated this week and planned for this summer, impressed many as a great idea.   A system that could...

Train Computers in Virtual Reality
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Train Computers in Virtual Reality

Its all about having enough real data.Want Computers to See Better in the Real World? Train Them in a Virtual Reality   EurekAlertChinese researchers have developed...

Misty II Personal Robot
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Misty II Personal Robot

Another example of a personal assistant, perhaps useful for home applications.  Considerable detail in the IEEE article examines design elements.   Appears to be...

BMW Blockchain Pilot
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BMW Blockchain Pilot

BMW Leasing Arm Supports Blockhain PilotBMW invited DOVU to participate in its innovation lab, which seeks new and disruptive ideas. The 10-week pilot began Jan...

Forestry Management by Drone and AI
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Forestry Management by Drone and AI

Our own forestry management efforts could have used this,  along with additional capabilities to detect growth changes,  like tree diameters and height. An AI learns...

Eye Tracking API in Windows
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Eye Tracking API in Windows

Newly announced. Broader accessibility and data tracking capabilities.How to create accessible apps and immersive game experiences with new eye tracking APIs   ...

More on Conversational Chatbots
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More on Conversational Chatbots

Not Quite what it means by more conversation chat, or AI.  Its also about memory and context, common sense reasoning and shades of autonomy. .   I will take this...

Qualitative Analysis
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Qualitative Analysis

Early on, long before machine learning, we did content analysis.  We still did quantitative analytics, but only after we had structured our problem with qualitative...

Amazon Alexa Experience Center
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Amazon Alexa Experience Center

Maybe not so much for current experience, but a place to demonstrate what may be coming.Amazon's Experience Centers let you try out Alexa in a home settingThey’re...

HP Doubles down on AI
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HP Doubles down on AI

Another player enters the fray, had worked with them much in the past, without hearing much of them in this space.  But being much in the services space, makesHPE...

Neurala Claims Faster Deep Neural Nets
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Neurala Claims Faster Deep Neural Nets

New to me.Neurala’s new neural network reduces AI training times from hours to seconds by Mike Wheatley Artificial intelligence startup Neurala Inc. is claiming...

Beating Amazon
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Beating Amazon

Forrester Blogs The Counterintuitive CEOHow To Beat Amazon  By George Colony   CEO  ... Amazon has an Achilles’ heel: emotion. The company delivers, but its customers...

Why Does Machine Learning Work?
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Why Does Machine Learning Work?

Provocative pieceBig Data’s Mathematical MysteriesThis article was posted by Ingrid Daubechies on Quanta Magazine. Ingrid is the James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics...

Yet Another Way to Check out
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Yet Another Way to Check out

Wal-Mart tests another way to checkout.   Makes sense in Garden where there can be lots of seasonal traffic tie ups.  Seen it in other Retail.Walmart associates...

Google Improves Conversation
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Google Improves Conversation

This is always what I have wanted, an assistant conversation that starts with shared memory, uses the strongest context ongoing, and leads to actual goals.  Google...

Microsoft Pushes Big Changes in AI
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Microsoft Pushes Big Changes in AI

Missed this, again the emphasis is towards business solutions.  Have not seen much from Cortana being useful for consumers.  Have tested it for business, whereAre...

Five Attributes of Useful AI
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Five Attributes of Useful AI

Useful, if somewhat too broad.    Measurable and clearly process linked.   Very useful statement about how data will not remain stable.IBM outlines the 5 attributes...
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