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Location Aware Reminders and Intelligence
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Location Aware Reminders and Intelligence

Always thought there should be better  intelligence based on location.  Here Google Home provides some  capabilities.   Now would like the detection to have multiple...

Practical Python Text Preprocessing
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Practical Python Text Preprocessing

Preprocessing text often the most important and time consuming part.   Here a step by step introduction in KDNuggets.  Practical.   With links to useful tools. ...

Long Now Meets Land Art
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Long Now Meets Land Art

Some long ago encounters and conversations with folks that founded the Long Now Foundation reminded me again of Art in desert spaces.   See also their recent advances...

Where is the Shopping Opportunity with Voice Commerce?
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Where is the Shopping Opportunity with Voice Commerce?

Further statistics.Shopping Opportunities for Voice Commerce    by Tom Ryan in RetailwireAccording to a survey from Capgemini, 40 percent of consumers predict that...

New Alexa Skills Kit Console
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New Alexa Skills Kit Console

I like the approach being used, easy to develop simple things.  Though the broader AI architecture still needs expansion.The New Alexa Skills Kit Developer Console...

CSI Talk on Chess and AI
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CSI Talk on Chess and AI

Yesterdays CSI Talk:Slides   All talks, slides and recordings when posted.Talk by:  Kesav VisWanadha:  "AlphaZero 1 - Chess 0: How Modern AI is Reshaping Thought...

AI Needs Big Data
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AI Needs Big Data

Yes, hardly needs to be stated, but good thoughts.   All analytics, unless your problem is very simple,  need enough data to create stable patterns, and then test...

Autonomous Customer Care
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Autonomous Customer Care

Achieving Fully Autonomous Customer Care    By Richard Crowe in CustomerThinkWhen it comes to customer care, the best customer experience is no experience at all...

Strategy to Beat the Odds
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Strategy to Beat the Odds

Back to the need to a reasonable risk analysis of strategic and operational plans.Strategy to beat the oddsBy Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, and Sven Smit  in McKinsey...

Machine Learning will Lead to Imagination Workers
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Machine Learning will Lead to Imagination Workers

In Think with Google: Machine Learning, Intelligence: Imagination." ... Marketers will be more important, not lessWhile machine learning and artificial intelligence...

Hotel of the Future
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Hotel of the Future

We helped a major chain think about the hotel of the future.   In some cases weirder than this.The Hotel of the Future is ComingThe hotel of the future is coming...

Context in Satellite Imagery
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Context in Satellite Imagery

Nathan in Flowingdata shows a different kind of data imagery.    Advanced Sat imagery handles this today, but recall doing it for forestry assets before that was...

Excel Embeds the Knowledge Graph
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Excel Embeds the Knowledge Graph

This is the kind of thing I have been waiting for for some time.  The integration of knowledge about data with the data itself.   A kind of metadata.  An extension...

More on Watson Assistant
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More on Watson Assistant

More on the announced service.  This piece is interesting because it lists some specific current companies playing in the space with Watson.  Chatbot style interactions...

GigaOM Podcasts
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GigaOM Podcasts

GigaOM continues their podcasts on AI.  Informative. Below link lets you subscribe and see others.Voices in AI – Episode 37: A Conversation with Carolina Galleguillos...

Amazon Prime at Whole Foods
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Amazon Prime at Whole Foods

Am a shopper at Kroger and Whole Foods since their inception.  Watching the expansion of tech closely.Amazon Prime Now gives Whole Foods a price edge: reportBarclays...

More Alexa Lamps
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More Alexa Lamps

They are everywhere now, and lamps and light fixtures are a convenient place for more.   The introduction of a reference design should make it easier yet.More Alexa...

Retail Omnichannel Commerce
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Retail Omnichannel Commerce

Retailers Are Starting To Reap The Rewards Of Omnichannel CommerceWebinar replayBy Michelle Beeson in ForresterRetail digital business executives must challenge...

Car of the Future, Selling your Data?
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Car of the Future, Selling your Data?

Well, Yes.  Somewhat different in an automotive channel due to context and changing location.The Car of the Future Will Sell Your DataAs smarter vehicles become...

How to Own the Customer experience
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How to Own the Customer experience

Attending this tomorrow, a favorite topic of mine ... join us at the link below: How to Own the Customer Experience:" ... AI-driven interactions between customers...
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