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Utilizing the Data Lake
From The Eponymous Pickle

Utilizing the Data Lake

Clearly, use the data you already have.   All business assumes valid prediction.   How good the prediction is, for a given business model. is key.Drowning in the...

Procter Patents Smart Home System
From The Eponymous Pickle

Procter Patents Smart Home System

In BizJournals.com  You don't often think of a CPG company innovating in this space.   See other posts here on reordering systems.P&G invents smart home systemProcter...

Wheel of Retailing?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wheel of Retailing?

Admit I had not heard the term 'Wheel of Retailing'.   HBS talks this.  I will include the explanation, more at the link below.  Comments also interesting at link...

Extracting Tagging Data from Imagery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Extracting Tagging Data from Imagery

An example of how advanced deep learning methods can be used to extract information from image data.   The image data is already captured and stored.  And its dynamic...

Furniture Creates Activity Goals
From The Eponymous Pickle

Furniture Creates Activity Goals

We worked with Herman Miller on testing advanced furniture. This seems like the simplest idea for office furniture.  If you still spend most of your time in the...

Eye Tracking and Virtual Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Eye Tracking and Virtual Reality

More developments in the use of biometric capabilities to better understand human reactions.  Its natural to think about how VR methods technology could be linked...

Consumer Stories for Digital Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consumer Stories for Digital Marketing

Seems obvious, but the details of how and why in the research may be interesting.  Sign in for complete article access.The Power of Consumer Stories in DigitalResearch...

The Mathematical Corporation
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Mathematical Corporation

Have not read yet, but brought to my attention because of the title.  We considered our large enterprise a mathematical corporation, powered by the mathematicsThe...

Sky Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sky Robots

Sky RobotsFrom the HBR ... If you have a robotic vacuum, thank Helen Greiner, a cofounder of iRobot. And Greiner has moved on to think about what it would mean...

Smart Homes Reprogramming You
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Homes Reprogramming You

Have seen bit of this in my own tests, but not to the extent it implies.Your smart home is trying to reprogram you Murray Goulden  Research Fellow, University of...

Battle of the AI Giants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Battle of the AI Giants

The AI fight is escalating: This is the IT giants' next moveGoogle, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services are all piling artificial intelligence capabilities onto...

Quantum Computing and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Computing and AI

Intriguing piece.   A major change in computing architecture should be carefully watched.  Implications for an approach to more intelligent systems?Quantum Computing...

Creating Caricature Stickers from Selfies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Creating Caricature Stickers from Selfies

The Allo messaging capability from Google is now capable of creating caricature image stickers from selfies.  These are mostly for use within Allo, but you canUncanny...

Hashing and All that
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hashing and All that

This piece from Rice.edu is interesting.   It shows how the method of 'Hashing' can be used to reduce computations in deep learning neural networks.   This is probably...

Wal-Mart right about AR being a Sure Thing?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart right about AR being a Sure Thing?

In RetailWire. With an interesting, ongoing discussion.  Do we have ubiquity of AR coming? Replacing smartphones in five years? Is Walmart’s innovation leader right...

AI, Marketing and Sales
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI, Marketing and Sales

In the HBR,How AI Is Streamlining Marketing and Sales    by Brad Power"  ... CenturyLink is one of the largest telecommunications providers in the United States...

HomePod Meets HomeKit in Apple Ecosystem
From The Eponymous Pickle

HomePod Meets HomeKit in Apple Ecosystem

Lengthy speculation of how Apple HomePod will interact with HomeKit, and compete with the flurry of assistants in the home already.   Will it be mostly a speaker...

Supply Chain and the New Connectivity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supply Chain and the New Connectivity

This is very clear, transparency has been known to be important in the supply chain for a very long time.   Now IOT concepts can connect the many things (and kinds...

Inspecting Algorithms for Bias
From The Eponymous Pickle

Inspecting Algorithms for Bias

Bias is incorrectness, and bears with it risk.  Understanding that risk is important.Inspecting Algorithms for BiasCourts, banks, and other institutions are using...

Boosting the Quantum Experience
From The Eponymous Pickle

Boosting the Quantum Experience

IBM Has An Unusual Strategy For Advancing Quantum ComputingWe're entering a new technological epoch     By Greg Satell  In Inc.Building A Community of Users ......
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