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What is the Blockchain?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What is the Blockchain?

WTF is The Blockchain?   Mohit Mamoria Editor, Unmade The ultimate 3500-word guide in plain English to understand Blockchain. .... "

Swarming Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Swarming Robotics

More Swarms.  Now how do we get the cooperation right?  With centralized control.Introducing a New Robotic Class With Abilities Out-Performing Existing Machines...

AI is Riding a One Trick Pony
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI is Riding a One Trick Pony

In technology review.  See also the comments, which include quite a few people, like myself, who participated in both AI 'revolutions'.    What we know now is that...

Problems of AI ethics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Problems of AI ethics

This is certainly true in the short term.    A presentation.The real project of AI ethics  in O'Reilly.Joanna Bryson says AI's main threat is not that it will do...

Relaunching Google Glass
From The Eponymous Pickle

Relaunching Google Glass

A historical view of why something like Google Glass,  emerged and failed, but is said to about to rise again.  We folloswed it for several business applications...

Voice Brewing Your Coffee
From The Eponymous Pickle

Voice Brewing Your Coffee

We were into the coffee business for a long time.  Blending, roasting, brewing, marketing and selling. Even using AI to find the best blends.   So the idea would...

A Rival to Wikipedia?
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Rival to Wikipedia?

But Elsevier is a walled garden, and this approach will not be publicly edited.  The power of Wikipedia is the breadth of coverage.   And as the article suggests...

MIT Origami Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

MIT Origami Robotics

The concept is a long time follow.MIT Origami Robot Transforms to Become a Boat, a Glider, or a Wheel.    By Luke DormehResearchers from the Massachusetts Institute...

Wal-Mart Move Against Amazon
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Move Against Amazon

When I ask people about using Jet, they rarely know what it is.  Interesting that Wal-Mart is trying to expand that brand.   Note the essentials emphasis.Walmart...

Virtual Assistants and Multitasking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtual Assistants and Multitasking

Thoughtful piece, needs to be considered in conversational dialog.The Real Problem with Voice Assistants like Siri is your Brain    By Robbie Gonzalez in Wired "...

Unilever CMO is Guest Editor at Think with Google
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever CMO is Guest Editor at Think with Google

The article also includes a look at a number of technology areas of  prime interest to marketing.Meet our guest editor, Keith WeedIn our ongoing effort to provide...

Fashionable Contactless Payment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fashionable Contactless Payment

Interesting aspect, a sort of tagging, but with fashion it seems.Timex's new watch collection includes contactless payment strapsBarclaycard's bPay contactlessBy...

Graph Mining for AI Dialog
From The Eponymous Pickle

Graph Mining for AI Dialog

Google at KDD " 23rd ACM conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining ".  talking graph mining.  Ultimately a power idea for driving AI.   How close are we...

Candid vs Posed Photos
From The Eponymous Pickle

Candid vs Posed Photos

Podcast So Long, Selfies: Why Candid Photos Make a Better ImpressionWharton's Jonah Berger discusses his research on posed photos vs. candid photos.   " .... In...

Vans and Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Vans and Drones

This was new to me, quite an interesting case.  Bring on the Drones.Switzerland’s new autonomous drone network just completed its first delivery Coffee anyone?by...

More AI Assistants
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More AI Assistants

Yesterdays announcements by Amazon suggest that this statement is true:Amazon Is All-Out to Fill Your Home With AI Assistants Before Its Competition Can.  More ...

Geospatial Services Everywhere
From The Eponymous Pickle

Geospatial Services Everywhere

Continue to be amazed by the advances of geospatial capabilities.  Geography must be much easier to teach these days,  curiosity can be fed so easily with freely...

Best Practices for Natural Language Processing
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Best Practices for Natural Language Processing

Best NLP Processing   By Sebastian Ruder   via O'ReillyIntroductionThis post is a collection of best practices for using neural networks in Natural Language Processing...

Workplace by FaceBook
From The Eponymous Pickle

Workplace by FaceBook

Why Workplace by Facebook will win by Rob Castaneda.   Interesting disconnect proposition:" ... White collar was and still is head office. It is the center of control...

Passage.AI Emerges for Multiple Platforms
From The Eponymous Pickle

Passage.AI Emerges for Multiple Platforms

Have always been interested in ways to make chatbot AI easier. Since our long ago successful use of the Extempo package.   Here another example emerging. Passage...
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