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Apple Makes a Late Move with Homekit Authentication
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apple Makes a Late Move with Homekit Authentication

Been watching for Homepod related  Apple announcements.    Apparently some changes behind the scenes with Homekit.  Apple expected Apple TV to carry the smarthome...

Running Analytics Experiments Systematically
From The Eponymous Pickle

Running Analytics Experiments Systematically

Really growing to like Jason Brownlee's Machine Learning Mastery posts.  He is starting to seem like a trusted adviser.   Really useful stuff, the most recent example...

Customer Journey Methods in Retail
From The Eponymous Pickle

Customer Journey Methods in Retail

My correspondent, among others responds:  "In my experience data science and analytics teams need better ways to activate their work."    Gib Bassett, CustomerAgree...

Changing Retail: How Can Brands Connect?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Changing Retail: How Can Brands Connect?

In the HBR, some essential thoughts ... are old ideas but worth repeating.How Consumer Brands Can Connect with Customers in a Changing Retail Landscapeby Robert...

Crowdsourced Testing
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Crowdsourced Testing

 Seeing Crowdsourcing continue to become more common.Managing Crowdsourced Testing  | by Ben LindersCrowdsourced testing is a unique way of involving the crowd-...

VR Transforming the Workplace?
From The Eponymous Pickle

VR Transforming the Workplace?

Niche or everywhere?  Still think this will take some time before it is common in the workplace. A typical machine interface?   AR more likely. Why Virtual Reality...

In Pursuit of Creativity
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In Pursuit of Creativity

Via HBS.   Full research paper at the link:In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity    by Teresa M. AmabileOVERVIEW — This paper describes the most compelling research...

Intelligent Video Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intelligent Video Analytics

Brought to my attention for a security application.IBM Intelligent Video Analytics" ... Turn video into insight. Find relevant images across multiple types of video...

Quantum, Cause and Effect
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Quantum, Cause and Effect

Will Quantum computing be able to take advantage of the very strange nature of time in Quantum physics?   Causality?  At the micro level perhaps, but beyond?  How...

Ad Attention Research
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Ad Attention Research

In Think with Google:Ad Attention Research: Effectiveness Hinges on More Than Just ReachIf a million trees fall in the forest and nobody hears them, do they make...

Google's Second Tango Phone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google's Second Tango Phone

Have been waiting for this.  Seen demos.   Had seen this as a possibility for detecting, mapping and understanding interior spaces and fixtures, like shelves.  ...

AI Comparison to Previous Tech Waves
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AI Comparison to Previous Tech Waves

The jury is still out for general AI ... but specialized applications things are booming.Why artificial intelligence is different from previous technology waves...

Predicting Power Outages
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Predicting Power Outages

Researchers develop model to predict and prevent power outages using big dataTexas A&M Engineering News   by Shraddha SankheResearchers at Texas A&M University...

Shopping and Virtual Reality
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Shopping and Virtual Reality

In CSA, interesting statistics.    But pushes at what 'virtual shopping' is. What do customers want from virtual shopping?  by Deena M. Amato-MCcoyVirtual reality...

Redefining Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Redefining Work

Good piece, but to these kinds of predictions, I always ask:  In what context.   Automation has been happening since the Jacquard Loom, or even the invention of...

Deep Learning's Next Frontier
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Deep Learning's Next Frontier

An insightful Webinar recording:Deep Learning's Next Frontier  By Andrew NgHBR’s editor in chief, Adi Ignatius, and Andrew Ng, former chief scientist at Baidu and...

AI Software for Psychiatry
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AI Software for Psychiatry

Another health care example of augmenting the physician,   The 'therapist' was one of the earliest uses of AI style human interaction.A Software Shrink: Apps and...

WCAI and Earth Networks
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WCAI and Earth Networks

An interesting collaboration, reminiscent of work by IBM with the Weather ChannelEarth Networks and Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Collaborate to Advance...

Kuri Finds a Skill as Family Photographer
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Kuri Finds a Skill as Family Photographer

The crawling, bleeping, recording, greeting, even friendly home robot called Kuri has announced some a new skill.  It can now act as a kind of resident family still...

High Dimensional Data Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

High Dimensional Data Visualization

Good generalized piece.  In explaining this idea to decision makers I always point out that in nearly all real problems there are more than three dimensions.  How...
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