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Mycroft: Better Privacy and Open Source Assistant
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Mycroft: Better Privacy and Open Source Assistant

Wrote about Mycroft back in April 2016,  have been following.  Still says it won't be available until late 2018.   You do have to be careful about funding someMycroft...

Will Amazon Eat Media and Marketing?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Will Amazon Eat Media and Marketing?

Interesting idea posted, where is Amazon going?  A considerable document.  In Digiday: " ... Amazon seems to have everything going for it: Endless scale, bottomless...

Smart Contract Development
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Contract Development

Following up on Smart Contracts beyond the Bitcoin.New Project to Fight Deficit of Smart Contract Developers  By Nick Bakursky in CointelegraphThe number of job...

Novartis as a Data Science Co.
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Novartis as a Data Science Co.

Like to hear how leaders are positioning this.  Is it just about data science as it exists today, or is it more about data science as it supports process?   The...

Why Digital Strategies Fail
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Why Digital Strategies Fail

Thoughtful piece on the topic:Why digital strategies failBy Jacques Bughin, Tanguy Catlin, Martin Hirt, and Paul Willmott in McKinseyMost digital strategies don...

Human Deisgned Machine Learning
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Human Deisgned Machine Learning

Good thought on the problem, what are the specifics of human needs, without limiting possible augmentation?The UX of AIUsing Google Clips to understand how a human...

Algorithms of Our Future Thinking Machines
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Algorithms of Our Future Thinking Machines

More about dealing with uncertainty.    Most of this is today rolled into the statistics of machine learning, but it needs to be included in results that can be...

Wal-Mart to Sell Online Books
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Wal-Mart to Sell Online Books

A more serious move by a retailer into online channels.Walmart Challenges Amazon with E-Book MoveWalmart plans to sell e-books and audiobooks, its latest effort...

Berkely AI Research
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Berkely AI Research

Newly brought to my attention:Berkely AI ResearchOverview and Blog PurposeThe BAIR Blog provides an accessible, general-audience medium for BAIR researchers to...

Picking Your Own Produce
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Picking Your Own Produce

This has always been brought up as an issue for online grocery ordering, being unable to pick your own produce like you could in the store.   First I have heard...

AI in the Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI in the Enterprise

AI Begins to Infiltrate the Enterprise  in InformationWeekEnterprise adoption of AI is slow today, but experts expect it to increase very rapidly. So far, techDespite...

Sketching Out Your Ui Code
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Sketching Out Your Ui Code

Something we always wanted to do.  At least for quick prototyping and demonstration.  But at what level of precision?   And can it easily link to existing code,...

China Wants to Build AI Chips For Any Gadget
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China Wants to Build AI Chips For Any Gadget

China Wants to Make the Chips That Will Add AI to Any Gadget In Technology Review  By Yiting SunChina's technology industry is exploring innovative processor designs...

Best Grocery Store in America
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Best Grocery Store in America

A place I have shopped many times.   Worth a tour.   Is telling stories a profitable grocery venture?  Can it work elsewhere?   Here is the best effort I know of...

Create Common Sense Baselines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Create Common Sense Baselines

Excellent insight. Not sure that this is done frequently, even by experienced people.  We used to call this establishing base methods and estimates of results. ...

Alibaba Partnering with Kroger?
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Alibaba Partnering with Kroger?

Tech integrations would be interesting here.Kroger said to discuss Alibaba partnershipE-commerce giant also operates supermarkets in ChinaBy Mark Hamstra  in Supermarket...

Anki Cozmo Robot
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Anki Cozmo Robot

More personable toy robotics.  Not a new thing,  but getting us more used to the concept.Big brain. Bigger personality.Say hello to Cozmo, a gifted little guy with...

Gathering Image data in 360
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Gathering Image data in 360

A kind of life logging model,  or just image information gathering in 360 degreesFITT360 is a 360-degree camcorder you wear around your neckBy Nicole Lee, @nicole...

Image Information for Learning in Context
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Image Information for Learning in Context

Useful cognitive solutions will need to be taught, and thus need to to learn in changing contexts.  Today we re-teach most systems to adjust them to changes inVision...

Linear Models and Forecasting
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Linear Models and Forecasting

Useful thoughts on the topic.  Being trained in this makes me think: Obviously.   But confirmation bias is easy to jump to.  Easier yet with complicated tools. ...
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