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CPG, Unilever Big Data and Digital Twins
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CPG, Unilever Big Data and Digital Twins

Always good to see interesting examples in the CPG industry, where I spent a good part of my career.   Save digital twin applications at GE.  Several useful concepts...

IBM Providing Free App Software
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IBM Providing Free App Software

Taking a closer look at this.  Worth a look, more details at the link.  A free, code asset exchange.IBM courts developers with ready-to-use software packages for...

Translating Predicting Language of Chemical Reactions
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Translating Predicting Language of Chemical Reactions

Intriguing, trying to convert this idea into my firmer experience in an internship in chemical engineering research.A Translation Algorithm Can Predict the “Language...

Baidu and AI Voice Enablement
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Baidu and AI Voice Enablement

Voice continues to push forward, here with the Baidu Duer solution.   Expect for more to emerge.   Towards more intelligent assistant solutions on a number of platforms...

IOT Security with Microsoft's Sopris
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IOT Security with Microsoft's Sopris

Security is important for devices that have to be safe in the wild.A Tiny New Chip Could Secure the Next Generation of IOTBy Lily Hay Newman in WiredThe Internet...

Report on Quick Draw
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Report on Quick Draw

Report from the Google Blog:   An example of how to get data with a game. A data game.Since November 2016, people all around the world have drawn one billion doodles...

McKinsey on the Chinese Consumer
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McKinsey on the Chinese Consumer

A considerable look at the China consumer.   Much more in the article.Double-clicking on the Chinese consumerBy Wouter Baan, Lan Luan, Felix Poh, and Daniel Zipser...

AI to Replace Coders
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AI to Replace Coders

Seeing indications of this, perhaps not so soon, but inevitable.  The implications?   transparency perhaps the major issue.AI Will Replace Coders by 2040, Warn ...

Unsupervised Decision Trees
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Unsupervised Decision Trees

Nicely done piece.   Big supporter of decision trees in general, since that have a basic element of transparency.Have You Heard About Unsupervised Decision Trees...

Cybersecurity
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Cybersecurity

A piece that looks at the history and math background of modern cyber security.    Not overly technical video.Cybersecurity, Nuclear Security, Alan Turing, andMartin...

Better Recommendation Engines
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Better Recommendation Engines

Researchers Devise Better Recommendation Algorithm Improved recommendation algorithm should work especially well when ratings data are “sparse.”MIT News  By Larry...

Document Classification with Deep Learning
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Document Classification with Deep Learning

Once again, a good introduction.  And demonstration of how these systems can be constructed.Best Practices for Document Classification with Deep Learning   by Jason...

Ultimate PDF Converter
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Ultimate PDF Converter

Always interested in making things more productive.   I was told about this method and giving it a try.   Remember having some messy experiences with the problem...

Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble
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Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble

Glad to have contributed to innovation and co-innovation at these companies for many years. Lets keep it all moving along. Technology Innovation Isn’t Just forWal...

Electronic Health Data And Drugs
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Electronic Health Data And Drugs

Fascinating thought.  Like the leveraging of 'public' data like the Wikipedia too.  Taking a look.Mining electronic health records and the web for drug repurposing...

Satellites for Business
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Satellites for Business

The ultimate large scale sensory play.   At an early time we looked at them for supply chain data, to support decisions, modeling and analytics.  I continue toThis...

Walmart Enters Meal-Kit Fray
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Walmart Enters Meal-Kit Fray

Good margin I assume,  but is this really worth the effort?   Going to Wal-mart or an App versus ordering online?Walmart sells meal kits to challenge Amazon and...

Customer Service via Cognitive Solutions and BPM
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Customer Service via Cognitive Solutions and BPM

Found this customer service example to be interesting ... in particular that it uses Business Process Modeling (BPM)  and Watson.    I believe any such problem "...

MIT: An Ink that is a Sensor
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MIT: An Ink that is a Sensor

Possible packaging applications.MIT researchers made a living ink that responds to its surroundingsThe 3D-printed, bacteria-loaded gel can be used as a sensor.By...

Kaiser Fung on the Limitations of AI
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Kaiser Fung on the Limitations of AI

Colleague Kaiser Fung  on on hype and limitations of AI today.   Some useful thoughts.  In his always interesting Junkcharts blog.  I too have lived through several...
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