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What Machine Learning Engineers Need to Know
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What Machine Learning Engineers Need to Know

Useful piece. What machine learning engineers need to knowThe O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Jesse Anderson and Paco Nathan on organizing data teams and next-generation...

Pattern Recognition in Road Tracing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pattern Recognition in Road Tracing

We had a similar challenge when we managed roads and their quality in Alberta.   We were mostly interested in if the roads had degraded, and needed to manage resources...

Alibabas AI Chips
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alibabas AI Chips

Much more at the link.  Alibaba is developing its own AI chips, too in Technology Review The Chinese e-commerce giant will join a raft of other tech firms in designing...

AI and Bad Process
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Bad Process

More evidence you have to get the context process right, with or without advanced methods.  Don’t Let Artificial Intelligence Supercharge Bad Processes   in Sam...

Skill Blueprints
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Skill Blueprints

More on Skill Blueprints in ZDNet.   Via Walter Riker.Why Amazon's Alexa Skill Blueprints are a master strokeAmazon has opened up Alexa to the masses with Alexa...

Microsoft Securing the Intelligent Edge
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Securing the Intelligent Edge

Still in private test.   A considerable piece.Introducing Microsoft Azure Sphere: Secure and power the intelligent edgeGalen Hunt,  Partner Managing Director, Microsoft...

Retail uses for Machine Learning
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Retail uses for Machine Learning

Machine Learning for SMB Retailers and Brands.  Talk and panel discussion.  Sponsored by Retailwire.Here is the recording of the webinar and supporting slides.Meeting...

Alexa Releases Skills Blueprint
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Alexa Releases Skills Blueprint

OK, easy, and may kick up the Skill count.   But will it increase quality?   No code involved.   It might be better to make it easier to create plug-in capableAmazon...

Talk:  AI and Business Process
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Talk: AI and Business Process

Reminder, later this morning:Talk by: Chitra Dorai,  IBM Fellow, Vice President and CTO  “The Real World of AI: Business Processes Reimagined End to End”19 AprTalk...

Intel Backs off Smart Glasses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel Backs off Smart Glasses

Perhaps a bit surprising given the enthusiasm they gave only a short while ago.    They had been working on object analysis as well.   So will we see new movesIntel...

Microsoft Does Offline Translations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Does Offline Translations

Looks impressive based on a demo I saw.   We are closer yet to a universal, mobile and free Babel Fish.  Was never expecting such a combination of features, the...

Wikipedia Adds Preview Hover
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Wikipedia Adds Preview Hover

Wikipedia adds a hover over page preview capability to make navigation easier.  Been testing, a nice idea.  Lets you make somewhat fewer clicks while you browse...

Your Data Has to be Good.  Define Good.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Your Data Has to be Good. Define Good.

Very good piece, covers lots of topics.  Worth reading.   Without enough quality data, you have nothing.  Key elements of process, like getting everyone involved...

Will GDPR Drive us Towards Real-time Analytics?
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Will GDPR Drive us Towards Real-time Analytics?

Some good thoughts on the implications.   At its simplest will this mean we will need to use and release data more quickly?   Thus data will become real time? How...

Machine Learning and Chaos
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning and Chaos

Quite remarkable, if the results can be applied to real world engineering problems.Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos by By Natalie Wolchover...

Developers Eye View of Smart Contracts
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Developers Eye View of Smart Contracts

Its all about business rules.  So its about rule based process.  But why do it this way in particular rather than using rule bases and encrypted ledgers ?  Case...

Social Proof at the Wikipedia
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Social Proof at the Wikipedia

Roger Dooley writes about the approach of the Wikipedia fundraising.  Many have seen their 'ads', as I have, when doing a Wikipedia search. The argument is  " ....

Holograms for Heads-up Displays
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Holograms for Heads-up Displays

Have yet to see really practical and precise visualization via hologram.Holograms Could Yield Next Wave of Heads-Up DisplaysR&D Magazine    By Kenny WalterA functional...

Discovery Analytics Center
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Discovery Analytics Center

One former Alama Mater of mine has a discovery analytics center.The Discovery Analytics Center brings together computer scientists, engineers, and statisticians...

Google and Innovation
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Google and Innovation

Well put short piece.  The 5 Essential Ingredients of a Truly Innovative Team, According to GoogleYou can't force creativity, but you can create an environment By...
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